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crannies.” Where they are now, “it’s a large open plan studio and two suites upstairs.”
Splice’s hero Atmos suite in its new Nile Street building
There’s a different quality to each of the three hubs – around Shoreditch, Farringdon and Cambridge Heath. With Farringdon neighbouring Covent Garden, it’s that much closer to the West End. “It’s an important distinction,” says Johnny Whitehead at Company3. “Where we are is walking distance from the old stomping ground.” 15-minutes to Soho, enough time to make a phone call.
Shoreditch has the three Splice buildings as well as Black Kite, ELMNTL, Untold Studios, Post Republic. Once the location for Jack the Ripper’s murders, the area – which includes a bit of Tower Hamlets - has felt the hand of gentrification and has a dose of urban cool.
A little further North – between Old Street and King’s Cross - is Jam VFX. Moving from Soho in the latest wave of moves last year. Jam co-founders Jordan Andreopoulos and Mark Robinson found premises where they were able to buy the freehold. “Our thought process was, let’s not rent somewhere, let’s buy somewhere, because there’s no point in doing a building up again only to have to rip everything out when we leave,” says Andreopoulos. In Soho, says Robinson, “there were more nooks and
Although remote working has reduced the time that clients spend in the facility, it’s nice to know when they’re round the corner. Jam has recently broken into long form, working on The End of the F***ng World, which happens to be made by Clerkenwell Pictures. Other projects include Life After Life for House Productions, also in Clerkenwell and Worzel Gummidge from Leopard Pictures, based in Angel.
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1-3 Sheep Lane E8 4QS Just south of London Fields, Bleat’s set-up includes two impressive Dolby Theatrical Atmos sound stages
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BUMBLEBEE 17 Dominion Street EC2M 2EF Part of factual Super Indie, Zinc Media, Bumblebee CTO Olly Strous has built a flexible post offer
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123 Curtain Road EC2A 3BX Headed up by Danny Whybrow, ELMNTL is built around Cloud-based tools, with an HQ in Shoreditch
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HARBOR PICTURE COMPANY 63 Turnmill Street EC1M 5NP Major player Harbor has moved into Farringdon, with talent including leading colourist Adam Inglis
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One of Bleat’s two Atmos theatrical sound stages FURTHER EAST
The third media hub is around Cambridge Heath and Bethnal Green, where there’s another cluster of post houses, including Fonic, Hijack and Bleat.
”We’ve long suspected that this was going to be the move that people would be doing. There’s just so much happening around here.”
MANAGING DIRECTOR HIJACK
RICH SIMPSON
Hijack co-founders already lived out East and were working in Brick Lane, looking to expand when they found their location by Broadway Market. It’s an old glass factory, painted blue on the outside, bright on the inside, with a wall of windows. ”We’ve long suspected that this was going to be the move that people would be
doing,” says managing director Rich Simpson. He observes that quite a bit of the talent base has moved from Shepherd’s Bush to Dalston. “There are so many studio spaces where you see little production companies popping up, and some doing both production and post, there’s just so much happening around here.”
Hijack is a stone’s throw from the Regent’s Canal, the other side from Bleat which launched last year. Bleat’s fit-out includes
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JAM VFX 348 Goswell Road EC1V 7LQ With their own premises in Angel, vfx house Jam has moved into long-form, with clients round the corner
MILK VFX 57 Clerkenwell Road EC1R 5BL The Oscar-winning TV and film vfx specialist is now based in Clerkenwell House, by Hatton Garden
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SONA Andrews Rd E8 4QN Sona has created soundtracks for Hollywood’s finest and is now working from Cambridge Heath
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SPLICE - NILE STREET 19-21 Nile Street N1 7LL Splice Post’s third East London home for broadcast post and finishing occupies five floors
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