Nova capped off a brilliant 2021 by helping to promote Hull to thousands of viewers around the world. Almost every film we produce has been commissioned to exist online but more and more we create films tailored to specific platforms. Take our work with Visit Hull for their ‘It Must Be Hull’ campaign. 15 second […]
At Nova we believe that everybody should be treated equally and afforded the same respect and opportunity to be happy and healthy and we know lots of people who feel the same. Sadly, those beliefs are not always reflected in the world in which we live. Saying everybody has the right to be treated fairly […]
A group of the city’s finest young artists will come together this weekend as the second phase of Nova’s digital and creative skills project in collaboration with the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City project begins. Over the next year, the programme will see Nova work with some of Hull’s leading creative names to provide an opportunity […]
At Nova, as well as shooting beautiful footage we like to think we help our clients extract exactly what makes them special. With this in mind, we were delighted when Sewell Group came to us to help them celebrate receiving the UK’s most prestigious business accolade, the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity. Already […]
Nova is looking for Hull’s brightest creatives to be part of a project telling our city’s story. We’re offering an opportunity for 20 participants, age between 16 and 25 and living in Hull, to enhance their portfolios, hone their digital and creative skills and help shape the narrative of their hometown. What is it? The […]
During the last couple of years, we’ve visited hospitals all over the country for Hull York Medical School, visiting young doctors and hearing about their lives and their journeys and creating short films for potential new recruits to the school. When lockdown started, we needed to take a different approach. Whilst we’d always prefer to […]
Through 2020 and into 2021 we’ve been working with our close collaborators at Freetown Media Centre in Sierra Leone to deliver a series of British Council-backed film-making labs to support the country’s emerging film sector. The British Council contract called for an established UK/Sierra Leone partnership to lead the work and we were delighted to […]
Throughout the last year, we’ve been working on a feature-length documentary about the life of the artist Paul Burwell, who died in Hull in 2007. Just like the composer Basil Kirchin (who also died in Hull), Paul Burwell is not exactly a household name, but his influence extends deeply into modern art, music, and culture. […]
In the past few years at Nova Studios we’ve filmed all kinds of events taking place in Holy Trinity Parish Church, renamed Hull Minster in 2017. During that time we’ve seen this beautiful building and place of worship do an amazing job of becoming one of the city’s greatest assets at the heart of our […]
We’re currently in the middle of a long and fascinating project telling the story of the artist Paul Burwell. Not only was Paul a remarkable person, he was an influential figure in British art, performance and music from the early 1970s until his death in Hull in 2007. Nova’s story of how one of the […]