Waddell is a Berlin-based director whose debut feature, The Longer You Bleed, premiered at Hot Docs 2025. His style blends mixed media and experimental approaches to examine the modernity crisis. Waddell now develops his second film, exploring the therapeutic use of psychedelics in war-torn Ukraine. He spends most of his days in his quiet edit studio in West Berlin, but when in Ukraine, he stays in a small village near Kyiv with his girlfriend's family, drinking moonshine and feeding stray cats.