Cast and Crew

Robert Shannon was born in the UK in 1975 although having an Irish/Italian heritage, he is a Londoner, born and bred.

After leaving The London Film School, Rob has had over 20 years experience working professionally in the industry, he has worked on Television dramas, Independent films, studio films and main stream commercials, both in front and behind the camera.

So far in his career Rob has been lucky enough to work along side some of the industries best performers including Cate Blanchette, Michael Gambon, Billy Crudip, Ray Winstone, Stephen Graham, Jude Law, Charles Dance and Benedict Cumberbatch as well as award winning Directors such as David Blair and Gillian Armstrong.
Rob is most familiarly known for playing slave to hero Gladiator, ‘Verus’, in one of the BBC’s biggest budget Doc/Dramas, ‘The Colosseum’.

He has also produced and directed the feature film, Battle Recon and his Film company Shannon Productions is now producing their next film ‘A soldiers Story”, which is currently in pre production.

Ben mole is an extremely accomplished award-winning director. Starting out as a lighting and camera technician on Hollywood studio movies, indie films, and TV in the UK and Los Angeles, he quickly moved into making his own short films leading to his directing work in promos, music videos, and commercials.

Ben then moved to writing and directing US and UK television drama documentary productions on channels such as Discovery, Channel 5, Arcadia entertainment and History. His shows have been nominated and won several awards on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ben also has multiple camera operating broadcast credits and experience on 16mm film, Sony 900, and many other cameras. He is also a proficient Avid editor on commercials, promos, and TV programs, as well as the Winner of the Rain-dance Live Ammo with feature film screenplay “Out of Mind”.