Video production company UK

The film you’ll be
known for.

Part creative agency, part production company. We come up with the idea, make the film and finish it in-house, and we crew other people’s shoots across the UK and for productions flying in from abroad.

Serena Li on the clifftops of the Lizard in Cornwall, from Cohere's AI for Empowerment, shot on 35mm Aidan Gomez in his family's maple wood in Ontario, from Cohere's AI for Empowerment Magnus Carlsen reading on a bench in an Oslo park at golden hour, from the Cohere shoot A surfer silhouetted on a clifftop at sunset in Ericeira, Portugal, from Cohere's AI for Empowerment The Here Now Films crew filming from the Atlantic at sunset in Ericeira

Featured film

Cohere · AI for Empowerment

A brand campaign shot on 35mm in four countries

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500+ productions for brands, broadcasters and institutions

Who we are

Part creative agency, part production company

A UK video production company built on documentary. The specialism is the branded micro-documentary — brand films made the documentary way. Fifteen films over a three-year partnership with KYN. An ongoing artist series for Tate. Six corporate productions for AlTi Tiedemann Global, one screened at Davos. A four-country 35mm brand campaign for Cohere. We make brand films and commercials you believe.

A creative agency comes up with the idea and hands the shoot to someone else. A production company waits for somebody else’s idea. We do both under one roof, and post-production runs through our own team in London.

How we compare
The Here Now Films unit on the clifftops of the Lizard in fog, on the Cohere shoot

In numbers

Productions made for brands, broadcasters, charities and institutions.

500+

Freelance crew on our books, booked for our films and for other productions.

2,800+

UK bases: London, Manchester, Bristol and Cornwall.

4

Average rating across 54 Google reviews.

5.0

Services

What we make, and what it costs

Eight kinds of work, one team. We publish prices because it saves everyone a week.

The honest range

Every end-to-end production starts at £9,500. Most single films we make land between £9,500 and £25,000; shoot days, locations, crew size and the edit move the number.

Shoot only

£2,690

One day, UK-wide. A two-person crew, lit and recorded properly. 4K footage for your own edit.

End-to-end production

from £9,500

The idea, the shoot, the edit, grade and sound, from one team. Brand films, documentary, corporate films and customer stories all start here.

TV commercials

from £15,000

Regional TV and Sky AdSmart, made end to end.

Multi-market campaign

Scoped from the brief

A director and art department, several countries, film or digital, one grade across every asset. Cohere is the worked example.

How we work

Creative agency or production company? Both.

Most films pass through two suppliers: an agency writes the idea, then hands it to a production company to make. We run all five stages as one team, and tell you where we are every Friday.

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  1. 01

    Brief

    What the film has to do, agreed before anyone mentions cameras. We read every brief within 2 working hours.

  2. 02

    The idea

    A written treatment, and boards where the budget carries them. Cohere’s one rule, no technology on screen, was set here.

  3. 03

    Pre-production

    Locations, permits, talent and crew. On the Lizard, that meant three landowners’ permits for one sequence.

  4. 04

    Shoot

    A crew sized to the day, from two people in a London tavern to around thirty in Oslo.

  5. 05

    Post

    Edit, grade and mix by our London team, delivered in every format the media plan needs.

Creative agencyWrites the idea, then hands it on. Covers stages 01 and 02.

Production companyMakes the film, usually from somebody else’s idea. Covers stages 03 to 05.

Here Now FilmsThe idea, the shoot, the edit and the crew, from one team. Covers all five stages.

Then the next one. KYN came back for fifteen films in three years.

  • A roster of 20+ directors
  • 2,800+ crew across the UK
  • Prices on the page

Directors

Directed in-house, or by the director the film needs

Everything we make is directed in-house as standard. When a job needs a particular eye or a particular style, we bring in a director from our roster and build the production around them.

The Here Now Films team at The Drum Awards

The standard

Directed in-house

Ollie Couch, Meg Amos and the rest of our team direct what we make. Ollie directed and shot The Living Layer, Overall Winner at the Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival 2026.

A camera operator with the 35mm camera on the Cohere shoot

For specific jobs

A roster of 20+ directors

For jobs that need a particular eye or style. Charlie Coombes directed Cohere’s AI for Empowerment; we produced it across four countries, on 35mm.

A lone figure in the Atlantic, from Cohere's AI for Empowerment

Either way

Crewed to the day

Two people at Mr Fogg’s City Tavern. Around thirty in Oslo. The crew is sized to what the film needs.

Crew hire

Film crew hire across the UK, for productions from anywhere

2,800+ freelance crew on our books, booked from London, Manchester, Bristol and Cornwall, for one person on one day or a full unit across three cities.

Production companies from New York, Oregon and Paris book their UK crews through us. Your contract is with us, a UK company, and you get one invoice. Crew are paid the full APA/Bectu card rate; we add a 10% booking fee and 2% insurance, and send the full price before anything is booked.

A camera operator filming an artist in a London studio on the Nike shoot
On set for the Nike shoot in London, booked from the US by Valentine Global.
  • New York → Cheshire NYT Studios A pilot for The Athletic: a producer, two camera operators and a sound recordist.
  • Oregon → Southampton, London, Oxford Swanson Studios Five days in the UK for Intuitive Surgical, with crew, kit, vans and hotels.
  • The US → London Valentine Global The London crew for a Nike shoot running at the same time in New York.
  • Paris → London WordAppeal An interview for an International Women’s Day film.
  • Manchester, London, Bolton Davies Group Crews in three cities at short notice.
“Here Now Films is always my first call when filming internationally in the UK… They matched the exact camera and lighting kit I use back in the States.”
Matt Dunstan
Director, United States

Crews by city: London · Manchester · Bristol

Recognition

Awards and recognition

Festival juries, broadcasters, trade awards and client reviews. Each one is tied to a named film or a public listing.

