Steve Wilson · artist filmmaker · since 2000
Pictures of people in the places they actually live.
One filmmaker, a small camera, three languages. Durham, Hamburg, Andalucía. The mule is stubborn, useful, and unimpressed by fashion.
North East England
Durham
Where the company is registered. Northern light, food films, energy research, and the Wear.
Germany
Hamburg
Editing rooms and harbour weather. Datenlotsen, I Am Media, then the Avid suites at ActHQ in Köln.
Spain
Andalucía
The campo, the Costa Tropical, flamenco, weddings, and the long patience of small towns.
How to hire Steve
A company of one, with a bag that has seen some miles.
The artist film
Observational portraits of people in the places they actually live. Antonio between two ravines. Alarcón on the gorge. A guitar on a bench. Sometimes a pilot for a series (The Earth Punk Chronicles). Commissioned by the subject, a trust, or started because the picture was there. Slow, small, stubborn. This is the house.
Broadcast edit and post
ActHQ-trained. English, German, Spanish. Avid and Final Cut. Assistant editor to editor on ARD documentaries, including Mord auf Malta. A production that needs a bilingual cutter who already understands observational form — not a junior who learned YouTube last year — should write. Day rate in the room, or a picture sent to Durham.
Institutes, research, education
Durham Energy Institute. Food strategy for County Durham. Incredible Edible. Charlie Clutterbuck on sustainable food. Universities, NGOs, rural networks. The brief is treated as a documentary, not a brochure with a voiceover. People talking in rooms, then the landscape that makes the talking true.
The Durham–Hamburg–Andalucía fixer
One person who can work in all three, in the languages people actually speak. Locations, crew, permissions, translation, subtitles on the road, the car, the table. UK, Germany, southern Spain. Not a production-service office with a rate card — a filmmaker who already lives in the geography.
Music, theatre, the room
Flamenco, guitar, bagpipes, Tres Divos, Con cuadros in four languages, the Sherlock musical, Lilli Marlene at the Kleines Theater. Performance films for people who need the night recorded properly, not a phone on a stick. Multi-language rooms are normal.
Andalusian days
Weddings and small events on the Costa Tropical and inland. Documentary eye, small crew, Spanish light. There is a dedicated line for this work. It is not a destination-wedding factory and will not become one.
Technical craft
Cranes, drones, underwater, aerial, steadicam, slomo, sliders, handheld. Voiceover and narration. Script. Subtitling EN–DE–ES. The kit is real; the point of it is to disappear.
