Hi, I’m Dan!

Fifteen years into a career in film and video, I've been lucky enough to work with several brands you'd recognise: Vodafone, Mazda, Helly Hansen and Harvester to name a few. As well as directing and shooting for some of the world's most recognisable brands, I’ve also worked on sets for Netflix, and hold DOP credits for a BBC Three documentary. I’ve produced content that's won rooms over at pitches, played well at launches, and looked exactly right on the brief.

But somewhere along the way I started asking a question that made me uncomfortable: is any of it actually working?

Not "did they like it." Not "does it look great." But is it moving their business? Is it finding the right people, saying the right thing, at the right moment in their decision?

Those questions don't have easy answers. But asking them changed everything about how I work.

Today I work with businesses and brands who want a filmmaker that thinks beyond the frame. That experience across scales, sectors and briefs means I understand what good content actually costs, what it takes to make it and more importantly, what it needs to do when it's done.

I'm rooted in Somerset near Bristol and backed by a tight network of editors, camera operators, gaffers, and audio engineers I've trusted for years. Whatever your project demands, we can meet it.

Dan Atkins Filmmaker studio portrait

Ready to do this?

Tell me about your project and what you're trying to achieve. The rest we can figure out together.