About Us

KEO Films Limited

We are KEO Films.
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Established in 1996, KEO Films is a multi-award-winning producer of documentaries, feature films and TV series. Widely regarded as one of the UK’s leading production companies, with a strong ethical reputation and a 30-year history of making intelligent programming that goes on to become both ratings powerhouses and award winners. A fact well illustrated by recent work including the feature documentary One In A Million, winner of the Audience Award and Best Director at Sundance 2026, and the BBC and PBS series Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland, ranked in the top 10 of numerous “Best TV of the Year” lists worldwide. Earlier landmark productions include the EMMY Award-winning Exodus: Our Journey to Europe and the hugely successful River Cottage brand.

Awards & Accolades

Awards & Accolades

Sundance 2026 – The Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary for One In A Million

Sundance 2026 – The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary to Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes for One In A Million

Royal Television Society – Programme Awards 2024 – Best Documentary Series: Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland

Royal Television Society – Programme Awards 2024 – Science & The Natural World: Chimp Empire

Broadcast Press Guild Awards 2024 – Best Documentary Series (4+ episodes): Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland

Broadcast Awards 2024 -Best Documentary Series: Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland

BAFTA TV Awards Craft 2024 – Best Editing Factual: Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland

BAFTA TV Awards Craft 2024 – Best Original Music: Factual: Simon Russell (Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland)

Edinburgh TV Festival Awards 2024 – Climate Impact Award: The Great Climate Fight

Realscreen Awards 2024 – Non-Fiction-Enviromental & Natural History: Chimp Empire

Grierson British Documentary Awards 2023 – Best History Documentary: Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland

Grierson British Documentary Awards 2023 – Best Documentary Series: Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland

Televisual Bulldog Awards 2023 – Documentary Series: Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland

Jackson Wild Media 2023 – Limited Series: Chimp Empire

Jackson Wild Media Awards 2021 – Long Form: Ecosystem for Day Zero

News and Documentary Emmys 2021 – Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary: Once Upon A Time In Iraq

BAFTA TV Awards 2021 – Factual Series for Once upon A Time In Iraq

Broadcast TV Awards 2021 – Best Documentary Series: Once upon A Time In Iraq

Royal Television Society 2021 – Programme Awards Best Documentary: Once upon A Time In Iraq

Realscreen Awards 2019 – Award of Excellence: Lifestyle and the Lifestyle: Travel and Exploration award for My Year with the Tribe.

Wildscreen Panda Awards 2018 – WWF Golden Panda Award, the Script Award and Films at 59 Sound Award for Rise of the Warrior Apes.

Royal Television Society, West of England Awards 2018 –  winner Natural History category for Rise of the Warrior Apes.

International Emmy Awards 2017 – Best Documentary – Exodus: Our Journey to Europe

Televisual Bulldog Awards 2017 – Best Indie & Best Editing (Exodus: Our Journey to Europe). 2nd places for Best Documentary (Exodus: Our Journey to Europe) and Factual Feature (Hugh’s War on Waste).

BAFTA TV Awards 2017 (Exodus: Our Journey to Europe) – Factual Series

Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2017  (The Cook Who Changed Our Lives) – Best Programme

Learning on Screen Awards 2017 (Exodus: Our Journey to Europe –  Premiere Award and the General Education Broadcast Award)

BAFTA TV Craft Awards 2017 (James Bluemel – Best Director/Factual for Exodus: Our Journey to Europe)

RTS Television Awards 2017 (Exodus: Our Journey to Europe – Best Documentary Series)

Broadcasting Press Guilds Ceremony (Exodus: Our Journey to Europe  -Innovation Award)

Broadcast Peer Polls Indie Survey (Keo Films ranked 3rd)

Broadcast (Exodus: Our Journey to Europe – Best Documentary Series 2017)

RTS Award (Simon Sykes, Nick Fenton and Sunshine Jackson – Best Editing Award Documentary/Factual for Exodus: Our Journey to Europe)

RTS Award (James Bluemel – Best Director Award for Exodus: Our Journey to Europe)

Liberty Human Rights Award 2017 (Exodus: Our Journey to Europe)

Prix Italia Award 2017 (Exodus: Our Journey to Europe)

Guild of Food Writers Award 2016 (Hugh’s War on Waste – Broadcast Award)

Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2016 (Hugh’s War on Waste – TV Programme of the year)

Broadcast Awards 2016 (The Romanians Are Coming – Best Documentary Series)

RTS Awards 2016 (The Romanians Are Coming – Best Documentary Series)

Broadcast Peer Poll (The Best Places to Work in TV in 2016)

Tops Televisual Peer Poll 2012

Bulldog Awards 2012 (Best Indie)

Observer Food Monthly Awards 2012 (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall – Best Cookbook)

Observer Food Monthly awards 2011 (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall – Food personality)

Green Awards 2009 (Landshare – Best Green Use of Mobile Apps and Technologies)

Observer Food Monthly Awards 2004 (Tales From River Cottage – Best Food & Drink TV Programme – 2nd Place)

Advice, Information & Instruction Awards 2004 (Tales From River Cottage)

Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards 2005 (KEO films – Television Programme)

Real Screen Awards 2010 (River Cottage: Summer’s Here – Lifestyle/Food Outstanding Achievement)

Ethical Awards 2010 (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall – Campaigner of the Year)