We’ve Gone Nuclear: Crows Nest Films Wins Bronze Telly Award for Cream Content EDF Campaign.

We’re thrilled to announce that Crows Nest Films has bagged a Bronze Telly Award in the General Recruitment category for our work on Cream’s EDF Nuclear Family campaign. If you've ever wondered what it takes to make nuclear energy look cool, human, and downright huggable – it’s this team right here.

This campaign was all about rethinking what it means to be part of the nuclear industry — a world where real people make a real difference. With the brilliant folks at Cream, we helped EDF shine a light on the Nuclear Family, showing potential recruits the warmth, diversity, and opportunity that EDF brings together across the nuclear lifecycle. 

The spark behind the concept? That would be the incomparable Victoria Furness, who worked closely with the team at EDF and conjured up the powerful idea at the heart of the campaign. Interviewing 50 employees working within the nuclear family to find out what it is that bonds the different nuclear businesses, Victoria worked with the EDF Careers Team: Gillian Clark, Lucie Metcalf, Natalia Flieger and Maria Kolykhalova to realise this ambitious project.  Victoria’s vision gave the project its voice – clever, inclusive, and full of humanity – and we were proud to bring it to life alongside her.  Assisted by EDF's super-helpful HR teams, we were able to shoot at various locations including Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, Cannington Court, and even on site at Sizewell B nuclear power station.

Big props go to Carney James Turner who led the charge with his usual creative flair and whose direction kept the campaign as grounded as it was visually arresting.  Carney not only directed with trademark precision and heart, he also took to the skies himself, piloting drones to capture the scale and scope of all sites with cinematic flair. Who knew our director could fly? (CAA-certified, of course.)  

We’d also like to offer a big, beaming round of applause to our very own Fleur Willcox-Jones, whose detailed pre-production planning made every shoot day smoother than a control rod insertion. From co-ordinating tight schedules to prepping airspace permissions and logistics for drone flights, Fleur had every angle covered — literally.

Hats off to Jeremy Gildersleve, a maestro of motion and Matt Hickinbottom, whose eye for production detail ensured everything ran like a well-oiled turbine.

Back in Crows Nest's Avid Symphony suite, Carney made atoms look like art, condensing sequences from around the UK into a series of perfectly formed films that we're all so proud of.

You can watch the films, including the full length hero here.

Winning a Telly Award is no small feat and we’re genuinely honoured to be recognised among some of the industry’s best. Massive thanks to EDF and Cream for trusting us with your vision and to the Nuclear Family for bringing some heart.  The Telly Awards honours excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, production companies. This year’s winners include Pixar Animation Studios, Hearst Media, ESPN, LinkedIn, NATO, MTV Entertainment Studios, NASA, the LA Clippers (NBA), Sawhorse Productions, Telemundo and Crows Nest Films.  With over 13,000 entries from across the globe and top video and television content producers it was a delight to be selected for a bronze award.

Here’s to more powerful storytelling, award-winning work, and glowing results.

Crows Nest Films UK – proudly radiating creativity since 2003.