3 Mills Studios
Studio Facilities
Situated in Bromley-by-Bow, 3 Mills Studios is an iconic production destination in the heart of London ‘s most vibrant creative community.
3 Mills’ inspiring and versatile studio space has hosted many film, TV and stage productions including recently Legend (Working Title Films), Mr Holmes (See-Saw Films/BBC Films), Jekyll & Hyde (ITV) and The Royals (Lionsgate US) and the award-winning Cameron Mackintosh musical Miss Saigon. It has inspired some of the most successful independent filmmakers including Danny Boyle, Joe Cornish and Terence Davies, and countless television commercials and music videos have been filmed on site. Located just seven miles from Soho, four miles from the historic City of London, next to the London 2012 Olympic Park and within easy reach of rural locations in the South and South East, it is the ideal base for any production.
3 Mills Studios offers 9 filming stages (over 75,000 sq.ft of filming space) and 11 theatre rehearsal spaces as well as production offices, construction and prop stores, make up, costume and green rooms and a mix of production related tenants such as catering, camera hire and casting. Whatever you are looking to shoot, produce or rehearse 3 Mills has the facilities to fit the bill and help you create outstanding results. Take a look at the 3 Mills reel
Facilities: 9 stages (totalling almost 75,000 sq. ft.), 11 rehearsal spaces, 170 + production offices, Prop stores, Workshops, Make up & dressing rooms, Green rooms, Costume facilities, 62 seat screening room, Period buildings, exterior & location opportunities, Riverside cafe & bar, 24 hour security & CCTV, Parking, Excellent transport links.
Feature credits include: Isle of Dogs, Legend, Mr Holmes, The Inbetweeners 2, The Inbetweeners, Attack the Block, Berberian Sound Studio, Brick Lane, Eastern Promises, Fantastic Mr Fox, Frankenweenie, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, iLL Manors, Made in Dagenham, Never Let Me Go, Rocknrolla, Sunshine, Trance.
TV credits include: Year of the Rabbit, The Royals, Jekyll & Hyde, Drifters, Masterchef, The Enfield Haunting, My Mat Fat Diary, The Midnight Beast, Mr Stink, Stand up to Cancer.
3 Mills also attract a wide range of clients from advertising and music: Nike, Adidas, EE, H&M, Mazda, Honda, Rimmel, Vice, Vodafone, Waitrose, Nissan, Nokia.
Primary Activity: Studio Facilities
A Productions
Animation Production
A Productions is a creative led, internationally recognised leader in animation production for TV and Film. With an impressive portfolio of award winning children’s content that covers 35 years, the studio has worked on many iconic children’s shows and with some of the leading global broadcasters.
Primary Activity: Animation Production
Other Activities: Animation, Animation and VFX, Animation Production, Animation Services, Motion Graphics
Aquarium Studios
Audio Post Production
Operating from their base in the heart of Soho, London, Aquarium Studios have offered post production services to the UK TV Drama, Feature film and Video games industries since 1997.
To complement their triple-BAFTA-winning audio team, Aquarium are pleased to offer an in-house partnership with Dirty Looks, and now offer Baselight colour grading and online editing all withing their Wardour Street premises. With studios in Belgium and Ireland, Aquarium are ideally placed to provide post services on European co-productions.
Facilities include Voice Booths with source connect, Stereo, 5.1 Mixing Theatres, Foley recording, ADR stages, an ensemble recording space for up to 7 actors, as well as a number of bright and airy cutting rooms available for hire. Aquarium has Studios to suit all budgets and all project types, from Feature Films to Corporates, TV Drama to Computer Games.
Aquarium have been responsible for Audio Post on numerous film and drama projects including; Disobedience, Merlin, Whitechapel (S3), Ripper Street (S1), Atlantis.
With Three BAFTA’s and seven nominations, Aquarium is one of Soho’s most accomplished specialist audio post-production companies, who represent a wide range of Audio Talent including Mixers, ADR Recordists, & Sound Editors. This allows them to match the perfect individual or team to your project, ensuring you get specialists at every level.
Primary Activity: Audio Post Production
Bluebolt
VFX
Bluebolt’s team has extensive experience on productions of all scales, priding themselves on delivering the very best quality and service from concept and pre-production, through shoot supervision to final delivery.
Some of BlueBolt’s credits include: Season One of Game of Thrones, The Little Drummer Girl, Skyfall, The Night Manager, Peaky Blinders and Mission Impossible – Fallout, winning BAFTA, AEAF and VES awards and two Emmy Nominations.
