Marguerite Auer
Founded Halide in 2017. Directs the narrative slate and reads every treatment that leaves the building.
who you will work with. the whole unit
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The people on your film
Tobias Fenn
Shoots on vintage spherical glass and will argue for a longer lens in almost any situation. Usually right.
Idris Kalu
Writes and structures. Turns a client brief into something a crew can actually shoot, usually by cutting half of it.
Wren Castellanos
Runs the board, the budget and the permits. The reason shoot days finish when the call sheet says they will.
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
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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
from the cutting room. notes & field reports
Read every note
Things we learned the slow, expensive way
ON SET
August 9, 2026
1 min read
The case for shooting the last scene first
Actors find the ending before they know how they got there. Sometimes that is exactly the performance you want in the can.…
BUDGETS
August 2, 2026
1 min read
What a camera package actually costs
A line-by-line breakdown of a three-day shoot, including the four things that always get forgotten in the first quote. Body, glass, support,…
STORY
July 26, 2026
1 min read
Writing for a crew, not for a reader
A script is a set of instructions to forty people. Most drafts fail because they were written to be admired instead. The…
showreel. 2026 cut
Two minutes and fourteen seconds of the last nine years
2026 CUT
RUNTIME 02:14
2.39:1 / 16:9
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