The Gate

We are an award-winning commercial production company that has been working at the forefront of the UK film industry since 1997.. With offices in both Manchester and Edinburgh, we deliver a huge spectrum of commercial film production for regional, national and international clients. From high-end TV and cinema commercials, to sponsorship idents and interactive online campaigns…we’re the people you’re looking for. We have become one of the first choices for filming in the UK because we are continually innovating and improving what we can offer our clients. It's an approach that has seen the Gate awarded Film Production Company of the Year three times in the last four years by The Drum magazine. As one of the country’s leading film production companies, the Gate boasts a roster of directors that combines BAFTA winners and Cannes nominees, with some of the hottest emerging talent from the UK and beyond. We have built our first-class reputation by seeking-out and fostering new talent, in order to offer the best possible pool of creative talent to our clients. Just this year at the at Cannes International Advertising Festival, Mark Jewitt was declared one of the top five young commercials directors in Europe by Shots Magazine and CFP-E. Further to this, Eicke Bettinga was recently the only director of a British film to be shortlisted during International Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival. Our directing duo Tom & Rory were recently named in Shots Magazine’s hottest 100 new directors on the planet, so you can see… We’re not just making this stuff up. Our senior directors deserve a bit of a mention too, as they continue to work on some of the world's most recognisable brands including Sony, Hoover, Barclays, BBC, McDonalds, Kelloggs, and Unilever to name but a few. With a twenty strong production team across our offices in England and Scotland, plus an entire broadcast-specification edit facility with three brand-new post-production suites in-house, the Gate Films delivers an unrivalled creative production experience. Our production experience, honed over 15 years in TV commercial production, has now also been twinned with a cutting edge digital skill-base to provide clients such as Vodafone and HSBC with some of the very best online video and film production services in the UK. In the last year, we pioneered a number of interactive video productions across both owned and bought media from viral campaigns to cost-saving customer service solutions. The fact that we are one of the largest film production companies in the country gives us a certain amount of buying power, and this means we are able to deliver significant cost savings and therefore make commercial production budgets go much further. As well as producing work in our own right, this situation means we are also able to provide first class Film Production Services (Facilitation), for other film companies and advertising agencies in the UK and around the world. Our International clients are able to take advantage of stunning and original locations by Filming in the North of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Equally, by filming in Manchester with the Gate, clients have easy access to many of the premiership footballers and stadiums. In short, if you’re looking to shoot in the UK, you’ve come to the right bunch. We’re not a traditional production house…. The Gate plan and produce compelling moving image campaigns weaved across any channel and every device to continually engage consumers throughout the customer lifecycle. We call it Advertising. For the Screen Age. Whether that’s driving awareness and response from TV commercials or TV sponsorship, creating promotional video content to engage those researching on social channels (Social Video), Integrating product video at point of sale (either on eCommerce site or instore), using presenter video in the customer service channel, employing video email to help re-engage lapsed customers.... we are continually leveraging film and video to engage and convert. We equip our Video Player with some incredible functionality and ensure your collateral is visible across any device be that Mobile, Tablet, Laptop, Connected TV or Outdoor. What’s more we can deliver it and track it’s performance to deliver incisive analytic reporting It’s a philosophy we call GatePlay and it works because at The Gate we’ve combined 15 years experience at the forefront of the TV commercials production industry with the latest technology platforms and some of the finest brains from the digital industries. In that sense you know you’re working with a creative partner who delivers the creativity and polished production values expected by the likes of Vodafone, The Scottish Government, McDonalds, Sleepmasters and The Times. At the same time, we’re advertising people and so we’re always on the numbers and driving return for our clients. At The Gate we have the entire production vertical in place so that for many clients we deliver Planning, Creative, Production, Animation, Post Production, Optimisation, Delivery and Analytic Reporting. We do this by investing in the 30 strong team across our Manchester and Edinburgh Production offices and our state of the art Post Production facility Edit 19. This is bolstered by an award winning director roster – in the last two years they’ve featured at Cannes, Raindance, BTAA and Mark Jewitt was declared one of the top five young directors in Europe byShots Magazine and the CFP-E. Get in Touch by clicking here,