Independent business: Lanther Black

Hello, we’re Dominique & Jack, the people behind Lanther Black. Our creative partnership began almost ten years ago when we started writing and directing short films together, which was great but really cold and wet. You see, when you don’t have the financial backing of Netflix which, you may be alarmed to discover, we didn’t, you find yourself shooting outside a lot. Now, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the climate of Essex is somewhat tropical because of our residents’ ability to keep up a permanent tan, but you’d be mistaken. The truth is, it’s no sunnier here than the rest of the country, we just have many, many tanning salons. In fact, it was on a particularly sunless October shoot when we found ourselves waist high in the sea holding our camera equipment above our heads (a simple miscalculation when reading the tide tables) that we turned to each other and said, “We need to get an indoor job.” [Enter Lanther Black.] We made a list of all the things that we could make and then we ranked them by the amount of outdoor exposure required. What we were looking for was a product that could absolutely, under no circumstances be allowed to get cold and wet. And then we found it: greeting cards.

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