Here Now Films

Here Now Films is an independent UK video-production studio and agency founded in 2016 by Ed Smit and Oliver Couch. It creates commercial, corporate and documentary-led films for brands, non-profits and organisations across sectors including finance, technology, healthcare, arts and heritage, retail, environmental work, and industrial business.

The studio positions its work around branded micro-documentaries: character-led films designed to avoid generic corporate presentation in favour of authentic human stories. Its production model keeps producing, directing, editing, sound design and colour grading in-house, supporting projects from early creative development through delivery.

Production capabilities

• Pre-production: creative ideation, scriptwriting, treatments and storyboarding.
• Production: location shoots, multi-camera interviews, commercial filming and nationwide crew coordination.
• Post-production: editing, DaVinci Resolve colour grading, motion graphics, audio post-production, sound design and broadcast-delivery packs.

Here Now Films works on broadcast commercials as well as brand launches, customer stories, executive thought-leadership films and campaign content. Its approach combines cinema-grade field production with documentary storytelling for clients ranging from global technology businesses to conservation organisations and cultural institutions.

Selected work

The studio has produced a keynote brand film for AlTi Tiedemann Global premiered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a multi-year broadcast-commercial partnership with FatFace, and a BBC World documentary commission. Its portfolio also includes projects for Tate Galleries and Tate Cornwall, Miro and Endava, Airbnb, Panasonic and the Turner Twins, Calla Lily, KYN London, EcoTrust Uganda, JA Brooks Mechanical Engineering, Whistlefish and Twycross Zoo.

The company’s commercial work includes Clearcast-approved television advertising, while its documentary roots include natural-history and human-interest storytelling. In 2023, Here Now Films established its primary creative and post-production headquarters in Shoreditch, London, while maintaining production hubs in Manchester, Bristol and Cornwall.