As you scroll, a 3D camera flies over the Harbour Film City lot at night: past the six barrel roofed sound stages, over the lit harbour tank with its ferry set and crane, down the backlot streets, past the glass post house and out to the crew village, while two searchlights sweep the sky above the Ring Road gate.
Build the world. We keep the lights on.
Harbour Film City is an 11 hectare studio lot for features, series, commercials and music videos. Book a stage, flood the tank, take over a street, then sleep three minutes from set.
Six stages, one lot
From the 2,400 m² Agodi to the 300 m² insert stage. Clear span, sound treated, cooled.
See the stagesWater you can direct
60 m by 40 m, up to 6 m deep, with a horizon wall, wave paddles and a ferry set.
Explore the tankSix worlds to redress
A 1980s Lagos street, a market, a colonial row, a compound, an estate and a quay.
Walk the backlotFinish where you shot
Edit suites, a grading theatre, a mix stage and a 60 seat screening room.
Inside postSleep three minutes from set
64 cabins, 8 suites and a canteen. No Ring Road traffic at call time.
See the village
01 · Sound stages
Six stages on one lot, built for long runs
Every stage is clear span, sound treated and cooled, with power for twelve hours a day in the rate. Book one stage for a commercial or the whole north row for a season.
What a stage day includes
Power for twelve hours
From two silent generators and a solar field with batteries. A grid outage never stops a take.
Security and a fire marshal
Gate control, CCTV and a marshal on the floor whenever lights are hot.
A production office
Fibre internet, printing, a locked cash room and a kitchenette.
Parking for 40 vehicles
Unit base bays beside every stage, with water and power points.
Agodi
2,400 m², 14 m grid. Features and big standing sets.
Mokola
1,600 m² with a 3 m pit and rain bars.
Oje
900 m² with a 30 m white cyclorama.
Bodija, Sango, Iyaganku
300 to 600 m² for inserts and music sets.
02 · The harbour tank
The only open water tank of its size in West Africa, on a film lot
60 metres by 40, a 1.2 metre shelf for wading and a 6 metre well for sinking, diving and underwater cameras. Behind it, a 64 metre horizon wall that can be painted sky or blue screen.
- Size
- 60 m by 40 m
- Depth
- 1.2 m shelf, 6 m well
- Horizon wall
- 64 m by 15 m
- Waves
- Up to 0.8 m from four paddles
- Water
- 27 to 29°C, filtered daily
- Safety
- Marine team and divers on every wet day
We shot a ferry sinking at night, in the rain, with sixty extras in the water. The marine team ran it like clockwork, and we were home before the second call.
Ngozi, line producer, example client
Explore the tank₦2,400,000a wet day, example rate
03 · Backlot streets
Six streets you can redress in a week
Marina row is a 140 metre 1980s Lagos street with working shopfronts. Beside it sit a covered market, a colonial row, a compound, a modern estate street and a harbour quay that runs into the tank.
22 facades, 6 with full interiors, period street lamps and a bus stop. Plays 1975 to 1995 Lagos and most coastal cities. Redress from ₦1,500,000.
60 stalls under a steel canopy, a butcher's row and a drain that runs real water. Plays markets from Kano to Onitsha with a change of signage and goods.
Six 1950s government quarters with deep verandas and louvred windows, set back on a red earth road. Built for period drama.
04 · Post house
Finish the film where you shot it
Six edit suites, a grading theatre with 4K projection, a mix stage with a Foley pit and ADR booth, and a data lab that backs up every card twice before it leaves the lot.
Dailies by 9pm
Graded dailies on a private link the same night, on the lot’s own fibre.
Two copies, two buildings
Every card is copied to the post house and to the fire-rated vault before it is wiped.
The screening room
Sixty seats, 4K laser projection and immersive sound. Book it for cast and crew screenings, investor previews or a premiere night with the lot lit up outside.
05 · Films made here
Stories this lot has carried
Since 2021, 48 features, 19 series and more than 300 commercials and music videos have shot at Harbour Film City. A few of them:
Agodi let us build the whole palace at full height. On other lots we would have cheated it with two sets and a lot of prayers.
Bisola, production designer, example client
06 · Crew village
Sleep three minutes from set
64 twin cabins and 8 suites for heads of department, a canteen that serves 400 meals a sitting, laundry, a fitness room and quiet rooms for prayer. Your 6am call is a walk, not a Ring Road gamble.
Power you can forget about
A 1.2 MW solar field with batteries runs the lot by day. Two 1.5 MVA silent generators take over at night or in heavy cloud, with a changeover under 10 milliseconds. Twelve hours of power are in every stage rate.
Call our AI line, answered day and night in Nigerian English
+234 800 000 0143. It quotes stages, checks dates and books tours, then passes anything tricky to a person on the team.
What crews say
Reviews from the people who build here
The bookings desk answered on WhatsApp at 10pm, moved our build day and sent a new invoice before I slept.
Emeka, producer, example client
Cabins clean, canteen food better than most hotels in town, and the generator never coughed once in 31 days.
Aisha, first assistant director, example client
We did a music video on Oje in one day, paid the balance through Receivly at wrap and had the receipt in the group chat.
Tobi, music video director, example client
Next step
Tell us the story. We will find the floor.
Send your dates and a page about the project. A person on the bookings desk replies within two working hours with options and a quote.