Neil Cunningham
Visual Effects Supervision - Photography - Film-making
CV Summary
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Visual Effects specialist - providing creative, technical and production expertise for features, commercials, broadcast drama and docu-drama, and corporate projects in the UK and overseas.
Extensive experience of working with clients from pre-production - devising visual effects, breakdowns and costing - through to delivery, including directing, on-set supervision, planning and problem solving, managing post-production schedules and co-ordinating teams in various locations.
Work with international and local crews and proven success in finding practical solutions to creative challenges at short notice on location. I have managed and mentored technical and creative teams.
On-set supervision and production on shoots in countries including: UK, India, Thailand, South Africa, Morocco, Namibia, Malawi, Tunisia, Egypt, Ukraine, Malta, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, Finland, Norway, Bulgaria, Hungary, Argentina, Ukraine
Technical photography for photogrammetry, matte painting and CGI.
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TV includes:
Funny Women 2 for Sky Originals, Dir. Oliver Parker;
Black Doves for Netflix, Dir. Alex Gabassi
Mary & George for Sky Atlantic, Dir. Oliver Hermanus
Erased: WW2's Heroes of Colour National Geographic 2024 , Dir Adeyemi Michael;
The Witcher Season 3 - Everyone’s Enemy Hocus Pocus Productions for Netflix. Dir. Bola Ogun; DoP: Mike Spragg (Winner BAFTA TV Awards for VFX 2024)
The Last Kingdom Season 5 for Netflix. Dir. Jon East; DoP Mike Spragg
Sexy Beast for Paramount. Dir: David Caffrey; DoP Mattias Nyburg
Sex Education 4 for Netflix. Dir.Dominic Leclerc; DoP Andy McDonnell
Midtown for Netflix. dir. Seb Thiel; DoP Sam Heasman
Extraordinary Sid Gentle Films for Disney+. Dir: Toby MacDonald/Jennifer SheridanDoP: Dan Stafford Clark (VFX supervision representing Atomic Arts and Flying Colour Company)
Consecration (for AGC Studios/BigScope Films/Moonriver Content. Dir: Christopher Smith; DoP: Rob Hart/Shaun Mone
The Confessions of Frannie Langton for Drama Republic (for ITV Studios). Dir: Andrea Harkin; DoP: Julian Hohndorf
Worzel Gummidge – 2021 specials Leopard Pictures for BBC. Dir: Mackenzie Crook; DoP: Andy Hollis
The Last Kingdom (series 5) - Carnival Film & Television. Dir: Jon East; DoP: Tim Palmer/Ashley Rowe
The Peripheral for Amazon Studios. Dir: Vincenzo Natali/Alrick Riley; DoP Stuart Howell
Avenue 5 Series 1 for HBO. Dir: Various
Succession Season 2 for HBO. Dir: Becky Martin/Kevin Bray; DoP Christopher Norr
Barbarians Rising (8 hours of drama/documentary for October Films for History Channel. Dir. Simon George/Declan O’Dwyer/Maurice Sweeney. DoP: Gary Clarke/Richard Kendrick. 450 VFX shots, 3 month shoot in Bulgaria. On set supervisor and VFX producer.
Others include: Britannia (Amazon/Sky); And Then There Were None (BBC); The Roman Mysteries (BBC); To the Ends of the Earth (BBC); Hornblower: Duty and Loyalty (ITV); Young Dracula (BBC)
Film includes:
In production: Giant (Biopic, feature about Nasseem Khan); Jingle Bell Heist ; The Pearl Comb
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The Great Escaper for Ecosse Films production for Pathe, BBC Film and Ingenious Media Dir: Oliver Parker; DoP Christopher Ross
This is the Night Mail for Unquiet Skulls. Dir: Joanne Reay/Andrew Goth; DoP: Beatriz Sastre. VFX producer/supervisor.
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As VFX supervisor for Lipsync Post: on-set and post-production, assigning tasks in Shotgun, part of wider production management team, involved in scheduling and as appropriate in grading, sound, graphics and final conform. Various productions including: Boogie Man (Dir. Andy Morahan, for The Little Film Company) – shoot and post supervision; Hurricane (Dir. David Blair) – shoot supervision; City of Lies (Dir. Brad Furman, for Good Films) post production supervision with a coordinator; Living the Dream (TV series for Sky) – post supervision; Rise of the Foot Soldier 3 (Dir. Zackary Adler for Carnaby International) – post supervision.
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Post-production VFX Supervisor/producer: DXM (Feature for Terra Mater Factual Studios, Dir. Andrew Goth) - 400 shots, 6 month post in Vienna;
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VFX producer/director for Thoda Pyaar, Thoda Magic (Kunal Kohli Productions, Dir. Kunal Kohli) - 600 shots, shot in India and Thailand, post-production for Prasad Corp
Creative Director for Reliance Media, Mumbai – leading a 60 person visual effects team. Managing budgets, workflow and post-production, as well as supervising shoots. Devised and introduced a man-days billing system which significantly improved internal controls and client trust. Films for Indian and international release including: The Dirty Picture (Dir. Milan Luthria); Zindegi na Milegi Dobara (Dir. Zoya Akhtar); Game I (Dir. Abhinay Deo); Beja Fry 2 (Dir. Sagar Ballary); Stanley Ka Dabba (Dir. Amole Gupte); Urumi (Dir. Santosh Sivan); Saat Khoon Maaf (Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj); Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji (Dir. Madhur Bhandarkar)
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On set supervision for other features including: The King's Speech (Dir. Tom Hooper); Ironclad (Dir. Jonathan English); Another Mother’s Son (Dir. Christopher Menaul); Fade to Black (Dir: Oliver Parker); Agent Crush (Dir. Sean Robinson); A Very Social Secretary (Dir. Jon Jones); In the Spider’s Web (Dir. Terry Winsor) – VFX production co-ordinator); Les Fils du Vent (aka Sons of the Wind, the Great Challenge) (Dir. Julien Seri)
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Drone shoot supervision including for Barbarians Rising, and Dogs: An Amazing Animal Family for Offspring Films
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Commercials and promos include
Recent on-set supervision including working with Covert; JamVFX; Rascal; The Mill; Coffee & TV, Electric Theatre, Glassworks, No 8 London, Bubble TV and others for:
ASDA; Samsung; Dettol; East Midland Railways; ITV Postcode Lottery, Snickers; Airtasker; Old El Paso; Madri; Tesco; TK Maxx; Halifax: AirUp; New Balance; Electoral Commission; Pension Bee; Shell; BBC; ITV; NHS; Samsung; SkyBet; Stella Artois; Amex; Aramco; Wren Kitchens; Toyota; Virgin Media; Dunelm; FIFA; LNER; H&M; BetFair; Currys; LiveScore; JustEat; Sofology; Camelot; Lidl; Mattel; Castrol; AXA; KFC; Amazon; Rolls Royce; Next; EastEnders; USwitch; Department for Education; Deutsche Telekom; Calvin Klein; Dreams; Starling Bank; Sky Sports; IQOS; Rimmel; Debenhams; M&S; Glo Oxygen; Pampers; Nivea; JD Sports; Royal Mail; SMA; Ikea; Esso; Jo Malone; Crew 2; iZettle; Nike; Baileys
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After completing an HND in Broadcast Engineering at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design I worked initially in TV broadcasting. I then worked in postproduction facilities in London, editing commercials, music promos, TV idents and title sequences before becoming a specialist in visual effects.
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I was awarded an MA with distinction in Digital Documentary from Sussex University in 2014. Alongside my visual effects work I undertake commissions for documentaries, promotional films and photography, mainly for not-for-profit organisations.
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