Who do we produce documentaries for?
Arts
Tell the story of your work and build engagement. Communicate ideas, share ideas and reveal the process of an artist, a conservation project or a stage production.
Charity
Factual story-telling can communicate the need and impact of your work. Compelling documentaries can help with awareness, advocacy and fund-raising.
Business
What is the story behind your business? How does your business solve a problem, and who the people who make it happen ? Let documentary content tell your story.
SHORT FORM DOCUMENTARIES AND CASE STUDIES
Short documentaries are great ways to communicate case studies, character portraits or important moments. A powerful, three minute film can move and inspire. It can open the audience’s eyes to a human interest story, relate the mission of your charity campaign, or uncover the history of an artwork. Chocolate Films is one of the most successful short documentary production companies in the UK. Our documentary short film projects have been watched by over 250,000 people in cinemas since 2015, have had viral success online and can be seen as part of displays in museums across the country.
LONG-FORM DOCUMENTARY AND LONG-TERM PRODUCTION
Our long-form documentaries have told the stories of football teams, lorry drivers, hair salons, new teachers and youth workers dealing with street violence. For each of these projects we have spent many months, and often years, capturing their lives and stories. We are currently half-way through a ten year documentary about a major construction project. Our company structure, with a full-time crew of dedicated filmmakers, is ideal for long-term documentary projects where we drop in and out of a story. Long-form documentaries produced by Chocolate Films have been screened at festivals and been released in cinemas.
A FLEXIBLE TEAM WITH INTERNATIONAL REACH
Chocolate Films produces great looking documentary content in every continent – filming doctors in Japan, David Hockney by his pool in Los Angeles and a karate school in Syria. Our commitment to being net zero video production company means that we balance the need for content production. We produce and direct documentary content with our international partners, with satellite offices within the EU and US and a network of partner production companies across the world. Working this way reduces our carbon footprint and our client’s costs while maintaining quality.
How Can We Help?
What do our clients say about us?
We had a great experience creating a promo with Chocolate Films. Very responsive with a quick turnaround time and the final result was brilliant.
Mark and the team have produced a number of great videos for us that have been really engaging and always within budget. They have been so helpful... throughout the process and have worked to some tight deadlines which we really appreciate!read more
A pleasure to work with - helpful and efficient from start to finish and delivered a brilliant final product! Very happy indeed.
Chocolate Films were great! They produced our highlights video for our dinner and awards ceremony and did a fantastic job. Pre-event they were on top... of everything, onsite brilliant to work with and then post-event they were quick to come back to us with a final edit.read more
Chocolate Films did an absolutely fantastic job producing videos for our museum. They were professional throughout, and really helped guide us... through a process that provides important interpretation and stories for our gallery. Their production team were professional, punctual, flexible, and friendly with everyone they dealt with - I would not hesitate to recommend them and hope to work with them again in future.read more
Rachel and the Chocolate films team have delivered beautiful, high quality films for us. The team were wonderful to work with, responsive and... accommodating of our specific environment and frequently changing requirements. Thank you!read more
Chocolate Films are always flexible, responsive, professional and understand the complexities of working in the cultural learning sector and create... beautiful films. Could not recommend them enough! Thank youread more
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A NEW CENTRAL LONDON VIDEO STUDIO – COMING LATE 2022
Chocolate Films is opening a new purpose-built studio in 9 Elms, near Battersea Power Station and the US Embassy. This exciting new 77m2 space will be ideal for most charity, corporate, and documentary shoots. It’s 80m2, with soundproofing, great lighting and a comfortable dressing room. It will be available to use for shoots from Monday to Friday with both wet and dry hire available. Then at the weekends it will be open to the next generation of filmmakers, with workshops, clubs and experiences.
CHOCOLATE FILMS IS A CARBON NEUTRAL PRODUCTION COMPANY
At Chocolate Films we work hard to be a sustainable supplier. Over recent years we have reduced our carbon footprint by bringing in policies about travel, waste and power. And we offset the carbon that we’re not currently able to reduce, by contributing to planting trees in a sustainable forestry scheme. We also offer discounts on video production to organisations that are actively promoting sustainability.
