About Jake

The
Filmmaker

The
Filmmaker

BBC-trained. RTS award-winning. Over a decade of work across documentary, commercial and brand filmmaking on five continents.
The same
attention
to craft —
regardless
of scale

Jake Hardy is a British filmmaker based in Melbourne. He started out at the BBC, and at 22 won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Documentary — an early sign of what would become a career built around character-driven storytelling with a cinematic eye.

Since then he has taken his work across the globe, shooting documentary and commercial projects for clients including Leica, Xiaomi, and Manchester City. He works across the full process — from initial concept through to final delivery.

Jake operates solo or assembles teams precisely tailored to each brief. Either way, the standard doesn't change. The result is work that holds up — technically, visually, and emotionally.

Melbourne, AU Available globally Solo or with crew
01 — Foundation
BBC
Started his career at the BBC — one of the world's most respected broadcasters. The foundation of a rigorous, story-first approach to filmmaking that has defined everything since.
02 — Recognition
Royal Television Society
Won the RTS Award for Best Documentary at age 22. A national award and an early signal of what this career would become — character-driven, cinematically precise, and built to last.
03 — Scale
Global Reach
Work spanning Australia, Japan, Vietnam, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Hong Kong, and the UK. Comfortable in any environment, any culture, any brief — from a single-camera documentary to a multi-country brand campaign.
What Jake does

Full
process

Every stage of production handled in-house — or with a crew assembled specifically for your project.

Directing
Producing
Shooting
Lighting
Sound
Editing
Colour Grading
Pre-Production
Post-Production
Motion Graphics
The approach

How Jake
works

Whether you're a startup with one product or a global brand with a 12-country campaign, the process is the same — thorough, transparent, and built around the best possible outcome for your film.

01
Brief & Concept
Every project starts with understanding what you actually need — not just what you've asked for. Jake brings creative direction from day one, not after you've signed off a script.
02
Pre-Production
Locations, crew, kit, scheduling, logistics. All handled. Jake builds the team your project needs — lean and efficient or full-scale production, depending on the brief.
03
Production
On set, Jake directs and shoots with the same level of care whether it's a one-day corporate film or a week-long international documentary.
04
Post & Delivery
Edit, colour, sound, graphics — through to final delivery in whatever format you need. No third-party bottlenecks. One point of contact, start to finish.
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