Arts & Heritage
Video Production
Four separate productions for Tate Galleries. The film that opened the Sony World Photography Awards 2026 at Somerset House. A hundred years of one London firm told in a single documentary. Culture is made by people, so we film the people, and this is our national page for that work.
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Here Now Films is a video production company headquartered London, specialising in branded micro documentaries, human-led customer stories and brand films for technology and AI companies across the UK and internationally, with teams in Manchester, Bristol and Cornwall.
An ongoing artist series for Tate, four separate productions and counting. The Outstanding Contribution to Photography film for the Sony World Photography Awards 2026, premiered at Somerset House. A centenary documentary for JA Brooks. A concept film for Xanadoo, the new cultural destination from the founders of the Eden Project. A brand film for Coloro, the colour system used by design studios worldwide.
Real people, real places, stories filmed as they happen. That is the method on every film here, whether the subject is a Sámi artist installing twenty years of work or a welder at a firm that is still family-led after a century.
THE WORK
Recent arts & heritage productions
Tate Galleries · Artist films · London & Cornwall
Artist films for Tate
Tate’s artists make work about the things people actually argue over: identity, land, who gets to belong where. Our ongoing series films them as they work. Two days with Ro Robertson, in the thick of their process, for the Modern Thresholds exhibition. Time with Outi Pieski as she brought her first major UK exhibition together, twenty years of Sámi art in one place.
Tate St Ives · Historical exhibition documentary
Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life
For a landmark exhibition on one of Britain’s most influential sculptors, Tate St Ives wanted a film, not a walk-through with music. The documentary moves through each space of the show and breaks away to the places Hepworth drew from, part exhibition record, part micro documentary on a life.
Sony World Photography Awards · Documentary · Somerset House
Joel Meyerowitz for the Sony World Photography Awards
Each year the awards honour one photographer for a lifetime’s contribution to the medium. In 2026 that was Joel Meyerowitz, and we made the film that introduced him to the room. Our senior producer, Meg Amos, spent the day with Joel and his wife Maggie at home; our editor, Alexander Webb, built the film around his voice rather than his CV.
JA Brooks · Heritage documentary · London
One hundred years of JA Brooks
A century-old London mechanical services firm wanted its centenary marked through its people: the welders, fabricators and families behind the name. We filmed at the Pod factory and on live London sites: families working side by side, interviews taken mid-job, archive photographs cut against the present day, a three-act story built on spirit, history and family.
WHAT ARE WE
A collection is hard to connect with. An person isn’t.
It’s the reason arts and heritage organisations keep finding us. We’re a branded micro documentary company, and every format we work in, customer stories, brand films, micro documentaries, is built around people: what they’re up against, what they’re building, and what happens when it works.
So when the subject is culture, we don’t change the method. We find the person. An artist two days into an installation. A photographer looking back on sixty years of looking. A welder whose surname is on the building. The institution matters because of the people inside it. That’s the film.
FORMATS
What we produce for arts and heritage organisations.
Every format below is something we’ve delivered for a cultural client. Not a fingur in the air, a track record. Six forms the work takes; most are variations on the branded micro documentary.
Artist profile films
Interview-led films about artists and makers, built for institutional channels and membership audiences. The Tate series is the model, or even our work for airbnb.
Exhibition documentaries
Films that give an exhibition a life beyond its run. Our Barbara Hepworth film moves through the show and out to the places she worked from, made for members who couldn’t be in the room.
Heritage documentaries
Centenary films and institutional histories built on archive, careful interview design and restraint. One hundred years of JA Brooks, told in one film. The wider discipline lives at our documentary studio.
Ceremony and event films
Somerset House on ceremony day for the Sony World Photography Awards. The Pollinator Garden at Chelsea Flower Show. Small crews who know the protocol and deliver a finished film, not rushes.
Concept and pitch films
Films that put a cultural vision in front of funders, councils and partners. The Xanadoo concept film did exactly that for the founders of the Eden Project. Scoped like any brand film, aimed at a room of decision-makers.
Campaign and social editions
Multi-format packages cut from the hero film for Instagram, LinkedIn and email. The Weaver shipped as one hero film and three social edits from a single shoot day, the way our corporate production packages usually do.
