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Award plaque from Japan Worlds Tour de Cita Festival 2025, Maniwa, featuring the festival's logo, laurel wreaths, a building illustration, and text indicating a special award by the festival director.
Official competition badge for Terres travel festival 2025, featuring a laurel wreath and a tree logo, with text indicating it's a film and contracting event.
A black and white award logo for the International Tourism Film Festival Africa, featuring a map of Africa, a laurel wreath, and text indicating the 2025 gold award.

Darren D. Peens
Muli-Award Winning Filmmaker. Specialising in Tourism.

Darren Peens is an award-winning filmmaker dedicated to creating deeply emotive and visually stunning stories for the global tourism industry. With a background in art, design, and music, and over 25 years of creative experience, Darren’s filmmaking style is instinctive, cinematic, and unapologetically human.

From the haunting beauty of St. Helena to the wild heart of South Africa, Darren crafts films that capture more than a place, he captures a feeling. His work has won Gold at the International Tourism Film Festival Africa and the Director’s Choice Award at the Japan World Tourism Film Festival, and he proudly serves as a jury member at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards.

Darren’s mission is clear: to help tourism brands stand out not just with content, but with cinematic storytelling that moves people to travel, connect, and remember.

A bearded man wearing sunglasses, a t-shirt, and a watch, with a backpack strapped on his shoulders, in an outdoor setting with a mountainous landscape.

  • I have used the services of Mr Peens many times over the years, and I recommend him without reservation. He is very highly skilled in videography and photography and has a true professional's attitude to go with it. His passion shines through, too.

    Kevin Abraham, Founder Frontline Research

  • Creating with Darren is a process that covers an innate understanding of marketing objectives, brands, story-telling and this results in a superior creative and commercial end result.

    Tania Morgan, CEO - Morgan & Co.