Three ways to start
Start free. Add crews on the ground when you're ready, quoted up front.
Start here, freeWe record one person in the region over Zoom and our editors turn it into 3 finished, subtitled videos.
Most requestedA vetted local crew films your program, convening or distribution, with our producer on the brief.
For appealsFootage, edits and versions planned around Ramadan, Eid and emergency windows.
Where we work
Recent productions include a leadership convening in Doha, a community workshop in Ramallah, a field production in Syria and field footage from Sudan, each with a vetted local crew on the ground and our producer on the brief.
We work with organizations headquartered in Dubai, Doha, Riyadh, Amman, Beirut and Cairo, and with US and European NGOs running programs across the region.
Beyond video
Impact stories, appeals and the pieces around them, all from the same shoots.
Field notes
Every production in this region starts with the consent and safety plan, not the shot list. Here is what we have actually filmed.
A two-day leadership convening in February 2026 for Search for Common Ground, filmed by a Doha production crew. Country directors from across the region were interviewed on one set, and stills pulled from those interviews became the organization's headshots, with no second crew day. That footage became the foundation of their rebuilt brand film and a monthly-donor campaign.
April 2026: a training workshop, a single-subject interview in Arabic, and hours of Ramallah street and city footage. Positive, dignified imagery of the city is rare and valuable, so a later version was rebuilt to lead with it. Faces are hidden where flagged, and participants sign off personally before public release.
A vetted local videographer, briefed by our producer, feeding the same post pipeline as the Doha and Ramallah work. For Search for Common Ground we filmed a long-form Arabic-language case study in As-Suwayda and cut it into a sixteen-minute documentary plus vertical and 16:9 teasers, with separate English and French subtitle versions.
Field footage for Baitulmaal, briefed and shot at the end of March 2026 and in the client's editor's hands within three days. We were the field half of that job by design; their in-house team cut it.
Some of what we film cannot be shown. On one convening, participants from Afghanistan and Palestine were filmed without faces, names or organizations regardless of individual consent, because the risk sits with them. Release forms are signed in the subject's own language, and your safeguarding policy overrides our defaults every time.
Our network reaches Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Türkiye, Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain. Tell us the country and the sensitivity, and we will tell you plainly whether we can staff it well.
Public proof
Search for Common Ground: 3 productions and 500K+ organic reach. Baitulmaal: 200+ videos delivered. Lions Clubs International: 5 countries and 300% growth in 30 days. Reach figures are organic, reported by clients or measured on the Are You Happy? channels.
Read the Search for Common Ground case study · Read the Baitulmaal case study
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