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STUDIO

90's, nostalgia and the people who were there.

A studio specialising in vintage camcorder films.

The studio

Flip Screen Studio makes films that feel found rather than produced. We send a vintage Handycam from the era when family memories looked like family memories, the late 90s and early 2000s, and edit what your guests capture into a film you'd want to watch again.

Based in Newcastle, on the east coast of Australia. We work with people planning something worth filming, across the country and occasionally overseas. We take on a limited number of bookings each year so we can spend real time on every edit.

Why this exists

Filmed memories of a big day tend to come back feeling produced. Cinematic, polished, performed for the camera. We wanted to find out what would happen if you took the stranger out of the equation. If the camera was just there, in the room, available to whoever picked it up. If the people filming were the ones who already had access to the moments a professional couldn't reach.

The first time we tried it, the footage came back and we couldn't stop watching it. The bride's brother filming her during the speeches. The maid of honour catching a glance across the room. A grandfather, who had never held a video camera, filming the dance floor with shaking hands and a wide grin.

The film we cut from that wedding became the reason this studio exists. Weddings are where we started. The same approach works for any day a stranger with a camera would change.

One of ours. Filmed by guests, edited by us.

Luke

Luke started Flip Screen Studio on a simple idea: the best footage of your day comes from the people in the room, not a stranger.

Before this he spent ten years in entertainment. He was Head of Social Media for Netflix across Asia Pacific, working on shows like Stranger Things, House of Cards, Orange is the New Black and Marvel's TV series. On the agency side he worked with brands like Chanel and Adidas.

Years spent around some of the best storytellers and directors in the business taught him what to look for: knowing what's worth keeping, and what to cut.

Your people film the day. We shape it into something you'll come back to.

Newcastle, Australia.

Luke@flipscreenstudio.com

Rosie

Editorial Director.

Rosie Hartigan has spent her life close to the moments people remember. She danced around the world for a decade, then built Grace Movement Studio from the ground up, planning and hosting events along the way, including at Krinklewood in the Hunter Valley.

It's a rare mix. She understands how a day is put together, and she understands what makes a story worth watching. Performing taught her timing and restraint. Running events taught her where the real moments live.

At Flip Screen she helps oversee the edits, watching the footage back and finding the moments that hold a film together. The glance, the laugh, the unguarded thing that ends up saying the most.

For the days worth keeping the way they actually happened.

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