Ambitious, innovative and continually evolving, Icon Films is an award-winning production company. From Animal Planet US’ highest-ever rating series, River Monsters, to Emmy-nominated actor (Charles Dance) narrated Savage Kingdom, for National Geographic, we deliver high-end factual content for the UK and international market. Working with wild animals, household names, and acknowledged experts in a diverse range of fields, we bring accessibility, revelation and storytelling to the screen. In the past five years we have filmed in over 52 countries and champion bringing logistically challenging productions to the screen with our distinctive brand.
With offices in Bristol (HQ) and London, Icon Films is a continually growing independent production company, repeatedly listed in Broadcast’s Best Places to Work in TV, Televisual’s Top 100, Realscreen’s Global 100, the 4th Annual Sunday Times Lloyds SME Export Track 100 and most recently nominated Edinburgh TV Festival’s New Voice Awards as Best Company for New Talent. As an Albert Affiliated Production Partner, sustainability is at our core, with recent productions, such as Hippos: Africa’s River Giants,Jeremy Wade’s Dark Waters and Primal Survivor Season 3 earning three-star albert certifications.
Wellbeing
There will always be tight schedules, deadlines to hit and multiple demands on everyone’s time – and so we strive to keep our people happy and healthy to meet those challenges. We have an imaginative and varied programme which includes; providing fruit, a wide variety of teas and coffees, breakfast cereals, organising mindfulness classes, fitness taster sessions, and desk-based massage. We work with local, independent suppliers to nourish our minds as well as our bodies. We are proud to have been named one of Broadcast’s Top Places to Work in TV for the last three years and have been a member of the Workplace Wellbeing Charter since 2015. If you are a supplier, please get in touch with our Operations team.
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity for Icon Films is about creating an inclusive and representative workplace where everyone can thrive, and ensuring our teams are sustained and challenged to do their best work. We know an inclusive, diverse workforce increases creativity and productivity and nurture and support new and emerging talent as they develop across the company. We show our commitment to diversity in many ways, including outreach work with local partnering organisations. Inclusive recruitment practices ensures our company is accessible to all.
Our City
Innovators, disruptors, rebels, creatives come to Bristol to live and work. It is the fastest growing city in the UK and regularly named as one of the best places to live and work. It is a home to a media sector of scale and international reach, spanning genres from animation to natural history and entertainment. Bristol has an important tech cluster, where tech giants and digital start ups co-exist with academia, cultural institutions and creative businesses to build new platforms, new user experiences and new business models. It is a multicultural city where 92 languages are spoken. It is our home.
Our Office
Our office interior reflects our philosophy of creating a low carbon, beautiful and functional environment in which people can do their best work. Our cutting rooms have natural light, our kitchen is spacious and bright and functions at night as a social hub and cinema, there are works of art and our ever-increasing collections of curiosities around the office. Why? We believe people need space to have ideas and achieve their potential.
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Footage Licensing
For all enquiries relating to the licensing of clips from Icon Films productions.
For other stock footage sales please browse our Catalogue available on Getty Images
