The film you couldn’t afford to make.
Your people send selfies. We rebuild them with advanced generative imaging, directed frame by frame. A broadcast-quality brand film in twenty days.
You have a story worth telling.
But your people bill by the hour.
Getting fifteen professionals to sit for a shoot means fifteen days of lost billables. Nobody signs off on that.
But your offices are in five cities.
A crew, travel, location fees, insurance, a producer in each market. The quote comes back and the project dies.
But the budget was never there.
A film like this has always cost thirty thousand dollars. So it never got made.
So we changed how it’s made.
We don’t need your people in a studio. We need them in a photograph.
Your team sends selfies from their phones. We rebuild them — in their own offices, at their own desks, in the environments where their work actually happens. Wardrobe, lighting, lens, setting: all directed. Then we bring it to motion, score it, voice it, and cut it into a film.
The result is not a compromise. It is the film you would have made if budget and calendars had never been a constraint.
Most corporate films are forgettable. Flat lighting, static pacing, stock-photo sincerity — the visual equivalent of a form letter. A firm spends real money and ends up with something indistinguishable from its competitors. What WAHB GLOBAL delivers is a film built with forty years of cinematographic discipline: considered light, deliberate pacing, and editing that serves the message rather than filling time. The result does not merely inform. It confers prestige.
Twenty days. One fixed price. Zero hours off your team’s calendar.
Yes — this is built with AI. That is the point.
There is no reason to be coy about it. WAHB GLOBAL builds these films using the most advanced generative imaging and video systems available — the same class of technology now used in feature film and international advertising.
What that technology cannot do is direct. It does not know where the light should fall, how a senior partner should hold themselves, what a courtroom feels like at the moment an argument lands, or which frame to cut on. It produces images. It does not produce films.
That is the difference between a tool and a director. Every frame is composed, lit, staged and edited by a photographer with forty years behind the camera — for Sports Illustrated, GQ, Dolce & Gabbana, Emaar and Jumeirah Group. The instruments are new. The eye is not.
Three ways to make your film.
TRADITIONAL
A conventional shoot, directed and photographed on location, with the full production apparatus. When the project demands it and the budget allows it, nothing replaces a camera in the room.
GENERATIVE
Built entirely from photographs your team supplies. No crew, no location, no time off anyone’s calendar. The fastest and most economical route to a finished film.
HYBRID
The approach most projects benefit from. We shoot what must genuinely be shot — a building, a product, a moment that has to be real — and build everything else. The savings come from what no longer needs a crew; the authenticity comes from what does.
WAHB GLOBAL is at the forefront of AI imaging, and has been producing conventional photography and film for four decades. The method follows the project, never the other way around.
Your people are never invented. Every person appearing in the film is built from photographs they supply themselves. They approve their own frames before delivery, and nothing is published without their consent.
What a film like this normally costs.
A conventional corporate film is not simply a camera and an afternoon. It is a production — and the budget reflects every part of it.
Conventional Production
- Pre-production meetings and treatment
- Location scouting and permits
- Crew: director, DOP, gaffer, sound, assistants
- Equipment rental and insurance
- Flights, hotels, per diems
- Talent and staff scheduling across offices
- Hours of billable time lost per participant
- Post-production, grade, score, voiceover
- Typical range: $25,000 – $60,000
- 8 to 12 weeks
WAHB GLOBAL
- One creative brief, signed
- Photographs taken on a phone
- No crew, no location, no permits
- No travel, no insurance, no equipment
- Zero hours off anyone’s calendar
- Direction, build, score, voiceover and edit in one house
- $2,000 – $6,500
- 20 days
The difference is not the craft. It is the overhead.
Lydecker
Full-service law firm · California · Florida · Georgia · New York · New Jersey · Oklahoma · Pennsylvania
- The Brief
- Lydecker needed a promotional film for its California practice — attorneys across Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. Three cities, senior litigators, and neither the schedule nor the budget to put a crew in front of any of them.
- The Obstacle
- A conventional production meant three shoot days in three markets, a crew in each, and hours of billable time from attorneys who bill at premium rates. The deadline was two weeks — which alone would have made it impossible. Two weeks would have covered organisation and production; editing, revisions and approval would have added ten days more. The numbers didn’t work. The film wasn’t going to happen.
