Yeast Culture, sometimes spelt yeastCulture is a company engaged in film making and digital media, based in Camden, London. The company was started in 1999 by directors Nick Hillel and

Marc Silver Marc Silver is a British filmmaker. He is known for directing ''Who is Dayani Cristal?'' (2013), featuring Gael García Bernal, which won a cinematography award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and '' 3/12 Minutes, 10 Bullets'' (2015), which won ...

. Silver left the company in 2005 but Hillel remains as creative director and is supported by a team of film-makers, visual artists and animators. It embraces many diverse disciplines including documentary, drama,

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, animation, dance, live

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and touring exhibitions. Yeast Culture shot and edited four, one-hour documentaries for

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and

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; ''Naked Protest'', ''Burning Man – Community or Kaos'', ''Global Protest – The Battle of Prague'' and ''Big Chill in Cairo'' (1999). Among their other clients have been work for

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, the

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, The

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, The

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, Akram Khan and The

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. http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=outthere&article=376 quote= of film company Yeast Culture (Nitin Sawney , Akram Khan, Beastie Boys), who has created evocative imagery and unusual staging to help tell the story.

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Film production companies of the United Kingdom British companies established in 1999 Companies based in the London Borough of Camden {{UK-film-company-stub