Executive production · Operations direction · AI-integrated workflows

Every production has its own colour.

Charming Chameleon is the production practice of Leo Ferri, directing crews from ten to one hundred, across borders and budgets, for the world's most demanding clients. Adaptation is the discipline.

Selected work

ROS 01 · Selected productions

The work speaks
in every accent.

Pharma · GSK - Hero Film

The flagship story,
told with craft.

GSK's hero film: the science, the people and the purpose of a global healthcare company, given cinematic treatment inside pharma-grade compliance. Produced with We Are Toucan.

▸ GSK Hero Film

Corporate · Promo film

Built to
planet scale.

Director of photography and creative director on Webuild's global promo film: dams, tunnels and bridges across continents, shot with the same ambition the projects were built with.

▸ WEBUILD OUR PLANET

Corporate · Showreel 2026

Big messages,
disciplined budgets.

A cross-section of corporate work: campaigns, films and events that carry from the boardroom to every screen in the company. Produced with We Are Toucan.

▸ We Are Toucan Showreel 2026

Biopharma · Clinuvel

A new identity,
unveiled on film.

Clinuvel's end-of-year promo film, made to crown a company-wide rebrand: the first outing of a bold new identity, closing one chapter and inviting the world to come and see the next.

▸ COME AND SEE

Podcast · Studio formats

Conversation,
produced properly.

Multi-camera podcast production end to end: studio design, recording, edit and versioning for every platform. Produced with We Are Toucan.

▸ We Are Toucan Podcast Reel

Charity · Orchid

Stories told
with care.

Real people telling difficult stories, handled sensitively, on a lean budget that worked as hard as the cause deserved. Produced with We Are Toucan.

▸ Orchid · Service User Film

Automotive · Launch content

Metal, motion,
precision.

Automotive production craft. Machines shot the way engineers build them: exactly.

▸ Automotive · 2018

More on the reel: youtube.com/@LeoFerriVideo

ROS 02 · What we run

A production day,
end to end.

  1. PREP

    Operations direction

    Budgets, crewing, logistics, risk. The unglamorous architecture that decides whether a shoot succeeds before the first slate. Built for big teams, big territories and clients who cannot afford surprises.

  2. SHOOT

    Executive production

    Creative ambition held to commercial reality. Directing worldwide teams on set and remotely, with the calm that comes from having run rooms of every size, on every kind of budget.

  3. POST

    AI-integrated workflows

    AI woven into the pipeline where it earns its place: previsualisation, transcript-driven edits, automated versioning and localisation, budget and resource intelligence. Faster cycles, same craft.

  4. WRAP

    Delivery & aftercare

    Every deliverable, every spec, every market: reconciled, archived and reported. The wrap book your procurement team will actually enjoy reading.

ROS 03 · Where we blend in

Watch the page change
as the client does.

No two industries speak the same language. Each has its own rhythm, culture and colour. We immerse ourselves in it before we create. That's the idea behind our name.

Sector · Pharma & healthcare

We speak
regulatory.

MLR review, fair balance, claims discipline. Compliance isn't an obstacle to good film. It's a constraint we design around from the first treatment.

Sector · Financial services

Exact, and
discreet.

Investor communications, executive storytelling, market-sensitive timing. Productions that respect confidentiality as much as craft.

Sector · Automotive

Scale without
skidding.

Launches, reveals, global toolkits. Embargoed assets moving through many hands in many markets, with nothing leaking and nothing late.

Sector · TV broadcast

The clock is
the client.

Live and as-live formats, studio and OB. When the red light is on, operations direction is the difference between television and an apology.

Sector · Corporate

Boardroom to
town hall.

Internal films, campaigns, events. Messages that carry from the executive floor to every screen in the company, at any budget.

ROS 04 · The operator

Leo Ferri

Leo Ferri, portrait

Two decades running productions where the stakes were high and the excuses weren't accepted.

Leo has directed operations and executive-produced for corporates, pharmaceutical and financial institutions, automotive brands and broadcasters, leading big teams across continents, on budgets from indulgent to impossible. The constant: productions that land on time, on budget and on brief.

Today that experience extends into AI-integrated production workflows. Not as a gimmick, but as an operational advantage clients can measure in cycles, versions and cost.

  • Operations direction & executive production
  • Global team leadership, on set and remote
  • Big budgets handled carefully, small ones handled cleverly
  • AI workflow integration across prep, shoot and post
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ROS 05 · Trusted by

Colour we've
earned trust in.

ROS 06 · WRAP

Tell us the colour
of your next production.

leonardo@charmingchameleon.co.uk