OUR STORY
Co-Founders Simon English & Oliver English
OUR STORY
Common Table Creative is an impact-driven production company dedicated to shaping a more just, healthy, and regenerative future—one story at a time.
Our journey began long before cameras were rolling. Coming from the world of food and hospitality, we opened and operated restaurants around the globe, from New York to Abu Dhabi. While those experiences connected us deeply to people and cultures, they also exposed us to the realities of a food system in crisis—farmers struggling to survive, communities cut off from nourishing food, and an industry driving disease and environmental destruction.
In 2016, we set out to better understand these challenges through the lens we knew best: food. That became Feeding Tomorrow, our flagship documentary exploring the connection between human health, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Released in 2024 on Apple TV and Amazon Prime, the award-winning film has sparked international conversations about how the choices we make at the table can shape our collective future.
As we traveled the world interviewing farmers, chefs, entrepreneurs, scientists, and innovators, a clear need emerged: the changemakers building solutions for a better tomorrow needed help telling their own stories. They wanted to shape their narrative, inspire communities, raise awareness, and mobilize action. That’s when Common Table Creative was born.
Since then, we’ve grown into a creative partner for mission-driven organizations, foundations, and brands, producing films, campaigns, and immersive experiences that showcase the power of food and farming to address some of the most urgent challenges of our time. Our work has been featured at SXSW, Sundance, COP27 in Egypt, COP28 in Dubai, and on networks including A+E.
From cooking meals out of the back of our traveling “food box” to highlighting voices on global stages, hospitality and storytelling remain at the heart of everything we do. We believe food is more than sustenance—it’s a catalyst for connection, resilience, and transformation.
At Common Table Creative, we bring together filmmakers, chefs, and advocates with a shared belief: stories can change the way we see the world, and food can change the way we live in it.
Our Team
Oliver English
is a Filmmaker, Chef & Food Advocate. Growing up in his family’s restaurants, he has been intimately involved in the world of food ever since. For the past several years, he led the company’s international development, opening restaurants throughout North America, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. He has learned first-hand the positive and negative effects of globalization and climate change on the worlds food system, which have instilled a fierce desire to highlight these issues and inspire real change in the world through visual and experiential storytelling. Oliver is graduate of Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration and member of the American Council of young political leaders (ACYPL). Oliver serves as the Co-Founder & CEO of Common Table Creative, overseeing the companies vision, business development, hospitality, and communications.
Simon English
is a film director, editor and cinematographer. Simon is passionate about telling stories that raise awareness that drive change to environmental and sustainability issues facing our planet. Growing up his family’s restaurant business, Simon found an early passion for filming in kitchens, on farms, with chefs, and telling stories about the power of food. While living in NYC, Simon helped launch and served as the senior videographer for Broadway Style Guide and Today Tix. His reel includes Tony Award coverage, short narrative films, music videos, documentaries, commercials, event coverage. Simon is a graduate of the New York Film Academy. Simon serves as Co-founder and Creative Director, for Common Table Creative, overseeing all cinematography, editing, photography and production.
