Video Production Company in Bristol
The film you’ll be
known for.
Here Now Films is a video production company in Bristol and the West Country, making brand films, corporate video, documentaries and TV commercials, from the first idea to the final grade.
Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours. Or call us on +44 7412 543822.
500+ productions for brands, broadcasters, charities and institutions
Who we are
A video production company in Bristol, and the West Country
We make films for companies, charities and institutions in Bristol and across the South West: brand films, corporate films, documentaries and TV commercials. We come up with the idea, run the shoot and finish the film with our own post team. In 2026 Clutch named us a Top Video Production Company in Bristol, based on verified client reviews.
Here that has meant a recruitment film for a Bristol recruiter, a concept film shot at The Forge for a new museum and a year on the moors from Exmoor to West Penwith. Further afield, it has meant an announcement film in a New York library for Nevis and six productions for AlTi Tiedemann Global. We know the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust wants four to six weeks’ notice, that peat restoration only happens between August and March, and that Cornwall is over three hours down the road.
How a Bristol production runs
In numbers
Productions for brands, broadcasters, charities and institutions.
500+
Productions for AlTi Tiedemann Global, in London and New York.
6
Moorland landscapes filmed over a year for The Living Layer, from Exmoor to West Penwith.
4
Average rating across 54 Google reviews.
5.0
Our work
Selected work, from Bristol to New York
Our best recent work was filmed in a New York library and a London loft. A lot of the rest was made in and around Bristol, by the same team.
Nevis × Focus
Announcement film · A library on the Upper East Side, New York · 2026
AlTi Tiedemann Global
Brand film · The Purpose of Wealth · London and New York
Xanadoo
Concept film · Shot at The Forge, Bristol
Rise Technical Recruitment
Recruitment film · At the firm’s Bristol office
Plankbridge
Brand film · Shepherd’s huts, filmed in Dorset
Somerset Local Nature Partnership
Documentary · In Our Nature, a week across Somerset
H&M × The Park
Event film · Reopening H&M’s Bristol store
The Living Layer
Documentary · Overall Winner, Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival 2026
Cohere
Brand campaign · 35mm in four countries, with a tracking unit from Bristol
Great Western Credit Union
Fundraising film · A community bond offer
Further afield: Airbnb in Cornwall · FatFace’s national campaigns · a BBC World documentary · the Eden Project · Domino’s jetpack delivery
Featured client
All case studiesAlTi Tiedemann Global: six productions in London and New York
Six corporate productions for a global wealth manager, filmed in London and New York between January 2024 and July 2026.
- Client
- AlTi Tiedemann Global
- Sector
- Wealth management
- Cities
- London and New York
- When
- January 2024 to July 2026
AlTi first came to us for a brand film. Over the next two and a half years came a launch film for the Social Progress Index that was shown at Davos, three films on the purpose of wealth, an animation for the firm’s intranet, an announcement from its Global Chief Investment Officer and a fireside chat on AI. In London we filmed in a top-floor daylight studio on Hackney Road and at Many Rooms in Battersea.
- 6 Productions for AlTiFrom the first brand film in 2024 to a fireside chat on AI in 2026.
- 2 CitiesLondon and New York, often in the same film.
- 1 Film shown at DavosThe Social Progress Index launch film.
Case studies
Five case studies from Bristol and the South West
A museum that doesn’t exist yet, a recruiter that hires recruiters, a county’s nature partnership, a shepherd’s hut and a credit union.
Concept film · Cultural destination
Xanadoo
Xanadoo is a new kind of museum, planned for South-East Wales by Gaynor Coley and Susan Hill, who both came from the Eden Project. Before there was a building they needed one film to put in front of funders, councils and partners. We turned a room at The Forge in Bristol into an interview set, led the interviews, and cut a what, why and how film around a visit, from the market hall to the Call to Action finale.
- Filmed
- The Forge, Bristol, in one day
- Made
- A concept film for funders and partners
Recruitment film · Recruitment
Rise Technical Recruitment
Rise recruits recruiters, from offices in Bristol, London and Los Angeles, and needed a film that showed young recruiters what working there is like. We wrote a short script and the interview questions with Rise’s head of marketing, filmed at the Bristol office, and suggested employee success stories that could be shot the same day without adding budget.
