We create moving and still images
that tell stories about people's lives
make complex issues understandable
and unlock understanding about tomorrow's world

ABOUT US

Key Pictures is an award-winning production & communications company producing innovative storytelling for traditional and new media.

We specialise in making content with substance whether it be one-off creative documentaries, TV series, photo-reportage, educational or marketing films. Whatever the subject, we turn complex ideas and issues into engaging, entertaining and informative stories.

 

We have a proven track record of getting close to the people we work with and discovering the remarkable in their stories.

OUR WORK

Our work takes its viewers

on an emotional, empathetic and informative journey.

NEWS

New TV series for CNA now being distributed by TVF

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‘Inside the Cryptokingdom’ is our first TV series for Channel News Asia.

It takes us on a journey inside the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain to understand the technology, and the pioneers behind it.

It is now available for sales internationally with TVF internationalmore

‘The Return’ selected for feature development

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We very happy to announce our project, ‘The Return’ has been selected to take part in DocWorks: UA/UK – a feature documentary training programme run by the British Council and DocuDays UA.

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First documentary for Al Jazeera now complete

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There’s been a long silence on our website recently as we’ve been busy making our first documentary for Al Jazeera English.

We are now very happy to announce that ‘In the Valley of Guns and Roses’ is now complete!

The film concerns the struggles of a single mother who works in a weapons factory in Bulgaria’s Rose Valley.

The film will be broadcast at the following times and is now available to watch online.

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‘The Circle’ Kickstarter campaign success

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Thanks to everyone who backed our Kickstarter crowd funding campaign and shared our many posts over the last few weeks! We made it!

100 people helped us raise £6000 in just 25 days.

Please keep an eye on our Facebook page The Circle where we will post regular updates.

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‘Misan’ wins Special Jury Prize

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We are pleased to announce that our film, ‘Misan’ from the Moving Lives series was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Right Film Awards 2015.

The film was subsequently discussed on National Radio and in the Irish Press, and has since received 34,000 hits on vimeo.

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SERVICES

We also provide production services:

 

  • Multicamera streaming production
  • B-roll coverage/Camera hire with operators
  • Video editing
  • Event/portrait photography
  • Photography editing/retouching
  • NFT production
  • Motion graphics
  • Music composition/production
  • Sound design/audio mixing

OUR TEAM

Simon Hipkins

Founder + Film-maker/Photographer

Simon has worked professionally in photography and film for 15 years. In television he’s worked as a director/producer, cameraman and editor for documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four. His short films have won numerous awards including a BAFTA nomination and the ‘Best Fiction’ prize at the Tehran International Film Festival.

In 2013 Simon was named as one of the winners of the Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographer Awards for his photostory on the town of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. His recent multimedia project in Iraq was a finalist for the prestigious Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize.

Simon founded Key Pictures to create an environment where still and moving image storytelling could come together in a thoughtful and purposeful manner.

Charly Feldman

Producer/Director

Charly Wai Feldman joined Key Pictures in 2017 as a producer and director. She has an extensive track record producing documentaries globally with a particular focus on Asia.

She recently series produced ‘The Talwars: Behind Closed Doors’ for HBO Asia which won an Asian Academy Creative Awards for best documentary series. She has numerous credits as director for Channel News Asia. She series produced ‘Inside the Cryptokingdom’ and directed two of the episodes.

Julio Pereira

Producer/Director/Writer

Julio is producer/director/writer with a proven track recorded making documentaries, commercials and short fiction. His films have been screened at festivals worldwide and included in the Short Corner at Cannes.

He has worked as a producer/director for Channel 4 (UK) and CNA (Singapore) and was a creative writer/producer for Fox International for 5 years.

Originally from Portugal, he lived in London for 12 years where he studied Film at Birkbeck – University of London. He currently resides in Barcelona and Lisbon.

 

David McAulay

Composer + Sound Designer

David McAulay has been working in the music industry for 15 years as artist, producer, composer, sound designer and, more recently, music supervisor.

As a composer, he’s written for a broad range of productions, including adverts for Seat Automobiles, Nintendo and Nordea Bank, television documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 and various award-winning independent dramas.

He recently worked as the music supervisor and sound designer with Mercury nominated King Creosote on the feature length film, ‘From Scotland With Love’ (Commissioned by the BBC and Creative Scotland for the Commonwealth Games 2014).

Dominic Hipkins

Investigative Journalist + Researcher

Dominic has worked in more than twenty countries, often undercover, for a variety of international broadcasters and national print media.

He was the first journalist to uncover the CIA ‘black site’ in Poland where Guantanamo-bound detainees were tortured. Other investigations have seen him infiltrate criminal gangs and extremist groups.

Throughout his career he has worked closely with NGOs such as the Institute of War and Peace Reporting to help bring justice and create greater accountability. His work has led to successful prosecutions of organised crime figures and war criminals and his stories in the Balkans helped strengthen witness protection schemes and intervened to halt human rights abuses of minority groups.

Associates

Photographers/Film-makers/Video Editors

In addition to our core staff we have a growing number of associate members working across the globe in all areas of production.

 

We put every image and story we create through a rigorous editorial process to ensure our films have the greatest integrity and value.

CLIENTS

TESTIMONIALS

Capturing the story of two-decades of immigration and delivering it in a format which would connect with a wider audience was a huge challenge, which Key Pictures met. Their hard work, dedication and professionalism has filled in a missing chapter of Irish history and shone a spotlight on a story that was in danger of being forgotten.

Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy, Founder of The Immigrant Council of Ireland and commissioner of our film series, 'Moving Lives'

The film Key Pictures created is perfectly pitched, lively throughout and beautifully crafted. It communicates exactly the message we want to disseminate about the reasons that inspire people to study Italian.

Charles Burdett, Chair, Society of Italian Studies and commissioner of our film, 'Choose Italian'

CONTACT US

If you have a project to discuss or production requirement, please get in touch.

 

Key Pictures

+44 (0) 7760492441
info@keypictures.org

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