The Trim Tab. (Our Blog)
Stories of adventure, filmmaking, equipment & big ideas. We share interviews and behind the scenes, reviews and thoughts, we share challenges and successes. Take a look at some of our stories below.
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Here Now Films Wins the Regional Panorama Award for The Bio Estrela Project
We’re excited to share that our latest documentary, The Bio Estrela Project, has just won the Regional Panorama Award at the Casa da PassarelLa CineEco Festival. What started as a passion project to raise awareness for C Level’s important environmental work has now become an award-winning film!
Buying a Solar Farm - A fundraising video.
Videos and films are often the first time a brand or project has a piece of messaging that ties together everything they stand for. It’s their tone of voice, their community, their ask to their audience. We love these project as the moment we hand over the video to our partner is often the first time they’ve see all their own handwork come together.
Filming at NO 10. Downing Street for Surfers Against Sewage.
What does it mean to be an ocean activist? Well we found out. Together with the charity Surfers Against Sewage we travelled to London to film two schools hand in a petition straight to the gates of Number Ten. This event video shows what happened on the day.
Mother Ivey’s Bay, Cornwall - A film/video.
Mother Ivey’s Bay is a leader in Cornwall for putting people and planet before profit. In this video we showcased 5 different charities that were benefitting from Mother Iveys’ work.
Filming at Newquay Orchard, Cornwall. A Social Prescription Film.
A short film about a small Orchard in Cornwall doing everything it can to make its community a better place.
Live Video Production In a Cornish Rainforest
Have you ever wondered what filming live in a rainforest looks like? We teamed up with AimHi Earth in Cornwall to film their live lessons on climate and nature straight from Cornwall’s captive rainforest.
Video Production for Cornwall’s biggest Coffee Roasters.
As world leaders came to Cornwall for the G7 Summit we spoke to the companies and people trying to transform Cornwall to become a leader for the rest of the world to follow.
Filming a BBC documentary in Cornwall.
Just 5 months after his coma, Robin Hanbury-Tenison attempts to climb the highest peak in Cornwall all to raise £100,000 for the NHS. This is the BBC world documentary we created to tell his story.