AETIA CREATIVE STUDIO
Aetia is a multimedia creative studio specialised in culturally intelligent storytelling for brands and institutions.
We create films, multi-format content, and storytelling strategies that build brand relevance, deepen audience connection, and position brands meaningfully within culture.
✯ SERVICES ✯
MULTI-FORMAT CONTENT PRODUCTION
We produce films, social-first video, interviews, copy, and audio content designed to work across every brand surface.
Our lean, thoughtful production approach enables us to create cohesive multi-format outputs — hero films, short-form video, written features, podcasts, and campaign assets — ensuring both excellent storytelling and strategic delivery for brand consistency, engagement, longevity, and growth.
BESPOKE CREATIVE PROFILES
Our signature offering: documentary-style profiles focused on tastemakers, thinkers and practitioners across the arts, heritage, craft, and contemporary creativity.
We research, interview, film and tell stories of the people, practices, and worlds shaping culture today — positioning brands and institutions as active participants within those ecosystems. Designed to feel editorial and timeless, each profile functions as both a hero storytelling asset and a scalable content suite across social, web, press, and partnerships.
STORYTELLING STRATEGY
Every project is integrated with strategic thinking around brand development and cultural alignment to deliver long-term value.
We develop brand storytelling frameworks, tone of voice, platform strategy, and cultural positioning that shape how stories are told, not just what is produced. Strategic work can be embedded within film & content projects, and further engaged through our founder Issabella’s independent consulting practice.
OUR APPROACH
Operating in a collaborative, constellation format with filmmaker, artist, and consultant Issabella Orlando its helm, Aetia Studio is shaped by an editorial eye, documentary sensibility, and instinct for tapping into the cultural context around every project to deliver audiences with meaningful, resonant storytelling.
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✯ LATEST WORK ✯
An original documentary for Nation of Artisans, exploring the folklore and heritage of Gansey jumpers in Hastings, UK.
✯ KIND WORDS ✯
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We've been trying to tell stories like this for years.
JW, World Monuments Fund
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Issabella delivered such valuable insights and what direction we could go with the program we were building. She was creative beyond anything I’ve ever seen. Her attention to detail was off the charts. Typically people excel on one side of the creative > detail-oriented continuum. But Issabella is one of these rare people who are excellent across the entire spectrum.
AK, Education First
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Working with Issabella made me excited about my practice again.
Laura Hope, fine artist
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Issabella has been able to capture and convey the true feeling and essence of what we do, the place and atmosphere. Truly extraordinary work!
Paul Southouse, architect & creative business owner, Lynrace MMXXIV