FOOD CONTENT STUDIO · CAPE TOWN + WINELANDS
A Kitchen Built to Shoot. A Studio Built to Create.
A purpose-built, modular kitchen studio for food and beverage photography, film, TVCs, recipe content, tabletop, product and social production. Shoot in a camera-ready kitchen, prep behind the scenes, and plug into lighting, equipment, crew and full production support all under one roof.
More Than a Kitchen Studio
Hire the space. Add the gear. Bring your crew. Or give us the brief and let STEL build the production around it. From a single hero food shot to an always-on content library, our studio and production offering scales around what you need to create.
DRY HIRE
A production-ready food and kitchen studio for agencies, photographers, directors and production companies bringing their own team.
SUPPORTED SHOOT
Add lighting, grip, camera, monitoring, audio, props, crew and on-set production support as you need it.
FULL CONTENT PRODUCTION
Give us the brief. We’ll assemble the right creative, culinary and production team and manage the process from pre-production through shoot and post.
One Kitchen. Multiple Looks. Endless Frames
Designed for camera, our modular shooting kitchen can be transformed to suit different brands, products and creative treatments without rebuilding the set from scratch. Interchangeable finishes, modular cabinetry and flexible styling allow the same kitchen to move from clean and contemporary to warm lifestyle or bold campaign looks.
SHOOT + PREP
Prep Behind the Frame. Perform in Front of It.
Our dedicated prep kitchen keeps the shooting kitchen camera-ready. Ingredients can be prepped, recipes tested, dishes finished and hero plates perfected behind the scenes before moving directly onto set. A more efficient workflow for chefs, food stylists, agency teams and high-volume content productions.
WHAT WE CREATE
Built for Food. Designed for Content.
From hero campaign imagery to always-on social, STEL is built to create food and beverage content across stills and motion.
FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY
Hero imagery, recipe photography, campaign stills, packaging support and editorial food content.
FOOD FILM & TVCs
Commercials, cinematic food films, product demonstrations and campaign video.
RECIPE CONTENT
Recipe development support, step-by-step content, hands-and-pans, how-to films and recipe videos.
BEVERAGE & LIQUID
Drinks, pours, cocktails, bottles and liquid-focused tabletop content.
TABLETOP & PRODUCT
Pack shots, product beauty, stop-motion, sizzle reels and detail-led motion.
SOCIAL & VERTICAL
Reels, short-form series, cutdowns, BTS and platform-specific adaptations.
PRODUCTION
Bring a Brief.
Build the Right Team.
Every production needs a different mix of people.
Through our production network, we assemble specialist creative, culinary and technical talent around the needs of each brief — from recipe developers, chefs and food stylists to art directors, photographers, directors, DOPs, videographers, assistants, DIT and post-production.
From concept to final delivery, you can build exactly the level of production you need.
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT · PRE-PRODUCTION · FOOD STYLING · PROPS · SET STYLING · PHOTOGRAPHY · FILM · LIGHTING GRIP · CAMERA · AUDIO · PRODUCTION · EDIT · COLOUR · SOUND · MOTION GRAPHICS · SOCIAL ADAPTATIONS
Where can I hire a kitchen studio in Cape Town?
STEL Film Studios offers a modular food and kitchen studio in Stellenbosch, serving Cape Town, the Cape Winelands and production teams working across the Western Cape. The studio is available for dry hire, supported shoots and full-service food content production.
Can the kitchen create different looks?
Yes. The kitchen is modular and designed to be restyled and reconfigured using interchangeable finishes, cabinetry treatments and styling to create different visual worlds.
Can STEL provide food stylists, chefs and production crew?
Yes. We can assemble specialist culinary, creative and technical talent through our production network according to the needs of your brief.
Can STEL manage the entire food content production?
Yes. STEL and Creative Emporium can build a complete production around your campaign or content requirement, from pre-production and crew assembly through photography, film and post-production.
Can I hire the kitchen and bring my own crew?
Yes. Dry hire is available for agencies, production companies, photographers, directors and independent creatives bringing their own production team.
Is the kitchen suitable for commercials and video production?
Yes. The kitchen is designed as a camera-facing set for food films, TVCs, recipe videos, product demonstrations, social content and commercial video production.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR SHOOT
Whether you need the kitchen for a day or a complete team to create your campaign, tell us what you need to make. We’ll help build the right production around it. Give us the basics and we’ll come back to you with the right studio or production approach to start your project