A blog about our adventures in film, useful video production guides and tips and tricks for making great videos.
A fifteen-year heritage with a six-week-old name Beyond is what you get when five companies become one. CTS, a Manchester-founded pioneer of Google Cloud consultancy, merged with Appsbroker in 2023 to form Qodea — at that point Europe’s largest dedicated…
ByEd Smit
Hannah Walker at Salix Finance had Morgan and Ollie on her podcast last week. She asked if we could share it. We can do better than that, we can write a whole blog post about it. The podcast is The…
ByEd Smit
Last week, a film we made earlier this year for a project that doesn’t physically exist yet ended up auto-playing at the top of The Sun’s travel section. Here’s what that reveals about the work concept films actually do, and…
ByEd Smit
We were commissioned by the Sony World Photography Awards to produce the Outstanding Contribution to Photography film for their 2026 ceremony at Somerset House. The recipient was Joel Meyerowitz. If you’re in the photography world, you already know who that…
ByEd Smit
As of this week, we’re in production. Our crew is heading to Ontario, Canada, the first of four international shoots for Cohere, the AI and enterprise technology company. Over the next month we’ll be in Oslo, the South of France,…
ByEd Smit
We’re stoked to share that our peatland restoration documentary The Living Layer has been named the Overall Winner of the 2026 Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival. The ECFF is a flagship event within the Edinburgh Science Festival, the UK’s largest science…
ByEd Smit
We’ve just wrapped a shoot with Fathom at 30 St Mary Axe, better known as the Gherkin, one of the most recognisable buildings in the City of London. Fathom is a global leader in flood risk intelligence and climate data.…
ByEd Smit
We’re excited to share that Here Now Films has been commissioned by Miro, the visual collaboration platform used by millions of teams worldwide, to produce a customer story film. The project is part of Miro’s ongoing investment in video content…
ByEd Smit
By Ed Smit, Managing Director, Here Now Films A great B2B customer story film does something no sales deck, whitepaper, or case study PDF ever will: it lets your happiest customer sell for you, on camera, in their own words.…
ByEd Smit
We’re excited to share that two brilliant filmmakers have joined the Here Now Films team in London: Alex Webb, a multi-award-winning director and senior colourist, and Meg Amos, producer director, who’s already deep into production with some incredible clients. Both…
ByEd Smit
We’ll keep this one short because, honestly, we’re not great at talking about ourselves. We’d much rather talk about the work. But this one felt worth sharing. Clutch, one of the most trusted B2B review platforms in the world, has…
ByEd Smit
Project Overview Here Now Films recently completed a three-month medical video production project for Calla Lily, a London-based femtech company developing innovative women’s healthcare technology. The project required creating three distinct video assets from a single production: a product demonstration…
ByEd Smit
How Here Now Films embedded with the South West Peatland Partnership to capture one of the UK’s largest landscape-scale restoration projects. There’s a climate crisis unfolding beneath our feet that most of us have never heard of. Britain’s peatlands—ancient ecosystems…
ByEd Smit
Big news, our recent work with EcoTrust in Uganda has been featured on the Dehancer blog! They just published an incredible, in-depth look at one of our films from our recent documentary series with the charity. The film they chose,…
ByEd Smit
We’ve just released a new concept film for Xanadoo — a next-generation museum founded by Gaynor Coley and Susan Hill (of Eden Project fame). Shot at The Forge, Bristol, the film introduces a visitor destination that blends science, art and…
ByEd Smit
We’re proud to share that our BBC documentary Survival: To The Brink and Back has been selected as a Featured Project in the British Council’s UK Films Database (Films & Festivals). The listing recognises the film’s craft and impact, and…
ByEd Smit
We’re stoked to share some big news: Here Now Films has been selected by Creo to produce the full content package for the Sony World Photography Awards 2026. This is a dream brief for our team, crafting cinematic stories and…
ByEd Smit
Whistlefish have launched their first ever TV commercial — and we’re proud to have produced it. The 30-second spot is now airing on ITV and via Sky AdSmart, celebrating the brand’s joyful, design-led cards and those small everyday moments they’re…
ByEd Smit
We’re delighted to share that Here Now Films has been commissioned by The Athletic to produce a new four-part series of interview-led micro-documentaries with top-tier football talent. This follows the success of our pilot episode with The Athletic earlier this…
ByEd Smit
We’ve just released a new testimonial film created with AimHi Earth and PepsiCo EMEA—showing how live, interactive learning turns pep+ principles into everyday action across teams, languages, and time zones. Here Now Films worked closely with Sarah Humphrys (CEO &…
ByEd Smit