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A creative director/director working in film, social, creative AI, animation & interactive. I'm an award-winning independent director working in film, animation and interactive in the entertainment and cultural sectors. I specialise in projects that are challenging to achieve, haven't been attempted before, that educate, bring about change and have strong narratives at their heart... ideally all of the above. Projects I’ve worked on have won D&AD pencils (White, Wooden and Graphite), Gold, Silver and Bronze Cannes Lions and twice nominated for Children’s BAFTAs, amongst many others. I talk internationally at conferences and festivals for students and professionals alike at Aardman Academy, D&AD, BFI, NME Lifehacks, House of Beautiful Business, PwC and the Prince’s Trust, inspiring them to fail fast, think like children and to get their hands dirty. I am currently working on content creation and strategy with generative AI platforms with the aim of helping creative companies and agencies utilise this technology in a humanistic and consult on how it can be used in traditional creative pipelines and craft. Select clients include Aardman, AHRC, BBC, British Council, British Library, Dyson, Huawei, IPO, ITV, J&J, MTV, Sky, Wellcome Trust, We the Curious. Recent projects include working with Dyson creating social content for their audio, beauty and home sectors, helping them to connect to new audiences and develop new ways of communicating with their customers, an animated music video for Jamie Cullum’s song Age of Anxiety, What’s Up With Everyone - a set of films looking to increase mental health awareness in young people, BBC iReporter which teaches young adults to navigate the murky waters of fake news and StorySign an interactive experience that teaches deaf children to learn how to read. If you have a project and are interested to talk about it, please get in touch.…A creative director/director working in film, social, creative AI, animation & interactive. I'm an award-winning independent director working in film, animation and interactive in the entertainment and cultural sectors. I specialise in projects that are challenging to achieve, haven't been attempted before, that educate, bring about change and have strong narratives at their heart... ideally all of the above. Projects I’ve worked on have won D&AD pencils (White, Wooden and Graphite), Gold, Silver and Bronze Cannes Lions and twice nominated for Children’s BAFTAs, amongst many others. I talk internationally at conferences and festivals for students and professionals alike at Aardman Academy, D&AD, BFI, NME Lifehacks, House of Beautiful Business, PwC and the Prince’s Trust, inspiring them to fail fast, think like children and to get their hands dirty. I am currently working on content creation and strategy with generative AI platforms with the aim of helping creative companies and agencies utilise this technology in a humanistic and consult on how it can be used in traditional creative pipelines and craft. Select clients include Aardman, AHRC, BBC, British Council, British Library, Dyson, Huawei, IPO, ITV, J&J, MTV, Sky, Wellcome Trust, We the Curious. Recent projects include working with Dyson creating social content for their audio, beauty and home sectors, helping them to connect to new audiences and develop new ways of communicating with their customers, an animated music video for Jamie Cullum’s song Age of Anxiety, What’s Up With Everyone - a set of films looking to increase mental health awareness in young people, BBC iReporter which teaches young adults to navigate the murky waters of fake news and StorySign an interactive experience that teaches deaf children to learn how to read. If you have a project and are interested to talk about it, please get in touch.

