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An outdoor interview being filmed with a seated woman and a camera on a tripod.

SERVICES

Documentaries

We produce documentary — features and short films — from writing to the final master. The crew has been shooting since 2016.

What the work is

Most of these films are shot on location, often a long way from Paris: expeditions, portraits of places, and the people who live in them. We handle the whole chain in-house — writing, shooting, editing, grading, sound.

Selections & awards

The documentary work has taken 40 festival selections and 3 awards, including Best Documentary at the London Independent Film Awards for The Underground Sistine Chapel.

The Underground Sistine Chapel

The Underground Sistine Chapel follows the building of a modern Sistine Chapel inside a former gold foundry in the Paris suburbs. It was directed by Yohann Grignou and Antoine Breuil, funded in cryptocurrency, and released free on decentralised networks.

Selected work

Written up in full — the ask, the constraint, how it was built, and what happened.

Reading

Watch the films

Technology documentaries

The gno.land series

Adventure documentaries

The Elemen’Terre Project — Greenland

The Elemen’Terre Project — Iceland

The Elemen’Terre Project — The Azores

The films

The laurels

40 festival selections · 3 awards · 2021–2025

Photography

  • A camera and interview setup inside an open-sided wooden shelter.
  • A group poses together inside a community gathering space.
  • A camera operator films an interview with two people seated on a sports field.
  • An aerial view of a sailing boat crossing calm water.
  • Spectators and runners gather beside a lit athletics track at night.
  • A server presents wine to guests around a long restaurant table.

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