World-class video storytelling
for unique real estate and hospitality projects, amplified by a global audience of over 250,000 subscribers.
Creative Media That Moves Markets
Creative Power. Global Reach.
Every project is creatively directed by an award-winning team led by Damien Sung, ensuring cinematic quality, narrative clarity, and consistent brand expression across every frame.
Our distribution strategies are shaped by deep platform intelligence built over decades inside the Google and YouTube ecosystems, enabling content to travel further, perform better, and compound value over time.
Built for Buyers. Designed for Results.
Uchi Media operates inside a global property media platform built around real buyer behaviour, not passive traffic. Across uchijapan.com, a 130,000-subscriber newsletter, and owned social channels, we reach an international audience actively researching lifestyle property, relocation, and long-term investment in Japan. Unlike static portals, our audience is continuously engaged through video, editorial, and repeat discovery.
YouTube is our primary growth engine, with over 100,000 subscribers consuming long-form cinematic property content that allows buyers to understand design, location, and lifestyle long before they enquire. Instagram and Facebook reinforce visibility throughout the research journey, keeping projects top-of-mind as intent develops.
We don’t show properties once, we build familiarity over time. Viewers who engage with Uchi content continue to see relevant projects as they move closer to decision, creating smarter exposure, better-informed enquiries, and a more efficient path from interest to action for our partners.
Our Story
Uchi Media grew out of building one of the world’s leading resort real estate platforms, giving us a deep understanding of what drives attention, enquiry, and buyer decision-making at scale.
We create distinctive property films and social content that work across mobile and digital platforms, from individual homes and unique land opportunities to large developments and resorts worldwide.
Rooted in Japanese craft and global creative collaboration, Uchi Media focuses on clarity, authenticity, and strong visual storytelling rather than marketing noise. Every project is designed to travel well across modern channels and deliver lasting commercial value.
We love working with clients who value craft, trust the creative process, and share a clear ambition for how their property, resort, or brand should be experienced. The strongest projects emerge when there is genuine collaboration, where our clients’ vision and our creative approach synchronise, allowing ideas to sharpen, decisions to align, and the final work to elevate the asset with confidence and clarity.
Chris Pickering — CEO
Uchi Media Projects
What we’ve been up to while you weren’t looking
From concept to final cut, we handle briefing, planning, shooting, and editing. Capture the essence of your property and share it with the world through our unique and bespoke films.
Working entirely from still photography and externally sourced video, including footage from the local tourism board, Uchi Media developed the creative concept, wrote the script, and built a cinematic narrative without an on-site shoot. Static imagery was animated using AI techniques and layered with landscape footage to communicate scale, opportunity, and context. The project highlights our ability to combine client assets, third-party content, and creative technology into a cohesive, high-impact storytelling asset.
With the hotel still under construction, Uchi Media filmed inside a completed model room and combined this with original scripting, Uchi-shot destination footage, and selective AI enhancement. The team crafted a cohesive visual narrative that communicated material quality, atmosphere, and lifestyle positioning before physical completion. The project demonstrates Uchi Media’s ability to visualise future environments and create compelling marketing assets under real-world development constraints.
With only 20 high-quality still images supplied by the client, Uchi Media created a fully realised film using motion design, AI-driven animation, and curated Uchi stock footage. The team designed pacing, narrative flow, and visual rhythm to bring architecture, light, and spatial experience to life from static assets.
The project demonstrates how limited source material can be transformed into premium marketing content through intelligent creative direction and technical execution.
Working entirely from client-supplied photos and mobile video footage, Uchi Media developed the script, narrative structure, and visual treatment remotely.
Editing, colour grading, curated stock footage, and AI enhancements were used to elevate production quality and visual consistency without on-site filming.
The project illustrates how scalable remote production can unlock strong marketing outcomes even for individual standalone listings.
Creative Services
Tailored for Your Audience
Premium remote film production package that turns your existing property assets into a polished, high-impact marketing suite built to attract serious buyers. We produce a cinematic 90-second film (widescreen + vertical), a short cutdown, YouTube thumbnail, social tiles, and professionally written listing copy.
Starting from $25,000 USD
FOUNDATION
SIGNATURE is our premium on-site film production package, delivering a professionally shot 90-second cinematic film (widescreen + vertical), a short cutdown, YouTube thumbnail, social tiles, and a complete listing copy pack. We manage the full process — from scripting and recce through filming, editing, and music production — with delivery in three weeks and two structured revision rounds. Built for landmark properties, SIGNATURE delivers elevated execution and true market presence.
Starting from $60,000 USD
SIGNATURE
CINEMATIC
CINEMATIC is Uchi Media’s flagship brand storytelling campaign — a 15-minute cinematic film crafted as a premium multi-episode series, supported by a trailer, cutdowns, behind-the-scenes content, interviews, and launch copy or a one-page web layout spec. We manage the full production journey from research and scripting through casting, storyboarding, filming, music, and post-production, delivering within 10 weeks with three structured revision rounds. Designed for brands and destinations that want more than promotion, CINEMATIC builds authority, emotional connection, and long-term brand equity at the highest production level.
