Meet Basil. He joined us in October 2024 as our Production and Account Manager and has already produced some of our biggest, most ambitious campaigns to date. Here’s a little about him.

Having worked my way around commercial film, short film and social content sets, I transitioned from freelancing to working in-house with Socialed as their Production and Account Manager. The common thread across film sets, and collaborative creation more generally, is the collective energy of a group of people working towards a unified vision. That’s what I love about production - that unified energy.

So at Socialed I work producing our campaigns. Taking the reins at the pre-production stage, I cast, crew-up, budget and then run our shoot days. On the account management side, I liaise with our clients, manage timelines and asset deliveries. With regards to those shoots upcoming, I am particularly excited for our campaign with Brain in Hand, as well as work with Atelier Gooch. The former very scripted, the latter much closer to a found-footage approach, the two projects give me widely different scopes and styles to explore.

When I’m not producing for Socialed, I write-direct my own narrative fiction short films, in which I work extensively with still frames and improvisation to explore character-driven narratives that allow those characters to inform space and script. Outside the moving image, I shoot stills on my dad’s old Pentax ME Super. I read - a lot - and write and can often be found either at the BFI or the Almeida.

When not working with storytelling, I am usually outside: cold water swimming (in a pond, lake, river, sea whatever is fresh and cold), hiking, walking, playing tennis, or in search of some mountain somewhere.

I cook messily, dance enthusiastically and insist on cycling in terrible weather, for some reason.