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Filming and broadcast events

If you are looking for a striking location for your next shoot, Aviva Studios is the place to bring your vision to life.

Bring your vision to life

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If you are looking for a striking location for your next shoot, Aviva Studios is the place. Our unique spaces shapeshift to your needs, offering industrial, urban and futuristic backdrops to bring your music video, film, TV show, or live broadcast to life. With our extensive capabilities offering unique opportunities for indoor and outdoor production, our venue offers a blank canvas to express yourself.

The home of Factory International, Aviva Studios is a hive of creativity. And our team of in-house tech experts will work with you to help bring your ideas to life.

And when you choose to film at Aviva Studios, you help us to widen engagement with the arts and develop the next generation of creative talent.

It's a kind of space that gives you an enormous amount of potential... in my lifetime to see a new space like this open is hugely empowering, and I hope the new generation of artists feel that power and want to use it.

Danny Boyle, Director

We're a bit different

Aviva Studios seen from across the River Irwell on a sunny day

The place we call home

On Manchester’s former Granada Studios site and a stone’s throw from MediaCityUK

2nd most creative city in Europe, with a GVA of £1.4bn to the city from culture and creative industries

Photo of the audience watching Free Your Mind in the Hall

History in the making

Designed by world-leading architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Listed in TimeOut’s ‘23 Best Things to Do in the World in 2023’

We've got something special

Over 15 years’ experience producing the globally renowned Manchester International Festival

Diverse team of 16 in-house experts covering all aspects of production

Access to technical expertise in lighting, sound and more

We're shapeshifters

We have four unique, industrial yet modern spaces – the Warehouse, the Hall, the Public Realm and the Social – that flex to your needs.

A retractable wall allows you to reconfigure the space into the North and South Warehouse

Acoustic separation and allowing multi- use across the venue at any one time

Direct articulated truck access

Anchor points in the wall to support any kind of mount or rigging

Universal technical grid across the ceiling

A retractable wall allows you to reconfigure the space into the North and South Warehouse

Acoustic separation and allowing multi- use across the venue at any one time

Direct articulated truck access

Anchor points in the wall to support any kind of mount or rigging

Universal technical grid across the ceiling

Supplementing Riverside Square, the Undercroft runs below Aviva Studios, creating a covered external space and enabling filming to take place year-round

External power supply

WiFi provision within the Undercroft

Connected to neighbouring St John’s business and leisure district

AV, stage and lighting inclusions available

Varying stage depths

Flexible stall seating, or can be removed entirely

Tiered seating

Wheelchair access on all levels

Foyer bars, with impressive views across the city

Proscenium wall with option to connect to the Warehouse

Contact us

Contact our events team to find out more:

events@factoryinternational.org

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