Founded in 2022 by award-winning TV executive Derren Lawford, DARE Pictures is a Black-led, UK based, entrepreneurial and internationally connected studio with a passion for premium, popular, and inclusive unscripted, scripted and branded content. DARE stands for diversity, allyship, representation and empowerment and the company aims to reflect that in everything they do on and off screen. DARE harnesses the creativity of an award-winning network of directors, authors, and producers from Europe, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and North America dedicated to bringing compelling true stories to life. They have also worked with brands such as SAP, Ancestry, and Google Pixel on stories as varied as climate change, cooking, and fatherhood. In 2024, DARE was named in the RealScreen Global 100 as one of the world’s Top Ten Emerging Indies.