Production Leader · London / Global

Adding logicto the magic.

I help ambitious creative ideas become exceptional work — combining production craft, creative problem-solving and commercial rigour with 20+ years of making things happen around the world.

Craft first.
Scale when it helps.

I’ve spent my career at the point where creativity, production and business meet: building teams, shaping production strategies, leading complex global shoots and finding smarter ways to make ambitious work without sanding off what makes it special. More recently, that has meant helping transition global accounts into new operating models, designing the workflows and systems that let production scale without losing the idea, and exploring how GenAI and AI-enabled workflows can expand what creative teams can make.

Selected work

Film · Integrated · Social · AI
BMW iX2 × Lil Miquela
Make It Real

BMW iX2 × Lil Miquela — Make It Real

A virtual creator crosses into the physical world. Film, AI-enabled post, CG vehicle work and stills came together for the launch of the first BMW iX2.

Executive Producer · .monks · 2023
PayPal Germany · Lisbon
Elephant In The Room

PayPal — Elephant In The Room

International campaign shot in Lisbon, bringing character-led comedy and a multi-film production together for PayPal Germany.

Executive Producer · .monks · 2024
MINI × Dogs Trust × Alan Carr
Travel Happy

MINI × Dogs Trust — Travel Happy

Alan Carr, dogs and MINI: a characterful partnership campaign built around happier journeys for four-legged passengers.

Executive Producer · .monks · 2023
BMW X3 · Chile
Moving Moments

BMW X3 — Moving Moments

Global automotive storytelling shot in Chile, directed by Stefanie Soho and built around the moments that happen when the car becomes one of the gang on a roundtrip.

Executive Producer · .monks · 2024
Department for Education
Every Lesson
Shapes a Life

Department for Education — Every Lesson Shapes a Life

A girl's journey from her first day at school to her last, showing the cumulative impact teachers can have on a life. Real teachers joined the supporting cast to keep the story grounded and authentic.

Executive Producer · Havas London · 2018
Haig Club × David Beckham
Leave As You Arrived

Haig Club — Leave As You Arrived

David Beckham fronts a responsible-drinking film directed by Jonas Åkerlund, with the night's story unfolding in reverse around the idea of leaving as you arrived.

Agency Producer · adam&eveDDB · 2017
McCain
We Are Family

McCain — We Are Family

A warm, observational portrait of modern British families, showing only real family constellations and their equally heartbreaking and uplifting stories, true to the voice-over narrative.

Agency Producer · adam&eveDDB
Volkswagen Golf
People Are People

Volkswagen Golf — People Are People

Featuring Dave Gahan and Paige Spara; produced during my Grabarz & Partner years.

Agency Producer · Grabarz & Partner
Case study 01

BMW iX2 ×
Lil Miquela

The brief asked a deliberately strange question: what happens when a virtual personality experiences the physical world? The answer required film production, CG, AI-assisted face work and stills to behave as one production rather than separate disciplines. As Executive Producer, I worked across the agency, client and specialist production/post partners to turn that creative ambition into a workable production ecosystem — while the vehicle itself was still confidential.
RoleExecutive Producer · .monks
DirectorStefanie Soho
ProductionBWGTBLD / Bas Films
PostRohtau London / ReCom
Creative technologyAI artist + CG vehicle / VFX pipeline
RecognitionLovie Awards recognition for the wider BMW work
Case study · OTRO

See Our
Other Side

A global launch built around extraordinary access: nine of the world’s most recognisable footballers, captured away from the pitch for a new digital fan club designed to connect players directly with fans.

The challenge was coordination at celebrity scale. The 60-second launch film brought together David Beckham, Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr, Dele Alli, Benjamin Mendy and other founding players, each revealing something of life away from football. It sat within a much wider launch spanning strategy, comms, media, events and social distribution across major international markets.

As Executive Producer at Havas London, my role sat at the intersection of creative ambition, elite talent, production logistics and a genuinely global launch. It was a different kind of production complexity: orchestrating access, schedules, stakeholders and distribution around some of the most valuable personal brands in world sport.

OTRO · Global launch
See Our Other Side
RoleExecutive Producer · Havas London
DirectorHank Perlman
ProductionHungry Man
Talent9 of OTRO’s 17 founding players
DistributionGlobal · player channels + paid social
Potential organic audienceApproaching 1 billion
Case study 02

Every Lesson
Shapes a Life

Havas London’s first teacher-recruitment campaign for the Department for Education followed one girl from her nervous first day at school through to leaving at 18. The production balanced cinematic storytelling with authenticity, including real teachers in the supporting cast. As Executive Producer, I helped lead production on a campaign designed to live beyond a single film across the wider Get Into Teaching ecosystem.
ClientDepartment for Education
RoleExecutive Producer
AgencyHavas London
Directorthirtytwo
ProductionPulse Films
LaunchTV, cinema, VOD, social + recruitment touchpoints
Case study 03

Haig Club —
Leave As You
Arrived

A responsible-drinking message made as entertainment rather than instruction. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund and fronted by David Beckham, the film plays a night out backwards — turning the campaign line “Leave As You Arrived” into the production idea itself. Celebrity, choreography and craft come together in a deceptively simple piece of visual storytelling.
ClientHaig Club / Diageo
Agencyadam&eveDDB
DirectorJonas Åkerlund
FeaturingDavid Beckham
PostFreefolk
Year2017
From the vault

Extended Play.

Lloyds Bank Running of the Horses campaign still
Budweiser Dream Big campaign still
Karl Lagerfeld campaign still
Lipton Bauble campaign still
McCain We Are Family campaign still
Campaign still
What I bring

Make the
ambitious
makeable.

Production shouldn’t start at production. When an idea is exciting but the route to making it isn’t obvious yet, I bring production into the creative conversation, build the right team around the problem, pressure-test feasibility and budget, and create enough structure for specialists to do their best work. I’ve done that on individual films, multi-market launches with 500+ deliverables, and global production operating models spanning 13 markets.

20+ years.
Still curious.

From Head of Moving Images in Hamburg to global production leadership in London, I’ve led production for Volkswagen, BMW, MINI, PayPal, Mars, Heineken, Toyota, Lloyds, McCain, Diageo and more.

I’ve managed multidisciplinary teams of up to 40 people, overseen multi-million-pound productions and eight-figure production businesses, and worked with creative teams, directors, artists, technologists, clients and procurement around the world.

Technology changes the toolbox. The job remains the same: protect the idea, assemble brilliant people and make something worth watching.

Proud Girl Dad.
I run, but never away.

We Run This

Need to make something ambitious?
We run this.

patrick.cahill@gmx.com