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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Creative Director operating in the Media and Entertainment space. If you think a Creative Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Glen Gathard
Creative Director of Molinare
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About Molinare: High-end broadcast and feature post production
Andrew Sheldon
Creative Director & Founder of True North Productions
ndrew is an award winning journalist and film maker who leads the Documentaries and Current Affairs departments at True North. Having started his career in newspapers, he’s been telling stories that matter ever since. Andrew is constantly breaking new ground, often in the world of the police and crime. His genre-bending Big Sting brand took the best of Candid Camera and Crimewatch, working with police forces to catch up with criminals on the run. His eye for a story often takes him inside the stories that everyone is talking about – like One Man and His Canoe for ITV, which told the story of fraudster John Darwin as the police investigation unfolded. With a reputation for negotiating exclusive access and years of investigative experience, Andrew’s Executive Producer credits include the inside story of the disappearance of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews in Panorama: The Mother of All Lies, the UK’s first ever hand transplant in My New Hand and the expose of the UK’s biggest funeral company in Dispatches: Undercover Undertaker.
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About True North Productions: True North Productions is one of the biggest most dynamic TV production companies in the UK – a beacon for talent in the north of England.
Jess Fowle
Creative Director & Founder of True North Productions
Jess started in television as a TV-am trainee and during her time in ITV’s factual department was behind some of the channel’s highest ever factual ratings with the shocking expose Nannies from Hell. In a twenty-year career in factual television, Jess has made everything from long running, multi-episode features series to immersive one-off docs. At True North Jess leads the Features and Children’s departments – creating returning brands like Building the Dream and Junior Vets and has also been responsible for delivering some of the company’s most talked-about pop docs including Addicted to Surrogacy, My Mums Used to Be Men, The Twins who Share a Body and My Fake Baby. Working collaboratively with contributors, Jess has been at the forefront of forging True North’s reputation for telling sensitive stories with integrity and humanity.
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About True North Productions: True North Productions is one of the biggest most dynamic TV production companies in the UK – a beacon for talent in the north of England.
Jess Fowle
Creative Director & Founder of True North Productions
Jess started in television as a TV-am trainee and during her time in ITV’s factual department was behind some of the channel’s highest ever factual ratings with the shocking expose Nannies from Hell. In a twenty-year career in factual television, Jess has made everything from long running, multi-episode features series to immersive one-off docs. At True North Jess leads the Features and Children’s departments – creating returning brands like Building the Dream and Junior Vets and has also been responsible for delivering some of the company’s most talked-about pop docs including Addicted to Surrogacy, My Mums Used to Be Men, The Twins who Share a Body and My Fake Baby. Working collaboratively with contributors, Jess has been at the forefront of forging True North’s reputation for telling sensitive stories with integrity and humanity.
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About True North Productions: True North Productions is one of the biggest most dynamic TV production companies in the UK – a beacon for talent in the north of England.
Louis Persent
Creative Director of Weirdo
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About Weirdo: Weirdo is a creative agency that provides strategy, creative campaigns, and design.
Alex Morris
Creative Director of Barcroft Studios
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About Barcroft Studios: Barcroft Studios producing content for global industry publishers, broadcasters, platforms and brands.
Adam King
Creative Director of Diagonal View
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About Diagonal View: Diagonal View creates entertaining video content that reaches mass audiences.
Carl Guyenette
Creative Technology Director / Creative Director of Layered Reality
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About Layered Reality: Layered Reality is an entertainment company that uses a unique method to build experiences using three ‘layers’ of multimedia.
Dan Pinchbeck
Creative Director of The Chinese Room
Dan Pinchbeck is the Creative Director of the UK based studio The Chinese Room. He is the writer and designer of their games, which include the multi-award winning Dear Esther, widely regarded as the key title in the emergence of the first-person storytelling/exploration genre; the cult horror Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and the recently released Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. He is a regular columnist for gamesTM, authored the book Doom: Scarydarkfast, has a PhD in first-person shooters, sits on numerous award panels, and speaks internationally about game design and storytelling.
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About The Chinese Room: The Chinese Room is an award-winning game development studio.
Byron Bullock
Creative Director of Noiseworks
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About Noiseworks: Noiseworks is a creative sound design and music company that combines various music and sound design styles.
Mark Gass
Executive Creative Director of The Creative Engagement Group
Mark Gass serves as an Executive Creative Director at The Creative Engagement Group.
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About The Creative Engagement Group: The Creative Engagement Group is creates and delivers live experiences, communications, interactive and immersive content.
Daniel Willers
Creative Director of Yellow Mouse Studios
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About Yellow Mouse Studios: We create content using techniques ranging from Stop-Motion to 3D
Daniel Willers
Creative Director of Yellow Mouse Studios
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About Yellow Mouse Studios: We create content using techniques ranging from Stop-Motion to 3D
Imogen Hammond
Creative Director of Inition
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About Inition: INITION, based in Shoreditch, London, is a multidisciplinary production company.
