BEACH HUT 59
“Zim and Ben are fantastically talented and creative minds. They produce compelling material in music, film, podcasting and live performance, using their vision and skills to win the confidence of the very best high profile collaborators needed to make this kind of breakthrough content.”
BEACH HUT 59 is heaven on a stick, with blinding inspiration for a view. What do we do there? We dream up big, bold ideas for people who do incredible work but sometimes struggle to communicate the power of what they do. Then we find the best collaborators to bring those ideas to life and we make them happen.
This is who we are.
ZIMENA PERCIVAL PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER
An award-winning director for the BBC, Zimena has also created high-profile content for fifteen charities & international NGOs including Amnesty International, Oxfam & Crisis. She has collaborated on films, podcasts and events with artists ranging from Tom Hardy to Martha Wainwright & has partnered with organisations that include London 2012 (LOCOG),Transport for London & the NHS.
BEN O’ CONNOR
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR / WRITER
Ben has produced, directed & edited films for charity, features, music videos and live performance. His campaigning films include work for Greenpeace, Crisis & the New York Times. Having worked with major artists from Ken Loach to Ed Sheeran, Ben's debut feature Ana Begins won awards at the British Independent Film Festival and was nominated for Best UK Debut at London's East End Film Festival.
powerful content
IF EVERYONE IS IN
To launch a new brand-defining campaign for Crisis - Everybody In - we took a page of campaign messaging and turned it into a hard hitting poem for World Homeless Day. Alongside Crisis clients from England, Scotland & Wales, 20 artists were engaged to deliver the film, triggering 7000 campaign sign-ups that week, including 49 MPs at a parliamentary launch. Well over a million people saw the film on social media that day.
