Award-winning factual indie, Icon Films has been ranked at number 49 in Televisual magazine’s Production 100 survey. The Bristol-based indie has climbed 22 positions in the last year, having been listed at 71 in 2009. The survey, which is carried out by Televisual, a leading publication for the UK production community, relates to the period between July 2009 and June 2010 and is ranked in order of turnover.

Icon Films has enjoyed great success over the last year, producing a range programming from history to popular factual. Recent hits include The Headhunters of WW2 (Channel 4, National Geographic and WNET), a documentary exploring the survival story of a crew of airmen shot down over the jungles of Japanese-occupied Borneo during the Second Word War; inserts for The One Show (BBC One); The Born Free Legacy (BBC4); Weird Creatures with Nick Baker (Animal Planet International and Science) and the record-breaking extreme angling series, River Monsters (Animal Planet US, ITV1 & ITV4).

Harry Marshall, CEO & Executive Producer, Icon Films says: “Over the last 20 years Icon has garnered a highly skilled team whose creativity and production savvy has built us a reputation in high-quality factual and popular factual productions. As a regional indie, we’re proud of the phenomenal success Icon has achieved both in the UK and internationally, and the relationships we have forged with broadcasters around the world. There’s so much more to come and we’re truly excited about the future.”

Icon Films’ previous productions include Mountains of the Monsoon (BBC2); Travellers’ Century (BBC4) which retraces the steps of three of Britain’s most iconic 20th century literary travelers and Street Monkeys (National Geographic, Granada International & Smithsonian Networks), a docu-soap following the story of wild Vervet monkeys as they adapt to life in the suburbs of Durban, South Africa.