Media production company with the writers in the same building.
Content Khana is a media production company in Cairo making corporate videos, TV commercials, photography and animation for brands, NGOs and international organisations across Egypt and the Gulf — scripted, shot, cut and delivered in Arabic and English.
A media production company producing film, photography, animation and print for United Nations agencies, the European Commission, the British Council and 200+ brands since 2015.
2015
Producing film, photography and design out of Cairo ever since
21M
Interactions on our #WeNeedToTalk campaign in its first 24 hours
200+
Brands, NGOs and international organisations served
AR + EN
Every film scripted natively in both languages, not subtitled after
Brands and organisations we have produced for
UNIDOUNDPUNESCOWorld Health OrganizationUN WomenUNFPAUNODCUN-HabitatInternational Labour OrganizationEuropean CommissionBritish CouncilGIZPlan InternationalHandicap InternationalCARE Egypt FoundationFood AfricaArab Fertilizer AssociationCarrefourGROHEMotulCasioEpsonRed HatKasperskyNutanixVezeetaProperty FinderWE Telecom EgyptUNIDOUNDPUNESCOWorld Health OrganizationUN WomenUNFPAUNODCUN-HabitatInternational Labour OrganizationEuropean CommissionBritish CouncilGIZPlan InternationalHandicap InternationalCARE Egypt FoundationFood AfricaArab Fertilizer AssociationCarrefourGROHEMotulCasioEpsonRed HatKasperskyNutanixVezeetaProperty FinderWE Telecom Egypt
The short answer
What a media production company actually does
Anyone can point a camera. The job is knowing what the film has to make someone do, and building every frame backwards from that.
A media production company takes an idea and turns it into finished media: a script, a shoot, an edit, a mix and a set of files that play correctly wherever you put them. That covers concept and scripting, casting and location scouting, crew and call sheets, filming, photography, 2D and 3D animation, editing, colour, sound design, voice-over, subtitling and the delivery specs each platform demands.
Content Khana has produced film, photography, animation and print out of Cairo since 2015. What separates us from a media production agency that only shoots is upstairs: the writers, PR team and designers sit in the same building, so the script that goes on the call sheet is the same message that goes to the press and onto the stand at your next exhibition. Hiring a video company for the camera and someone else for the words is how brands end up with a beautiful film that says nothing.
How to choose a media production company
1.
Ask to see the brief behind the reel. Showreels are edited to flatter. Ask what the client wanted, what it cost and what the film actually moved.
2.
Ask who writes the script. Plenty of media production companies subcontract the writing and never tell you. If the words are an afterthought, so is the film.
3.
Ask what you receive at the end. A serious media production company hands over masters, platform cuts, subtitle files and the raw footage — not one MP4 and a login you lose in a year.
What we do
Our media production services
Twelve media production services, taken as one turnkey production or as the single craft your team is missing. Every service below runs standalone or as part of a full campaign, and each is quoted as its own line so you can see where the budget goes.
Corporate video production
Brand films, company profiles, recruitment films, training and internal comms. We start with the business objective, not the storyboard — which is why our scripts get approved in two rounds rather than six.
Concept, storyboard, casting, shoot and broadcast-ready delivery for TVCs and advertising films, cut to the durations the channel actually sells — 15, 20, 30 and 60 seconds — with Arabic and English versions built into the edit.
The full video production service: pre-production and scripting, crew and kit, multi-camera video filming on location or in studio, interviews, b-roll and drone where permits allow. One video production company handling call sheet to final master.
Corporate portraits, product and packshot, event and conference coverage, industrial and site photography, food, architecture and campaign lifestyle — shot to a brief and delivered retouched, captioned and correctly sized for every channel.
Character animation, CGI, product visualisation and infographic animation. Our video animation services cover the whole chain — script, storyboard, style frames, illustration, rig, animate, sound — and are usually the fastest route when there is nothing yet to film.
