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18 May 2021

Union Build Guantanamo for The Mauritanian

Union VFX transforms South African set builds into Guantánamo base, for The Mauritanian, the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's fight for freedom after imprisonment by the U.S. Government.

30 April 2021

Union help uncover the true story of the Sutton Hoo excavation in The Dig

Union’s team delivered invisible effects to help tell the story of the most famous archaeological dig in modern British history – the discovery of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo in 1939.

25 September 2020

Union illustrate the positive and negative impact of radium in ‘Radioactive’

London-based visual effects house Union VFX worked closely in creative collaboration with Director Marjane Satrapi on the film, providing artistic visualisations, period environments, and dramatic sequences using some SFX.

20 August 2020

Union Launch Sea Dragon in For All Mankind season finale

Union VFX re-created the largest rocket ever planned to be built, in Ronald D Moore's Apple TV+ dystopian drama For All Mankind.

14 May 2020

Union Grow CG Cannabis for The Gentlemen

Union VFX provided invisible visual effects work in Guy Ritchie's action-filled crime comedy film, The Gentlemen starring Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant.

5 February 2020

Spotlight On…Union VFX: Boundless ambition and bold independence for over a decade

In our first Spotlight feature of 2020, Lucy Cooper, Managing Director of the London-based visual effects company Union VFX chats with UK Screen Alliance about the greatest successes of the company, and developing landscape of the industry as we move into a new decade.

2 January 2020

Union Re-paint The Sistine Chapel for The Two Popes

Fernando Meirelles' Golden Globe-nominated The Two Popes received visual effects work from Soho based studio, Union VFX.

31 July 2018

Union bolsters management team with Lucy Cooper as managing director and Simon Hughes creative director

Union is pleased to announce the appointment of Lucy Cooper as Managing Director, and Simon Hughes as Creative Director reporting directly to Founders Tim Caplan and Adam Gascoyne.

16 March 2018

Union Add Drama to Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Written and directed by playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards out-side Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic drama about a grieving mother’s attack on the complacency of the local police force who have failed to find her daughter’s killer.