[ film + story studio ]
Nightjar is a film studio that partners with agencies and brands with no patience for the predictable.
From quiet human portraits to campaigns built for scale, we make work that outlives the brief and keeps rewarding a second viewing.
Big ideas are cheap without the craft to land them. We bring both. Pairing restless thinking with disciplined execution to make every film matter.land hard
(about us)With a roster of directors who bring genuinely different instincts to the floor, and a leadership team that can turn a loose ambition into a schedule, we pair premium craft with the patience to keep looking. Long relationships with crews at home and abroad let us take a production wherever the story actually lives.
For us, the team is the work. We cast every project from the top down, no exceptions, and then we argue well — pushing each other to go further, cut deeper, and trade the safe version for the one worth defending. That is the belief underneath everything here: collaboration is not a nicety, it is the engine. Welcome to a slower, sharper school of production.
Awards & Recognition
- 4 × Halyard Awards
- 1 Grand, 1 Gold, 2 Nominations
- 1 × Meridian Film Prize
- 1 Silver & 4 Nominations
- 2 × The Ninth Frame
- 2 Merits
- 1 × Lumen Effect Awards
- 1 Bronze, 1 Nomination
- 1 × Broadsheet Studio Award
- Production House of the Year 2025
- 2 × Northlight Marketing Awards
- 1 Gold, 1 Silver
- 3 × Kiln Awards
- 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze
- 1 × Craft Club of the Lowlands
- Bronze
- 5 × Motion Innovation Awards
- 1 Silver, 4 Bronze
- Others
- 7 × Signal Arts Awards
- 4 × Applied Craft Awards
- 2 × Reel Selections, Copenhagen Commercial Awards
- 3 × Frameline Staff Picks