Films ✯ Podcasts ✯ Content ✯ Collaborations ✯ Sourcing
AETIA STUDIO
PROFILES
Short film vignettes, content series, podcasts, collaborations and activations featuring artisans, artists, and multidisciplinary creatives — from chefs to perfumers, winemakers to weavers.
Taking a delicate & personal approach, we SOURCE, INTERVIEW, create PODCASTS, FILMS and CONTENT, and produce ACTIVATIONS and PARTNERSHIPS with craftspeople, artists and creative practitioners across industries. Always directed & produced by studio founder & creative director Issabella Orlando.
Our bespoke profile process and creative strategies help brands & organisations to intelligently and meaningfully engage with culture, craftsmanship, art and creative practice — themes that are resonating with audiences now more than ever.
ARTISTS ✯ CRAFTSPEOPLE ✯ MAKERS ✯ CHEFS ✯ DESIGNERS ✯ ARCHITECTS ✯ MUSICIANS ✯ PERFORMERS ✯ COMMUNITIES ✯ INNOVATORS
WE PROFILEBRANDS IN LUXURY & ARTISANAL SECTORS ✯ HOSPITALITY ✯ TRAVEL ✯ FASHION ✯ BEAUTY ✯ ARTS & CULTURE INSTITUTIONS ✯ EDITORIAL PUBLICATIONS & PLATFORMS
DIGITAL STORYTELLING PROJECTS ✯ LAUNCH CAMPAIGNS ✯ PRESS & COMMS ✯ PARTNERSHIPS & COLLABORATIONS ✯ ACTIVATIONS ✯ BEHIND-THE-SCENES & EXCLUSIVE CONTENT
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MADELON VRIESENDORP
An exclusive profile film and interview with 2025 Soane Medal Prize Winner, established designer and architectural artist Madelon Vriesendorp for Sir John Soane's Museum / Dezeen.
TOUCHING BASS x DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY
Capturing the process of translating paintings into sound, three musicians respond to Dulwich Picture Gallery’s presentation of Rachel Jones, Gated Canyons.
LAURA HOPE
Shot beyond the four walls of the studio in the rolling hills of Banbury, artist Laura Hope shares snippets of her growing body of new work amongst the scenes and spaces that are integral to her process, in this artist profile film.
MAKERS OF VENICE
A comprehensive journey to research, meet, interview and document Venetian artisans, their crafts, the challenges they face, and the hidden stories of a city visited by many but truly known by few. More details.
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An audio feature for Monocle Radio’s The Daily, tracing the history of Venice and its Carnival through the lens of craftsmanship, from the Silk Road to today.
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A print feature for Breathe Magazine covering Venice’ relationship with fabrics: lace, brocades, ancient looms and a last generations of makers.
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A deeply focused effort on documenting the heritage, crafts and people of Venice, and communicate their mastery and history through rich visuals and light historical context. Film left.
AFRICAN STYLE ARCHIVE
A culturally informed short film to capture the Archive’s first Open Library Day at the Hoxton Hotel in London, Southwark.
HOLY CRAFT!
The project that started it all.
Following a potter, printmaker, and team of historic boat restorers, this three-part series of short documentaries takes an intimate look at the art of making and its connection to our cultural identities, emotional worlds, capacity for long-term thinking and deeply creative brains.
Funded by the Centre for Global Heritage and Development and Leiden University, now streaming on Art Browser TV.
CULTURE & TRAVEL PODCASTS - MONOCLE RADIO
From the rolling hills of Tuscany to the busy streets of Marrakesh to the old markets of Oxford, these radio profiles for Monocle’s The Menu, The Daily, The Globalist and Saturday shows take millions of listeners on journeys to discover culture, heritage, and craftsmanship through travel, food, and brand ventures across hospitality, fashion, beauty, food & drink and homeware.
Val D’Orcia (Tuscany) - food, wine, hospitality, travel
Venice - craft, culture, heritage, travel, brands (homeware, fashion, hospitality)
Hastings - craft, heritage, fashion
Oxford - craft, retail
Naples - heritage, culture, travel
Toronto - food, brand (hospitality)
Marrakesh (coming soon) - culture, travel, brand (hospitality)
Florence x Daniele Cavalli’s Profumoir (coming soon) - heritage, brand (fragrance)