Cine Artistlabs — Create the things, the people won't forget.
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Create the things
the people won't forget.

Producing, consulting, workshops and training — for the people who want to make the things that matter. Our feature documentary, Backstage to Broadcast, is streaming free now. Fourteen RED cameras on one live concert, from load-in to broadcast.

Online School · Opens Saturday 19 September

The live concert
masterclass, on demand.

Every lesson, breakdown and project file from our live workshops — rebuilt into a self-paced online course. The full craft of live-concert filmmaking, start to finish, from anywhere in the world. Doors open the night our documentary premieres on YouTube, Saturday 19 September, 7:50pm AEST, and registering for the premiere is how you get in first.

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Inside the Lab
The Lab home: continue watching, hours in the room, weekly activity and a direct message thread.
The course library with a featured masterclass billboard and rows of mini courses and masterclasses.
A course module list on a phone, each lesson with a thumbnail, runtime and progress.
The Introduction to Nikon ZR course page with lessons, runtime and what you will learn.
The Lab home on a phone: continue watching and this week's lesson goal.
The events page with the next premiere, upcoming workshops and a ticket checkout panel.
Philosophy
Creatives don't need to make more content — they need to make fewer, better things.
Peter John — Founder, Director
The backstory

Twenty-five years on the road with some of the world's best artists, bands, and surfers. One observation never changed: Trends may get views, division will cause attention but Authentic Story lasts forever.

Cine Artistlabs is what happens when you spend a quarter-century watching the thing on the other side of the lens: people making the work they'll be remembered for and work for those watching who are transformed by it. The world is telling us to make more noise, make more things, get more attention. But that never works, never satisfies and never ends.

We need more creatives making fewer better things.

Story builds legacy. Everything else is just noise.

  • Morgan Evans
  • Simple Plan
  • The Paper Kites
  • Planetshakers
  • Brad Cox
  • New Empire
  • Kita Alexander
  • Randy Houser
  • Chase Rice
  • Lisa Simone
  • Michael Paynter
WHAT STUDENTS SAY

Filmmakers
who've trained with us.

Watch our RED Digital Cinema showreel 2026