We Are Social Studios
Where are your offices?
Alphabeta,
14-18 Finsbury Square,
London, EC2A 1AH
Which company type describes you best?
Advertising agency in-house
What does your company do?
We are the production arm of socially led creative agency We Are Social.
Why should new directors be interested in your company?
As the in-house production arm we predominantly work with freelance / independent directors. We are always looking to work with new and upcoming talent, and we work on everything from tiny projects to bigger productions, so there are lots of opportunities for people with less experience.
DEI PROFILE (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion):
Shiny members
As members, We Are Social help offset the cost of free entries for hard-to-reach filmmakers who Shiny access via Mama Youth, Brixton Finishing School, Creative Mentor Network, LSA & ELAM, and the cost of free entries we give to university & college students worldwide. We Are Social also give their time on the Awards jury panels and donate Awards’ prizes.
How diverse is your directors contact book?
Have a huge contacts book which is pretty good on ethnic & gender diversity, and we hold a database of excellent resources for diverse crewing that we are always adding to. We always want to add more diverse directors and our contacts need to evolve as fast as the style of work changes.
Do you have a mentor, intern or director shadowing scheme?
We run mentoring schemes via BIMA as well as our team of producers have individual mentees they regularly meet with.
Do you have other formal or informal diversity initiatives?
We contribute a section to We Are Social's Charter For Change (Section 8) that we update every year and hold ourselves accountable to certain commitments. The key one this year has been to ensure that over 50% of our directors / photographers are from an underrepresented group, which we are on track to achieve.
How diverse are people at your organisation?
We have a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion and equal representation across all departments and levels of seniority.
Across the whole agency, 51% of our agency identify as women. 53% of the leadership team identify as women. LGBTQ+ representation in the agency stands at 16%. 20% of our team come from multi-ethnic backgrounds and 18% of our people are neurodiverse.
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Who should New Directors contact?
Please contact the full team at studios@wearesocial.net.
