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Shynola

Shynola are a London-based directing collective identified with Chris Harding, Jason Groves, and Richard “Kenny” Kenworthy (early line-ups included Gideon Baws).

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Production company & representation
Black Dog Films
Production company · UK · verified Jul 2026
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Recent press & creds
British Independent Film Award
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Emmy nominations (three)
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Edinburgh International Film Festival award
Edinburgh International Film Festival · award
Selected clients
AudiBeats By DreCrayolaHuluMcDonald'sPostmatesRadoxUFC

Bio & background

Shynola are a London-based directing collective identified with Chris Harding, Jason Groves, and Richard “Kenny” Kenworthy (early line-ups included Gideon Baws). They launched with the cult UNKLE animation “Guns Blazing” and built a parallel music-video catalogue—Beck’s “E-Pro,” Coldplay’s “Strawberry Swing,” Blur, Joe Goddard, Caribou, ABBA’s “I Still Have Faith In You”—while expanding into commercials, titles, and short film. Evidenced brand work includes a 2012 Radox stop-motion spot for WCRS via RSA built from fresh flowers, berries, leaves, and nuts with a filmed-then-reassembled “Franken-dance”; a Japanese Hulu film; Beats By Dre “Music Vision”; Audi “What is Music” (Nexus); Postmates “This Is Your Brain On Food” Soup Dumpling and BBQ segments; UFC Noche “Fighters & Heroes”; and a McDonald’s x Crayola pencil-led film through Nexus and Leo Burnett UK. Their 2013 Film4/Warp short Dr. Easy, shot with Barry Ackroyd, used mechanical robot POV tracking markers. Awards summaries cite D&AD, UK Music Video Awards, Edinburgh, a British Independent Film Award, Emmy nominations, and animated Childish Gambino work inside a Cannes Lions-winning campaign. Process favors film grammar inside animation, scratch-on-celluloid, Super8/16mm, and graphic experiment over photoreal CGI.

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Awards
  • British Independent Film Award
  • Emmy nominations (three)
  • Edinburgh International Film Festival award
    Edinburgh International Film Festival
  • D&AD award
    D&AD
Cannes Lions-winning campaign (animated Childish Gambino contribution)
Cannes Lions
  • UK Music Video Awards
    UK Music Video Awards · 2009
  • Press
    • Your Shot: Shynola Talk Radox
      LBB · 2012
    • Shynola / Nexus Studios pencil-in creativity for Crayola and McDonald’s
      Stash
    • Trailblazing moments in music (Cannes Lions-winning campaign; animated Childish Gambino)
      Nexus Studios
    • High Five: Music Monthly — Caribou “You Can Do It” (Kenworthy/Shynola)
      LBB · 2021
    • Shining a spotlight on Shynola’s 20-year legacy
      shots · 2020
    • Beck “E-Pro”
      Ad Age Creativity · 2008
    • Postmates “This Is Your Brain On Food” animations
      Creative Review
    • Goodbye, Gideon
      Ad Age