A Video Marketing company with B2B focus

As far as we know, we're the only video agency to combine human video with tactical AI. Want a video marketing partner that will build your reputation and surprise your buyers? That's us.

• Who: We're film-makers and marketers, joined at the hip. We're a small cloud of colleagues and associates, with freelancers specialising in growth, image, storytelling and surprise. See our video manifesto.
• What: What do we offer? Beautiful marketing films that create ready-to-close leads. Our whole proposition
• Where: Where are we? London and the south-west if we have to pick a geography, though we travel everywhere. Our office is the internet. We have access to crew, marketing techs and production creatives in 108 countries and over 650 cities. And you can easily contact us.
• When: When do you feel the impact? Month in, month out, your videos help you rise. The stats don't lie - have a look at our case studies.
• How: How do we work? We combine science and creativity with an obsession for buyer behaviour. Candidly, we're surprised other firms don't. See how that creates content advantage.
• Why: Why use us? Because we're going to bring a bigger impact to you in more risk-free ways than anyone else. Really? Compare us against alternatives.

Meet our team

Timothy Cumming

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Founder and MD - Tim runs Marketing Films, but his main role is Creative Director. Tim's definitely played the field in creative industries - mainly film, web, design, photography, music and software, as director, artist and technician. He created the Company after decades in marketing (and since his daughters have left home, it's sort of become his only child). Tim also paints in mixed, print and large-format digital media. He's based in Wiltshire, UK. He's into Fun Lovin' Criminals, Tom Waits, off-road cycling and digital painting.

Eleanor Pratley

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Production and Office Manager - Eleanor runs all client and content projects at Marketing Films. That means she project-manages your planning, filming, post-production and social projects. She coordinates your team as well as ours. Eleanor's had a lifetime in customer service management - mainly for retail and big brands. She's managed back-office and front-of-house teams, stores, campaigns, TV events and pop-ups. She's big on Rag'n'Bone Man, gentle hill-walking and a miiiiild curry.

Comert Bengisu

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Visual Senior Video Editor - Mert is a film and senior video editor with a specialism in business video. His strengths lie in visual metaphor and weaving the idea through the story. With a degree from Film School, he has worked in corporate video since 2008. His work has been a mix of video editing and camera operating, for clients all over Europe. He's a big fan of modern cinema and long-form TV. And his family.

Filipe Marta

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Narrative Senior Video Editor - Filipe is a film and senior video editor with a specialism in documentary and narrative editing. His strengths lie in assembling distilled stories through listening and observing. With a degree in Audiovisual and Multimedia, he has worked in the audiovisual field uninterruptedly since 2010. Throughout this period, he has performed several functions, mainly focused on video editing and camera operating, for entertainment and news companies such as Endemol or A Bola TV. In parallel with his steady jobs, he has done some freelance work as well, namely on live shows broadcast and directing corporate and documentary videos. He's nuts on movies, movies, movies! And traditional dancing, food and travel, in that order.

Derek Dube

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Drama Video Editor - Derek is a film and video editor focused on dramatic story sequencing, creative and narrative composition, and visual rhythm. His strength comes from a constant drive to improve and expand his knowledge of the form. Derek Dube is an educator, videographer, and editor currently teaching at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York. He holds a BM in music performance and a BA in Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies from Oberlin College and Conservatory. While there, he studied media literacy with Rian Brown-Orso, documentary production with Geoff Pingree, film theory with Grace An, and avant-garde filmmaking with Brett Kashmere. As a media literacy educator, he works with students of all ages to give them a foundation in film production, looking toward fostering creativity, communication, and collaboration in the digital age. He's keen on Kafka, playing music, and non-traditional cinema.

Nigel Bristow

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Award-winning and visionary Associate Film and TV Director - His strength is creative writing and directing, and Nigel's work has assisted his clients with culture change, saving lives and creating new skills; he's as much at home with the ambitious as the subtle. Nigel has directed primetime TV dramas including the much-beloved shows 'Ballykissangel', 'The Bill', 'Brookside' and 'Casualty'. He directs television commercials and business video too. His clients include banks, oil companies and large manufacturers. As a screenwriter, Nigel's been commissioned by Channel Four ('Ripley Bogle'), The UK Film Council ('Kloxx'), Tall Stories ('Angel West') and Crow Foot Films ('Little Hours'). His art films have been screened at major international film festivals and on television stations all over the world. As a guest lecturer, he has run workshops at many universities and film schools including: Goldsmiths College, RADA, The Royal College of Art, Metropolitan Film School and University for The Creative Arts. He was a special guest at Rencontres Britanniques in Antony and the symposium on Irish Cinema at Charlottesville, Virginia. He's all the way into Tai Chi, fencing (he's a former Irish Men's Sabre champion) and theatre.