Young filmmakers working with a phone camera and compact light on a city rooftop

Yonkers / New York / Est. by students

BlackArcticStudios

A college-built production collective using the camera already in our hands to make cinema that feels close, urgent, and unmistakably ours.

Go behind the frame

The transmission

We believe scale is a feeling—not a budget. Black Arctic Studios brings together college filmmakers, local voices, and iPhone-first production to turn familiar streets into unfamiliar worlds.

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Stay close

Small cameras create room for honest moments.

02

Build together

Every department strengthens the same point of view.

03

Make it matter

Local stories deserve cinematic ambition.

Episodes

Stories in sequence.

Watch the Black Arctic story unfold, from the newest chapter back to where it began.

Behind the scenes

What the audience doesn't see.

Prep, problem-solving, late edits, one more take. Production lives in the work between the frames.

Black Arctic Studios cast and crew together during a night shoot, with a camera rig in the foreground● REC ON SET

Black Arctic on set

Real on-set moment / cast & crew

● REC FIGHT SETUP

Building the fight

Real on-set moment / Black Arctic Studios

● REC BETWEEN TAKES

Carrying the scene

Real on-set moment / Black Arctic Studios

Three Black Arctic Studios actors enjoying burgers together on outdoor steps during a night shoot● REC CAST BREAK

Cast taking a break on set

Real on-set moment / Black Arctic Studios

● REC INDOOR SET

Behind the camera

Real on-set moment / Black Arctic Studios

● REC EP 5 MAKEUP

Blood makeup on set

Real on-set moment / Ep 5 “Breaking Point”

Actors & crew

The people in the room.

A starter roster for the performers and makers shaping Black Arctic. Replace each placeholder with a real headshot, name, role, and contact when the lineup is ready.

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Director / Creator

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Actor / Performer

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Camera / Lighting

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Editor / Sound

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Roster entries are placeholders and do not represent confirmed members.

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Contact us

Enter the frame.

Looking to audition, crew up, collaborate, or bring a story to Black Arctic? Send the essentials. Until the studio's email backend is connected, this form downloads a clean inquiry file you can keep ready to share.

The send-to-studio connection is coming later. For now, this downloads your completed inquiry as a text file—nothing is uploaded.

Next transmission

Bring us the impossible.

New perspectives. New collaborators. New work from Yonkers.

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