  • Overall WinnerEdinburgh Conservation Film Festival · The Living Layer
  • Regional Panorama AwardCineEco · The Bio Estrela Project
  • Top Video Production Company, LondonClutch, from client reviews
  • Highly Commended, Best Small Agency (Global)The Drum Awards
  • Best Media StartupUK Business Awards
  • BroadcastBBC World News · Survival: To the Brink & Back
  • Commissioned: the Outstanding Contribution filmSony World Photography Awards · Joel Meyerowitz 2026
  • Featured Project, UK Films DatabaseBritish Council · Survival: To the Brink & Back 2025
  • SelectedGood Fest · The Regenerative Farm, for Heligan
  • The Here Now Films team at The Drum Awards

Members of EVCOM, BIMA and Bristol Creative Industries.

Locations

Where we’ve filmed

Four UK bases, and crews that travel: we’ve filmed in sixteen countries so far. Every gold pin is a shoot we made or crewed.

  • Our shoots
  • Our bases

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The UK

Rings are our four bases. Numbers match the list.

In the UK

  1. 01The Lizard, CornwallCohere, on 35mm
  2. 02St Ives and Portreath, CornwallTate · Airbnb
  3. 03Heligan, CornwallThe Regenerative Farm
  4. 04The South West’s moorsThe Living Layer
  5. 05SomersetSomerset Local Nature Partnership
  6. 06LondonAlTi · KYN · Toast · JA Brooks · Nike
  7. 07CheshireThe Athletic, for NYT Studios
  8. 08Manchester and BoltonDavies Group
  9. 09The Peak District and Tatton ParkFatFace
  10. 10Southampton and OxfordSwanson Studios

Europe

  1. 11Tenerife, Canary IslandsFatFace
  2. 12Ericeira and Serra da Estrela, PortugalCohere · The Bio Estrela Project
  3. 13Paris, FranceCrew for GMR Marketing, five weeks at the Olympics and Paralympics
  4. 14Freiburg, GermanyQualcomm customer stories
  5. 15The French AlpsTurner Twins × Panasonic
  6. 16Oslo, NorwayCohere, on 35mm
  7. 17Northern FinlandTryzens

Further afield

  1. 18Vancouver, CanadaToast
  2. 19Ontario, CanadaCohere, on 35mm
  3. 20New York, USAAlTi Tiedemann Global · SATO documentary
  4. 21UgandaEcoTrust, three weeks across five landscapes
  5. 22KenyaSATO documentary
  6. 23RwandaSATO documentary
  7. 24IndiaSATO documentary
  8. 25BangladeshSATO documentary
  9. 26SingaporeBBH
  10. 27JapanSATO documentary

Reviews

What clients say

5.0 from 54 Google reviews · Clutch Top Video Production Company, London 2026

“Supremely high standard of work. They understood exactly what we needed and delivered beyond expectations.”
Miranda Spiro
Global Marketing Director, AlTi Tiedemann Global
“Their ability to quickly assemble professional and talented crews was impressive, and their dedication to meeting our deadlines was commendable.”
Mopani Mkandawire
Campaign Marketing and Internal Communications Manager, Davies Group
“The Here Now Films team helped us conduct a remote shoot in London, from San Francisco. The team made the process as smooth as possible.”
Maxie Harrington
Google review

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FAQ

Common questions

Something we haven’t answered? Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours.

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How much does video production cost in the UK?

Every end-to-end production starts at £9,500: the idea, the shoot, the edit, grade and sound, by one team. Most single films we make land between £9,500 and £25,000. A shoot-only day with a two-person crew is £2,690, and TV commercials start at £15,000. Multi-country campaigns, like Cohere’s four-country shoot on 35mm, are scoped from the brief. What moves the number is shoot days, locations, crew size and how much the edit has to produce.

Are you a creative agency or a production company?

Both. We come up with the idea, write the script, direct and shoot the film, and finish it with our own post-production team in London. Everything is directed in-house as standard, by Ollie Couch, Meg Amos and the rest of our team. When a job needs a particular eye or style, we bring in a director from our roster of more than 20: Charlie Coombes directed Cohere’s AI for Empowerment, and we produced it across four countries.

Do you only work in London?

No. We’re headquartered at 124 City Road in London, with bases in Manchester, Bristol and Cornwall, and we shoot across the UK. Recent shoots have run from the Lizard in Cornwall to Cheshire, the Peak District and Southampton, and in fifteen other countries, from Ontario and New York to Kenya, India, Japan and Singapore.

Can you crew a UK shoot for a production coming from abroad?

Yes. NYT Studios, Swanson Studios in Oregon, Valentine Global and WordAppeal in Paris have all booked UK crews through us. Your contract is with us, a UK company, and you get one invoice, so you don’t need a UK company of your own to shoot here. Crew are paid the APA/Bectu card rate; we add a 10% booking fee and 2% insurance, and send the full price before anything is booked.

What is a branded micro-documentary?

A branded micro-documentary is a short film — typically 60 seconds to three minutes — made for a brand using documentary method: real people rather than actors, real places rather than sets, contributions drawn out in interview rather than read from a script. The brand’s value is carried by a true story, not a scripted message. Here Now Films has produced fifteen branded micro-documentaries for KYN’s London care homes over a three-year partnership, a four-film micro-documentary series for Airbnb in Cornwall, and an ongoing artist-profile series for Tate.

How long does a film take to make?

Most single films take two to six weeks from brief to final files, and a customer story usually takes two to four weeks from the shoot. Campaigns run longer: Cohere’s AI for Empowerment was shot over twelve weeks, one day in each of four countries.

Tell us what you’re making.

Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours. Or call us on 07412 543822.