about us
At Golden Frog we believe in storytelling with a purpose. We specialise in short films and photography for academic institutions, NGOs and businesses that want to promote their work in Education, Sustainable Development and the Environment. Our clients often have big ambitions but tight budgets; by keeping our team small and our overheads low, we draw on our long experience to offer high quality creative services more competitively priced than larger agencies.
john cobb
Award-winning photojournalist John Cobb has spent 25 years in the UK and Africa documenting events for national newspapers, news agencies and NGO’s. John has a strong eye for the decisive moment, and knows how to create an image as a visual anchor. He has worked with a diverse range of clients to deliver high quality creative video and photographic content that is brand-enhancing and impactful. His expertise is in the fields of education (UCL, LSE, City University, Newcastle Medical School, Academies Trust); the arts (Border Crossings, Royal Court Theatre) and the third sector (Greenpeace, WWF, The Climate Group, Special Olympics,). He is skilled at getting the best out of people in interviews and creating engaging content that audiences connect with. As a preferred supplier for UCL he regularly works for Student Support and Wellbeing, IOE, UCL Medical School and Faculty of Laws.
adam robertson
Adam Robertson is an award-winning filmmaker, with over 25 years experience in the voluntary sector, and television. His background is as a self-shooting film producer and director. He is well versed in all aspects of the film-making process, including editing and motion graphics, and is a qualified drone pilot. For twenty years, Adam worked for Save the Children UK where he set up and led the in-house Film Team. He went on to work for WWF-UK producing a raft of online content, including 220 short films, to accompany the Netflix Our Planet series and the feature documentary David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet. Since setting up Golden Frog Films with business partner John Cobb in 2021 Adam has been working for a range of clients including the United Nations, The Disasters Emergency Committee, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, UCL , WWF, and Silverback Films.
what’s in a name?
The Panamanian Golden Frog atelopus zeteki
20 years ago, Panamanian Golden Frogs were easy to spot in their natural habitat of central Panama. By 2015 they had become functionally extinct in the wild. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert used the story of the Frog’s decline to highlight a much wider extinction event every bit as profound and wide ranging as that that wiped out the dinosaurs. The loss of the Golden Frog is wake-up call for those concerned for our planet.