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Documentary film and photography for NGOs and companies in Malawi

We make documentaries, training and promotional films, animation and event coverage, and we photograph your work for reports, funding applications and campaigns. Each shoot is planned against what you will need over the year, so you leave with a catalogued picture library that you own.

MaxLife training video, Design Outreach, 2025

Film shows what exists. Animation shows what cannot be photographed.

How it runs

  1. 01Purpose

    We agree where the film will be shown and what its audience should do next.

  2. 02Form

    We choose the form with you: documentary, animation, film or photography.

  3. 03Treatment and storyboard

    We write the treatment and draw the storyboard or shot list before filming.

  4. 04Production

    We film, photograph or animate it.

  5. 05Edit and delivery

    We deliver the edit with cut-downs and subtitles, and the pictures as a library.

What you get

Film
  • Documentaries
  • Promotional and training video
  • Corporate film
  • Event coverage
  • Animation
  • Drone
Photography
  • Impact photography
  • Event photography
  • Stock library development
In detail
DocumentariesFilmed as a record, for audiences who need evidence before persuasion.
Promotional and training videoFor the people who have to use, fit or sell the product.
Corporate filmThe organisation’s work and achievements, for funders and partners.
Event coverageThe day itself, edited for use afterwards.
AnimationFor a product or process a camera cannot show.
DroneAerial coverage where the site, the scale or the geography is the point.
Impact photographyThe work as it happens, for reports, funding applications and campaigns.
Event photographyCoverage, edited and delivered ready to use.
Stock library developmentA shot list built against what you will need over a year, shot in one visit and delivered as a catalogued library you own.
Included as standardTreatment, storyboard or shot list, licensed music, captions and subtitles, language versions, and stills for reuse. Project files on request.

How do you handle consent from the people you film?

Permission comes first. We ask the people who will appear, and whoever is responsible for the place, before a camera comes out.

Proof

Design Outreach

Three kinds of film for one launch: a two-minute animated film, an eight-minute documentary at Dzaleka refugee camp, and nine minutes of training videos.

Walinase Lodge

Photography and video for a lodging and catering business, shot to be used across a year.

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