Ciaran Flannery Email & Phone Number

Uk, Usa, Eu

I uncover the heart of core IP and tailor empathetic storytelling experiences with platform centric approaches. Connecting with an audience is no longer enough - brands need to develop community through shared experiences grounded in empathy.

Global Hq - Salzburg

• Led Red Bull's efforts to develop new production models and content in virtual production and XR resulting in Red Bull Racing's first VP film - debuting the 2023 F1 racer.• Set an achievable creative and editorial strategy for emerging media and immersive content - strongly focused on Web3, XR, and Unreal Game Engine. • Developed tangible projects based on existing IP that moved the company forward in the various domains which make up emerging media.

Salzburg, Austria

• Created Red Bull’s storytelling strategy for the emerging Immersive media market (Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, VR, enhanced viewing).• Transformed a global team of Executive Producers/Project Manager from a production unit into a creative strategy and execution enterprise. • Managed budgets of several million per annum.• Developed and created projects with top tech partners such as Unity, Dimension Studios, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox and others.• Twice my teams were Emmy-nominated for Innovation.

Salzburg, Austria

•Recruited a top flight team of international executive and senior producers, charged with improving and upscaling all globally relevant content originating from the worldwide Red Bull Media Network – over 160 projects per annum. •Trained and mentored a global network of Heads of Content and EP's in countries and regions around the world including: Brazil, Latam, Turkey, Canada, Australia, India, Japan, South Africa, and across the EU.•Developed the Red Bull Global Format Catalog. This tool gave media teams around the world a resource to streamline ideas and concepts that otherwise would have existed in a creative vaccuum.•Developed and executed premium original global commissions for owned, managed, and third-party platforms such as Netflix, ESPN, Globo and other global broadcasters.•Created content generating millions of views on YouTube.•Reviewed and assessed all annual Red Bull Media Network country content business plans. Worked closely with our regional partners to ensure best in class storytelling based on company IP. •Helped develop and facilitate worldwide sessions of Red Bull’s Storytelling Academy. The Academy enabled marketing and content teams to unify around how great storytelling is at the heart of content marketing.

Usa; Canada

• As an in-demand creative - I wrote, produced, and directed many series and specials for major networks including: National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, Discovery Networks, Smithsonian Channel, and PBS.• Secrets of the Rainforest, a 2016 natural history special, was chosen to be premiere at the inaugural Smithsonian Earth Optimism Summit.• Won a 2011 Emmy Award for nationally distributed concert special. The special airs yearly on PBS affiliates.• Helped establish a production company in Halifax, NS to take advantage of Canadian tax credits

United Kingdom

• Developed, produced and directed sequences for Emmy- and BAFTA-award-winning blue-chip natural history/anthropology series. • Co-authored the Human Planet coffee-table book - the only AP to do so.• Helped develop new gyro-stabilized camera rig, winner of a BBC grant. • I was a pioneer in the use of low-light cameras and RED camera systems on various NHU shoots.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Produced science and history series and specials involving actors, VFX plate shots, CGI motion capture and pyrotechnics. • Shot B-roll and ran audio.

• Commissioned by IOM to amplify donor visibility, I developed, wrote, produced, filmed and directed a documentary about efforts to reconstruct war torn Afghanistan. I lived in-country for 6 months.

• Responsible for the development, budgeting, production, writing, and post-production of an episodic, round-the-world reality television series culminating with a climb of Mt. Everest, as an ABC primetime special. • Brought the multi-million-dollar project in on budget. • Responsible for all episodic and season budgets of an Emmy-winning adventure series.• Coordinated expeditions, hired crew, facilitated international travel, and managed post-production. • Helped develop an IMAX feature for Disney

Conducted primary historical, scientific, story, and footage research for primetime Discovery Channel documentary special.