Pongoa studio of Balene Film
Studio

Tools for cinematography and production

Every tool we publish has already been used on real work.

We build tools for people who work with the image — apps, plugins, desktop utilities. Before one ships it goes through months of testing and weeks of real work, on set and in post.

Method

How we work

Twenty years on set

The studio is run by a working cinematographer

Pongo comes out of the work of a director of photography with twenty years behind him. The tools start from problems met on the job, not from a product idea.

Tested on real jobs

A prototype goes to work before it ships

Every tool goes through months of testing, then goes out on real jobs as a prototype. What does not hold up on set does not get released.

Checked against standards

We check against the instruments productions use

Our background gives us access to film rental houses and post facilities. We check our tools against the same instruments a production uses to verify cameras, lenses and workflow.

Articles

Articles

The first articles arrive with the first tool. They cover what we tested, what came out of it, and what changed in the tool as a result.