- Filmed
- Rise’s Bristol office
- Made
- A 90-second recruitment film, success stories and social cuts
Documentary · Health and nature
Somerset Local Nature Partnership
Somerset Local Nature Partnership wanted a short documentary on social and nature prescription, made to be shown to the NHS, councils, charities and businesses across the county. We filmed for a week with more than eight partners, from wild swimmers to social prescribers, and made In Our Nature with every stage in-house.
“They really listened to what we wanted and helped us clarify our message and vision.”Sophie Burns, Project Lead, Somerset Local Nature Partnership
- Filmed
- Across Somerset, over a week
- Made
- In Our Nature, a short documentary for stakeholders
Brand film · Shepherd’s huts
Plankbridge
Plankbridge is often credited with starting the shepherd’s hut revival. Richard, the founder, gave us a one-line brief: give us goosebumps. We made the film about why people buy a hut and the life that comes with it rather than the joinery, from location scouting and casting to the grade, as a two-person team, on time and on budget.
“We set the brief of ‘give us goosebumps!’ and it did exactly that.”Richard, Founder, Plankbridge
- Filmed
- On location in Dorset
- Made
- A brand film for the Plankbridge website
Fundraising film · Community bond
Great Western Credit Union
Great Western Credit Union lends to people the high-street banks overlook, across Bristol, Bath, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire. We made the film for its first bond offer. It had to explain a community bond to a first-time investor, so we built it on a scripted voice-over, portraits of the team, interviews at the AGM and simple animation, and Ethex put it on the offer page. The offer passed its £800,000 target in six weeks and closed above £1.9 million.
- Raised
- £1.9 million, from more than 300 investors
- Made
- For the 2023 bond offer on Ethex
Services
What we make in Bristol, and what it costs
Prices are on the page because it saves everyone a week. Every quote shows each line before anything is booked.
Corporate video production
Leadership films, announcements, recruitment and internal films, like the 90-second film we made for Rise Technical Recruitment.
From £9,500
Brand films
Films about what a company is for, built on the people in it. Plankbridge’s brief was one line: give us goosebumps.
From £9,500
Documentary production
Short documentaries for charities, conservation groups and broadcasters, from BBC World to the Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival.
From £9,500
Branded micro-documentaries
Real people and real places in two to ten minutes, like Sky Seeding, our drone-seeding film for the Woodland Trust.
From £9,500
TV commercials
From the script to Clearcast approval and Peach delivery. Whistlefish’s first TV ad ran on ITV in the West.
From £15,000
Customer stories
Clients and customers in their own words, filmed where the work happens, for sales teams and websites.
From £9,500
Post-production
Edit, colour, sound and motion graphics by our own post team, in every format: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and captioned.
Edit days from £550
Film crew hire in Bristol
DOPs, sound recordists and whole units for other people’s shoots. A DOP and a sound recordist start at £1,568 a day.
Our booking fee: 10%
Also: fundraising films, recruitment films and event films, like the reopening of H&M’s Bristol store for The Park, edited within a week.
Prices
Pricing and packages
Every Bristol production starts at £9,500. Most land between £9,500 and £25,000; shoot days, crew size, locations, permissions and how much the edit has to produce move the number.
Creative workshop
Free
A first call and a workshop on your brief, then a creative deck and an estimate.
Shoot only
£2,690
A producer and a cinematographer for a day, with two cameras, lenses, sound and lighting. You get the rushes.
Full production
from £9,500
The idea, the script, the shoot, the edit, grade and sound design: one hero film of two to four minutes and two social cuts.
Campaigns and TV commercials
Scoped from the brief
Bigger crews, more shoot days, locations, motion graphics and every format. TV commercials start at £15,000, with Clearcast and Peach delivery handled for you.
How we work
How a Bristol production runs, in five stages
The same five stages for a one-day interview in a Bristol office as for a year on the moors, and you hear where we are every Friday.
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Creative development
A call on what the film has to do and who it’s for, then an idea and a treatment for you to sign off before anyone books a camera. Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours.
