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Filmmaking is more than just a creative process...

...it's a strategic tool.

We help you communicate with clarity, emotion and purpose. Whether you’re winning customers, changing culture or protecting your people, we create films that win hearts and minds.

We don’t just produce content, we work with you to understand what matters most to your audience, your organisation and your goals. That’s how we helped Mitie win a multi-million-pound tender, brought to life the digital learning for Network Rail and shifted the conversation around sustainability with Natwest.

At the heart of every film we make is a simple truth: good communication starts with knowing who you’re talking to and why it counts.

We build stories around what matters to your customers, colleagues and stakeholders, so they don’t just watch your message, they believe in it.

Meet the people who make it all possible

Steve - The creative director of Lilac Howell
Steve Cranston
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Managing Director
Creative Director Steve is the creative and technical genius behind Lilac Howell Films. He has worked on a diverse range of films and animation, with the likes of ATS Euromaster, Network Rail and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and others too numerous to mention. He has filmed music videos and performances with artists such as Reverend and the Makers and Pixie Lott and has taken a series of films to festivals across Europe.

His passion has and remains taking the creativity of cinematic film making and combining it with marketing nous, to create films that not only deliver a strong message, but are cinematically produced with a clear outcome in mind.
Anthony Howell
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Commercial Director
Commercial Director Anthony is the marketing and communications strategy guru at Lilac Howell Films. During twenty years in the advertising and marketing industry, Anthony has worked for and with some of the biggest brands in the world, including Jaguar Cars, British Airways, British Gas, Land Rover and Scottish Widows, as well as with public sector organisations, voluntary agencies, the NHS, charities and a host of SME’s.

His passion is all about ensuring that whatever the communications tool, it has to maximise a business’ visibility and deliver a measurable impact on its target customer. He believes fervently that film does this by offering the opportunity to show someone something, rather than just telling them.
Emily Dejesus
Producer & Editor
Producer & Editor Emily is one of our fantastic editors and producers. She’s involved with all aspects of production from castings and location scouting to assisting the direction of shoots, managing interviews and editing films for our customers.
Ben Clarke - Cinematographer and Editor at Lilac Howell
Ben Clarke
Cinematographer
& Editor
Ben is one of our cinematographers and editors. You’ll often see him out on shoots capturing content to editing your fantastic films at our Stafford offices.
Dave Disbury - Graphic Designer at Lilac Howell
Dave Disbury
Graphic Designer
Dave leads our design team and comes up with all sorts of creative solutions to communicate our customers story using design. He’s helped us take our film content into video brochures, created extensive exhibition displays for Staffordshire County Council and has a great eye for dynamic social content.
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