Crafting Legacy

Baal Singh, known as Val, works as an engineer at Aston Martin and was part of the team that received the King's Award for Enterprise. But the film's real subject is the tradition of skilled craftsmanship that runs through his family across multiple generations, a thread that connects Punjab to Britain and manual skill to modern industry. His story situates individual achievement within a longer arc of inherited precision and dedication that predates any title or award.

The film is interested in what it means to be a craftsman in the truest sense: not just technically proficient but genuinely invested in the quality of what you make, across your entire working life. It draws a line between Sikh values around hard work and honest labor and the particular excellence that Baal and his family have embodied in very different contexts. Crafting Legacy is a film about what gets passed down, not only in genes and family stories, but in the shape of hands that know how to do good work.