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Pre-production
Scripts, casting, crew, kit, locations and permissions: the council for streets and public spaces, landowners and venues, and the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust’s four to six weeks’ notice.
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Production
A crew and kit sized to the job, with a producer and a DOP on set. In Bristol we crew from the freelancers on our books in the city and across the South West.
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Editing
Edit and motion graphics by our own post team. The first cut usually lands five to ten working days after the shoot, reviewed online with every version numbered.
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Colour and sound
The grade and the mix, then delivery in every format the plan needs: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, captioned, and broadcast masters for TV.
Crew hire
Film crew hire in Bristol, and across the South West
DOPs, camera operators, sound recordists, gaffers and whole units, for one day or a full shoot, booked by our producers. There are 2,800+ freelance crew on our books across the UK.
Bristol is where a lot of the UK’s natural history and documentary crews live, so the bench runs deep. For Cohere’s 35mm campaign we brought a precision tracking vehicle and its three-person team down from Bristol to the Lizard. Flying in from abroad? Your contract is with us and there’s one invoice.
- The Lizard, Cornwall · June 2026 Cohere A precision tracking vehicle and its team from Bristol, for the Cornish leg of a 35mm campaign.
- Paris · 34 days GMR Marketing Two camera operators, sound, light and an editor at Team USA House, across both Games in 2024.
- Oregon → Portsmouth, London, Oxford Swanson Studios A UK production service for a US studio: three days, three cities, two sets in every room.
- New York → the UK NYT Studios A pilot for The Athletic: a producer, two camera operators and a sound recordist.
“Here Now Films is always my first call when filming internationally in the UK… The first time we worked together in London, they provided a full crew and both shoots ran flawlessly.”
Director, United States
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Recognition
Awards and recognition
Festival juries, broadcasters, trade awards and client reviews. Each one is tied to a named film or a public listing.
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Overall WinnerEdinburgh Conservation Film Festival · The Living Layer
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Regional Panorama AwardCineEco · The Bio Estrela Project
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Top Video Production Company, BristolClutch 2026, from client reviews
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Highly Commended, Best Small Agency (Global)The Drum Awards
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Best Media StartupUK Business Awards
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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
Members of EVCOM, BIMA and Bristol Creative Industries.
Locations
Where we film in the West Country
From a room at The Forge to a clifftop on the Lizard. These are the South West places on our map, numbered; further afield, we’ve filmed in sixteen countries.
South West England, with the places we’ve filmed
In the West Country
- 01BristolThe Forge for Xanadoo · Rise Technical Recruitment · H&M’s store reopening
- 02Cheddar, SomersetSomerset Local Nature Partnership · In Our Nature
- 03GlastonburyDomino’s · The jetpack delivery
- 04DorsetPlankbridge · A brand film for its shepherd’s huts
- 05ExmoorThe Living Layer · South West Peatland Partnership
- 06DartmoorThe Living Layer · South West Peatland Partnership
- 07Bodmin MoorThe Living Layer · and Brown Willy, for BBC World
- 08BudeKärcher × RNLI · Float to Live at the tidal pool
- 09NewquayOur Cornwall office
- 10West PenwithThe Living Layer · South West Peatland Partnership
- 11The LizardCohere · AI for Empowerment, with the tracking unit from Bristol
Further west
Bristol is over three hours from most of Cornwall, so Cornish shoots run from our office in Newquay, with crew and kit hired down there.
Video production in Cornwall →“We are absolutely thrilled with the final film, the team were so generous with their time and creativity throughout the process. They really listened to what we wanted and helped us clarify our message and vision.”
Project Lead, Somerset Local Nature Partnership
“It was a real pleasure to work with Here Now for our latest website film. We set the brief of ‘give us goosebumps!’ and it did exactly that. Ed and Ollie were a joy to work with.”
Founder, Plankbridge
“I have worked with Here Now for two projects now and both have been hugely successful. The team are collaborative, creative and reliable.”
Global Marketing Director, AlTi Global
“The team at Here Now are exceptional. I’ve worked with them on a number of projects now and the quality is always outstanding, they are also just an absolute pleasure to work with! They offer creativity, passion and a level of professionalism I’ve rarely had with other businesses. I’d highly recommend Ed and the team to anyone as their first call for top-tier video production.”