Primary Activity: VFX
Cake
Animation Distribution
CAKE is one of the world’s leading independent entertainment companies specialising in the production, distribution, development, financing and brand development of kids’ and family properties.
CAKE Distribution Ltd distributes over 1600 half hours of animation and live-action content, working with renowned producers including Rovio Entertainment, Fresh TV, Channel X, Kickstart and Ragdoll Productions on the worldwide roll out of their brands.
CAKE Productions Ltd supports CAKE’s development and production activities on shared and originated projects. With over 13 properties in development, productions include Angry Birds: Summer Madness for Netflix; Mama K’s Team 4 with Triggerfish Animation for Netflix; Angelo Rules with TeamTO for France Televisions, Canal+ and Super RTL, Space Chickens in Space with Anima Estudios for Disney EMEA; Pablo with Paper Owl for CBeebies and Mush-Mush & The Mushables with La Cabane and Thuristar currently premiering internationally on Boomerang.
An award-winning company, CAKE is based in London.
Primary Activity: Animation Distribution
Other Activities: Animation Distribution, Animation Production, Content distribution, Production
Digital Orchard
Post Production
FROM CAPUTURE TO POST
Digital Orchard provide DITs, QTake operators, colourists, on and off set film and digital dailies labs, Super 8,16mm, 35mm and 65mm film scanning, full picture post, deliverables, archive and restoration.
Digital Orchard is an industry-leading film and digital service provider that offers a unique end-to-end workflow and colour-management solution, from capture to post. From our expert technicians on-set, right through to film processing, scanning, picture post and deliverables, we pride ourselves on having the right knowledge and attitude to ensure every production gets exactly the attention to detail it deserves. Our boutique, full-service operation allows us to go above and beyond, giving cinematographers, producers and editorial uninterrupted support, creative freedom and consistent quality.
The team at Digital Orchard has always believed in linking services to improve efficiency, quality and inter-team collaboration. We have been the trusted partner on numerous film and digital shoots, securely processing data and film stock with workflows starting in testing and taking productions right through to the deliverable master for editorial. Combining these services means a more secure workflow, consistent knowledge of the image and cost savings for the production.
Primary Activity: Post Production
Other Activities: Colour Grading, Dailies, Deliverables, Digital Intermediate, DIT services, Equipment Hire, Film Recording, Film Scanning, Freelance Crew Agency, IMF mastering, Online Editing, Post Production, Restoration, Telecine, Track laying
Directors Cut Films
Post Production
Established in 1999, the close-knit team at Directors Cut provides a friendly environment for your post production needs. Over the last 10 years, the company has grown over 600% both in terms of facilities offered and turnover.
Directors Cut specialise in the post production of high-end television series’ and independent feature films for all the major UK broadcasters, as well as many worldwide broadcasters: Fox, PBS, Nat Geo, Discovery & NBC. They specialize in post production of high-end documentary series for clients including Wild Pictures, Spun Gold, Blast Films and The Garden Productions, alongside entertainment programmes for Gogglebox and Wide Eyed Entertainment, dramas for Kudos and Independent Feature Films and an on-going link with the arts and Melvyn Bragg.
Directors Cut credits are an amalgamation of animation, game shows, children’s TV, feature documentaries, talk shows, current affairs and observational series’.
Primary Activity: Post Production
Other Activities: Audio Post Production, Colour Grading, Offline Editing, Online Editing
Ealing Studios Operations Ltd
Studio Facilities
Ealing Studios is an independent British Studio, developing, financing and producing feature films for international distribution.
Ealing Studios’ extensive facilities provide stages and services for independent and major international production in a convenient central London location; the Studio community incorporates a wide variety of companies providing services to the film, television and media business.
Home to the birth of British cinema, Ealing Studios has been at the forefront of media revolution since 1902. Many of Britain’s most ground-breaking dramas of the 20th century were shot here, for the big and small screen alike. The Studios have launched the careers of a multitude of award-winning directors, writers and actors.
Ealing has 5 stages ranging from 1,000 – 10,000 square feet, comprised of three classic 1930s sound stages and two smaller stages that are perfect for VFX, camera tests, pack shots and stills. The Studios are also equipped with workshops, prop stores, make-up and costume facilities that cater to all kinds of productions. Our flexible production offices have been home to countless TV shows, dramas and feature films.
