Mustard Film Company was founded in 1999 in London’s commercial production industry. In collaboration with US based digital and interactive production company, Mustard Digital has recently been launched.
Producers
John Doris
A career advertising man, John started in the mail room at Collett, Dickenson & Pearce Advertising(CDP), working his way up to become Head of TV. During his fifteen years at CDP received many awards for brands such as Hamlet, Honda, BNFL and Radio Rentals.
In October 2000, John joined Mustard as a Senior Producer. In February 2004 he became a Managing Director and Partner. John has sat on the Advertising Producers Association (APA) Policy group for the last 7 seven years and regularly tutors both APA and IPA young producer courses in London.
Matt Hichens
Matt, born in Bangor, a coastal town in Northern Ireland, arrived in London via Bristol where he started in the advertising game at CDP as New Business Manager helping the agency win many new business accounts such as Honda, Canon, MGM. Matt appropriately signed with Mustard in the spring of 2001 where he spearheaded New Business where he made an immediate impact and soon moved onto producing commercials as well. Matt worked developing many of Mustard's directors as they grew and became firm favourites with London agencies working on many award winning campaigns. Matt was made a partner at Mustard later on.
Tool of North America
Tool and Mustard teamed up to help bring American talent to the UK and vice versa, being able to benefit from having a wider range of directors both sides of the Atlantic.
Awards
Dom Bridges was voted as Screen International's 'Star of Tomorrow' 2010 & his 'Pot Noodle' was in the APA's 50 best commercials in the UK (2008), won a Midsummer Gold Award (2008) and was nominated in British Television (2009)
Simon Levene's 'Shoreditch Slayer' was a finalist at the Rushes Short Film Festival 2011
David Eustace's 'Visit Scotland' campaign was voted Best UK Tourism Ad (2010/2011)
Sam Miller directs Emmy-nominated series 'Luther', starring Idris Elba for the BBC (2011)
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