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| October 2011 |
| We are delighted to be working with Shelton Fleming on another project for government department UK Trade & Investment. Provisionally entitled Imagine – Great Ideas Made Real, this video showcase will document the UK’s tradition of Innovation. The showcase will be premiered in April of next year. We will keep you posted on progress and in the meantime, if you have an innovation that you think we should include then get in touch. |
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| September 2011 |
| We are excited to announce that we have just started development on a brand new series for MTV. We can’t tell you much more at the moment but watch this space for updates. |
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| August 2011 |
| Working closely with communications agency Aura we have just completed a series of films for private equity firm Bain Capital. The films, created to give a genuine insight into the people make the business a success, have recently been shown to staff at a major internal event. They have proved a huge hit and are now being shown to as part of Bain Capital’s staff inductions. We have also been filming and post producing a host films for The Guardian newspaper for their annual Sales Conference and Achievement Awards. |
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| July 2011 |
| The J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge is a series of five kilometre races held across the globe to raise money for charity. This year we were asked to create a highlights film for the London leg of the race. Filmed over two nights in Battersea Park, it was directed by Ollie Solmon and shot on the Canon 5D. You can view the finished film here. |
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| June 2011 |
| June has been a busy month at leafstorm. Julian has visited New York, Paris, Herleen, Frankfurt and Munich filming for KPMG. The finished films, a short documentary and a series of motion graphics sequences will be shown across three screens at the forthcoming KPMG EMEA Tax Summit in Amsterdam. Meanwhile Lee has been working with director Nick Jesper on his latest documentary entitled 'Babyish'. This fascinating and often emotional film looks at the unconventional life of a couple from the South East of England. It will be appearing at a Film Festival near you soon. |
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| May 2011 |
| Lee has started filming an episode for the new season of the Channel 4 documentary series 'Coppers’ for Blast Films. He will be based in Nottingham following the Nottinghamshire Police Armed Response Unit for three months. |
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| January 2011 |
| We are delighted to announce that we are currently working with our friends at Shelton Fleming on the latest update of Love & Money – 50 Years of Creative Britain. We produced the original version of this exciting six screen video exhibition celebrating the best of the UK’s creative industries back in 2008 for the department of UK Trade & Investment. Since then it has toured the world and has been shown almost 100 times in 26 countries worldwide, spanning Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe and viewed by almost 30,000 people. This latest update will see us acquiring new content and redesigning and re-editing the entire exhibition ready for a busy few years in the run up to the London 2012 Olympics. |
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| December 2010 |
Christmas is coming and we have just us completed work on a several films for the pasta pioneers Sacla’, including a documentary that detailed the exciting first year of the launch of their Dallaglio by Sacla’ range of sauces. Filmed with the great man himself at a host of events across the year we found ourselves visiting various rugby and food festivals and even fulfilled a childhood ambition of running out onto the pitch at Twickenham.
This month whilst the rest of us at leafstorm have been suffering the effects of the cold weather, Lee has jetted off to the Maldives to shoot an episode of a new primetime series for Channel 4 'Holiday Hijack' to be screened in the New Year. |
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| November 2010 |
| Lee has just finished Executive Producing 'Britain’s Happy Hookers' for Current TV. Directed by Nick Jesper the show follows journalist Alex Bedford as she meets real-life Belle de Jours to see if the popularity of the blog and TV series has attracted young, middle-class women to the escorting profession. The programme will be screened on Current TV (SKY 183/Virgin 155) at 10.00pm on 15th November 2010. |
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| October 2010 |
It has been a busy few months that has seen us complete work on a host of films and programmes for KPMG, MTV, Links of London and Sacla’. We have also recently completed our first RED shoot that involved a huge cast and an even larger number of effects shots. The finished film has to remain under wraps for the time being.
One film that we can share with you was produced for insurance company Bright Grey through digital agency Space01. The film features Sharon and Jake Richmond’s inspirational story detailing how Bright Grey’s Helping Hand programme has help them deal with Sharon’s recently diagnosed MS. |
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| September 2010 |
| This month will see leafstorm celebrating our 10th anniversary. It’s been an eventful decade which has seen us producing hundreds of programmes for clients all over the world. Here’s to the next 10 years! |
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| July 2010 |
Julian has just returned from a very brief trip to Los Angeles to film a fascinating interview with the legendary Sir Richard Branson at the legendary Sunset Marquis hotel. The film is embargoed at present but it will be shown at an international conference in October.
