We took the Daredevils graphic package down a high-end filmic route – based on the moment before a Daredevil takes the plunge; those last few seconds when everything is quiet, when time stands still, when the Daredevil is alone with the elements.
The tension builds through the sequence cutting from …
- Channel 4
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 12/10/2009
Preferring glass and steel to rock and stone, and without ropes or safety equipment one man has taken the art of climbing to dangerous new heights… Having already conquered 80 of highest building’s on earth, Alain Robert now has his sights on the only one to …
- Channel 4
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 05/10/2009
Dean Potter is a unique breed of daredevil. He is the only person in the world practicing extreme slacklining – a hair-raising variation of tightrope walking which sees him crossing a bouncy stretch of 1-inch wide rope suspended hundreds of feet above some of the …
- Channel 4
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 21/09/2009
Dutch daredevil Wim Hof is planning to run a full 26-mile marathon 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, clad only in shorts and open sandals. Wim won’t be doing any physical training. He sees this as a challenge of the power of the human mind. Wim …
- Channel 4
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 14/09/2009
The incredible spectacle of proximity wingsuit flying involves wearing a state-of-the-art Teflon winged suit, jumping off a cliff edge thousands of feet up and flying terrifyingly close to some of the world’s most dangerous mountain faces before deploying a parachute at the very last second. Its …
Shot in an disused office in Edgware, the band were only too happy to be paired with the Guilty Pleasures dancers for this apt video.
In this short film for Green Thing, a public service web-site, Firecracker took Guardian journo and interviewer extraordinaire Laura Barton for a walk through the city of London…
In this second film for Green Thing, Jesse Hackett aka Elmore Judd goes to a recycling centre, picks up some random bits of metal and wood, uses them to make some amazing instruments and then uses them to make some amazing music…
HSBC required an induction video to welcome and introduce new staff members to the corporation. In a frank and open interview, HSBC chairman, Stephen Green tells us all about this blue chip organisation, including it’s history, diversity, culture and brand values…
- Gyro International
- 2 MIN PROMOTIONAL FILM
- DIRECTOR: JEREMY GROMAN
Gyro International, the UK’s leading independent full service integrated communications agency required a promotional video to be used throughout their 10 international locations.
The concept of energy used for the film based around their strapline ‘Creating Brand Energy’.What follows is an exciting and seamless journey …
UK OFFICE
- Firecracker Films
- 3rd Floor
- The Chambers
- Chelsea Harbour
- London
- SW10 0XF
- (Please use the north entrance)
Find your way here
Just enter your postcode below:
…
Company Profile
Since it began trading in early 2003, Firecracker Films has produced high profile documentaries to critical acclaim and outstanding viewing figures, as well as innovative motion graphics, 3D animations and successful corporate campaigns for a wide range of blue chip clients. These include the BBC, Channel 4, Five, Sky, …
- Channel 4 (Cutting Edge)
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 03/04/2008
Alain Robert is on the 88th floor of a skyscraper. Looking down at the city below, his heart is pounding, his palms sweating. It wouldn’t be so bad – except that he’s on the outside of the building, clinging on with his bare hands. …
- Channel 4 (Cutting Edge)
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 14/02/2008
Preacher Samuel Boutwell takes his vocation to save sinners from the fires of Hell extremely seriously, and spends every Saturday trying to turn women away from his local Mississippi abortion clinic. Samuel is seven years old.
Baby Bible Bashers tells the extraordinary stories of three …
- Five’s Hidden Lives Strand
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 14/08/06
A permanent erection, massive quantities of speed and cocaine, peanut-sized testicles, thick brown urine, handfuls of downers, horse steroids, Frankenstein’s monster syndrome, bitch tits, massive trauma, total shut-down, sudden death. Welcome to the disturbing world of EXTREME BODYBUILDING.
This remarkable film follows Gregg Valentino, the …
- Channel 4
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: TBC
A growing number of people are choosing a new way of life. They have rejected monogamy and turned their backs on conventional relationships. They believe their lifestyle is the future. They believe in polyamory.
Polyamory is the philosophy and practice of loving more than one. It means …
- Channel 4’s Sexology Strand
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 15/10/05
This film looks at ‘macrophilia’, described as one of the world’s most bizarre syndromes. It draws on some of men and women’s deepest desires to conquer and be conquered. While most admit that tall women represent power and strength, some men have taken this …
- Channel 4’s Cutting Edge Strand
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 07/07/08
This film tells the incredible story of Dena Thompson, dubbed ‘The Black Widow’, a woman who married men, and then tried to kill them after conning them out of everything they owned.
After sending her first husband on the run, murdering her second husband …
- Five
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 30/05/05
In 1974, a serial killer terrorised Wichita, Kansas. Known as the BTK Killer due to the method in which would Bind, Torture and Kill his victims, his killing spree lasted for 7 years in which time he murdered 8 victims indiscriminately. Although he regularly communicated with police …
- Five
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 27/09/04
An observational film that follows Richard Sandrak, an 11 year-old child who since the age of 6 has been described pound for pound as the “strongest human being in the world”.
Following Richard’s dreams of becoming Hollywood’s next action hero, this film looks at how a child could …