“It was a pleasure collaborating with the team at Here Now Films (Ed, Meg, and Ted). They created two videos for our drug and alcohol charity, WithYou in Cornwall, highlighting the recovery journeys of our clients and showcasing the outstanding work our staff does every day. They approached the filming process with sensitivity and empathy, helping our clients and staff feel at ease throughout the shoot. We are thrilled with the final results of both films and would gladly work with the team again in the future.”
“Ed and Ted created a micro-documentary for us showcasing an innovative project in Cornwall, they were highly professional, fitted in seamlessly with a highly complex and fast paced day of activity and logistics, while building instant rapport with the multiple people involved in the day.”
“Great team, allowed us a lot of flexibility in planning our video production around a group of international executives with limited available time, incredibly adaptable with us during post production and series of SME based reviews and live edits.”
“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 and were an absolute pleasure to work with. I highly recommend their services!”
“I worked with a crew of four people from Here Now Films for a pilot project. Morgan, the organiser, was very proficient and quick to respond to communications. We met for the first time on the day with a bit of a hazy plan for a tricky shoot, but the crew took it all in their step and the final product was great. Would recommend.”
“Here Now are professional, creative and a pleasure to work with. The team are well organised, easy to communicate with and delivered an excellent result. Highly recommended.”
“Great team to work with. Helped us with a documentary project. Added helpful creative direction. Met all deadlines. Recommend.”
“These guys are fab and we will keep working with them in the future”
Sectors
Video production in Bristol, by sector
Seven sectors we know well enough to skip the basics.
Bond offers, investor films and brand films for banks, wealth managers and credit unions, Great Western Credit Union among them.
Documentaries and campaign films for charities and conservation groups, like The Living Layer for the South West Peatland Partnership.
Films about care and the people who give it, like In Our Nature, on social prescribing in Somerset.
Exhibition films, artist profiles and concept films, from Tate St Ives to Xanadoo’s concept film.
Brand campaigns and customer stories for technology companies, like Cohere’s campaign on 35mm.
Brand films and campaigns for consumer brands, from Plankbridge’s shepherd’s huts to FatFace.
Expedition and athlete films, like the Turner Twins’ electric hydrofoil series for Flite.
Guides
Filming in Bristol: the guides
Bristol is the home of British wildlife film-making and has the studios to match. These are our notes from booking it.
How to film on Clifton Suspension Bridge
Who to ask (the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust, four to six weeks ahead), where to park, and why you bring your own power.
Guide
Film equipment rental in Bristol
The Bristol rental houses we rate for cameras, lenses, lighting and sound, and what to check before you hire.
Guide
The Bristol location guide
Five studios, from The Bottle Yard’s eight stages in Whitchurch to Box 7 in Bishopston, and the landmarks people ask to film.
GuideVideo marketing statistics
Over 100 numbers on how video performs, platform by platform, for the business case behind a film.
Learning to edit? Start with our guide to video editing courses.
The team
Who you’ll work with
It started with two best mates, Ed Smit and Ollie Couch, making films for local businesses and charities. Today we work from offices in London, Bristol and Newquay, and Bristol shoots are crewed from the city and the South West.
Along the way we were Highly Commended for Best Small Agency (Global) at The Drum Awards, won Best Media Startup at the UK Business Awards, and The Living Layer won overall at the Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival 2026.
- Morgan Cartlidge
- Partner and Head of Production
- Meg Amos
- Producer and director
- Alexander Webb
- Head of Post-Production, editor and colourist, who leads our edit team
- Ed Smit and Ollie Couch
- Founders, based in our Newquay office
Our Bristol office
Here Now Films
Raw Space, 111 Gloucester Road
Bishopston, Bristol BS7 8AT
Our office is at Raw Space on Gloucester Road. It’s an office, not a studio: we meet clients there or at theirs, and hire the right studio when a film needs one. Call before you visit.
Call us on +44 7412 543822
Bristol Creative Industries
We’re members of Bristol Creative Industries, the city’s network of agencies, brands and makers.
Our Bristol Creative Industries profile →Join our Bristol team
We hire freelance producers, DOPs, videographers and editors in Bristol for shoots across the South West. See all our jobs.