Neil Pymer

Film Director, Video Editor, Creative Director, +6

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A creative director/director working in film, social, creative AI, animation & interactive. I'm an award-winning independent director working in film, animation and interactive in the entertainment and cultural sectors. I specialise in projects that are challenging to achieve, haven't been attempted before, that educate, bring about change and have strong narratives at their heart... ideally all of the above. Projects I’ve worked on have won D&AD pencils (White, Wooden and Graphite), Gold, Silver and Bronze Cannes Lions and twice nominated for Children’s BAFTAs, amongst many others. I talk internationally at conferences and festivals for students and professionals alike at Aardman Academy, D&AD, BFI, NME Lifehacks, House of Beautiful Business, PwC and the Prince’s Trust, inspiring them to fail fast, think like children and to get their hands dirty. I am currently working on content creation and strategy with generative AI platforms with the aim of helping creative companies and agencies utilise this technology in a humanistic and consult on how it can be used in traditional creative pipelines and craft. Select clients include Aardman, AHRC, BBC, British Council, British Library, Dyson, Huawei, IPO, ITV, J&J, MTV, Sky, Wellcome Trust, We the Curious. Recent projects include working with Dyson creating social content for their audio, beauty and home sectors, helping them to connect to new audiences and develop new ways of communicating with their customers, an animated music video for Jamie Cullum’s song Age of Anxiety, What’s Up With Everyone - a set of films looking to increase mental health awareness in young people, BBC iReporter which teaches young adults to navigate the murky waters of fake news and StorySign an interactive experience that teaches deaf children to learn how to read. If you have a project and are interested to talk about it, please get in touch.…A creative director/director working in film, social, creative AI, animation & interactive. I'm an award-winning independent director working in film, animation and interactive in the entertainment and cultural sectors. I specialise in projects that are challenging to achieve, haven't been attempted before, that educate, bring about change and have strong narratives at their heart... ideally all of the above. Projects I’ve worked on have won D&AD pencils (White, Wooden and Graphite), Gold, Silver and Bronze Cannes Lions and twice nominated for Children’s BAFTAs, amongst many others. I talk internationally at conferences and festivals for students and professionals alike at Aardman Academy, D&AD, BFI, NME Lifehacks, House of Beautiful Business, PwC and the Prince’s Trust, inspiring them to fail fast, think like children and to get their hands dirty. I am currently working on content creation and strategy with generative AI platforms with the aim of helping creative companies and agencies utilise this technology in a humanistic and consult on how it can be used in traditional creative pipelines and craft. Select clients include Aardman, AHRC, BBC, British Council, British Library, Dyson, Huawei, IPO, ITV, J&J, MTV, Sky, Wellcome Trust, We the Curious. Recent projects include working with Dyson creating social content for their audio, beauty and home sectors, helping them to connect to new audiences and develop new ways of communicating with their customers, an animated music video for Jamie Cullum’s song Age of Anxiety, What’s Up With Everyone - a set of films looking to increase mental health awareness in young people, BBC iReporter which teaches young adults to navigate the murky waters of fake news and StorySign an interactive experience that teaches deaf children to learn how to read. If you have a project and are interested to talk about it, please get in touch.

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Bristol, United Kingdom

A creative director/director working in film, social, creative AI, animation & interactive.

I’m an award-winning independent director working in film, animation and interactive in the entertainment and cultural sectors. I specialise in projects that are challenging to achieve, haven’t been attempted before, that educate, bring about change and have strong narratives at their heart… ideally all of the above.

Projects I’ve worked on have won D&AD pencils (White, Wooden and Graphite), Gold, Silver and Bronze Cannes Lions and twice nominated for Children’s BAFTAs, amongst many others.

I talk internationally at conferences and festivals for students and professionals alike at Aardman Academy, D&AD, BFI, NME Lifehacks, House of Beautiful Business, PwC and the Prince’s Trust, inspiring them to fail fast, think like children and to get their hands dirty.

I am currently working on content creation and strategy with generative AI platforms with the aim of helping creative companies and agencies utilise this technology in a humanistic and consult on how it can be used in traditional creative pipelines and craft.

Select clients include Aardman, AHRC, BBC, British Council, British Library, Dyson, Huawei, IPO, ITV, J&J, MTV, Sky, Wellcome Trust, We the Curious.

Recent projects include working with Dyson creating social content for their audio, beauty and home sectors, helping them to connect to new audiences and develop new ways of communicating with their customers, an animated music video for Jamie Cullum’s song Age of Anxiety, What’s Up With Everyone - a set of films looking to increase mental health awareness in young people, BBC iReporter which teaches young adults to navigate the murky waters of fake news and StorySign an interactive experience that teaches deaf children to learn how to read.

If you have a project and are interested to talk about it, please get in touch.

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Work Experience

Creative Director at Aarman Animations

October 1, 2012 - October 31, 2022

Creative director for Aardman Animations within the Interactive and commercials department. I worked on multiple internal projects supporting our characters and brands like Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep but primarily with external companies delivering interactive experiences across multiple digital platforms and technologies, live experiences, motion capture, apps, 3D character design, games and animation and live action directing... bringing that Aardman magic and expertise to support our partners, clients and agencies. Projects I directed at Aardman have won D&AD pencils (White, Wooden and Graphite), Gold, Silver and Bronze Cannes Lions and twice nominated for Children’s BAFTAs, amongst many others.

Film Maker and Creative Director at Dyson

April 14, 2023 - August 15, 2025

Working with the incredibly talented in-house team at Dyson to develop innovative new ways to speak to their customers about their products; creating new formats, processes and rhetoric to deliver forward-thinking, striking visual content across all social channels. This entailed concepting ideas with stakeholders and collaborators, directing cast, crew and contributors, editing and creatively overseeing the post-production process to completion and delivery. Working within the unique Content Acceleration team - a small, focussed, agile unit of creatives, strategists, producers and directors - we used storytelling, data-driven insights and contemporary formats to inform a visual language previously unexplored at Dyson… and the results speak for themselves; one of the first videos the team produced has been viewed over 25 million times across all territories. It’s the most successful unpaid piece of content Dyson has ever released and was their first social video to go organically viral. I’ll share more insights, stats and content soon from my time at Dyson working with all the incredible teams across the global business.