Founder / Producer / Director
Anytime Films
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Started from Scratch with grant of £300 from Princes Trust. Went on to produce factual event filming, promo vids and obs docs. Overseeing production of over 100 highly creative award winning projects. Roles included everything from client and crew leadership. Tenders, proposals, pre to post production tasks, budgets, risk assessments and HSE. As well as the lovely creative stuff like scripting, filming, editing & delivery of light hearted and humorous content. Employed dozens of people on permanent, casual and freelance basis creating jobs and often the first break for people who have gone on to do well in the industry. All started in and around an objective one / convergence area of South Wales. Also ran a media academy up and down Wales teaching young people filming and editing and production skills. Anytime Films was the very first businesses in South Wales to successfully access the EU Local Investment Fund (LIF) to invest in capital equipment specifically for job creation, which we did. Projects involved Sony / Canon cameras, Final Cut and Adobe Premiere editing, lighting, specialist mounts and rigs, plus additional editing packages including Adobe After FX, 3D Max & Maya.