WHERE WE WORK
Arts and heritage films,
UK wide
This work takes us where the culture is. Tate St Ives for the Hepworth exhibition. Somerset House for the Sony World Photography Awards. Live construction sites across London for JA Brooks. A textile studio in Cornwall for The Weaver. We’re headquartered in London with teams in Manchester, Bristol and Cornwall, so multi-day, multi-location shoots are ordinary for us rather than an exception.
If your brief is London-specific, London galleries, London stakeholders, a museum ten minutes from our studio, the city page goes deeper: arts and heritage video production in London.
PRICING
The Honest Range
Arts budgets are real budgets, so we publish ours. Every quote is scoped to the brief; these are starting points, not ceilings.
Artists Profile
From £9K
Single-day shoot. Interview-led. Creative development, production and edit included. The format we make for Tate.
Heritage or exhibition documentary
From £25,000
Multi-day production. Archival research, full creative development, colour grade. Built for institutional audiences and public release.
Annual content partnership
From £40K/yr
An ongoing programme. Multiple films a year, one team that knows your institution, your artists and your audience.
FAQ
Art & Heritage video production FAQs
From £9,000 for an artist profile or exhibition film, from £20,000 for a heritage documentary, and from £40,000 a year for an ongoing content partnership. What moves the number: shoot days, locations, archive licensing and post-production complexity. We’ll walk you through it on a call.
A short documentary made for a brand: real people, unscripted interviews, filmed where the work happens, cut to a length people actually watch. It is Here Now Films’ home format, and the artist films and heritage documentaries on this page are built with the same method.
Yes. We’re Tate’s ongoing video production partner, with four separate productions including work at Tate St Ives, and we produced the Outstanding Contribution to Photography film for the Sony World Photography Awards 2026 at Somerset House. Galleries have real constraints — light levels, sound, access windows, visitor management, artwork handling — and we plan around all of them.
It’s one of our core formats. For Tate we’ve spent days in the studio with Ro Robertson and time with Outi Pieski as she installed twenty years of work; the films sit on Tate’s YouTube channel and play to their global membership. The method is documentary: long interviews, no autocue, and enough patience that people stop performing and start talking.
Yes. Our centenary documentary for JA Brooks told a hundred years of a family-led London firm, filmed at their Pod factory and on live sites, with archive photographs cut against the present day. Heritage work needs archival research, careful interview design and the judgement to let a long story breathe.
Yes, and we deliver a finished film rather than a folder of rushes. The Sony World Photography Awards film was made around a live ceremony day at Somerset House; the Pollinator Garden film was made at Chelsea Flower Show for the Royal Entomological Society. Small, experienced crews, planned around the protocol of the day.
Yes, this is our national page for exactly that reason. Recent work runs from Tate St Ives in Cornwall to Somerset House in London, and we have teams in Manchester, Bristol and Cornwall alongside the London HQ. For London-specific briefs, our arts and heritage video production in London page goes deeper.
Other Sectors we specialise in
Brand launch films, global campaigns, customer stories and fireside chats for Miro,
Beyond, Cohere, Qualcomm and the Bank for International Settlements.
Brand films, investor communications and fireside chats for wealth managers and financial
institutions. Six productions for AlTi Tiedemann Global, one premiered at Davos.
Documentaries, campaign and fundraising films for charities and conservation organisations,
from The Living Layer to the Woodland Trust’s drone seeding.
Brand films, campaigns and TV commercials for the brands people live with. Seven campaigns
for FatFace, Whistlefish’s first TV ad, Plankbridge, Heligan, Belvoir.
Story-led films for care providers, pharmaceutical brands and medical device companies.
Forty-plus films across a three-year partnership with KYN.
Artist profiles, exhibition and heritage documentaries for galleries and cultural institutions. Four
productions for Tate; the film that opened the Sony World Photography Awards 2026.
Heritage, site and recruitment films for construction, engineering and manufacturing firms. One
hundred years of JA Brooks, from the Blitz to live London sites.
Adventure documentaries, brand films and stunt films for sport and outdoor brands. The Turner
Twins’ electric paramotor record with Panasonic; Domino’s at Glastonbury.
Let’s talk about your arts & heritage film!
Drop us a line, a brief or even a note on when works for a call. We’d love to chat.