Cut Both Ways is a small, award-winning specialist film, arts and multimedia production company. It was set up by independent film maker Lara Leslie, who uses her professional film-making experience to help communities to express issues of importance to them through film. Lara specialises in working with children and young people (aged 5 to 25) and conventionally hard-to-engage groups of people.

Lara continues to direct and produce her own independently funded documentary films alongside this work.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead (1901-1978),
anthropologist