Tim has over 30 years’ experience producing broadcast and corporate documentaries, brand films and animations for clients around the world. He specialises in running projects, writing treatments and scripts and solving story problems both on the page and in the edit suite.
Examples of recent corporate work include cancer survivor stories
‘Nothing’s Promised’ and
‘The Journey’ for Immunogen; the documentary,
‘A Decade In Motion’ for Careem;
a brand film for supply chain experts, Ligentia; as well as videos for miner, Anglo American; Hikma pharmaceuticals and asset managers,
Pemberton.
Broadcast documentaries include
‘You Can’t Go Back’ about the Scottish rock band, Del Amitri, for Sky Arts and
‘Minds Wide Open’ about exciting advances in neuroscience for the Chen Institute. This film premiered on Discovery in the US, racked up 14 million views in China and bagged a clutch of awards.
Throughout his career, Tim has worked closely with CEOs and senior executives, developing and refining content and coaching them on camera. He’s also written screenplays for Red Rooster, Sly Fox, BBC Films and Wellington Films. His latest screenplay, ‘Bare Knuckle Girl’ is now a 40-minute short in the process of being entered for festivals.
Before founding Strange Films and Music with Karen Stowe in 2018, Tim was a partner at Brunswick Group where he and MD Toby Low built a global film team for the firm’s creative agency. Within five years, it was ranked the UK’s #1 corporate production company, winning more than fifty international awards. At Brunswick, Tim was also responsible for the agency’s training, learning and development and led workshops on storytelling, writing, pitching and client handling skills.
Early Career
Tim began his film career at the BBC producing the music series ‘Rhythms of the World’ and making documentaries for the multi-award winning arts strand Arena. His subjects included music therapy with Paul McCartney; a biopic of the socialist folk singer and playwright, Ewan MacColl; ‘Tutu and the Rainbow Nation’ and the ‘Idea of Empire’ with professor Edward Said. Of Tim’s last programme for the BBC, a four hour special on nations and nationalism called ‘Stories My Country Told Me’, one reviewer wrote: “Arena has made a contribution to clarity in murky times and has done so in a manner which upholds and amplifies the higher standards of television programme making.”
