About KEO films
KEO films is an integrated broadcast, commercial and online production company which is growing fast.
Over the last 15 years the company has produced over 250 hours of engaging, challenging and entertaining programmes, along with several DVDs, numerous websites and various mobile applications.
From one-off films on the Japanese love of fish, via series on Amish teenagers, to websites that allow vegetable growers without land to connect with people with land to cultivate, KEO produces content that allows people to delight in and engage with the world at its most diverse.
We develop factual documentaries and formats which have something to say, that have a reason to exist beyond achieving ratings, and then we find unusual and creative ways to produce them.
The company's innovative approaches to both content and format, have resulted in its programming becoming both ratings powerhouses and award winners, a fact well illustrated by our most recent production slate which includes Welcome to Lagos, a three part series for BBC2, Amish:The World’s Squarest Teenagers, a four-parter for C4 and River Cottage Every Day for Channel 4.
The company's River Cottage brand, presented by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, is now in it's 14th iteration and still pulling in the ratings. The series’ have resulted in front covers of broadsheet newspapers, leaders in the Financial Times and even Early Day motions in the House of Commons.
Hugh’s Fish Fight broadcast in January 2011 is trying to do for our attitude to fish what his Chicken Run (broadcast in 08 and 09) did for our attitude to chickens.
The success of the website that accompanied Chicken Run led to the formation of KEO digital, a department that aims not only to produce online sites that either enhance or spin off from our programming, but also to generate its own sites that will have lives of their own and spawn television programmes of their own.
The digital team has already won a plethora of awards for both the Landshare site and the River Cottage mobile application.
Awards & accolades
Grierson 2010
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Most Entertaining Documentary
Broadcast 2010
Welcome To Lagos
Best Documentary Series Nomination
Ethical Awards 2010
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Campaigner of the Year
Real Screen Awards 2010
River Cottage: Summer’s Here
Lifestyle/Food Outstanding Achievement
Television Bulldog 2008
Meet The Natives
Documentary Series
Royal Television Society – Craft & Design Awards 2007/2008
Meet The Natives
Sound - Entertainment & Non Drama Awards
Royal Television Society Awards 2007
Meet The Natives
Formatted Documentary
Broadcast Awards 2008
Meet The Natives
Best Documentary Series
Glenfiddich Food & Drink Awards 2005
KEO films
Winner - Television Programme
Advice, Information & Instruction Award 2004
Tales From River Cottage
Observer Food Monthly Awards 2004
Tales From River Cottage
Best Food & Drink TV Programme – 2nd Place