Current openings in Bristol →FAQ
Video production in Bristol: questions
We’re a video production company in Bristol making brand films, corporate films, documentaries and TV commercials. Something we haven’t answered? Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours.
Drop us a lineHow much does video production cost in Bristol?
Every production we make in Bristol starts at £9,500, and most land between £9,500 and £25,000. Shoot days, crew size, locations and how much the edit has to produce move the number. If you only need the filming, a shoot-only day with a producer, a cinematographer and kit is £2,690. TV commercials start at £15,000. Every quote shows each line before anything is booked.
What video production services do you offer?
All of it, or any part of it. Before the shoot: ideas, scripts, location scouting, casting, kit, permissions, shot lists and mood boards. On the day: crew, filming and interviews. Afterwards: editing, sound design and colour grading by our own post team. Some Bristol clients want the whole film; others want a crew for a day or an edit of footage they already have, and we quote for exactly that.
What types of films do you make?
Brand films, corporate films, branded micro-documentaries, charity and fundraising films, recruitment films, event films, social content and TV commercials. In Bristol and the South West that has meant a concept film for Xanadoo, a recruitment film for Rise Technical Recruitment, a year-long documentary for the South West Peatland Partnership and a bond offer film for Great Western Credit Union.
What experience do you have?
We’ve made 500+ productions for brands, broadcasters, charities and institutions: an announcement film for Nevis and Focus Financial Partners in New York, six productions for AlTi Tiedemann Global, a documentary for BBC World, Airbnb’s campaign in Cornwall and our films for Tate St Ives. Closer to Bristol: The Living Layer, Overall Winner at the Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival 2026, and the film that explained Great Western Credit Union’s first bond offer.
What equipment do you have?
We own Sony FX6 cinema cameras, cinema lenses, lighting and sound kit, so most Bristol shoots run on our own kit. When a job needs more, a different camera or specialist grip, we hire it locally; our guide to camera equipment rental in Bristol lists the rental houses we rate.
Do you have insurance and permits for filming in Bristol?
Yes. We carry £10m public liability and £10m employers’ liability cover, and we sort the permissions a shoot needs: the council for streets and public spaces, landowners and venues, and the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust, which wants four to six weeks’ notice. Our guide to filming on Clifton Suspension Bridge has the detail.
Do you have a studio in Bristol?
No, and we’d rather say so. Our Bristol office is at Raw Space on Gloucester Road. When a film needs a studio we hire the right one: The Bottle Yard Studios in Whitchurch is the largest film and TV studio in the West of England, and our Bristol location guide covers four more, plus the landmarks people ask to film.
Do you film outside Bristol?
Yes. Bath, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall are all a drive away, and our Cornwall office is in Newquay: see video production in Cornwall. Our headquarters are in London, and abroad we’ve filmed in sixteen countries. For work across the country, start at our video production company UK homepage.
How fast can you deliver a film?
Event edits can go out within days when the press needs them; H&M’s Bristol store opening was edited within a week of the event. For brand and corporate films, the first cut usually lands five to ten working days after the shoot, with two rounds of feedback. If you have a launch date, tell us at the start and we’ll plan back from it.
Do you make TV commercials?
Yes, from the script to Clearcast approval and delivery to broadcasters through Peach. Whistlefish’s first TV ad ran on ITV in the West, with Sky AdSmart alongside. TV commercials start at £15,000. More on our TV commercial production page.
Do you work with agencies or white-label?
All the time. We work behind agencies on production, crews and kit, and post, under your name and your NDA, and we’re happy to join client calls as part of your team. H&M’s store opening came to us through The Park, a London PR agency.
How do we start?
Send a brief or book a 15-minute call. Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours. Then we come back with a treatment, an outline, a budget and a schedule, and the first workshop is free.
From the TrimTab
Stories, guides and case studies from Bristol and the South West.
Shooting a brand campaign on 35mm: what we learned making AI for Empowerment for Cohere
Case study
The Living Layer: a year documenting Britain’s invisible climate crisis
Case study
Recruitment video production for Rise Technical Recruitment
Guide
Fixer, line producer or production service company: who do you need to shoot in the UK?
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