Sixty to ninety seconds that make a complicated product obvious. We write the script first and design to it, because an explainer that looks beautiful and explains nothing is an expensive screensaver.
Launch films, campaign spots, retail and in-store loops, trade-show films and hero product pieces. What a promotional video production company is really selling is the thirty seconds someone chooses not to scroll past.
Offline and online edit, colour grade, graphics and titling, voice-over casting and recording in Arabic and English, sound design, music licensing and the final mix. One video editing agency from rushes to master — and we take on rescue edits of footage another company already shot.
Where multimedia production means everything the film sits beside: magazines, reports, newsletters, presentations, infographics, exhibition graphics and social assets. Produced for UNIDO, Food Africa and the Arab Fertilizer Association, among others.
Field shoots, real people and stories that have to be handled properly: informed consent, safeguarding, sensitive locations and donor reporting requirements. The format United Nations agencies and NGOs come to us for most often.
Multi-camera conference recording, session capture, highlight reels turned around overnight, speaker interviews, photography and live streaming — produced alongside the team that is already running your event.
Shot vertical from the start rather than cropped from a 16:9 master: reels, shorts, creator collaborations and platform-native cutdowns, delivered with captions burned in because most of the audience is watching on mute.
A mock call sheet — but the mechanics behind it are real. We write the script, board it, crew it, shoot it, cut it, mix it and hand over masters, platform cuts and subtitle files in both languages.
CK STUDIO is Content Khana’s own demo format. Durations, shoot days and crew sizes on a real quote come from your script and your locations.
The deliverables
Formats and deliverables
What actually arrives at the end, and in what shape. This is the part of a media production company quote most clients skim, and the part that decides whether launch day is calm: every quote we send states the formats, aspect ratios, language versions and subtitle files before a camera is booked.
Film & video
Brand films
TV commercials
Explainers
Documentaries
Case studies
Testimonials
Product demos
Training films
Recruitment films
Event films
Photography
Corporate portraits
Product and packshot
Event and conference
Industrial and site
Food and hospitality
Architecture and interiors
Campaign lifestyle
Retouching and grading
Animation & motion
2D character animation
3D and CGI
Product visualisation
Motion graphics
Kinetic typography
Infographic animation
Logo stings
Lower thirds and titles
Audio
Voice-over casting
Arabic and English recording
Egyptian and Modern Standard
Sound design
Music licensing
Final mix
Podcast production
Radio spots
Delivery specs
4K and HD masters
16:9, 1:1 and 9:16 cuts
Broadcast-ready TVC files
Burned-in and SRT subtitles
Platform-native versions
Web-optimised exports
Archive masters
Raw footage handover
Languages & versioning
Scripts written natively in both
Arabic and English voice-over
Subtitles in both languages
Localised on-screen graphics
Regional cutdowns
Accessible captions
Brand-compliance checks
Client review rounds tracked
Proof
Our production reel
Films, stills and campaigns that shipped. A media production company should be judged on what its work moved, not on how the showreel is cut — so here is the work alongside what it did.
Brand films
Brand films, commercials and documentary work produced end to end in Arabic and English.
Corporate
Corporate, product and event photography — briefed, shot, retouched and delivered to spec.
Campaign result
The #WeNeedToTalk campaign drew 21 million interactions in its first 24 hours — and made the national press the same week.
Owned publishing
Magazines, newsletters, post-event reports and multimedia production for UNIDO, Food Africa and the Arab Fertilizer Association.
Broadcast fluency
We prep and place spokespeople on ON, CBC, dmc and TeN — so we know what a broadcast desk will and will not accept before we shoot it.
How we work
Five stages, run in order
Every production follows the same path, run by a named producer who is on set from the first frame to the final mix.
01
Script
We start with the objective and the script — written by the same team that writes the press releases, not subcontracted and never an afterthought.
02
Pre-produce
Storyboard, casting, location scouting, crew and kit, call sheets, schedules and the permits that make a shoot legal.
