Unseen Borders

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Services

What we make

Journalism is the core of the company. Everything else here is built on top of it. Most projects use more than one. Our journalistic standards apply to all of it.

01

International Reporting

Reporting from the places headlines summarise and rarely explain.

This is the core of the company. We plan the trip, secure the permissions, work with trusted local journalists and fixers, and come back with material that stands up to scrutiny. Every claim is sourced. Every name is checked.

1 Access, permits and risk planning before wheels up
2 Local journalists, fixers and translators wherever we work
3 Filed in Arabic and English, ready for broadcast or digital
02

Documentary Storytelling and Production

Long form built on months of research, not a shoot list.

Feature and short documentaries from the first research call to final delivery. We develop the story with the people in it, film over time, and cut for a room that watches to the end.

1 Development, treatment and funding materials
2 Field production, small crews, long shooting periods
3 Edit, grade, mix and versioned delivery
03

Investigative and Field Journalism

Go to the place being discussed, not to a studio to discuss it.

Records, documents and people on the ground. We follow a question until it has an answer we can evidence, and we say plainly what we found and what we could not confirm.

1 Document and records research, access to information requests
2 On the ground verification and first hand interviews
3 Editorial and legal review before anything is published
04

Politics and Public Affairs

Politics explained by the people it lands on.

Current critical political stories, policy, institutions and major international developments, covered with the debate and then the consequences. We go and find out what a decision changed for people who never appear in it.

1 Election, policy and institutional coverage
2 Interviews with officials, analysts and affected communities
3 Explainers and field reports for broadcast and digital
05

Culture, Communities and Human Stories

The human story behind the event, not the b-roll around it.

Identity, migration, daily life and the misconceptions attached to whole countries and regions. We report communities as they are, with the people in them speaking for themselves.

1 Community and identity reporting with long access
2 Stories that correct a stereotype rather than repeat it
3 Travel based journalism that goes far beyond tourism content
06

Cinematic Production

Real places, real light, filmed like it matters.

Craft is how a viewer decides whether to trust you. We shoot on cinema glass, record sound properly, and grade with restraint so the image stays honest. Available to partners as branded documentary work, clearly labelled and editorially bounded.

1 Cinema camera and prime lens packages
2 Location sound, interviews and archive research
3 Colour, sound design, original score and branded documentary work
Arabic and English

One story, two languages, equal weight

Translation is editorial work, not a last step. Arabic and English versions are written and cut together, so a phrase carries the same weight in both and nothing is softened in the move. Subtitles, captions, right to left graphics and platform versioning are handled in house.

Reviewing footage in the edit
Process

How a project runs

01

Research

Reading, calls and a written case for why this story now.

02

Access

Contributors, permissions, local partners, risk assessment, budget.

03

Field

Small crew, long enough on the ground to earn the material.

04

Delivery

Edit, grade, mix, both language versions, files where you need them.

Have a story worth crossing for

Commissions, broadcasting, sponsorships, partnerships and production enquiries.

contact@unseenborders.com
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