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Everyman Ollie Kenchington details his multifaceted career in filmmaking, grading and training – from running his own agency to teaching at CVP A man of many talents, Ollie Kenchington – who runs Korro Films and its educational counterpart Korro Academy – has a penchant for both the creative and technical. With an educational background in art, photography and science, which culminated in a degree in fine art: sound & image, he’s “always been intrigued and stimulated by the creative and the technical; most people are normally one or the other,” he claims. Today, Kenchington considers himself a cinematographer, editor, colourist and training specialist, splitting his time fairly equally among these disciplines – though this wasn’t his initial plan. “As soon as I left university, the very first job I got was working for Apple. I found myself looking after training, and started delivering Apple’s pro apps training – Final Cut Pro, Color, Motion, Soundtrack Pro – and became an Apple-certified
“I have always been intrigued by both the creative and the technical” doing stuff that fused the two.” Despite first being unaware of brand documentary as a genre, Kenchington soon picked up a brand documentary award at Brand Film Festival London. This served as “affirmation that what I was doing and the approach I was taking was working, and I was doing a good job of it,” he admits. Kenchington’s continued success in the documentary sphere also led to his recent cinematography credit on the limited Netflix series Heart of Invictus, which saw him collaborating with Academy Award-winning director Orlando von Einsiedel. Having worked with many kinds of brand – from tech companies to banks, beverage manufacturers and royalty-backed charities – Kenchington’s commercial portfolio proves far from homogenous. He has filmed internal content for Apple, annually capturing iPhone launch events; the Chelsea Flower Show, on behalf of the Royal Horticultural Society; camera releases for Canon Europe; ads for food chains Kaspa’s and Byron Burger; as well as
master trainer in those products,” he recalls. “Through that, delivering training to post houses and production companies, I started becoming more involved with post-production, but was still interested in image creation. After about four years of that, I set up Korro and have been running it ever since.” Cross-genre creation Korro Films is a production agency manned by Kenchington that also incorporates Korro Academy, “which in its own right is a Blackmagic-certified training partner,” he states. Running the company allows Kenchington to continue to do the training alongside the film production. He generally shoots branded content, including brand documentaries, as well as traditional documentaries such as a limited series about Gary Barlow. “That ended up being number one on iTunes for three weeks, and was available whenever you went to Gary Barlow’s artist profile,” Kenchington recounts. “Financially, that was a big deal. More importantly, the kind of confidence it gave me to produce and direct – while shooting about half of it as well – marked a huge turning point in my career. “I’ve always been good at talking to people and interested in that storytelling element. I found myself wanting to blend what I had done in the documentary space with the regular branded content I was creating,” he describes. “I started
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