03
Shoot
Multi-camera filming on location or in studio, photography, interviews, b-roll and drone — run by a named producer who is on set from first frame to wrap.
04
Post
Offline and online edit, colour grade, graphics, voice-over in both languages, sound design, music and the final mix.
05
Deliver
Masters, platform cuts, subtitle files, raw footage handover and the archive — in every format the channel demands, before a camera is booked.
Start here
What do you need first?
Pick one. We will come to the call with a scoped estimate for exactly that.
United Nations agencies, the European Commission, global technology brands, Egyptian market leaders and the country’s biggest trade events.
Writers in the same building
The script that goes on the call sheet is the same message that goes to the press and onto the stand — because the writers, PR team and designers sit upstairs from the production crew.
Broadcast fluency
We prep and place spokespeople on ON, CBC, dmc and TeN — so we know what a broadcast desk will and will not accept before we shoot it.
Full handover
Masters, platform cuts, subtitle files and the raw footage — not one MP4 and a login you lose in a year.
Why Content Khana
Five reasons clients stay
Writers in the same building
The script is written by the same team that writes the press releases and the brand messaging — not subcontracted and never an afterthought.
Integration
PR, content, brand and events sit under one roof, so the film says the same thing as the press release, the stand and the social post.
Bilingual by default
Every film scripted natively in Arabic and English — not subtitled after, which is why both language versions sound like they were written first.
Named producer
A named producer who is on set from the first frame to the final mix — not a director who sells the project and hands it to an editor you never meet.
Full handover
Masters, platform cuts, subtitle files and the raw footage — in every format the channel demands, stated before a camera is booked.
Human, not automated
Media production with an artistic, human-driven touch — meticulous craft, continuous quality control, no template edits.
Questions
Media production, answered honestly
A media production company takes an idea and turns it into finished media: a script, a shoot, an edit, a mix and a set of files that play correctly wherever you put them. That covers concept and scripting, casting and location scouting, crew and call sheets, filming, photography, 2D and 3D animation, editing, colour, sound design, voice-over, subtitling and the delivery specs each platform demands.
There is no honest flat rate. Cost depends on the format, the duration, the shoot days, the crew size, the locations and the post-production requirements. A 20-second social reel is priced differently from a 90-second brand film with two shoot days. We script first, then scope against your objective and give you a fixed number before anything starts.
We do. The script is written by the same team that writes the press releases, the brand messaging and the editorial content — not subcontracted and never an afterthought. That is the difference between a film that says something and a film that just looks good.
Yes. Every film is scripted natively in both languages, not subtitled after. We cast and record voice-over in both Arabic and English — Egyptian colloquial and Modern Standard — and deliver subtitles in both languages, burned in or as SRT files.
You receive masters in 4K and HD, platform cuts in 16:9, 1:1 and 9:16, broadcast-ready TVC files, burned-in and SRT subtitles, web-optimised exports, archive masters and the raw footage. Every format the channel demands is stated in the quote before a camera is booked.
Extensively. Our clients include UNDP, UNESCO, WHO, UNIDO, UNFPA, UN Women, UNODC, UN-Habitat, ILO, the European Commission, GIZ, the British Council, Plan International, Handicap International and CARE Egypt. We are one of the United Nations’ accredited companies for events management.
Yes. We handle multi-camera conference recording, session capture, highlight reels turned around overnight, speaker interviews, photography and live streaming — produced alongside the team that is already running your event.
Yes. We take on rescue edits of footage another video editing company already shot — we audit what is usable, cut it into something that works, and deliver the masters and platform cuts. Sometimes the footage is fine and the edit was the problem; sometimes we will tell you honestly that a reshoot is the better answer.
Let’s talk
Picture the film. We’ll tell you what it costs to shoot it.
Book a free 30-minute consultation. Bring your objective, your audience and your budget — you will leave with a scoped estimate, a format list and a timeline, not a showreel.