Turning ambitious ideas into clear, distinctive visual work.
My Journey / The beginning
The first camera changed everything.
A Hayward Gallery film workshop opened a route into the BFI, a first short film and a career built by turning opportunity into momentum.
16first camera / Hayward Gallery workshop
BFIresident filmmaker
17founded Vographics Ltd
2010Best Director / BEEFTA
From first camera to AI creative leadership
Recognising new possibilities early—and turning them into systems.
From becoming a BFI resident filmmaker at 16 to founding a production company, building a 235K+ digital-art community and leading AI-enabled creative production, Fabien’s career has been shaped by recognising creative change early and turning it into repeatable systems.
The timeline below reveals the foundation of that practice: directorial judgement, entrepreneurial leadership, cultural insight and the ability to connect emerging technology with work that reaches people.
Building ventures, teams and creative momentum from the ground up.
Creating work grounded in people, context and lived experience.
Developing creative identities into sustained communities.
Connecting concept, direction, production, post and delivery.
Adopting new tools without losing craft, purpose or judgement.
Hayward Gallery → BFI / Age 16
A workshop became a way into film.
Fabien’s filmmaking journey began at 16, when he joined a film workshop at the Hayward Gallery and used a camera for the first time. That encounter led to an opportunity as a resident filmmaker at the BFI.
During the residency he created Head OverBoard, a skateboarding short that turned a first encounter with production into a practical education in observation, movement and visual storytelling.
The pathway soon led to 2051, a Southbank Centre commission celebrating the Royal Festival Hall’s exhibition history. The documentary was screened as part of the Hall’s reopening after its major refurbishment—placing Fabien’s early work inside one of London’s defining cultural institutions.
- Starting point
- Hayward Gallery film workshop
- Pathway
- Resident filmmaker / BFI
- First works
- Head OverBoard / 2051
First films / Cultural institutions
Two films that opened the journey.
From a youth workshop to commissioned work for the Southbank Centre, these films established the bridge between personal discovery and public cultural storytelling.
01▶BFI residency / Skateboarding shortHead OverBoardThe first short film Fabien made after picking up a camera through the Hayward Gallery workshop.
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02▶Southbank Centre commission2051 — Royal Festival Hall DocumentaryA film celebrating the Royal Festival Hall’s exhibition history, screened as part of its reopening after refurbishment.
Watch film ↗︎Age 17 / Founder
Turning the opportunity into a company.
At 17, Fabien founded Vographics Ltd with backing from Bright Ideas Trust. Tim Campbell invested in the business and mentored Fabien as a business partner—helping him move from a young filmmaker with momentum to an entrepreneur building a sustainable production company.
Vographics was renamed Invincible Frames in 2014. Across its 2008–2018 life, the company became the vehicle through which Fabien learned to combine creative authorship, client leadership and end-to-end production.
- Founded
- 2008 / Age 17
- Backing
- Bright Ideas Trust
- Investor & mentor
- Tim Campbell MBE
- Evolution
- Vographics → Invincible Frames / 2014
2010 / First film award
The first recognition raised the ambition.
Fabien won Best Director at the BEEFTA Awards—his first film award and an early confirmation that the instinct sparked by that first workshop could become a lasting directorial practice.
2012 / Narrative with purpose
Turning a documentary brief into a timeless drama.
Generation 3.0 had traditionally used talking-head documentaries to explore racial equality. Fabien, Shane Davey and Riffy Ahmed proposed using the same production investment to tell the subject through a story that would not become dated the moment it was filmed.
The result was Clench: the story of Ash, a mixed-race young woman from Old Trafford who takes up boxing at the iconic Salford Lads Club. The ring becomes a neutral space where race and neighbourhood politics are left outside—and where assumptions can be challenged person to person.
- Written & directed
- Riffy Ahmed
- Produced
- Shane Davey / Courtney Edwards / Fabien Soazandry
- Commission
- Generation 3.0
01▶Manchester / A parallel experiment
Before influencer boxing had a name.
While producing Clench at Salford Lads Club, Fabien signed up for a white-collar boxing match and began a YouTube series documenting his training and progress—turning himself into the subject years before influencer boxing became an established format.
01▶Self-directed YouTube seriesWhite-Collar Boxing Diary — Film 01Watch diary film ↗︎
02▶Self-directed YouTube seriesWhite-Collar Boxing Diary — Film 02Watch diary film ↗︎
Early digital culture / Eddie Kadi
Before creator-led content had a name.
One camera. One editor. One direct relationship between talent, culture and an emerging online audience.
818K+combined public views
06original YouTube films
01director, camera and editor
2008–10early digital chapter
The Crafted Era / Early digital culture
A one-person content studio before the model existed.
Early in his career, Fabien worked directly with comedian Eddie Kadi on a run of personality-led films for YouTube—independently directing, shooting and editing every piece of media himself.
Operating across the complete production pipeline, he functioned as a one-person content studio before creator-led production became an established model. Built around comedy, music, sport and behind-the-scenes access, the films helped extend Kadi’s presence beyond live performance and strengthen his direct relationship with online audiences.
The archive reveals an instinct that continues through Fabien’s later work: understand the platform, build around a distinctive voice and turn individual moments into a repeatable content system.
- Role
- Director / Camera / Editor
- Format
- End-to-end, one-person production
- Focus
- Talent, culture & audience growth
Original archive / YouTube
Six films. One emerging content system.
Approximately 818K combined public views. Counts verified on YouTube on 30 August 2026 and rounded as displayed.
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03▶My-Ish Music / Music-video production
From creator-led content to music-video craft.
Working with the My-Ish Music label, Fabien carried the speed and independence of his early digital practice into artist-led music videos—moving across editorial storytelling, direction, camera, post-production and visual effects.
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02▶Joe Grind / Animated music video
More than 4,000 frames—drawn by hand.
Fabien directed and edited the Joe Grind performance, then became the film’s animator. Over two intensive weeks, the footage was rotoscoped frame by frame—more than 4,000 hand-drawn images transforming the live-action shoot into a fully animated music video.
01▶Little Boots / Get Things Done
Building the world beyond the green screen.
Fabien completed all green-screen removal, rotoscoping, set extension and visual effects for the music video—transforming the filmed performances into its polished, stylised office world.
01▶Television development / Comedy pilot
Building an original world for television.
GOOD FELLAS marks a move from short-form, creator-led production into longer-form narrative development. Fabien co-directed the television pilot with Rob Cains, shaping an ensemble comedy concept for the screen.
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