Production Process

TDR FILMS produces innovation documentary production Jakarta universities can trust with genuinely technical research, and Universitas Indonesia brought us in to document its ceramic foam filter research. The work studies how a porous ceramic filter reduces defects during aluminum casting. That is precise, valuable engineering. In its raw form, it is nearly impossible for a non-specialist to sit through. Our job was to keep the science accurate. We also had to make it watchable for people who had never heard “inclusion volume fraction” before.

TDR FILMS delivers engineering equipment video production Jakarta research teams can use to show their work, and Universitas Indonesia called us back for a second project: documenting an inclusion and fluidity testing device built to support the same casting quality research we had already covered. The device measures how molten metal flows. It also tracks how many impurities end up trapped inside a casting. On paper, that is a lab instrument most people never think about. On camera, it needed to explain itself.

TDR FILMS is a production house based in Bali, and one of the projects in our body of work did not start as a brand brief at all. It started with an event organizer who needed a photography partner they could trust completely, for meetings and events held during Indonesia’s G20 Presidency in 2022, the year that built toward the 2022 G20 Bali Summit.

TDR FILMS produces export company profile video Jakarta manufacturers can send straight to overseas buyers, and Imago, a coconut charcoal exporter, brought us in to tell exactly that kind of story.

TDR FILMS produces documentary and impact video for NGOs, foundations, and social impact organisations across Indonesia, and choosing an NGO video production partner takes considerably more than watching a polished highlight reel. We have seen organisations get burned by agencies that pitched beautifully but had never actually worked inside the emotional and ethical complexity that impact storytelling genuinely requires.