Documentary development
We work with your creative team on the story, contributors and production approach, translating the idea into a practical scope.
- Story development
- Research planning
- Production treatments
NaF+ develops and produces documentaries and provides film services for factual productions. We bring contributors, locations, crews and editorial planning together around the story and the production role you need us to take.
Discuss your projectExplore the serviceWe build the production around the people and places at the heart of your film, with time for observation, careful interviews and the realities of filming on location.
Built around your brief.
Shaped for your audience.
A clear creative direction.
A production plan to get there.
We work through the subject, intended audience, access and editorial responsibilities with the commissioning team.
We coordinate contributors, locations and crews around the material the film needs and the access available.
We organise the agreed editorial process, source-material checks and finishing, or hand over to your production team.
Our team turns your idea, audience and deadline into a clear production approach. We’ll develop the scope and coordinate the work, from the first conversation to delivery.
Explore our production planning resourcesOur documentary work brings creative development and practical production together. We support films and series at the stage they need us: developing a production approach, organising filming or providing local film services for an established team. We agree editorial ownership and responsibilities at the start. That gives your producers and director a clear working relationship while leaving room for the story to develop during research and filming.
We coordinate the interviews and observational coverage around contributor availability and location access. Our team works through permissions, scheduling and the practical needs of filming in real environments. Where the story requires specialist knowledge, translation or additional production expertise, we identify those collaborators in the scope. We plan supporting images and sound alongside interviews so the finished material can sustain a film rather than simply illustrate a conversation.
For commissioned post-production, we review the footage, develop the editorial structure and coordinate review stages with your team. We track supplied archive, music and other third-party material so the relevant rights information is available for approval. The proposal sets out development, shoot and post responsibilities, including what remains with the commissioner. Explore interview production, film crew hire and post-production for related services.
Yes. We scope local crew, location coordination and production logistics around your director and production team. The project agreement identifies the responsibilities we take on.
We incorporate supplied archive where its quality and permissions support the brief. Research, licensing and any restoration work are defined separately in the production scope.
We work on documentary films and factual productions of different lengths. We develop the approach around the subject, available access, audience and commissioned deliverables.
Explore selected NaF+ productions and film-services assignments, with the collaborators and our roles credited below.
Explore our work
Film services for the Bettany Hughes documentary for BBC Select, with Sandstone Global credited for agency/production.
Agency/Production: Sandstone GlobalFilm Services: NaF+WWServices (NEEDaFIXER)

Film services for The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet for BBC One. Silverback Films / Earthshot Studios hold the agency/production credit.
Agency/Production: Silverback Films / Earthshot StudiosFilm Services: NaF+WWServices (NEEDaFIXER)