ABOUT US
ERA Films was founded in 2005 by award-winning filmmakers and producers Ben Crowe and Preti Taneja. We shoot, edit and produce all projects in-house bringing in additional skills and people as projects require. We often collaborate with photographers, graphic designers, translators and musicians.
Our organisation uses a lot of volunteers and ERA Films were very good at engaging with them and training them up very quickly. They were a great support to me as well as a manager, since I didn't really know what was needed. With their guidance we produced some great films for our website and for our annual conference - these have energised our members and impressed our donors. We're now more confident at using video to express the often complex technical as well as the social issues involved in our work.
CEO Engineers Without Borders
ERA Films have produced two excellent films for our organisation. They are extremely professional, and very sympathetic to the different cultures we work with which is very important. The staff who worked with them on both projects found them easy to get along with and very accommodating. I would recommend them.
Managing Director
SERVICES
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DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION
& VIDEO ADVOCACY
Transform your communications and shape the narrative with powerful imagery and real life stories.
PARTICIPATORY VIDEO PROJECTS
Empower your partners to be agents of their own advocacy and media representation. Build transferable skills and a community resource.
SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS
Target your communications at the people you want to reach. Be strategic in form, content, messaging and delivery platform.
interactive multimedia PRODUCTIONS
Enrich your communications with immersive online experiences. Non-linear narrative can open up a subject, deepen viewer engagement and provide different pathways to mobilisation.
Professional training
Are you an academic working in the field? Develop your video-based research skills, fieldwork safety awareness and security practices; learn to be an effective audio-video gatherer. Guidance on assembling a basic mobile kit and longer term technical mentoring.
Project m&E
Visual demonstrations of project impact can be very powerful. Integrate video, audio and photography into your project tool kit as a method of documentation; build a multimedia evidence base and project archive to help in project evaluation, lesson learning and dissemination.
STRATEGIC CONSULTANCY
Does your organisation need to rethink its use of visual materials? We can provide a technology and skills assessment, a review of organisational process and systems, with recommendations for staff training, equipment investments and redesign.
MOBIle journalism
With a mobile phone everybody has the power to record important moments and engage in citizen journalism. With some extra training you can vastly improve the quality of your mobile video reporting for online viewing.
EVENT VIDEO COVERAGE
Get into the habit of routinely documenting your event and take the opportunity to gather interviews with key people. Video can be a great way to disseminate learning to your networks with post-event video clips, and to raise the profile of key issues.
drone operation
Use drone aerial video to map inaccessible areas, evidence and assess conservation issues and conduct location-based monitoring activities.
