At Nova we’ve always worked closely with organisations who are involved in arts, culture and heritage. This year alone we have produced both documentary and creative content for Freedom, Opera North, Bradford Literature Festival, Back to Ours, Absolutely Cultured, the Ferens Art Gallery, Heritage Learning, the British Council, Visit Hull and more. In spite of […]
We are extremely delighted to announce the arrival of our latest full-time team member, the excellent Lina Chaouki (cue round of applause). Lina was born in the Moroccan capital Rabat in 1994, her mum a Belgium-born architect and her dad a Moroccan carpenter. After school in Rabat, Lina studied for her film-making degree at the […]
We were lucky earlier this year to be awarded a large contract with the British Council in Freetown, Sierra Leone, delivering film-making workshops to help develop the country’s fledgling film industry. Nova has a long history of working in Sierra Leone, having worked in the country on 15 visits since 2006. Pivotal to our work […]
We’ve had a busy time during lockdown. Whilst a whole bunch of jobs that were scheduled for April, May and June have had to be postponed, a whole new style of communication has taken off which is providing us with plenty to keep us busy. So now instead of having our morning meeting over coffee […]
Making films with arts organisations is, and has always been, a big part of what we do at Nova. In October 2013 (six years ago, how flime ties) we made This City Belongs To Everyone, the four minute film which helped Hull win in its bid to become City of Culture; ever since then we’ve […]
Above: Matt Stephenson Nova Studios Ltd is now one of the official Trustees of the Basil Kirchin estate. If the name Basil Kirchin is still unknown to you, come along to the University of Hull’s Middleton Hall at 4pm on Wednesday September 25th to watch Nova’s documentary Mind On The Run which tells the remarkable […]
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 […]
The City of Culture volunteers are an emblem of 2017 and all that it has meant for the city. They are one of the forces which have propelled the year to success. Always there, always smiling, ambassadors of Hull, rooting the year in the city that most of them call home. At Nova we had […]
Nova Studios are delighted to be the film company of choice for Hull’s fantastic Freedom Festival. Now ten years old, Freedom has become one of the biggest and most important events in Hull’s calendar. After producing the promotional film for this year’s festival, Freedom commissioned Nova to document the whole event. Which meant all hands […]
Spencer Tunick’s remarkable 2016 Sea of Hull mass participation artwork was one of the events that truly helped the world see that Hull deserve the title City of Culture. And Nova Studios Ltd were the company chosen to work alongside Spencer’s team to officially document the work for KCOM, the Ferens Art Gallery and Hull […]