Short form video · New York City
A short form video agency with a finishing room
Athena Films makes short form and vertical video for brands from a studio in New York City. Emmy winning craft, feed native formats, and an in house finishing room so volume never turns into filler.
Short does not mean quick and cheap
Ninety seconds is less room to hide, not less work. The hook has to land in a frame, the cut has to carry information at speed, and the mix has to read on a phone speaker in a noisy room.
We treat short form like television with the fat removed: written structure, real coverage, proper colour and sound. That is the difference between something scrolled past and something finished.
Built to scale
A one off vertical asset solves nothing. We build a repeatable format, shoot it in blocks, and deliver a slate: episodes for organic, cutdowns for paid, and stills and clips for everything else.
Because edit, colour, sound and mix all happen in house, a block of material moves as one piece of work instead of queueing between vendors.
What you get
Vertical native production
Shot for nine by sixteen with wide coverage banked in the same setups.
Episodic short form
Formats designed to repeat, so each episode makes the next one easier to start.
Paid variants
Cutdowns and alternate hooks built for testing, pulled from the same shoot.
Full finishing
Edit, colour, sound design and mix in house, delivered to spec across platforms.
Questions we get
What counts as short form video?
Anything built to be watched in a feed, typically between fifteen and ninety seconds, framed vertically and designed to hold attention from the first frame. Longer episodes still get short form cutdowns.
Can you produce at volume?
Yes, through format discipline and block shooting rather than by lowering the craft. One repeatable structure plus in house finishing is what makes volume survivable.
Do you edit footage we already have?
We can. Our finishing room takes existing footage through edit, colour, sound design and mix, though the results are usually stronger when the material was shot with the format in mind.
What formats do you deliver?
Vertical nine by sixteen, square and wide masters, plus platform specific variants and paid cutdowns from the same coverage.
How fast is turnaround?
Because post is in house, batches usually land inside days rather than weeks. Exact timing depends on the size of the block.
Athena Films · New York City, New York · Est. 2026