Film production for science, health and the ideas that move them.
Lumen Narrative is a Toronto film studio for life sciences, pharmaceutical, healthcare, academic and technology organizations. We take the subjects that are hardest to explain and make them land in a single viewing.
Built for sectors where the film has to be right before it is beautiful.
Every sector below carries its own reviewers, its own vocabulary and its own risk. We work inside those constraints from the first call, not around them at the end.
Life Sciences
Biotech, genomics, diagnostics and medtech. Platform films a scientist and an investor can both follow.
Pharmaceutical Companies
Launch, KOL and medical affairs films, scripted and approved before a frame is shot.
Healthcare and Hospital Systems
Hospitals, health networks and physician organizations. Clinicians on camera without losing their day.
Universities and Research
Research made watchable, faculty on camera, and campaigns for the institution itself.
Technology and Innovation
AI, deep tech and platforms that are hard to explain in a meeting, explained in two minutes.
Public Sector and Energy
Restricted sites, public accountability and members who expect precision. One crew, one standard.
Eight formats. One standard.
If it is hard to explain and the stakes are real, it is our work. Every format is produced end to end in house.
Flagship brand films
Two to five minutes that make a complex platform land in a single viewing.
02Launch and release films
The film that carries a launch, timed to the date.
03Commercials
Advertising at broadcast standard.
04KOL and leadership films
On camera work with the people whose credibility carries the message.
05Research explainers
A white paper or a set of results, built into a film a non expert follows.
06Interview series
One shoot day engineered to produce a quarter of content.
07Training and onboarding films
Training your teams actually watch to the end.
08Recruitment and culture films
Show candidates the real place and the real people before they apply.
Cinematic, not corporate.
The eye of film in a category that settled for beige. Three principles behind every production.
Built for the complex
Our focus is the subject, not the sector. The film is accurate before it is beautiful.
Cinematic, not corporate
Composition, lighting and sound that give complex work the weight it deserves.
Full pipeline in house
Scripting, production, 3D, motion design, sound and finishing under one roof. Fewer handoffs, one consistent standard.
Nothing is filmed until you have approved it.
Six stages, one point of contact, and every note tracked on the timeline in Frame.io until the cut is signed off.
Discovery
We read the white papers, sit in on the demo and talk to your experts, so the facts are right before a word is written.
Story and script
A story a newcomer can follow from start to finish. Outline, then script, then your sign off.
Production
Filming, 3D, motion and data visualization, planned around your schedule and your people's time.
Revisions
Review rounds agreed up front. Notes land directly on the frame and every change is tracked.
Delivery
The master plus every version you need: web, social, events, sales and archive. Captions and transcripts included.
Support throughout
A new cutdown, an updated number, a version for the next congress. We are still here after delivery.
Notes on making the complex clear.
How to explain your technology in two minutes
Investors, partners and boards give you two minutes before they decide whether to keep listening.
Getting your experts on camera without wasting their time
Your physicians, researchers and executives carry your credibility, and they have no time.
How to brief a film about complex work
What to send, who to bring and what to decide before the first call.
Complexity, made clear.
Tell us the audience, the goal and the deadline. A white paper, a deck or a fifteen minute call is usually enough to scope it.
Book a scoping call hello@lumennarrative.com