Documentary Production

Beautiful and informed factual storytelling made by award-winning documentary production company Chocolate Films

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Factual content from award-winning documentary makers

Chocolate films has been producing documentaries since the early 2000s. Our films have been seen across the world in cinemas, exhibitions and online. The diversity of work includes observational human stories and deeply researched historical and scientific content.

Who Do We Produce Documentaries For?

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Arts

Tell the story of your work and build engagement. Communicate ideas, share ideas and reveal the process of an artist, a conservation project or a stage production.

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Charity

Factual story-telling can communicate the need and impact of your work. Compelling documentaries can help with awareness, advocacy and fund-raising.

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Business

What is the story behind your business? How does your business solve a problem, and who the people who make it happen ? Let documentary content tell your story.

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Healthcare

In over a decade of working within healthcare, we have have produced everything from short case studies to long-form documentaries about international research projects.

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Education

We have made films that have followed university research projects and long-term documentaries about teachers in schools. All of our team are DBS checked and experienced at working with children and vulnerable adults.

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Short Form Documentaries And Case Studies

Short documentaries are great ways to communicate case studies, character portraits or important moments. A powerful, three minute film can move and inspire. It can open the audience’s eyes to a human interest story, relate the mission of your charity campaign, or uncover the history of an artwork. Chocolate Films is one of the most successful short documentary production companies in the UK. Our documentary short film projects have been watched by over 250,000 people in cinemas since 2015, have had viral success online and can be seen as part of displays in museums across the country.

Long-form Documentary And Long-term Production

Our long-form documentaries have told the stories of football teams, lorry drivers, hair salons, new teachers and youth workers dealing with street violence. For each of these projects we have spent many months, and often years, capturing their lives and stories. We are currently half-way through a ten year documentary about a major construction project. Our company structure, with a full-time crew of dedicated filmmakers, is ideal for long-term documentary projects where we drop in and out of a story. Long-form documentaries produced by Chocolate Films have been screened at festivals and been released in cinemas.

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A Flexible Team With International Reach

Chocolate Films produces great looking documentary content in every continent – filming doctors in Japan, David Hockney by his pool in Los Angeles and a karate school in Syria. Our commitment to being net zero video production company means that we balance the need for content production. We produce and direct documentary content with our international partners, with satellite offices within the EU and US and a network of partner production companies across the world. Working this way reduces our carbon footprint and our client’s costs while maintaining quality.

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Chocolate Films Is A Carbon Neutral Production Company

At Chocolate Films we work hard to be a sustainable supplier. Over recent years we have reduced our carbon footprint by bringing in policies about travel, waste and power. And we offset the carbon that we’re not currently able to reduce, by contributing to planting trees in a sustainable forestry scheme. We also offer discounts on video production to organisations that are actively promoting sustainability.

Check out some of our documentary work

Film interviews in Chocolate Films's new studio

Chocolate Films is opening a new purpose-built studio in 9 Elms, near Battersea Power Station and the US Embassy. This exciting new 77m2 space will be ideal for most charity, corporate, and documentary shoots. It’s 80m2, with soundproofing, great lighting and a comfortable dressing room. This will be the ideal space to film beautifully lit documentary interviews with excellent audio.

What our clients say

Chocolate Films

5.0

Based on 86 reviews

17:35 13 Jul 24

My children attended their film making workshops. What a great time they had! The crew members were fantastic, especially Bea, who has got excellent attitude towards children and tons of patience. I really recommend them, if you are looking for some quality workshops for your children.

15:49 08 Jul 24

I work at Cystic Fibrosis Trust and we are delighted with the animation Chocolate Films created for us. It met the brief and has helped us to explain our activities to current and future partners. Chocolate Films were a pleasure to work with and we appreciated their flexibility in working to a very tight timescale.

13:04 08 Jul 24

Great working with Chocolate Films and the team for our new program. Nikita was a great point of content and we had a blast at the filming studio with everyone. Thank you everyone for your work on this project!

11:59 12 Jun 24

We commissioned Chocolate films to complete a BTS film as a promotional film for our Level 4 foundation course. We were out on location with our own 3 short films with our most senior students, and we needed an extra crew to capture all that was happening on set. They were thoughtful, efficient and proactive. Capturing some great interviews and BTS (thanks Elton!), weaving it into a great promotional film for us. Lucia steered the project beautifully from start to finish (thanks Nikita too). We’ve worked with Chocolate films before and would happily do so in the future. Chloe – London Screen Academy

13:03 29 May 24

I filmed a green screen production using sound and it came out great. Lucia and Nikka are lovely and happy to help, the facilities are exactly what I needed (there’s also a make-up room) and it was easy to get to.

14:11 15 May 24

Chocolate films produced a fun promotional video for us as part of our 80th anniversary. They were professional with clear communication, and the project was delivered to time.

Samantha Chetwood

09:34 03 May 24

The video content creation workshop offered by Chocolate Films was incredibly useful, packed full of handy tips on how to create compelling videos with the minimum equipment and time! The space is great and the team were welcoming, generous with their knowledge and clearly enthusiastic about what they do.

The Avenue Cookery School Marketing

13:16 02 May 24

HUGE round of applause for the Chocolate Films team! We attended their ‘Using Video for Business’ Workshop, which they so kindly offered free of charge for local businesses in the Wandsworth area. Hosted at their lovely new Nine Elms studio space, we had a great morning of learning, chatting over tea and coffee. They are a really delightful and organised company that we hope to work with going forward, and we would love to see the team at one of our cookery classes one day! Ax

Victoria Nicholson

11:16 01 May 24

I joined other small business owners, founders and entrepreneurs for a morning workshop on how to create content, shoot and edit footage. The studio was so welcoming and the team gave some fantastic advice whether it was your first foray into film making or had been trying for a while but stuck with certain elements. The workshop was fun, enjoyable and informative with a good balance between information and hands on practice. They made something quite complex seem very accessable. The teams enthusiasm for their craft is infectious.

Marie de Champchesnel

11:11 01 May 24

I had the pleasure to be invited to a workshop at Chocolate Films which was delivered to a high standard from start to finish. The facilitators were highly knowledgeable, friendly and very approachable and took time to answer any questions we had. Thank you for a great experience!

10:56 01 May 24

I attended a workshop with Chocolate Films and was very impressed with their professionalism, knowledge and expertise. They packed so much invaluable information into the session and they were all super friendly and approachable.

Carlos Lutterbach

14:03 19 Apr 24

Chocolate Films did outstanding work on the Seido Karate London promo. They were able to capture the spirit of the Dojo with their visuals and presentation. The interviews were professional and conducted expertly. Overall outstanding work!

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Book your free consultation

The producers at Chocolate Films are available to talk through your project at a time that suits you. They’ll make sure they really understand your organisation and what you’re looking to achieve with video content. Following the discussion, they will send over a detailed proposal for the work you’re looking to commission.