Art-Ed-Studios

Bridging the gap & unboxing creativity.

Art‑Ed‑Studios

We're ARTed, a free, independent film and creative collective for people starting out. Most creative graduates end up working outside their field and their work goes in a box, so we're here to get it back out. Find creatives near you, upload your work, create together and pitch your ideas, and the most popular pitch gets made. Make the work you want to make, not the work you think will sell.

we don't box your work in.

The premise

Pitch your idea to the collective. Votes are anonymous, and you get to watch your favourite idea get made. Along the way, find like-minded people to meet, work beside and create with.

Who it's for

Independent film makers, students and creatives at any stage, and anyone who wants to work creatively but hasn't yet been given a way in.

coming soon

ARTed Original

A short film about why ARTed exists. It's been greenlit, and we're producing it now.

pitch it, then vote on what we fund

Members discover new ideas and upvote the work they want to see funded further. The decision is made entirely by the collective. Not a studio, and not the board.

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Discover

Pitch your idea to the collective, and discover your favourite competition.

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Upvote

Browse the pitches and upvote your favourites. Members can see the counts, but your vote stays anonymous.

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Fund

We will support the most popular ideas.

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this time, you decide what you want to watch

the collective's choice

Post your own projects to the collective and vote for the pitch you want to see made.

Join the collective for free.

Upload a pitch to enter the competition. If you'd rather not enter, you can still join, connect with creatives in your area and upload your own work: short film, drawings, music, whatever you choose.

What membership becomes

The future

How it arrives: students first, then nationwide, then the doors open on our own studios.

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Say hello

enquiries@art-ed-studios.com

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The future

The roadmap to our future. ARTed is working on its next phases, bringing members more benefits, features and support. Scroll to see what's coming.

how it arrives

Three phases, in order. Membership, the catalogue and funding are running now. The buildings follow.

  1. Phase 01We are here

    Start with students

    We start with students, in partnership with universities. Members post pitches and upvote them, and the favourite gets made. You can post short films or artwork instead, or just connect with people nearby.

    • University partnerships
    • Pitch & upvote
    • Favourite gets made
  2. Phase 02

    Open it up nationwide

    The collective opens to all creatives, nationwide, and supports several projects a year, each one chosen by the collective.

    • All creatives
    • Several projects a year
    • Chosen by the collective
  3. Phase 03 · 2028–2030

    Open the doors

    Physical locations for meeting, making and showing work. Monthly members' mixers, short film premieres and gallery evenings, with kit stores, places to shoot, sound and podcast booths, and industry expertise on hand.

    • Falmouth
    • Ancoats
    • London
    • Members' mixers
    • Premieres & gallery evenings
    • Kit stores
    • Sound & podcast booths

the collective,
in your pocket.

Everything the platform does, built for your phone. Pitch from anywhere, vote on the bus home, and find the people making things round the corner.

  • 01Find creatives near you
  • 02Pitch and upvote on the go
  • 03Upload your work straight from your camera roll
  • 04Stream the catalogue
App Store · soon Google Play · soon

old buildings,
new work.

Our hope is that each studio will be a building brought back into use, with rooms to meet in, kit to borrow, and walls and screens for showing work. Members get keys, and anyone can come to open nights.

Our target areas for the first phase of growth. It's an ambition for now: no buildings have been identified and nothing is in planning yet. Membership, the catalogue and funding come first, and the buildings follow.

Falmouth Manchester London

First target areas · more to come

Cornwall

Falmouth

Falmouth is one of the UK's great creative university towns, but it's a long way from where most of the industry sits.

Manchester

Ancoats

Manchester turns out creative graduates every year and has one of the biggest creative scenes outside London.

South East

London

London is where most of the creative industry is, and where space costs the most.

meet, create, share, keep

When our studios come online, members will have dedicated spaces to work, meet and create, with state-of-the-art equipment and an event space to showcase their work.

An ARTed studio
Makers' spaceFilm studioSound boothsEdit suitesReceptionEvent space · premiere nightMulti-use by day: workspace, meet, create togetherBar & caféEntrance ↑

Meet

A members' mixer every month in every building, plus crits, open nights and crew calls.

Create

Edit suites, sound rooms, build space and a kit store you can borrow from.

Share

Screening rooms and gallery walls for work at any stage of finished.

Keep

Buildings that were going to be lost, kept in use by the people using them.

By day the event space is multi-use: a place to work, meet and create together. By night it hosts the events below. They depend on the locations coming online, so none of them are happening yet.

  • MonthlyNº 01

    Members' mixer

    Work in progress on the screen, then a room full of people who make things. Bring someone who isn't a member yet.

    Once studios openMembers first
  • RegularNº 02

    Gallery evenings

    Walls and screens handed over to members' work: drawings, photography, painting, prints, whatever you choose.

    Once studios openMembers first
  • SeasonalNº 03

    Film showcases & premieres

    The funded projects get their first screening, in front of the people who voted them into being.

    Once studios openMembers first

members hear first

Join the collective, be a member for the future.

say hello.
we're listening.

Tell us what you're making, what's stopping you, or how you'd like to work with us. Every message is read by a person.

Or write to

enquiries@art-ed-studios.com

Write to us ↓

back the
next generation.

We're looking for people and organisations who want to help build ARTed from the start: backing the platform, funding projects, or helping us find and open our first studios.

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    Invest

    Help fund the platform, the app and our first phase of growth.

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    Fund projects

    Back the catalyst fund, or sponsor a round of member-voted projects.

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    Partner with us

    Universities, brands and cultural organisations reaching creative graduates.

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    Spaces

    Landlords, developers and councils with buildings that deserve a second life.

Or email enquiries@art-ed-studios.com with "Partnerships" in the subject

tell us
what's on
your mind.