- The Proposal
- We asked them to send us selfies. They were sceptical — reasonably so. Nobody had shown them this could work. They approved the concept within days.
- The Execution
- Working from nothing but phone photographs, we rebuilt each attorney using generative imaging — placing them inside their own professional world: at their desks, in chambers, mid-argument in the courtroom, walking out of the courthouse. Multiple wardrobes, multiple environments, every frame directed as it would have been directed on a set. Then motion, original score, original voiceover, and a final cut.
- The Result
- The film travelled up through every level of the firm’s management. It reached the CEO. It was received as a success across the entire organisation. Lydecker got the film they’d been told was impossible — without losing a single billable hour.
And one more thing. That film was delivered in September 2025 — a year ago — on the best tools available at the time. Those tools have since been superseded. What we can build today is not incrementally better. It is on a different scale entirely. The work that impressed their CEO was made with last year’s instruments.
Five steps.
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The Call
Fifteen minutes. Who you are, who you’re speaking to, what you need them to feel.
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The Brief
We lock a written creative brief together. One page. You sign it. This is what protects your budget and keeps the project on schedule.
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The Selfies
Your team photographs themselves on their phones. We send a one-page guide. Four minutes per person.
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The Build
We direct, construct, animate, score and voice the film. First cut on day fourteen.
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The Delivery
Final film on day twenty, in every format you need.
What it costs.
The Brand Reel
$2,000
- 60–90 seconds
- Up to 6 people
- Original voiceover + score
- 3 revision rounds included
- 20-day delivery
- Web + social formats
A single office, a practice group, or a recruitment campaign.
The Full Firm Film
$3,500
- 2–3 minutes
- Up to 15 people
- Multiple offices and environments
- Original voiceover + score
- 4 revision rounds included
- 20-day delivery
- All formats, including broadcast
The flagship film. Your firm, entire.
The Multi-Office Campaign
$6,500
- Master film, 2–3 minutes
- Five cut-downs, one per office or channel
- Up to 50 people (additional at $75 each)
- Original voiceover + score
- 4 revision rounds included
- 25-day delivery
- Full format suite + vertical social cuts
For firms across multiple markets who need one story told many ways.
Build your film.
WAHB GLOBAL holds licensed access to millions of assets — real-world stock footage, photography, graphics and music — alongside the capacity to generate any visual element required. Every asset delivered in your film is fully licensed in perpetuity, for use on any medium or platform, worldwide.
Scope and revisions.
A revision is a change made within the approved brief. A change to the brief is new scope.
- The Brief Lock
- Production begins when a written creative brief is signed. The brief defines the work: purpose, audience, message, people, environments, tone, tagline, runtime, formats.
- What’s Included
- Shot swaps, pacing, grade, voiceover re-reads, music adjustments, titling, likeness corrections, and copy edits within the approved message. One round = one consolidated set of notes from all stakeholders, delivered together.
- What’s New Scope
- A different message or concept, a different audience, people beyond the tier cap, new environments, substantial runtime changes, new formats, or replacing supplied copy after sign-off. Quoted separately before any work begins.
- Client Material
- All copy, taglines and marks supplied by the client are warranted as cleared for use. Where supplied material must change after production begins due to a rights issue, the resulting rework is new scope.
- Timelines
- Delivery runs from the signed brief and receipt of all materials. Client delays move the delivery date.
- Approval
- Each round is approved or returned with consolidated notes within 5 working days. Silence beyond 10 working days is deemed approval.
- Payment
- 50% on signature of the brief. 50% on delivery. Files released on final payment.
- Rights
- Full commercial usage rights to the client, in perpetuity, worldwide. WAHB GLOBAL retains portfolio display rights unless the client requests otherwise in writing before delivery.
Wahb Mabkhout
Forty years behind a camera. Trained at Istituto Marangoni, Milan. Photographer and creative director for Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Dolce & Gabbana, Roberto Cavalli and Alberta Ferretti. Property and hospitality work for Emaar, Damac, Dubai Properties and Jumeirah Group.
Wahb spent a career learning to build an image on a set. Now he builds them with or without one.
The film gets made this month.
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