Kev Tanna

Producer & builder. Thirteen years across content, brand and AI-driven production.

LinkedIn kev@kevaltanna.com
01 MSC Cruises

MSC Cruises: Virtual Dance Class Series

Executive Producer | 4-part series with Flavia Cacace

six-figure

Approached directly by MSC's Head of Entertainment to produce a four-part virtual dance class series with ballroom star Flavia Cacace. I ran the entire production: a three-person core crew plus creative director and photographer, all reporting through me, with talent contracts negotiated through my company. A six-figure engagement delivered end to end, from commercial negotiation to final edit.

Outcome: six-figure production, delivered in full, for one of the world's largest cruise lines.

On set for the MSC Cruises virtual dance class series: Flavia Cacace with the camera crew, jib and monitor rig
Virtual dance class series
02 TEDGroup · 2013–2018

TEDGroup: Studio & Broadcast Leadership

Studio Manager → Media Manager → Photography & Broadcast Manager, 2013–2018

£50k → £140k

Five and a half years running in-house production for a live entertainment group: production shows, broadcast content and voiceover work for TUI, Bourne Leisure, Park Resorts and Grosvenor Casinos. Took the studio from a £50k-a-year cost centre to a commercial operation grossing £140k, and won and launched the passenger photography concession aboard TUI's Marella Explorer ships. Built the product from scratch and recruited ten international staff across two vessels.

Outcome: cost centre to £140k revenue; a new international commercial operation launched from zero.

03 Aperture X Media · 2018–2025

Aperture X Media: 120+ Films

Founder & Producer, 2018–2025

120+

My wedding film studio, built for the Asian wedding market: over 120 films produced and delivered. I ran it as a true production business. A fleet of freelance shooters and editors, every client relationship and every delivery through me. Weddings are the most unforgiving production environment there is: one take, no reshoots, an emotional client, and a hard deadline every single week.

Outcome: 120+ delivered films; a profitable standalone studio run on a freelancer network model.

  • Sonal and Sanjay

  • Kirran and Prab

  • Trisha and Niraj

  • Chhaya and Arjun

Selected trailers
04 Ragatip

Ragatip: Music Brand from Inception

Creative Producer, from founding

0 → 1

A music brand created during Covid to champion South Asian music on merit, without the industry's nepotism problem. I was there from inception: built the brand identity, then lead-produced their content and first recording project, bringing in musical director Tom Beech to lead the sessions. Producer across all output until stepping back after the final project.

Outcome: a brand and its first body of recorded work, built from nothing.

ragatip.com

Krishna Dance, Kathak choreography

Sitar vs Guitar

Keshava Madhava x Made to Worship

Selected output
05 Podcast Foundry · 2025–present

Podcast Foundry & Founder Stories: The Systems Era

Co-Founder & Producer, 2025–present

148K

Video-first podcast production studio, co-founded with Priyesh Pankhania. We created Founder Stories from nothing as the studio's front door: I built the format and the production engine behind it. A pipeline that turns one recorded conversation into the full weekly content set (clips, captions, shownotes, blog, social), cutting repurposing time by ~80% with human editorial kept at the judgement points. First 18 episodes: 148K impressions and 35 inbound leads. Client work includes end-to-end post-production for a counter-extremism podcast commissioned by REOC Communications for a European federal police force.

Outcome: 85-episode series built and sustained by a two-person team; the pipeline is why.

  • Founder Stories, full series

Founder Stories, full series
06 The Open Journal

The Open Journal: Brand Built with AI

Co-Founder & Creative Lead

concept → market

Documentary-style personal films: "So they'll know you. Even if they never meet you." I built it end to end: identity, positioning and launch materials, using AI-assisted design and production workflows, taken from concept to a live commissioning business.

Outcome: a complete brand and service business, concept to market.

openjournal.studio

  • Tejal's Baa, married at 16

  • Mahesh Gandhi, left home at seven

  • Bishnu Das, building a life in England

Films from the studio
07 patient-growth.co.uk

patient-growth.co.uk: Live Product

Designed & built, solo

live

A public tool that lets anyone look up a UK GP practice and see its patient-list growth verified against NHS England's own published data. Built entirely with AI-assisted development. The premise: a number you can check beats a number you're asked to trust.

Outcome: live, public, verifiable. Go and try it.

patient-growth.co.uk
The patient-growth dashboard for a client practice: 26,120 registered patients, up 8,488 since April 2024, charted against neighbouring practices using NHS England data
Client dashboard, live data
08 Current R&D · In production

Current R&D: AI Motion Consistency

In production

18 generations

The hard problem in AI motion work isn't a good frame, it's a consistent sequence. Current project: an animated narrative short holding one locked visual style and three recognisable characters across 18 separate image and video generations. Style-key locking, character reference elements, concrete visual language over named styles. Storyboard complete; film in production.

Outcome: in progress, and that's the point. This is how I work through an unsolved problem.

  • Storyboard frame: all three characters in the kitchen, daylight

    Kitchen, daylight

  • Storyboard frame: the same three characters on the sofa, lamplight

    Sofa, lamplight

  • Storyboard frame: the mother alone in a third room, morning light

    Third room, morning

  • Character reference turnaround used to lock the mother's design across generations

    Character reference

Storyboard frames