A small unit that keeps the same people on the film, from the first read to the final mix.
ROOM 01 · STAGE 2,400 sq ft, 19 ft grid, blackout to daylight in under an hour.
inside. who we are
A small unit that keeps the same people on the film
Halide started as three people and a borrowed Bolex. It is now a stage, a cutting room and a crew of thirty-seven who have mostly worked together long enough to argue productively.
We take on around fourteen projects a year. That number is deliberate. It means the director who pitched your film is the one standing behind the monitor, and the editor knows why a take was printed before you have to explain it.
Founded
2017, in a garage on Vancouver Street with one light and a great deal of optimism.
Rooms
Stage, grade suite, sound booth and a cutting room with a door that actually closes.
Kit
Large-format bodies, vintage spherical glass, and a dolly older than most of the crew.
Marguerite Auer Director & founder
Halide.
We make films, commercials and the occasional stubborn documentary.
Nine years, one building, and a crew who would rather wait forty minutes for the right light than fix it later. Most of what we shoot is quiet. Some of it travels further than we expected.
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Films delivered
Since the first one, in a rented garage
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Festival selections
Eleven countries, four continents
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Years in the trade
Same building since 2019
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Crew on call
Camera, grip, sound, art, post
how a film gets made. in order
Four stages, and we tell you where we are in all of them
You tell us the thing you actually want said. We come back with a treatment, a look, and an honest number — not three tiers designed to push you upward.
1—2 weeks
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Prep & scout
Boards, casting, locations, permits, kit list. By the time we lock, every department has seen the same document and signed off on it.
2—4 weeks
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Principal photography
Shoot days run on a call sheet you receive the night before. Dailies land in your inbox by ten the next morning, graded rough so they read properly.
1—10 days
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Cut, colour, deliver
Two rounds of notes are built into the schedule, not sold back to you. You get masters, socials, subtitles and the project archive on a drive.