Lee has also spent a very long weekend in Barcelona filming for our latest pilot Ten Grand Weekend commissioned by MTV Networks. |
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| May 2010 |
| leafstorm have been commissioned to produce a TX pilot of an entertaining new format for MTV’s global networks. More to follow. |
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| April 2010 |
| Awards time again, and we’re delighted that leafstorm’s Lee Phillips has snagged two more for the trophy cabinet. The first was the Platinum Award for directing ‘My Breasts Could Kill Me’ at WorldFest in Houston. Next, Lee’s first ever documentary, ‘Beyond the Clouds’ was honoured by film-makers Richard Linklater and Sally Potter picking up the $6,000 Grand Jury Prize at the 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival. |
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| January 2010 |
| We have just completed work with photographer Stephen Hayward on a nice little web video for Links of London. Shot in High Definition on the Canon D5 MkII and lit with UV lighting, you can see the final results here. |
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| December 2009 |
NEW WEBSITE FOR THE NEW YEAR
Welcome to our new website. We have designed it especially for you so we hope that you enjoy it. |
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| November 2009 |
| We are 10 years old and The National Lottery is 15 years old. We should know, we have just completed work on a film to help them celebrate. Matt has also been busy producing a lovely animation for Renault. |
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| October 2009 |
| We are excited to announce the installation of two bright and shiny Final Cut Pro edit suites which, as you would expect, are fully kitted out for High Definition production. We have also invested in a High Definition server too. |
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| September 2009 |
| We have also just completed work on a fun animation for eBay which you can view here.
This month also saw the production of two films for KPMG that were filmed in Brussels and London. If you ever need a ‘fixer’ in Brussels let us know we have found a lovely chap called Alon who is hysterically funny and can seemingly get film crews into any location that Brussels has to offer. |
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| July 2009 |
| This month saw us filming with Lawrence Dallaglio and picking up two awards. The awards went to Lee for his work on Super Slim Me and Dawn Gets Naked and you can find more about them here.
Filming with Lawrence was to help launch his new pasta sauce that he has developed with Sacla'. The finished film can be seen here. |
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| June 2009 |
| Lee has just finished directing his latest television projects with Dawn Porter called My Breasts Could Kill Me. Filmed in High Definition the two highly emotional films will be broadcast on the 6th July and 7th July. |
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| May 2009 |
It’s been a busy few months at leafstorm that has seen various members of the team flying across Europe filming with KPMG. We have also just completed work on two edits called The Passion and The Glory to help launch the England’s 2018 World Cup Bid at Wembley Stadium.
You can view both of the films on their YouTube channel.
...come on England! |
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| April 2009 |
| Matt and Julian have completed work on a powerful new film promoting a new World Health Organisation global initiative called Save Lives: Clean Your Hands. The film goes live on the WHO website on the 5th May. |
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| March 2009 |
| Paul Smith was ‘blown away’, whilst Terence Conran thought it was ‘truly stunning’. Five months in the making we have just had the first showing of our latest project with Shelton Fleming and government department UK Trade and Investment. Love & Money – 50 Years of Creative Britain will be shown across six synchronised screens in exhibitions to be hosted across the globe. The film celebrates the power of the UK’s creative industries. |
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| February 2009 |
| We have just won an award for our animated film ‘The Hard Cell’. Produced for the St Giles Trust the film scooped a Silver IVCA Award in the Charity and Public Welfare category. |
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| September 2008 |
| Singapore, Bangalore, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Geneva and London are just a few of the locations we have visited this month filming for 3i. We are in the process of editing the films and are looking forward to visiting Paris to see them shown. |
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| August 2008 |
| Matt has just finished directing duties on a new animated film for the ex-offenders charity the St Giles Trust. Illustrator Ben Hawkins gave the animation its unique look and Caroline Robinson at Aquarium Studios completed the extensive sound mix. We would like to thank everyone who gave their time to this project. |
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| March 2008 |
| For the second year in a row we have produced the vodcast to accompany the launch of the Chief Medical Officer for the UK, Sir Liam Donaldson Annual Report. |
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