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
CONTENT AT SCALE
Shoot Once. Create More.
One production doesn't have to mean one deliverable. We can structure your shoot to create a connected library of campaign, product and social content from the same creative world, team and production day. Capture hero photography alongside recipe films, vertical video, product content, BTS and platform-ready adaptations - creating more value from every production. ONE PRODUCTION. MULTIPLE OUTPUTS. HERO STILLS CAMPAIGN FILM RECIPE CONTENT PRODUCT ASSETS VERTICAL REELS BTS 9:16 · 1:1 · 16:9
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