01 · Stage access
Time on the Signature, crew included.
And on the Atelier once it opens.
Creator Partnerships
You built the audience. We’ll build the production.
Stage time, crew and format development for creators moving from short form into longer formats. You keep the channel, the voice and the rights.
Why we run it
The audience is not the hard part. Production is.
Moving up a format needs a crew, a stage and a pipeline, and all three are priced for studios. We would rather put unbooked stage time behind those projects than leave it empty.
What you get
What a partnership gives you.
02 · The crew
A crew you could not yet hire.
A producer, a technical director and real-time artists, working alongside you rather than billing you.
03 · Development
Turning a feed cut into a pilot.
A feed cut is rarely a commission cut.
04 · Introductions
We put it in front of buyers.
Broadcasters and platforms, when it is ready.
Applying
What we look for, in this order.
If that is roughly where you are, send it. We reply either way.
- An audience you built yourselfAny size, as long as it comes back
- An idea slightly beyond your current meansThe one you keep not making
- A reason it needs a stageRather than a location
- Someone who can run a shoot dayOn your side of the production
How it works
From application to a finished pilot.
01
Apply
Send us the channel, the idea, and what is currently stopping you from making it. Three paragraphs is plenty.
Any time
02
Development session
A session on the floor to establish whether the idea and the technique suit each other.
On the floor
03
Shoot the pilot
We allocate stage time and crew, and you direct.
Stage time
04
Take it to market
We introduce it to partners who commission this work, as co-producers rather than your vendor.
After deliveryTerms are agreed per project and depend on what each side brings to it. We publish the terms of every completed partnership.
Tell us what you would make with a stage.
We take on a small number of projects each year, and development sessions are running now.