Brand film production in the UK and worldwide
From a campaign shot on 35mm in four countries to a small crew filming a customer story in a working restaurant before service. Brand films for companies that want to be believed.
- Formats
- Campaigns, brand films, seasonal and launch films, TV commercials, and the cuts a media plan needs
- Clients
- Cohere, AlTi Tiedemann Global, FatFace, Whistlefish, Twycross Zoo, JA Brooks, Plankbridge
- Filmed
- Ontario, Oslo, the Lizard and Ericeira · Tenerife · London and New York · across the UK
- Where we are
- London HQ, and bases in Manchester, Bristol and Cornwall
- From
- £9,500
Brand video production in the UK
We’re Here Now Films, a video production company headquartered in London. Every film a company puts out tells people who it is, so most of what we make is a brand film of one kind or another. This page is the made end of the range: campaigns, brand films and commercials that are written, cast, art-directed and shot to a plan.
At the other end are films made the documentary way, with real people in the places they work. They have their own pages, and you’ll find them further down this one. Plenty of briefs need a bit of both, and we’ll tell you which way we’d lean before you spend anything.
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Countries on one 35mm campaign
Canada, Norway, Cornwall and Portugal, for Cohere.
190
Assets from one negative
Cohere’s campaign, in three languages for four markets.
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National campaigns for FatFace
Five seasons, spring 2023 to spring 2025.
2.8m
Sky AdSmart impressions
Licensed for Twycross Zoo’s Easter commercial.
Campaigns
One idea, several films and a media plan with 41 screen sizes in it. The negative has to survive all of them.
Aidan Gomez in an Ontario maple wood
The unit on the Lizard, Cornwall
Lead campaign
Cohere, AI for Empowerment
Brand campaign · shot on 35mm · Canada, Norway, Cornwall and Portugal · launched 8 September 2026
Cohere, the enterprise AI company, found us through this website in February 2026 and asked for a campaign that looked nothing like AI marketing. The rule it settled on never moved: no technology on screen. Instead, four people doing the things their work usually crowds out: Aidan Gomez boiling maple syrup in Ontario, Magnus Carlsen reading in Oslo, a designer on the Lizard, a creative director surfing at sunset in Ericeira.
Charlie Coombes directed and Spike Morris shot all four legs on 35mm. The ten-minute film for the Berlin launch was graded first, at Harbor in Farringdon, and that grade became the master for everything else: roughly 190 assets for connected TV, out-of-home and social in the US, UK, Canada and Germany, all reading as one campaign.
Brand films for companies
A company saying what it believes, on camera, without it sounding like the annual report.
The Purpose of Wealth, 2025
AlTi Tiedemann Global
Lead film
The Purpose of Wealth
Brand film series · three films · Southwark and New York · October 2025
AlTi Tiedemann Global’s new narrative asked what wealth is for, and the films answer in its own people’s words: advisors, family governance specialists and senior leadership, on what the industry rarely says out loud, from the burden of inheritance to the quiet satisfaction of helping a family find a common purpose.
One day in Southwark and two in New York, cut into three films: The Purpose of Wealth, Why Wealth and What No One Taught Us. It was our third production for AlTi, in a run of six since the firm’s marketing director found us through this website in January 2024.
Centenary film · London and Essex · 2025
JA Brooks, 100 Years of Trust
A London mechanical services firm’s hundredth year, told by the people who do the work. A brand film that does corporate jobs too: it premiered at the centenary party and went on to internal comms, new-business pitches and recruitment.
Brand film · a two-person team
Plankbridge
Its founder’s brief was “give us goosebumps”. We made a film about why people buy a shepherd’s hut rather than what one is, from mood boards and casting to the grade, with a two-person team, on time and on budget.
Seasons and launches
Retail runs to a calendar. The film has to be ready the day the range is.
The Fletchers on their farm · spring 2023
Copper & Black · autumn 2024
Lead client
FatFace, seven national campaigns
Seasonal campaign films · spring 2023 to spring 2025 · the Peak District, Cheshire, Tenerife, Devon, Hampshire and East Sussex
FatFace asked us for one spring campaign. Two years later we had made seven: Kelvin and Liz Fletcher and their children on their farm from before sunrise, eight scenes in two days in Tenerife with hero films for the UK and the US, and an evening range filmed at a house in East Sussex into the dusk.
We wrote the shot list for every one, planned each scene for FatFace’s stills photographer on the same set, and shot, edited and graded more than 100 assets ourselves. The spring 2025 finals went over more than two weeks before FatFace’s own deadline.
Commercials
Scripted, cast and cleared for broadcast. Still made by documentary makers, and you can tell.
TV commercial · ITV West and Sky AdSmart
Whistlefish
The Cornish card and gallery brand’s first TV commercial: two professional leads and real families, one hero home and the coast nearby, a voiceover that guides rather than shouts, and Clearcast handled from the script onwards.
TV commercial · Sky AdSmart · Easter 2025
Twycross Zoo
Built on one word from the zoo’s brand, wonder, and told in a child’s voice: “I wonder what it’s like to fly?” Two shoot days, the Gruffalo licensed, and clocked masters for Sky AdSmart.
On the Lizard, Cornwall · Cohere, 2026
How a brand film gets made here
Most of the work happens before anyone rolls a camera.
One rule, set early
Cohere’s was no technology on screen. It went into the treatment and never moved. A brand film needs one idea it won’t trade away, and the treatment is where it gets agreed.
