Zayed Sustainability Prize 2025

Director | Commercial/Documentary | 2025

Every year, the Zayed Sustainability Prize rewards the pioneers behind the world’s most impactful, innovative, and inspiring sustainable solutions. There are 5 main categories: health, food, energy, water, and climate action. An additional 6 winners are awarded for projects from global high schools.

For the Prize’s 2025 edition, I was lucky enough to oversee the creation of short spotlight documentaries about each winner, as well as a hero film that played at the awards ceremony in Abu Dhabi.

• Key Credits

  Director: Hayden Flynn
  Series Producers: Amy Martin, Izzy Liffen

  Production Company: RD Content
  Head of Creative: James Barry
  Account Manager: Kerr Nimmo

  Client: Zayed Sustainability Prize

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Hero Film: Dear Zayed

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Spotlight Films

New Zealand
Te Pa o Rakaihautu

Blending Maori knowledge with modern biocultural technology to regenerate the soil and provide food for the community.

• Credits

  Director: Hayden Flynn
  Shoot Producer: Niamh Swannack
  Director of Photography: Jake Dowsett
  Editor: Immy Patron

Mexico
Centro de Estudios Tecnológicos del Mar 07

Reforesting endangered red mangroves and combatting Veracruz’s invasive lionfish problem.

• Credits

  Shoot Director: Ron Mulvey
  Shoot Producer: Miki de Bruijn
  Director of Photography: Lucas O’Reilly
  Editors: Hayden Flynn, Joachim Neef