At the heart of Ealing Studios’ thriving and vibrant community is 50,000 sq ft of serviced office space, home to a wide range of creative and innovative media businesses. Both interconnecting and open plan spaces are available, all offices are fully furnished, and enjoy plenty of natural light.
The Studios are equipped with a wide range of facilities including: Workshops, Prop Stores, Dressing Rooms, Wardrobe, Make-up, VFX, Post Production.
Primary Activity: Studio Facilities
Flaunt Productions
Animation Production
Primary Activity: Animation Production
Fuse Post Ltd
Audio Post Production
We are a creative sound post company based in the heart of London’s West End. We can accommodate anything from a single person voiceover to a fully immersive Dolby Atmos surround mix at our relaxing boutique facility. With four state of the art studios over five floors, breakout spaces, a meeting room, as well as high-speed fibre internet and lovely coffee, we’ll make sure you feel right at home. We specialise in sound for Animation, but are experienced in many other genres too. Founded by dubbing mixers James O’Brien, Simon Couzens and Scott Wilkinson, we have a long history in providing creative and exciting soundtracks for your productions. From full series to single films, for broadcast or streaming platforms, we can deliver whatever you require.
Primary Activity: Audio Post Production
Other Activities: ADR, Foley, Voiceover recording
HaZimation Ltd
Animation Production
HaZimation is a production company, with a team led by Filmmaker HaZ Dulull , developing & producing feature films, tv and video games based on their propriety pipeline utilising Unreal Engine. The studio is also co-founded by Producer Paula Crickard a veteran in the industry. HaZimation develops their own IP / content but also co-productions with other studios /producers on IP they love in animated feature films, series,video games cinematics.
Primary Activity: Animation Production
LipSync Post
Post Production
LIPSYNC Post is an internationally recognised post-house, providing post-production services to the film and television industry for over 30 years. Since 2008, LIPSYNC Productions has invested over £180 million in over 210 feature film and TV projects. With regular festival appearances and over 200 major award nominations and wins, LIPSYNC has become one of the UK’s leading production partners.
Primary Activity: Post Production
Other Activities: ADR, Animation and VFX, Audio Post Production, Colour Grading, Digital Intermediate, Online Editing, Post Production, Track laying, VFX, Voiceover recording
Lupus Films
Animation Production
Lupus Films is a London-based production company set up in 2002 by Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding to produce high quality films and TV series for children and families.
Lupus Films specialise in animation, using a wide range of techniques from traditional hand-drawn to 2D digital and CGI, and also produce live-action drama and factual entertainment. Lupus Films’ work has been broadcast in the UK on the BBC, Channel 4, Five, ITV, Disney, Cartoon Network and S4C and in over 150 territories worldwide. Their stories fly from the screen into games, merchandise, books, commercials, apps and more.
Lupus Films are best known for adapting well-loved picture books that feature some of Britain’s most loved children’s characters, including ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’, The Snowman (for ‘The Snowman and The Snowdog’), and ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’. We also take on original scripts and ideas, to create classic stories for the modern age. Lupus Films’ ambition is to tell stories we love, with people they admire. Crafting productions that are beautiful and distinctive, so they last the test of time. Lupus Films believe in creating stories that stay with us – the ones watched by every generation, year after year.
Lupus Films’ productions have won numerous Kidscreen Awards, a CAMEO Award for Best Book to Screen adaptation, and the Best Children’s Televisual Bulldog Award. They have also been nominated for the BAFTA Children’s Award for Animation, British Animation Awards, Broadcast Awards Best Children’s Programme, and the European Animation Awards.
Specialties: Television, Film & TV Production, Media Production, Film, Broadcast, Digital Media, Family Entertainment, Post Production, Producing, Art Direction, Creative Direction, Factual Entertainment, Drama, Preschool Entertainment, Feature Films, CGI, 2D, Live-action, and Commercials
Primary Activity: Animation Production
Magic Dust VFX
VFX
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Magic Dust Visual Effects is a London-based, BIFA-nominated visual effects company. Magic Dust VFX was co-founded by an experienced VFX supervisor, who has over 15 years of experience of working on Hollywood films like Bond, Interstellar, Mission Impossible, The Fast and The Furious amongst other titles, and an ex-Warner Bros. senior executive. By working with some of the best artists in the industry, Magic Dust’s mission is to deliver the same or better quality visual effects as delivered by the large VFX facilities, to a wider range of film and television productions. As a company, we create a flexible, people-centric working environment that allows our team to flourish. Our recent projects include VFX for feature films and TV shows for the major streamers. As a British company, our projects qualify for the UK film, television and animation tax credits. Website: www.magicdustvfx.com Contact number: +44 208 064 1516 Contact email: info@magicdustvfx.com
Primary Activity: VFX
Other Activities: Animation and VFX, Animation Services, Motion Graphics, PreViz, Virtual production
Mori Mori Studio
Animation Production
Mori Mori is an Animated Content IP Company based in London. We are passionate about creating cute and unique characters along with whimsical art styles. The company is co-founded by Mandy Wong and Rory Cooke. Between Mandy and Rory they have a combined industry experience of 30 years in children’s animated series and live action feature films, they have collectively contributed to over 40 productions.
