Story first
We start with what the work has to do, then choose the tool: commercials, aerials, documentaries, live events, training, our own films, and crew for productions coming north. Made from Yellowknife, across the NWT, Nunavut and Yukon, by people who live here.
How we work
Who it's for
Before anyone talks cameras, we ask who needs to see it and what they should do next: call you, book a trip, apply, or back the next film.
The right tool
Then we choose what does that best: a 30-second spot, a drone flight, a documentary, a live stream, or training your own people to make it themselves. Sometimes that's smaller than you expected.
Made here
We make it with crew who live in the North, and hand it over ready to use: in the versions each place it runs needs, with captions on every film.
Commercials
Spots for northern businesses, shot where you work, made to air anywhere.
A finished commercial, with the cut-downs you need for TV, streaming and social, from a crew that lives where you do. In the NWT, your business may be able to put GNWT SEED marketing support toward it.
- Yellowknife Motors: a local dealership's spot that aired nationally on Sportsnet+, 2026
Aerials and drone work
Aerials North: filming, inspection and monitoring flights across the North.
Our drone unit flies for film and commercials, and for industry: repeatable flights that show a site as it is and how it changes. The pilots are cinematographers too.
- Seven aerial monitoring films of the Giant Mine site outside Yellowknife: the pits, the ponds, Baker Creek, the townsite and the shoreline, 2024
Documentaries and cultural work
Films made with communities, in their languages, on their terms.
Most of our documentary work is made with Indigenous governments and communities across the North: stories they choose to tell, filmed with the people in them, narrated and subtitled in their own languages where they want it.
- Behchokǫ̀ Evacuation, co-produced with the Tłı̨chǫ Government: Northern Filmmaker Award, NWT Film Commission, YKIFF 2024
Live events
Events filmed and streamed as they happen. No second takes.
Festivals, screenings, gatherings and games, covered live, streamed, or both.
- Dead North, the northern horror-film challenge and festival Artless ran until 2019
- Live coverage of Dene hand games
- The KIA Drum Dance Festival, Nunavunmiut Huqqullaaqatigiiktut, for the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, Nunavut, 2019
Training
Drone and video training, taught by working crew.
For organizations training their own people, open sessions for the public, and youth programs run with community partners. A youth program needs a non-profit or an Indigenous government as the applicant for its funding, so for those we're looking for partners, not seats.
Training is where the collective started: Artless began training crew after it had to turn down a production because there wasn't enough experienced crew in the North.
- A DaVinci Resolve caption-editing workshop for the Tłı̨chǫ Government
- Video review training at Aurora College's Mowhi Community Learning Centre in Behchokǫ̀
- Youth productions for Skills Canada NWT, 2025
Originals, music videos and animation
Our own films, and the music videos and animation that come from the same crew.
Conibear began as an entry in our own horror-film challenge and ended up at three international festivals. We direct and produce music videos, and animate when a story needs it: hand-drawn, illustrated or 3D.
- Conibear: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival, 2016; L'Étrange Festival, Paris, 2017
- The War / Nothing More for Gnarwhal: finalist, Best Rock Video, Canadian Independent Music Video Awards, 2025
- The Copper People for the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, animated by Lucas Green from Alison McCreesh's illustrations, 2024
Productions coming north
One call covers the northern side of your shoot.
Crew who live here and know the roads, the weather and the communities; an aerial unit; and the local knowledge that keeps a northern shoot on schedule.
In the NWT, a production spending $100,000 or more can get the NWT Film Rebate on its northern crew and businesses: 40% for scripted work, 30% for non-scripted, 20% for commercials and music videos, and half the cost of scheduled flights within the territory. We take part as the NWT production company or as a co-production partner.
Tell us what you need
Not sure where it fits? Tell us what it's for, where and when. We'll reply with questions, then a plan and a price.
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