What we do

One organisation, several doors. Here is the whole of it on a single page.

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Start where you are

Some people arrive wanting a career on a unit. Some arrive holding a story and no wish to work in film at all. Some arrive with a congregation behind them. All three are the front door.

Training and technical

Taught at the grade, on real equipment, by people working in high-end drama now.

What	Who it is for	Status
The Studio Simulation — a working unit, a real call sheet, real consequences	Anyone starting, including with no experience at all	Done
Advanced technical training — camera, grip, stabilisation, lighting, sound, DIT (digital imaging technician), remote head, multi-camera, post	People starting and people already in and stuck	Running
Documentary and social impact filmmaking	People with a subject they cannot let go of	Running
Video journalism and self-shooting	People who need to get it recorded themselves	Opening
Transferable skills — working to a call time, communicating across a hierarchy, solving a technical problem under pressure	Skills that carry well outside the screen sector	Running
Phone and podcast — the kit you already own	Anyone. Not the entrance, but a real rung	Opening
AI in the craft — where these tools sit on a real unit, and the questions about faith and likeness nobody else is asking	Anyone working with them, and anyone worried about them	Opening

Making and telling

What	Who it is for	Status
Story-to-Screen Lab — idea to finished piece, nine stages, co-run with Futures in Film at 3 Mills and Pinewood	Writers, journalists, filmmakers, community organisations, and people who simply hold a story	Opening
Community film — made with the people in it, not about them	Congregations, community organisations, groups with something to say	Running
Short film competitions	Anyone with an idea and no route to make it	Opening
Commissioned production	Organisations who need film made with communities other production companies cannot reach	Running

A woman with short uncovered hair and a woman in a hijab work side by side on a cinema camera rigged on a stabilising arm, both looking into the body as one of them reaches in to the lens.

Two trainees on the same camera.

Community, screenings and cohesion

What	Who it is for	Status
Uniting Communities — mixed units, Jewish, Christian and Muslim women on the same production	Faith communities, and people of no faith	Running
Screenings and the hour afterwards — in our room, or in yours	Congregations, community groups, anyone with an audience	Opening
Social impact film studies — watching films that moved something, and taking them apart	Groups, schools, congregations	Opening
Events — talks, panels, open days	Anyone	Running
Host a screening in your building	Mosques, churches, synagogues, community centres	Opening
Where else to go — a signposted directory across the traditions and the industry	Anyone we are not the right answer for	Running

For organisations

What	Who it is for	Status
The Faith Charter and the toolkit — faith-literate production practice, written down	Productions, broadcasters, agencies	In development
Train your team	Broadcasters, agencies, councils, universities, faith institutions	Running
Finding people — introductions to crew who have worked in faith settings	Productions who need them	Opening
Hire the room at 3 Mills	Anyone. Hiring from an asset-locked company funds funded places	Opening
Employer partnership	Organisations who need the talent and want to fund the route to it	Opening

Nationwide, not local

3 Mills Studios is the base, not the boundary. We deliver at Pinewood, in the North West, online, and wherever a community and a room can be found. Where a region needs its own hub, that is a development route rather than an obstacle.

AI in the craft

Press and media