Film & media production · Brisbane × Dallas
Äkta means genuine. Audiences can tell.
Documentaries, campaigns and brand films people actually finish.
Yours might become a film.
Genuine. It's the name on the door and it's the bar. We find the one true thing and we lock it before a single frame rolls. Stadium screens, 25 million views, and one rule. If it doesn't move people, it doesn't leave the studio.
The crew at Äkta Media
The showreel
You'll want
to see this.
Two minutes of commercials, documentaries and brand films. Keep scrolling, it opens itself.
Selected work
Stories we're
proud of.
Documentary series
Campaign
Campaign · Web
Series
Founder story film
Feature documentary
Commercial film
Album session films
Commercial TVC
Documentary film
Branding · Design · Video
Marketing campaign
Conference branding
Film · Documentary
Documentary film
Branding · Design · Video
Branding · Promo film
Promo film · Photography
Web design · UI/UX
Your story, next.
Let's make it →What we do
Five crafts.
One obsession.
The obsession is the one true thing. Everything we make, a thirty second ad or a five part documentary, starts with the same question. What is worth saying, and who needs to hear it?
Concept to colour grade. We write, direct, shoot and finish commercials, TVCs and brand films with a small senior crew. The kind of work that's earned broadcast slots and tens of millions of views.
Real people, real stakes. From a champion's legacy to life inside a Boston prison, we sit with stories long enough to earn the truth in them. Then we cut it so it lands.
Identities with a point of view. We find the one true thing about your brand and build the look, voice and campaign around it, so everything you put out tells the same story.
Design that holds the frame. Conference brands, campaign systems, social and print, backed by fourteen years of design, photography and UX.
Sites that feel like films. Fast, considered, and built to convert, because the story shouldn't stop when someone clicks through.
How we work
Story first.
Every time.
Truth
We name the one true thing the story is about before we frame a shot. Everything else has to serve it.
Engine
Every story runs on something the subject would never say out loud. Our job is to find it.
Question
We plant a question early and refuse to answer it until the last frame. That is what keeps you leaning in.
Arrival
The ending is a change you can feel. One image or one line that reframes everything before it.
The humans








The space
Brisbane
Studio Hire.
A purpose built, fully equipped creative space in Fortitude Valley. Shoot it yourself, or have our crew run it with you.
Level 4, 126 Barry Parade, Fortitude Valley QLD



Say hello
Got a story?
Everyone does.
Tell us a little about yours. No brief required. A sentence and a feeling is plenty. We'll bring the questions.
The form is the quickest way to reach us. You'll also find us at @akta.media on Instagram.
Thanks. Your story's already started.
We've got it from here. Someone from the crew (a human, promise) will reply within two business days to set up a chat.
The Äkta crew · Brisbane × Dallas
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