The shot list is ours
We wrote it for every FatFace campaign and planned each scene for the stills photographer working the same set, so one day gave both teams what they needed.
Permits before dates
One sequence on the Lizard crossed three land ownerships, so it took three permits: the National Trust, Natural England and a private estate. The shoot date followed them.
Versions planned before the shoot
FatFace’s spring 2025 shoot became thirteen edits in three formats; each Cohere vignette came in eleven channel versions. Knowing that on the day changes what gets shot.
One grade
Cohere’s Berlin film was graded first and became the master, so 190 assets across four countries and two film gauges read as one campaign.
Broadcast, early
Whistlefish’s script, supers and substantiation went through Clearcast early, so approval was never the last-minute risk.
What a brand film costs
We publish prices because it saves everyone a week. Shoot days, locations, cast, crew and the number of versions move the number.
Shoot only
£2,690a day, anywhere in the UK
A two-person crew for one day, camera and sound, lit and recorded properly, with 4K footage for your own edit or agency.
A brand film
£9,500most land up to £25,000
One film from brief to delivery: treatment, the shoot, edit, grade, sound, music and cuts for social.
Campaigns
Scopedfrom the brief
Several films, locations or countries planned as one, with versions built for the media plan. Cohere was four countries on 35mm.
Plankbridge sits at one end of that range and Cohere at the other. The first call, the treatment and the estimate cost nothing.
“Four international shoots with talent diaries moving underneath you is not a small thing to land. Well done to you.”
“This was our first project together, but it led to six more successful campaigns, and they remain our go-to production partner.”
Everything else we make
The same team, the same standard, for briefs that want a different kind of film.
Questions
What is a brand film?
A film that tells people who a company is and what it stands for, rather than selling one product on one day. It can be a campaign, a single film for a homepage or a launch, or a commercial. Ours run from 30 seconds for television to the ten-minute film Cohere played across four screens at its Berlin launch. The test we use: would it still be worth watching if you didn’t already care about the brand? We wrote more on what a brand film is.
How much does a brand film cost?
Every production we make starts at £9,500, and most single brand films land between that and £25,000. A shoot-only day with a two-person crew is £2,690. Campaigns across several films, locations or countries are scoped from the brief. What moves the number is shoot days, locations, cast, crew size and how many versions the edit has to produce. The first call and the estimate cost nothing.
What’s the difference between a brand film and a corporate film?
Mostly who it’s for. A brand film faces outwards, to customers and the market; a corporate film usually has a narrower audience: investors, staff, partners, a conference room. We don’t think the label should lower the standard. AlTi Tiedemann Global’s The Purpose of Wealth was made for clients and works in front of a board, and JA Brooks’ centenary film went on to internal comms and new-business pitches in the same year. Our corporate video production page covers the second kind.
Can you shoot a campaign in more than one country?
Yes. Cohere’s campaign was one principal photography day in each of Ontario, Oslo, the Lizard in Cornwall and Ericeira in Portugal, with the same director and director of photography throughout. We hired a local first assistant director in Ontario rather than flying one out, worked with Einar Film’s Norwegian crew of around thirty in Oslo, and with Ready To Shoot in Lisbon for Portugal. Where flying people adds nothing to the film, we don’t.
Do you work with outside directors?
Yes, when a brief wants a particular hand. Charlie Coombes directed Cohere’s campaign, with Spike Morris shooting all four legs. Most of our brand films are made in-house: Ollie Couch shot FatFace’s summer campaign in Tenerife, with Morgan Cartlidge running the production.
Should we shoot on film?
Sometimes. Cohere’s campaign was shot on 35mm because the format was the argument: an AI company choosing the most analogue format there is. Film brings discipline as well as a look, because a 400ft roll runs about three and a half minutes, so every set-up is boarded and every move rehearsed. It adds processing and scanning, which Cinelab in Slough did for Cohere. Most brand films don’t need it, and we’ll say so.
How many versions should a campaign shoot produce?
Decide before the shoot, because it changes the shot list. FatFace’s spring 2025 shoot became thirteen edits in three formats each, and its spring 2023 campaign a 45-second hero film, two YouTube ads and sixteen clips for social. Cohere’s media plan had 41 screen sizes, so we built 15 master loops across seven aspect-ratio bands instead of a hundred one-off files.
Can you take a commercial to broadcast?
Yes. For Whistlefish we handled Clearcast from the script onwards, with supers and substantiation, and delivered through Peach to ITV West with Sky AdSmart alongside. For Twycross Zoo we delivered clocked, subtitled masters to Sky AdSmart’s spec, with the Gruffalo licensed for use on screen. More on TV commercial production.
Do you work with agencies?
Yes. Agencies bring us in to produce for their clients: FatFace’s first campaign with us was made with its agency, Red Bee Creative, and Airbnb’s films in Cornwall came through Nomads. Plenty of brands skip the agency and come straight to us, as Cohere and AlTi Tiedemann Global did through this website. Either way you deal with the people making the film.
How long does a brand film take?
Weeks for a single film, months for a campaign. FatFace’s spring 2024 rough cut went over six days after the shoot. Cohere ran from a February brief to its launch on 8 September 2026, with four shoots between April and July. Tell us the launch date first, because the schedule is built backwards from it.
Got a brand film in mind?
Send us the brief, or the idea, the date and a rough budget. 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
