Notlith · Nelson
Video production company in Nelson: one studio for the top of the south
Te Tauihu, the top of the South Island, gathers very different kinds of business within reach of Nelson: the port and the city, the growers of the Waimea Plains and the Moutere, tourism operators around Motueka and the national parks, and the communities of Golden Bay. Notlith works with them remotely, as a hybrid studio, and says plainly when a local crew is needed.
Remote production · From your photos
Whakatū: the port, the city and its institutions
In Nelson itself, many organisations need films that explain rather than sell: port and seafood companies, health and education providers, councils, research and science teams. Their films rely on accurate diagrams, real photographs of people and places, and wording that several departments must approve. We start with that approval path and plan the script around it.
Hybrid techniques help with the explanation, not the evidence. We animate a process, a map or a timeline from your sources, and leave interviews, events and real workplaces to recorded footage. A local videographer can capture those, and we edit everything into one film with consistent colour, titles and sound.
Orchards, hop gardens and vineyards
Growers on the Waimea Plains, in the Moutere and around Motueka speak to very different audiences: export buyers, seasonal staff, visitors at a cellar door. We plan one source library and several versions, each with its own length, language and ending, rather than one film that tries to address everyone at once.
Fruit, hops and grapes are never invented. If a variety, a label or a pack format appears on screen, it comes from your photographs or approved artwork. When a new season brings new photographs, they can replace earlier shots without changing the structure, music or grade of the film.
Motueka and the gateways to the parks
Kayak hire, water taxis, guided walks and accommodation around Motueka, Kaiteriteri and Marahau depend on Abel Tasman National Park, with Kahurangi and Nelson Lakes further away. Their films are about real trips, which need real footage from the operator or a local crew. We edit that footage, add route graphics from official information and build sequences for equipment or packages.
We never generate the park. The coastline, beaches and tracks of Abel Tasman are conservation land, and commercial filming there is managed by the Department of Conservation through concessions. Any footage you supply should come with the right permissions, and we ask how it was obtained before using it.
Golden Bay and the road over the hill
For businesses in Golden Bay, a remote studio removes the question of bringing a crew over Tākaka Hill for a small project. Producers, makers and accommodation providers there can send photographs and short clips, discuss the script by video call and review cuts online. That suits work driven by images rather than events.
The limits are the same everywhere: we cannot record a conversation, a performance or a farm day without someone filming it. When that is needed, we say so at the start, help you write a shot list for a local camera operator and finish the film from what they capture.
Fictional concept created with AI
In pictures
Catalog demonstration
See the production approach
English, adaptable to your language
Also for venues
A place to show off? We turn it into a film.
Our films go beyond products: dining room, terrace, suite or office, we showcase your space from your own images.
Plan the details
Do you have an office in Nelson?
No. We are a remote studio with no local office or crew. We work by video call, shared folders and online review, and say when local filming is needed.
Can you work with our local photographer?
Yes. We can write a shot list in advance so the session produces exactly the images the film needs, in the right formats.
Which kinds of film do you make here?
Corporate, product, hotel, property, restaurant, venue, event, service and social films, plus AI-assisted campaign films. Each has its own page linked from this one.
How do we start?
Describe the project, share a few reference images and tell us where the film will be shown. We reply with an approach and a quote.
Start with your images
Tell us where in Te Tauihu your business is, what the film should achieve and what material you already have.