Client
AlTi Tiedemann Global
Six corporate productions in London and New York over two and a half years, including The Purpose of Wealth and a Social Progress Index film screened at Davos.
AlTi Tiedemann Global is a private wealth management firm based in London and New York, with offices across the world. In January 2024 its marketing director wrote to us through this website, looking for a video partner. Over the next two and a half years we made six corporate productions for the firm in London and New York: a brand film, a launch film shown at Davos, a three-film series on the purpose of wealth, an internal animation, an announcement film and a fireside chat on AI.
The film
The Purpose of Wealth · AlTi Tiedemann Global · brand film · 2026
The work
Six productions, in order.
The unit here is the brief. Each one carries its own format, where and when it was made, and the film where there is one to show.
01Brand film
This is AlTi
Corporate brand film · London and New York · April to August 2024
The first brief was a corporate brand film: the firm’s reach, its expertise in strategic alternatives and its client-first approach, with a sense of trust and longevity running through it. We filmed Mike Tiedemann and other executives in New York in April 2024, then London on 30 April, with an extra day in AlTi’s London office in May.
We wrote the storyboard and script with AlTi from its own documents and reports, sourced the locations and props, crewed both cities and finished the film in London, grade included. That winter AlTi’s US team asked for a subtitled version to play at a conference, and the firm had already commissioned a second film.
02Launch film
The Social Progress Index
Launch film · London and New York · November 2024 to January 2025
AlTi’s Global Social Progress Index measures wellbeing, rights, health, education and opportunity across 170 countries, and the firm wanted a film to introduce it at the World Economic Forum in Davos. We wrote the script from the Index’s own briefings and reports, shot in Midtown Manhattan on 4 November 2024 and in London the following week, with the Index’s founder Michael Green and AlTi’s senior leadership, then built the data visualisations and animated graphics in London.
The film was finished for the launch at Davos on 20 January 2025. It has since run at investor briefings and town halls, on LinkedIn and in the Index’s partner communications.
03Brand film series
The Purpose of Wealth
Brand film series · three films · London and New York · October 2025 to January 2026
AlTi’s new narrative asked what wealth is for, and we made three films for it: The Purpose of Wealth, Why Wealth and What No One Taught Us. One day in Southwark and two days in New York in October 2025, with AlTi’s advisors, family governance specialists and senior leadership talking about family conflict, the burden of inheritance, generational guilt and the quiet satisfaction of helping a family find common purpose. The flagship film runs through six movements from a cold open.
04Animation
The purpose narrative, inside the firm
Internal animation · London · October 2025 · For AlTi’s intranet
The films were for the world. AlTi also had to introduce the new narrative to its own people, with a launch on 22 October 2025 and a two-minute animated video for the intranet that its communications team had been building in-house. Thirteen days before the launch they asked us to take it on. We finished it in time for the launch. It stays internal, so two frames and no player.
05Announcement
An announcement from the Global Chief Investment Officer
Announcement film · London · March 2026 · Internal, under NDA
In March 2026 AlTi had news for its own people, to be delivered by Nancy Curtin, its Global Chief Investment Officer, and it needed filming within four days. We found a studio, booked a crew under NDA and filmed it on 23 March 2026 as a conversation between Nancy and a second speaker, lit to look clean and polished rather than staged. The film was for AlTi’s people, so one frame from the day is as much as we can show.
06Fireside chat
The Future of AI in Wealth Management
Fireside chat · three cameras · New York · 16 April 2026
AlTi wanted its thinking on AI on camera, and not as a panel recorded in a hotel ballroom. Nancy Curtin hosted Phil Dundas, AlTi’s Chief Technology Officer, and Mark Swan, CEO of Nevis, the AI platform built for wealth managers, in a private space near AlTi’s New York office on 16 April 2026. We flew out from London to direct a New York crew: three cameras, controlled light and sound recorded for nuance. The conversation had a structure and no script.
One long-form film, a second interview on the AlTi and Nevis partnership, and cutdowns for LinkedIn and YouTube.
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- 6Corporate productionsJanuary 2024 to July 2026.
- 2CitiesLondon and New York.
- 3Cameras on the fireside chatControlled light, sound recorded for nuance.
- 170Countries in the IndexThe launch film introduced it at Davos.
How it worked
Every production was directed by our London team. In New York we booked the crew locally for each shoot and flew out to run it; in London we shot in AlTi’s own offices and in studios we sourced. The edit, grade, sound and animation happened in London.
- The briefWritten with AlTi’s marketing team from the firm’s own documents and reports, so the films said what AlTi says.
- The peopleSenior leadership and advisors in both cities, scheduled around their diaries. Nancy Curtin was on camera for the first film in 2024 and the last in 2026.
- New YorkLocal crews, our director and producer on the ground, and locations chosen to match the London footage so each film reads as one.
- ComplianceScripts, questions and cuts went through AlTi’s review before release, under NDA where the subject needed it.
- From 2026The last productions ran on a monthly retainer, so AlTi could ask for a film at short notice without a quote first.
What it led to
Nevis × Focus
Mark Swan was a guest in the fireside chat. In September 2026 he brought us back to New York for Nevis’s own news, its partnership with Focus: a three-minute announcement film and an eight-minute Q&A, three interviews and a three-way conversation in one day, on a set we designed for it.
Working with a production partner
How does a retained production partnership work?
A monthly fee covers the people and the post-production: producer time, scripting, editing and motion graphics. The hard costs of each shoot, such as crew, travel and kit, are quoted per production. For AlTi it meant a film could be asked for and made at short notice, as the announcement film was in March 2026, without a quote and a contract first.
How do you film in New York from London?
Our director and producer fly out and the crew is booked in New York for each shoot. For the fireside chat that was three cameras, controlled lighting and a sound recordist; for The Purpose of Wealth, two shoot days in New York matched to one in London. The edit, grade and sound happen back in London, so the London and New York footage is finished by one team.
How does compliance sign-off work on films for a financial services firm?
Scripts and interview questions go to the client’s marketing and compliance teams before the shoot, and cuts go to them before release. Where the subject needs it, the crew signs the client’s NDA before the day. AlTi Tiedemann Global is a listed company, so that review was part of the schedule on every production.
Can you make internal films as well as the ones for the world?
Yes. Two of AlTi’s six productions were for its own people: an animated intranet video for the launch of its purpose narrative, and an announcement film from its Global Chief Investment Officer. They were made to the same standard as the public films, and they stay internal.
What does a corporate film like these cost?
Our productions start at £9,500. What moves the number is shoot days, cities, how many people are on camera and how much the edit has to do; AlTi’s London and New York productions were scoped from the brief each time. We publish prices because it saves everyone a week.
Got a film your board has to sign off?
Send a brief, or a rough idea and a budget range. We’ll come back with a treatment, an estimate and a timeline, and that part costs nothing. Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours. Or call us on 07412 543822.
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