a wedding film is a conversation.
you can scrape the surface
or you can go deeper

most wedding films show what happened.
we make films about who you are.

we make documentaries, building trust before the wedding day, collecting the footage that already exists, and spending time with you as people before we ever film you as a couple. the result isn't a record of a day. it's a portrait of a relationship.

PHILOSOPHY

michæl sgro

I've spent eight years working in film and television. features, tv dramas, about a hundred commercials, obsessing over the way light and camera create emotion. then I went looking for my own stories. documenting maniacs racing electric skateboards took me from prague to queensland to las vegas. that's when I understood what I actually wanted to make.

not just beautiful images. honest ones.

nothing comes close to real stories. I've built deep connections with strangers in airports, on film sets, in cities where I don't speak the language. every time, it's the people that stay with me. the places are just the backdrop.

two people standing in front of everyone they love, making the most significant promise of their lives. that's the most important film I could ever make.

wedding films aren't new to me. I spent years shooting them for other companies. good work. but never mine. then the documentary changed something. spending months in the edit with real people, real vulnerability, stories entrusted to me. I came back to australia and couldn't stop thinking about what a wedding film could be if you approached it as a documentary. not a surface record of what happened.

a genuine portrait of who these two people are and what they mean to each other.

what's why sōlfilms exists.

what we make starts long before the wedding day, weaving in your old clips and photos, spending a full day together before the ceremony. on the day, we put cameras in your guests' hands and let the people who love you most capture what it felt like from inside it.

I don't want to direct your day. I want you to forget the camera exists.

I take the work seriously. I don't take myself seriously.
ask anyone who's danced with me at a reception.

Tell us about you two

Where. When. What matters most to you about the day.