Nice Level Media, the diversified London-based media group that has invested greater than £500 million into the inventive industries worldwide, is collaborating with Fields Park, US-based Quantity World and Media Cymru, a consortium of inventive and academic establishments in South Wales to construct a world-class digital manufacturing hub at Nice Level Seren Studios in Cardiff.
Along with internet hosting full-scale movie and high-end tv tasks from throughout the UK and internationally, the power will comprise a digital manufacturing analysis and coaching academy in collaboration with Media Cymru aimed toward persevering with to develop the area right into a thriving world hub for media innovation – with a concentrate on emergent and inexperienced applied sciences.
The brand new facility, dubbed Seren Digital Productions, will provide a one cease, end-to-end resolution supporting all points of digital (and bodily) manufacturing – together with a spread of quantity (LED wall) configurations designed to satisfy any challenge’s particular wants.
Jim Reeve, Nice Level Media’s co-founder and CEO mentioned:
“LED partitions and digital manufacturing workstreams are already starting to reshape the enterprise of creating movies and tv programmes. We wish to maintain tempo with that innovation to make sure that we will provide any manufacturing the amenities and techniques required to satisfy their numerous and altering wants.”
Professor Sara Pepper OBE, Deputy Director of Media Cymru mentioned:
“The event of a world-class digital manufacturing studio and coaching and analysis facility at Seren could have a profound influence on the media cluster within the Cardiff Capital Area and a ripple impact all through Wales and the UK. It indicators a transparent ambition: to supply a high-end facility which can appeal to curiosity from content material creators throughout the globe. We look ahead to the potential for boundary-pushing analysis and improvement (R&D) exercise on this new house in our metropolis area.”
All the Nice Level Seren Studios advanced is powered by inexperienced electrical energy, generated on-site by a devoted wind turbine – and deliberate new studio buildings will characteristic “inexperienced rooves” as a part of a panorama masterplan aimed toward enhancing and defending the habitats of the native wildlife. The location lately hosted Gareth Evan’s Netflix action-thriller, Havoc, staring Tom Hardy and is presently residence to a serious high-end US tv manufacturing.
Nice Level Media was based in 2013 by Jim Reeve and Robert Halmi. Halmi, with accomplice Fehmi Zeko, now handle US-based The Studio Fund, a specialised funding fund that’s growing and managing state-of-the-art movie and tv manufacturing centres within the USA, together with Lionsgate Studios in Yonkers, NY, Lionsgate Studios in Newark, NJ and others to be introduced quickly.
Seren Digital Productions will welcome exterior productions from autumn 2023.