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Black Lab Films

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Founded
2017
Employees
11-50
Offices
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About Black Lab Films

Black Lab Films is a Cardiff-based integrated creative agency, commercial film production company and post-production facility. Operating across strategy, production and finishing, it develops brand campaigns and screen content from early audience insight and concept development through to delivery.

The studio combines creative strategy, scriptwriting, art direction, storyboarding and casting with live-action production, including commercial direction, technical crews, aerial filming and pack-shot or e-commerce shoots. Its in-house post-production capability covers offline and online editing, colour grading, sound dubbing and mixing, language reversioning, motion graphics, compositing, 3D modelling, CGI and VFX.

Campaign and brand work

Black Lab Films works across advertising, travel and tourism, retail, automotive, sport, charity and broadcast markets. Its portfolio includes destination campaigns for Visit Wales, including My Epic Shore and Check In, as well as National Geographic’s Legends of Spain series and the National Geographic x Zurich Insurance project The Butterfly Effect.

Other supported work includes campaigns for the Welsh Rugby Union and Under Armour, Furniture Village, Guinness Six Nations, Mini, Nike, Cannondale, Mercedes-Benz, Barnardo’s, S4C, Nissan and Aston Martin. The company also works with advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi and Iris Worldwide.

Original filmmaking

Alongside commercial and direct-response television work, the company produces independent narrative fiction. Its short-film projects include Love Me, Hold Me, Always, Do Not Feed The Animals and the 2024 Welsh action short The Fury of Silence. The latter was written and directed by Hardey Speight, produced by Kylie Cornelius, and shot by Marcus Thomas.

With creative development, physical production and post-production brought together within its Cardiff operation, Black Lab Films supports projects ranging from brand storytelling and destination films to broadcast advertising and original short-form narrative work.

More about Black Lab Films

Leadership and operating model

  • Hardey Speight is Managing Director; Marcus Thomas is a Director and Post-Production Lead; Kylie Cornelius is Production Director; and Dan Andrews is a Producer.
  • Companies House also lists Hassanah Speight and Lisa Jane Thomas as directors of BLACK LAB FILMS LTD.
  • The company combines a core permanent operation with freelance crew and production specialists who scale to suit individual projects.

Notable credits

12 credits
  • National Geographic: Legends of Spain
  • National Geographic x Zurich Insurance: The Butterfly Effect
  • Visit Wales: Check In
  • Visit Wales: My Epic Shore
  • WRU / Under Armour: For The Jersey
  • Furniture Village: Sleep Well
  • Guinness Six Nations: It's Time
  • Mini Countryman: Hello World
  • Nike: Training is Living
  • The Fury of Silence
  • Love Me, Hold Me, Always
  • Do Not Feed The Animals

Offices

Where Black Lab Films is based

2 locations

  • Cardiff office

    Headquarters
    The Maltings, East Tyndall Street, Cardiff, CF24 5EA, Wales, United KingdomCardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
    About this office

    Central operational headquarters, client suites and post-production studios, including creative, pack-shot filming, editing, colour, audio and VFX facilities.

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  • Swansea office

    5 Worcester Drive, Langland, Swansea, SA3 4HL, Wales, United KingdomSwansea, Wales, United Kingdom

    Registered statutory filing address; not a public commercial production studio.

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