Primary Activity: Animation Production
Other Activities: Design
Outpost VFX
VFX
Outpost VFX create stunning visual effects for film and episodic productions.
Headquartered in Bournemouth, UK, and with offices in Montréal, London and Los Angeles, Outpost VFX exists to bring vivid creative ideas to life by harnessing artistry, technology and innovation.
Best known for creating striking environments, seamless digital makeup and photoreal creatures, we deliver all kinds of visual effects for all kinds of productions globally.
Since 2013 Outpost VFX have passionately embraced new technologies and new techniques that have empowered them to work with global content creators like Netflix, Amazon, Universal, HBO and Apple on visually arresting productions. Recent marquee projects have included News of the World, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, and Watchmen.
Devoted to expressing ideas and encouraging change, Outpost VFX have developed a culture that is pioneering in its approach, based on five core values that guide everything they do: People, Innovation, Support, Creativity and Balance.
Primary Activity: VFX
Red Star 3D
Animation Production
Red Star is an animation studio creating fantastic film content for 3D and 4D attractions in special venues such as theme parks and museums; as well as kids’ TV and feature film productions.
Primary Activity: Animation Production
Salon
Equipment Hire
Salon are the UK’s longest established editing equipment hire company, offering a comprehensive range of the latest Avid, Adobe and Apple editing kit to productions globally.
Through years of working on many of the worlds most recognised projects Salon have built a strong reputation for providing some of the best support in the industry coupled with an approachable and friendly attitude and constant investment in new kit.
Whether it’s a single system, a shared storage network or a remote editing solution in the cloud, Salon offer it all, delivered, installed and supported anywhere you need it and at a price to suit your budget.
Complimenting the hire side of the business Salon also have a storage sales division, SalonProSales.com offering a variety of storage solutions for on-set or editorial back-up plus long term archiving options too.
Primary Activity: Equipment Hire
Other Activities: Archiving, Equipment Hire, Offline Editing, Online Editing
Snafu Pictures
Animation Production
Snafu Pictures are creative production experts with a distinctive approach to animation, visual effects and project development. Using expertise of narrative as well as design for film/tv, games and brands, we combine creative with technology to develop & produce compelling content.
What unifies our work is a passion for character and craft. What sets us apart is a design acuity, production nouse and a network of pioneering multi-disciplinary creative talents.
With a diverse slate of original productions and co-productions as well as supporting a range of clients from production companies to brands and studios, our work spans the entertainment industry.
As a studio, Snafu is interested in developing authored, character-driven projects; where craft both in visual execution and narrative storytelling is at a project’s core.
Project images: https://snafu-pictures.com/work/
Primary Activity: Animation Production
The Farm
Post Production
The Farm Group provides award-winning comprehensive post-production services from facilities throughout the UK in addition to partnerships at BBC sport and UKTV. Our capabilities encompass picture, sound, and location services for both unscripted and scripted content. The combination of our gifted creative teams and our powerful technology core provides collaborative workflows which positions The Farm Group as the go-to resource for the most challenging and ground-breaking productions.
Primary Activity: Post Production
Other Activities: ADR, Archiving, Audio Post Production, Colour Grading, Dailies, Deliverables, Digital Intermediate, IMF mastering, Offline Editing, Online Editing, Post Production, VFX, Voiceover recording
The Flying Colour Company
VFX
The Flying Colour Company is a niche high-end VFX and post production provider based in Soho, London. We specialise in providing high-quality VFX services to high-end broadcast drama productions and independently produced or tent-pole studio feature films.
