WHO ARE WE?
Since being established in 2009, by filmmaker Liam Banks, SuperFreakMedia’s celebrated team have gone on to create a multitude of short films, music videos, professional client work, advertisements and social media content.
The Superfreak Team have an extensive range of experience working professionally across both the film and advertisement industries. We have worked through the years to hone our craft,and have won awards in multiple disciplines such as directing, editing, screenwriting,cinematography and production design. Members of the group bring with them decades of experience in producing high-quality content that innovates, educates and entertains.
We have had our work featured on the BBC, debut at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and go on to win numerous awards at international film festivals and global competitions - leading to great interest from Warner Bros and New Line Cinema.
Our YouTube channel has a strong following amongst fellow horror fans, with currently over 50,000 subscribers and over 8 million views. Our shorts are regularly featured in online watchlists, articles and reaction videos that are shared around the world.
ON SET GALLERY:
TEAM BIOGRAPHIES:
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Liam is an award-winning filmmaker based in the Midlands (UK), graduating from Derby University with a first class (BA Hons) Degree in Film Production, he has worked on a variety of projects and professional film and television sets. With a huge love for horror, he currently heads up the team at SuperfreakMedia - who specialise in genre content for their ever-growing worldwide audience. Liam has honed his skills over the years and has applied them as a freelance filmmaker, winning awards for Directing, Editing, Sound Design and Makeup & SFX.
Within the corporate world, he has directed and shot on projects with LG, Merlin Entertainment & plenty more established brands within the UK & Europe.
Through SuperfreakMedia, his short films have premiered at the likes of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, LA; screened on the BBC; and appeared in viral lists posted by Buzzfeed, IGN, Looper & Nerdist. More recently Liam led the team to success in a worldwide competition with Warner Brothers & New Line Cinema, meeting with executives in LA and having his short film ‘The Confession’ officially become a part of ‘The Conjuring Universe.’
Every year, Liam continues to create fresh and innovative content with the rest of the team to post online and submit to film festivals around the world, often garnering awards and praise as he continues to push himself as a filmmaker & storyteller.
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Graduating from the University of Derby in 2014 with a First Class Honours Degree in Film Production, he has gone on to work as a DOP (Director of Photography) on short films, promotional videos and corporate material. As DOP, his films have screened at festivals and events around the world.
He is also an award-winning actor who has appeared in theatre productions, feature films, short films and commercials for the likes of the English FA.
Jonathan has a huge passion for the horror genre and it was his visit to a talk on Dracula by Dacre Stoker that sparked this project into life. He co-wrote the screenplay and is determined to bring the story to the big screen; he truly believes that the film will be the first true adaptation of Dracula’s Guest and will delight Dracula fans the world over.
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Charlie is a writer and screenwriter, graduating from the University of Derby with a Master’s Degree in Screenwriting. Having worked with SuperFreakMedia for almost 6 years now, Charlie has written, produced, and acted in multiple SuperFreakMedia short films, including co-writing the Dracula’s Guest screenplay.
Charlie has grown on a following on TikTok and YouTube of over 13k followers, creating relatable writer content and serving as a Writer helping Writers Write. His favourite horrors include the Creature Classics of Jaws and Alien, and more recently Get Out.
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Theo is a graduate of Derby University Film and Television Studies (BA Hons) having also worked as a projectionist from the age of 16 until 35mm’s eventual phasing out.
Since then, he has taken his skills and knowledge and applied them as a freelance editor working on shorts for local filmmakers, a couple of Channel 4 shorts and then later finding full-time employment as a corporate film editor.
This led to a transition into becoming a camera operator - working on shoots for large scale brands such as McDonalds, Disney, Warner Brothers, Costa, Starbucks, Merlin Entertainments, Cineworld, among others; he now works as a DOP for those same brands taking on shoots across the world, utilising Robotics, slow-motion and LED volumes to achieve work that keeps up with current trends.
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Andy started in the Film and TV industry at the age of 16 having spent his younger teens making Super 8 and 16mm films at the Nottingham Film Workshop. In 1981, he secured a job at the BBC - initially in the sound department. As the years progressed, he worked in location, outside broadcast and studio sound, always maintaining an interest in all aspects of the industry - particularly lighting.
Andy moved forward into theatrical and stage lighting whilst continuing his journey through films and television, in particular: current affairs, outside broadcast events, music, light entertainment, drama, sport and schools programming.
He has also worked on independent films, mainstream motion pictures and television movies (essentially the content now provided by steaming companies such as Netflix, Disney, Amazon, etc).
The last 20 years have seen Andy mainly in the lighting department, frequently working as a Lighting Gaffer working with a team of lighting electricians and a Director of Photography or Studio Lighting Director to produce many commercials (both online and mainstream), film and television, as well as corporate films. He has also worked with many independent film makers.
Andy says, “I started my career making independent films, struggling to scrape budgets together to allow me to put my creations and art on film. So, I see it fit as I come to the gradual end of my journey, to help out those who are entering the path I chose. Hoping I can pass on years of experience and knowledge. There is no right or wrong way to create a piece of motion picture art. But having appropriate financing certainly helps move that dream forwards - allowing expression and creativity to live on the screen.”
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Richard has a background in both Theatre and Live Events, meaning that he can turn his hand to pretty much anything. A graduate of Derby university’s Theatre Arts program, he has been working across these two industries for over a decade to help deliver shows that reach thousands of people.
In film, Rich has worked as a DOP, camera assistant and in the lighting department. He has also worked on many of the pieces of set that can be seen in the completed scenes.
The inscriptions on the crypt and the plinth on which the Countess lies are examples of his handiwork.
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Craig is a Production Designer/Art Director with over 15 years of experience working with a multitude of high-street and well-known brands/companies across a variety of different sectors. They include McDonald's, Arsenal FC, Starbucks, Costa, BTEE, Royal Mail, Virgin Media and Merlin Entertainments.
From 6-second socials to 90-minute documentaries, each production, each design, each direction has been focused on telling the story in the best possible way. Creating a world that is tangible, believable and real, with no interest in playing it safe. Safe is forgettable.
“A collaborative brain and a rebellious soul.”
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Monica is an award winning makeup artist, having worked with SuperfreakMedia on a variety of projects since 2018.
Monica’s journey began in her home city of Caracas - Venezuela, one of the major beauty pageant cultures of the world. After completing her studies toward a degree in Product Design in Y2K, she utilised her native passion and fledgling skills in hair, make-up and photography to perform makeovers for her many friends and their family members.
After moving to the UK, Monica actively collaborated with professional photographers and film producers whilst studying her first formal make-up course in her new home city of Nottingham and then successfully gained her BA Hons in Hair and Media Makeup at UCB. She has progressed to work closely with a wide variety of professionals across the media industry including fashion designers, hair stylists, musicians and actors and designed the makeup on productions such as ‘His Dark Materials’ (BBC) & ‘The Witcher’ (Netflix).
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Jethro is a Film Production graduate from the University of Derby, often working in the camera and lighting departments, as well as on social media video content.
He’s a big fan of both science-fiction and horror, with his favourite horror films often blending the two together. Some of his favourites are; Alien, The Thing (1982), Scanners, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and Videodrome, as well as being a big fan of The X-Files.
Having worked with SuperfreakMedia for some years now he assists all departments on set and captures all of the behind the scenes content you will see us post when we have a film in production.
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