Ultraviolet Hours
A launch for noise-cancelling headphones shot entirely between 2 and 5 a.m. across four cities — the hours when a city finally goes quiet.
- +212% pre-orders vs. forecast
- 48M film views in 30 days
Light, bent into
Parallax is a 38-person production house and creative agency. We take one idea and split it into every format your audience lives in — without losing the light.
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Lisbon 38.71° N · LA 34.05° N
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Two minutes and fourteen seconds of loud.
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Services
One beam in. Six ways out.
Every brief enters as a single idea. Our studio refracts it into the formats, lengths and channels it needs — shot once, crafted many ways, consistent to the last frame.
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Film & commercials
Hero spots, cinema cuts and director-led brand films. In-house crews on ARRI Alexa 35 with full post under one roof.
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Brand campaigns
Integrated platforms from big idea to OOH, print and launch film — built to run for years, not weeks.
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Social & creator content
Always-on systems for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. A 14-person social desk shipping 300+ native assets a month.
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Motion design & 3D
Identities that move, product renders that sell, title sequences that people actually sit through.
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Post, colour & sound
Two Baselight grading suites, a Dolby Atmos mix stage and an edit floor open to every client, every day.
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Strategy & creative direction
Culture research, positioning and the creative leadership that keeps a hundred deliverables saying one thing.
Production
Five elements. One focal point.
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Discovery & insight
Two weeks inside your audience: social listening, culture mapping and a one-page brief everyone signs.
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Concept & script
Three routes, animatics for the strongest, and a script locked with your legal team before a single day rate is booked.
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Pre-production
Casting, locations, shot lists and a deliverables matrix that plans every cut-down before we roll.
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The shoot
Own kit, own crews: two Alexa 35 bodies, Cooke S7/i primes and a social unit capturing vertical in parallel.
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Post, grade & release
Edit, Baselight grade, Atmos mix and 40+ platform versions delivered with a live performance dashboard.
Selected work · 2023–2026
Proof, projected.
Six campaigns from the last three years. Every one started as a single sentence on a whiteboard.
Gravity is Optional
We put a cello quartet in a zero-g flight and filmed the first live performance at 34,000 feet. The airline's new platform wrote itself.
- 31M organic reach
- Cannes Lions Silver, Film Craft
Salt & Static
Forty ASMR micro-films recorded with hydrophones on the Atlantic coast. Algorithm-native, sound-on, impossible to scroll past.
- 9.4M views, 0 media spend
- +64% retail sell-through
Every Shade of Loud
A 52-shade range relaunched with 52 musicians, each scoring the colour they wore. One film, 52 cut-downs, one very full TikTok sound library.
- +38% unaided brand recall
- D&AD Wood Pencil, Integrated
Night Shift
An e-scooter film lit only by the scooter itself. A single 9-minute take through Lisbon's Alfama, cut into a 30" spot and a 6-part series.
- 120M impressions
- Webby Winner, Video — Branded
Hello, Analog
A motion identity built from real film grain: every logo animation is printed, scanned and composited frame by frame, 1,440 frames in all.
- 2.1M site visits launch week
- Sold out first run in 6 hours
Trusted by people who hate beige
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Recognition
Trophies are loud too.
Juries notice the craft. Clients notice the numbers. We built the studio to be good at both.
0Cannes Lions4 Gold · 9 Silver · 14 Bronze
0D&AD Pencils1 Yellow · 13 Wood
0Webby Awards6 People's Voice
0Clio AwardsIncl. 2 Grand Clios
- 2026Cannes Lions — Gold, Film CraftUltraviolet Hours
- 2025Cannes Lions — Silver, Film CraftGravity is Optional
- 2025Production Company of the Year — Shots Awards EMEAParallax
- 2024D&AD — Wood Pencil, IntegratedEvery Shade of Loud
- 2024Webby — Winner, Video BrandedNight Shift
Studio & culture
38 people. Zero beige.
Directors, editors, colourists, writers, strategists and one very patient head of production — split between a converted tram depot in Lisbon and a sound stage in Los Angeles.
Inês Rocha
Founder · Executive Creative Director
Marcus Okafor
Director · Film & Commercials
Lena Takahashi
Head of Motion & 3D
Diego Varela
Senior Colourist · Baselight
Amara Singh
Head of Social & Creators
Jonah Berg
Executive Producer · LA
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Fridays are for spec work
Every Friday afternoon belongs to self-initiated projects. Three of our biggest clients came from them.
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Everyone sees the edit
Clients, interns and accountants all get a seat in the edit suite. Good ideas don't check job titles.
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4-day weeks between shoots
Crunch is a planning failure. We plan, so people come back sharper.
“Parallax shot our launch film, 140 social assets and a cinema cut in one nine-day block. Nothing felt like a compromise — it all felt like the hero.”
New business · Booking Q1–Q2 2027
Let's make noise.
hello@parallax.studio
Tell us the sentence you'd want people to repeat. We reply within one working day with a producer, a director and an honest budget range.
- Typical budget
- €80k – €1.2M
- Lead time
- 6–9 weeks