Based in the heart of Soho, at 42 – 44 Carnaby Street, we are independently owned and highly flexible, with years of experience working at the top level. We pride ourselves on providing solutions and the highest quality service within an efficient and flexible model.
WHAT WE ARE
Effective: We provide a very personal and highly skilled on-set and remote supervision service that lays the groundwork for the VFX magic that follows and also helps to manage costs and expectations throughout the post-production process.
Creative: We use industry leading Flame, Nuke, Maya and Houdini workstations with a plethora of associated outboard software licenses, all of which are attached to a high speed network including an enormous amount of data storage and render power and offer the very best platform for our highly skilled and creative artists to create and deliver their, and your, work on.
Proactive: We also provide data editorial and vfx pulls, colour pipeline and workflow as well as data hosting. Our high-speed data network has been designed to store and manage your rushes from shoot through post. This enables us to do our own data pulls and conforms for our VFX which saves Production time and money.
Primary Activity: VFX
Union VFX
VFX
Union VFX is a boutique visual effects facility founded in 2008 by Adam Gascoyne and Tim Caplan, providing a creative service for feature film and television productions.
Located in the heart of Soho, London, the studio is an environment where originality and innovation flourish. Union’s team of exceptional supervisors, producers and artists share a combined wealth of experience and passion for filmmaking, which has established Union’s reputation for imaginative solutions, quick turnarounds and stunning results. As the trusted collaborators of many leading filmmakers, our clients return to Union time and again.
Union VFX support clients throughout every stage of the creative process. Services include VFX design and previs, CG animation, digital makeup effects (gore), compositing and matte painting, with core specialties in CG environment work and invisible effects.
Primary Activity: VFX
Other Activities: VFX
Vine FX Ltd
VFX
Vine FX is Bafta-nominated visual effects company based in Cambridge, offering a full range of visual effects services including creature design, digital matte painting, compositing, CG environments, FX, concept art and story-boarding. With a wealth of experience and knowledge in the design and management of visual effects”, Vine FX offer a bespoke service working collaboratively and creatively with clients to deliver work of the highest quality. Vine FX has a pragmatic and inventive approach, Vine FX can handle entire productions, working collaboratively with clients to ensure delivery is on time and on budget.
Primary Activity: VFX
Other Activities: Animation and VFX, Post Production, Production Services, VFX
Warner Bros. De Lane Lea
Post Production
Where great productions become extraordinary entertainment.
Warner Bros. De Lane Lea is an award-winning picture and sound post production facility in the heart of Soho combining the most advanced technology with skilled talent to provide an exceptional post production experience.
Based in a brand-new, purpose-built facility in the stunning new Ilona Rose House development in Soho, Warner Bros. De Lane Lea is home to the largest mixing stage in the UK and facilities include sound missing stages, grading theatres, a full mastering department, ADR facilities and cutting rooms.
Warner Bros. De Lane Lea also has additional facilities based at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden including a 48 seat 4K Screening Room, 4K VFX Review Theatre and a Dailies department with dark-fibre connectivity to Soho.
With more than 70 years’ experience in the post production business, Warner Bros. De Lane Lea has worked with many of the world’s greatest talents on some of the most memorable productions including the Mission Impossible franchise, Wonder Woman, Gravity and the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film series.
Primary Activity: Post Production
Other Activities: ADR, Audio Post Production, Colour Grading, Dailies, DCP mastering, Deliverables, Digital Intermediate, Foley, IMF mastering, Localisation, Offline Editing, Online Editing, Post Production, Track laying, Voiceover recording
Wildseed Studios
Animation Production
Wildseed Studios’ mission is to enable new and emerging creators to do great work, to take risks and be creatively brave and to help them to take what they do to premium platforms.
Wildseed focus on content for kids 6 to 11, and young adults, in both 2D animation and live action.
Previous and current animated productions include: Counterfeit Cat for Disney XD, the BAFTA winning Lottie Bearshout, Startoon with the Shaw Rocket Fund in Canada, Not the End Of The World, currently in production for Sky, Tales from the Serengeti for BBC3 and Slug Riot, (not)Hero and Chris P Duck for Frederator.
Wildseed Studios was founded by Managing Director Miles Bullough, and Creative Director Jesse Cleverly, and launched in April 2013.
Services include:
Development – Scripting design, Storyboard, Animatics, Setting up co-productions – 2D Animation production and post production, Live action development and production.
Contact: hello@wildseedstudios.com
Primary Activity: Animation Production
Other Activities: Animation Production, Production
