Coolbox Films is a Brighton-based strategic creative and video production agency.
We help businesses in complex sectors turn expertise into content that builds trust and drives growth, including sustainability, technology, regulation, and specialist services. Companies whose expertise is genuinely important but hard to explain.
We don’t start with a format. We start with the story your audience needs to hear. From there, we develop the narrative, produce the content, and build it into a system that works across channels and over time.
Everything from concept to final delivery, handled in-house by people who’ve been doing this for over twenty-five years.
Most production companies start with the camera. We start with the question: what does your audience need to understand, and what’s stopping them?
We combine strategic thinking with production craft. That means we help you figure out what to say before we help you say it beautifully. Brand films, corporate comms, animation, social campaigns, documentary storytelling. The format follows the strategy.
We use AI to accelerate research, transcription, and assembly, so more of your budget goes to the parts that need a human: thinking, judgement, and craft. It’s a different way of working, and it’s why our clients tend to stay.
We work with companies in sustainability, technology, property, and regulated services. They range from ambitious scale-ups to global brands.
What they share: genuine expertise that deserves a bigger audience, and a communication challenge that’s holding them back. They come to us because they need a creative partner who can think with them, not just film for them.
Most of our clients stay for years. We build long-term content partnerships, not one-off projects. One strategic shoot can generate twelve months of deployable assets across campaigns, social, recruitment, investor comms, and events.
Don’t just take our word for it.
The best measure of any agency is whether clients come back. Ours do.
Many of the relationships below span five, ten years and counting. That doesn’t happen by accident, it happens because the work performs and the process doesn’t make you want to pull your hair out.
Have a look at what they say.
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I've worked with many production houses over the years and Coolbox are the very best, delivering a top-quality product every time. Communication's critical when you're up against a tight deadline or working with a complicated project, and Coolbox are always super friendly and helpful too. Always a pleasure to deal with. Highly recommended!
Tom, Rob and team are superb at what they do and an absolute pleasure to work with. Seeing the final versions of the scoped videos brought tears of joy, realizing and seeing my come to life. This was something I wasn’t sure was possible, and the team made it possible by attentively listening to the essence of what I was hoping we’d capture and the feeling I wanted to evoke in viewers. They creatively brought that to life and this was the difference-maker from other groups I've worked with where I had to be the creative director myself. Tom and Rob used consultative inquiry and deep listening, plus brought “outside the box” creative thinking to the set of video assets I wanted developed. I’m truly grateful for the final products, thank you!
At World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), we’ve worked with Tom and Rob for almost a decade.We’ve found them to be invaluable partners.They get what we want, come with sound strategic advice and great creative suggestions.They are proactive, flexible and reliable.Most of all they are both incredibly good guys and working with them is always fun and engaging.
We were very impressed by the professionalism of the team at Coolbox Films.Despite a tight schedule, Tom and Rob managed to create an amazing animation video for us.The whole team was open to our feedback, and they were able to modify the script and change some of the scenes according to our wishes.We really appreciate their work and it was a pleasure working with them.
We have worked with Coolbox for over ten years.Predominantly they supply us with film and animation, but we have also on occasions successfully combined our agencies to provide our clients with an overall event / film solution.Always on time, on budget and on message – but more importantly fun to work with.They have also been extremely professional with our clients – Sainsbury’s, the NFU, Schneider and many more.A very creative team that I would highly recommend working with.
Rob and the team worked with us every step of the way to ensure our vision was fulfilled. Together we created innovative, interesting live broadcasts that were seen over the whole of the UK and Ireland. The team were a dream to work with and were extremely receptive to last minute changes and added items and guests.
Great films and all-round nice people to work with! Creative and practical with a can-do, reliable approach, Coolbox always get the very best from interviewees and consistently deliver quality, engaging video.
Coolbox are a great supplier of film solutions to support KPMG’s internal and external communications goals. They have always been an absolute pleasure to work with on all occasions turning around complex briefs and delivering amazing creative to time and budget. I would not hesitate to use them on future projects and I have recommend them on numerous occasions to our clients as well.
If your expertise is hard to explain, we should talk.
We help businesses in complex sectors find their story and build content that makes their work impossible to ignore.
Drop us a line below and we’ll set up a call.
COOLBOX FILMS LTD.
1 FREDERICK TERRACE, FREDERICK PLACE
BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX, BN1 1AX
