EAST OF SOHO
POST
A GRAVITATIONAL PULL
In the same year as Harbor’s arrival, leading commercials facility The Electric Theatre Company (ETC) set-up shop in Whitechapel, following other heavyweight commercials post houses Eastwards, including Time Based Arts, Framestore and Untold.
Harbor have three floors in the Turnmills Building in Farringdon
Leading live production specialist NEP moved in to the ITN building in Gray’s Inn Road, taking advantage of a technical set-up devised for news coverage. It will share the location with ITN Production Services which is celebrating its tenth year in the iconic building’s Farringdon basement.
Harbor Picture Company had been looking to find a central London location since 2019, eyeing up something with quite a large footprint. Soho wasn’t on the table. “From the get-go, we felt like it was time to do something different,” says James Corless, Commercial Director for Harbor. “We spoke to our clients, but we didn’t really know what the wider industry was doing.” In 2021, they joined a sister company in Farringdon’s Turnmills building, transforming three floors. So, it was a surprise to find Company3, Milk and Residence Pictures round the corner. “It felt like a happy accident,” says Corless.
But it’s no accident that there are a string of production companies nearby, including high profile drama indies Sister Pictures, Kudos and The Forge. In the unscripted sphere, 72 Films, Keo Films and Zig Zag Productions are all in the zone.
For ETC, the move followed research into finding somewhere accessible for staff and where clients were located. With around half of the Televisual Commercials 30, including Biscuit, Riff Raff, Somesuch and Iconoclast now based East of Soho, it’s likely for ETC that several clients are now just a saunter away.
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BLACK KITE STUDIOS 46 Featherstone Street EC1Y 8RN The other side of Old St roundabout to Untold, the Studios is home to legendary colourist George K
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NINETEENTWENTY 109-111 Farringdon Road EC1R 3BW Vfx house started by Scott Griffin, Ludo Fealy and Chrys Aldred, is on the Farringdon Road
2020 16 PREEN
2-4 Sampson Street E1W 1NA Creative content company Preen is located in The Nest, Wapping, close to Tower Bridge
2021 17 One of Electric Theatre Collective’s finishing suites in E1
new wave of independent companies who identified with artistic freedom and a like-minded creative community.”
GRAHAM BIRD FOUNDER BLACK KITE
“London’s East End naturally attracted a
The same is true for Freefolk and Black Kite Studios. Until 2023, Freefolk (formerly Finish VFX) had been in Soho for 20 years. “Over that time the area has gone from a world renowned collective advertising hub to an area focused on attracting tourism,” says Jason Watts creative director at
Freefolk. “We spent some time weighing up other areas and Spitalfields came up as the best-positioned
place…Great transport links, with a blend of old and new. Great for visiting clients and staff alike.”
Black Kite Studios inspired use of space in EC1
“We just felt a gravitational pull,” says Graham Bird, the founder of Black Kite which is now in Shoreditch. “London’s East End was already home to a vibrant art, music, and fashion scene, this naturally attracted a new wave of independent companies who identified with artistic freedom and a like- minded creative community.”
COMPANY3 28 Chancery Lane WC2A 1LB Company3’s London operation moved from Soho to join sister company Framestore in Chancery Lane
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ELECTRIC THEATRE COLLECTIVE 102 Cavell Street E1 2JA The leading commercials post house, ETC is at home in Whitechapel
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FADERS UP FOLEY 1b Darnley Road E9 6QH The Foley studio led by mixer Philip Clements is a stone’s throw from Hackney’s London Fields
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LOC STUDIOS 45 Vyner Street E2 9DQ A vfx studio for TV and film, LOC is part of the Cambridge Heath post-production posse
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NEP PRODUCTION CENTRE 200 Grays Inn Road WCIX 8XZ Live studios and post operation NEP UK has made its home in the well-connected ITN building
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RASCAL POST 73a Leonard Street EC2A 4QS
With A list vfx and colour talent, Rascal is in the same Shoreditch building as Vaudeville
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