The Whickers

26/06/2026

15/06/2026

Our 2026 Podcast Pitch & Film & TV Award in 1 minute! 🕺🏻

Thank you so much for all of our incredible finalists who made this weekend such a joy and another huge congratulations to our winners 🎉

14/06/2026

We’re excited to announce the winners of our Film & TV Funding Awards 2026 🏆

Tommaso Barbetta has received our Film & TV Development Award for his project ‘Welcome to Our Bathhouse’. He’s taking home a funding award of £25,000 from Sheffield DocFest to help further develop his project.

Congratulations to co-directors Jigar Ganatra & Emanuel Musa Marco, the winners of our £120,000 Film & TV Funding Award! We are thrilled to announce that their film ‘Children Of Honey’ was chosen as this year’s Whicker Winner 🏆

Huge thank you to all of our finalists and judges who make so special. Welcome to the Whickers family! ✨

14/06/2026

This year’s Podcast Pitch Winners are Shirley Abraham and Tihany Sengupta, taking home £15,000 for their project ‘The Many Gendered Mothers of My Heart’ ❤️

Chirae Cannon won our £5,000 Development Award with ‘The Riverbank’

Congratulations and huge thanks to all of our finalists for their brilliant pitches yesterday morning 👏

13/06/2026

Our finalists have travelled from all over the world, via plane, train & automobile, to arrive at Sheffield DocFest 2026! ✈️

Huge congratulations to our Podcast Pitch finalists who pitched this morning & good luck to our Film & TV finalists for tomorrow ✨

Find out our winners at the Crucible Theatre at the Awards Ceremony tomorrow evening 🏆

12/06/2026

Chris Mitchell on what he’s learnt from winning last year’s Podcast Pitch 🏆

Come & hear our 2026 Finalists pitch at the Crucible Playhouse tomorrow morning!

10/06/2026

And we're off! Sheffield DocFest 2026 Opening Night film 'We, The Hated' was an absolute triumph!! A

22/05/2026

The Podcast Show, London 2026. Another fab year mixing and mingling with the great and the good of the podcast world.

The show was PACKED!! Packed with people and also content - if the numbers tell us anything, it is that podcasts are having a moment. It feels like a very exciting time to be part of this world!

We also caught up with lots of people - old friends (), supporters (), one of this years judges (Kent De Pinto from ) and even last year's winner of the Podcast Award of £15k ( )

Till next year!

12/05/2026

The “man with the cross” was a familiar sight on the streets of West London throughout the 1980s and 90s ✝️

Now, Whicker Podcast winner 2025 Chris Mitchell is bringing his story to life in a new podcast, Redemption Man 🎙️

Determined to uncover the truth behind this mysterious figure, where he came from and why he carried a fold-up white cross everywhere he went, Chris has traced Redemption Man’s roots back to Guyana.

Chris has just returned from a research and production trip to the South American country, where he spoke with community elders, merchant seamen, religious leaders and historians in an effort to piece together the hidden story behind the “man with the cross”.

Spanning Guyana and the UK, the story explores history, trauma and untold truths within Black British life post-Windrush.

Read more about Redemption Man and Chris’s journey in the thevoicenewspaper article (link in bio) or via The Whickers news page.

And if you remember seeing the 'man with the cross', or have stories to share, we would love to hear from you.