Reel Twenty Five

26/11/2023

Wow, what a night! We’re still recovering from our RTS Midlands Awards. What a brilliant evening it was, celebrating the huge range of talent in our wonderful region. The standard was very high among all the nominees and we loved listening to the inspiring speeches from our winners.
Thank you to our brilliant hosts, Ed James and Summaya Mughal.
A special shout out to the recipients of our prestigious Baird Medal Awards - casting director Shaheen Baig for Off-Screen and actor Richard Armitage.
And congratulations to the winners:
Nick Owen from BBC Midlands for On-Screen Personality, sponsored by Sunbelt Rentals UK & Ireland, with a special tribute to his 50 years in broadcasting.
Barnaby Papadopulos from ITV Central for Breakthrough Off-Screen.
Jack Carson from GB News for Breakthrough On-Screen, sponsored by University of Worcester School of Arts.
Mockingbird Film CO’s Jack for Short Film.
Spark Media’s Commonwealth Games Opening Titles for Animation.
Reel Twenty Five’s Childhood for Promotional.
Gosh TV’s Building Britain’s Superhomes for Craft Production, supported by Createcentraluk.
Paul Farrer for the theme music for Late Night Lycett for Craft Post Production.
The Chair’s Award went to Birmingham Press Club.
Talisha Tee Cee Johnson’s Too Autistic for Black for Diversity Champion.
BlueBell Films, Common Ground Arts and Longwill School for Creative Community.
Darshna Soni from Channel 4 News for Journalist of the Year.
BBC East Midlands’ The Nottingham Attacks for News Programme of the Year.
Full Fat Television’s Fresh Cops for Popular Factual.
Clockwork Films’ Bend It Like Bollywood for Factual & Specialist Factual, sponsored by Clear Cut Pictures’ Nations & Regions.
LGK Productions Queens Of The Commonwealth for Documentary, sponsored by BritAsia TV.
Khurrum M Sultan for Director on Vera.
Simon Evans and Phil Glynn for Writer on Staged.
Chris Walker for Acting Performance on BBC Doctors.
Phoenix Rise for Scripted.

26/09/2022

‘Out There’, our film promoting foster care has been nominated in this year’s in the Promotional category.

We’ve seen a glimpse of who we’re up against and the standard this year is so high. It’s an honour to be among them.

Thanks again to everyone involved.

12/10/2021

This is our latest Foster Care film; 'Out There'.

It's been in our minds for over 18 months and now it's finally been filmed and launched.

We worked in partnership with 34 councils across the country, alongside a handful of our frequent and talented collaborators to get this message across.

It's been made with a lot of time, care, pride and love.

I hope you like it.

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Directed by: Dave Smith
Shot by: Richard Bailey
Production Design: Abi Howarth
Movi Operator: Guy Jenkins
Production Assistant: Billy Davies
Written, Edited and Produced by: Richard Bailey & Dave Smith

Featuring:
Patrick J Maxwell
Hugo Carter
Kim Anh
Abigail Moore

Lead Client: Rachel Bridgeman
Coventry City Council

Massive thanks go out to Nottingham City Transport, Touch gloves boxing gym, HPS Product Recovery Solutions and Chesterfield Fire Station for having us along to film.

01/03/2019

2019 marks 10 years since I went freelance. Thank you so much to all my clients and collaborators for helping me come this far.

It means the world. x

03/05/2017

Here's our follow up Foster Care film made for councils across the midlands. Keep an eye out for the Sky TV ad if you're in Stoke, Coventry and Wolverhampton. Made once again with the help of Dave Smith and this time Abi Howarth. Great team effort!!

Find out more http://www.coventry.gov.uk/fostering

05/05/2016

Here's a little vid I made last year... and it still holds true today! Beautiful food.

This is "Gino's Pear Tree" by reel25 on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

26/04/2016

Almost time for me to dip my toe in the BT Sport water so I'm testing out an ENG style lens for my FS7.
Not bad! BB8 likes it anyway...

12/03/2016

The Emirates FA Cup this weekend = The perfect opportunity to plug our film again ;)

In an amazing film featuring Sky Blue legends Dave Bennett and Micky Gynn, we reminisce on the memories of the thrilling 1987 FA cup win at Wembley 29 years ...

08/03/2016

Our health related football film has made it on to BBC Midlands Today. Great way to help get the message out there :)

26/01/2016

If you haven't already seen this a million times... then here it is again. This is a film we made with Adopt and foster for Coventry and Coventry City Council. It's called 'Alfie's Journey', it was great fun to make, and we even picked up a bit of recognition from FilmConvert for using the software to grade it.

08/01/2016

Here we go... Short and (hopefully) sweet. Let me know what you think in the comments below.