Starting from $150,000 USD
Projects start from $25,000 USD and scale depending on creative ambition, distribution strategy, and production scope. Every project benefits from amplification across our owned platforms reaching over 250,000 engaged subscribers globally.
Ongoing Creative Partnerships
For larger developments and resorts, Uchi Media offers retainer-based partnerships that enable the creation of ongoing content series rather than one-off campaigns.
This allows projects to build sustained visibility, audience loyalty, and long-term brand value through regular storytelling, seasonal content, construction updates, and lifestyle narratives.
Our own “I Love Niseko” YouTube series demonstrates how consistent, high-quality production can compound reach and engagement over time, transforming media into a strategic growth asset rather than a marketing expense.
A retainer partnership gives clients a steady production flow, faster turnaround, and a deeper brand alignment, typically resulting in more effective long-term outcomes across digital channels.
Services Tailored for Exceptional Properties
Custom Video Production
From concept to final cut, we manage briefing, planning, shooting, and editing. From individual homes and unique land opportunities to large-scale developments and destination resorts, our cinematic films capture the character, context, and commercial story behind every project using 4K drone footage, immersive walkthroughs, and lifestyle-driven storytelling.
Social Media & Digital Assets
Ready-to-publish reels, shorts, and graphics optimised for platforms including YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Designed to generate attention, engagement, and enquiries, our content translates property stories into high-performing digital formats that travel across platforms and audiences.
Scalable Content Solutions
Access a growing library of premium templates and modular content formats, ideal for fast turnarounds, campaign rollouts, and multi-property portfolios without sacrificing creative quality or brand consistency.
Global Creative Collaboration
Work with our curated global creator network for localised shoots, authentic storytelling, and efficient production anywhere in the world, all guided by Uchi Media’s central creative direction and quality standards.
Let's Build Something Remarkable
Talk to us about how cinematic storytelling and intelligent distribution can elevate your next project.
The Team
Uchi Media brings together filmmakers, creative directors, editors, writers, designers, social specialists and platform strategists with one shared purpose: to make exceptional property, resort and hospitality projects feel as compelling on screen as they do in real life.
We sit inside the wider Uchi Global ecosystem, but Uchi Media has its own distinct focus: cinematic storytelling, intelligent distribution and creative campaigns that help properties move from being seen to being remembered.
Our work combines high-end visual production with real market understanding. We know how international buyers research, compare and fall in love with places. We also understand that great media is not just about beautiful shots—it is about narrative, timing, audience, emotion and commercial purpose.
From full cinematic campaigns to remote production, social cutdowns, launch films, destination storytelling and ongoing creative partnerships, Uchi Media is built to help developers, agents, hotels and destination brands tell better stories and reach the right audience.
Damien – Creative Director
Damien leads the creative vision behind Uchi Media.
An award-winning filmmaker and creative director, Damien brings a cinematic eye, strong narrative instinct and deep production experience to every project. His work sits at the centre of Uchi Media’s visual standard, shaping how properties, resorts and destinations are presented to global audiences.
From luxury residences and hotel developments to lifestyle campaigns and destination films, Damien ensures every project has clarity, atmosphere and emotional pull. His role is not simply to make things look beautiful, but to make each story feel considered, distinctive and commercially effective.
Matt – Partnerships Director & 2IC
Matt brings global media, technology and partnerships experience to Uchi Media.
Having launched and led Google’s office in New Zealand, Matt understands how digital platforms, audience growth and commercial partnerships work at scale. His experience helps Uchi Media think beyond one-off production and focus on how content performs across YouTube, social platforms, newsletters and long-term digital discovery.
At Uchi Media, Matt helps shape growth strategy, distribution thinking and client partnerships, ensuring creative campaigns are built not just to look good, but to travel well.
Phil – Paid Media & Growth Strategist
Phil supports the growth and discoverability of Uchi Media campaigns.
With deep experience in paid media, analytics and performance marketing, he helps ensure the right content reaches the right audience across the right channels. For Uchi Media, Phil’s role is especially important once a film or campaign is ready to launch—helping creative work travel further, perform better and generate more meaningful attention.
His contribution brings a performance layer to Uchi Media’s creative output, connecting strong storytelling with smarter audience targeting, campaign optimisation and measurable reach.
Leighton – Art Director
Leighton brings over 20 years of advertising, branding and design experience to the Uchi creative team.
An award-winning art director and typographer, he has worked with major international brands across campaigns, print, digital and identity. For Uchi Media, Leighton helps ensure that each project feels visually coherent beyond the film itself, from campaign graphics and thumbnails to layouts, presentation materials and brand expression.
His role is to make sure the creative system around each project feels as polished as the production.
Chris – Founder & CEO
Chris is the founder of Uchi and the driving force behind the wider Uchi Global platform.
Having lived in Japan’s ski resorts for over 15 years, Chris brings a rare mix of property market knowledge, buyer insight, financial experience and brand instinct. He understands both sides of the equation: what agents and developers need to communicate, and what international buyers need to feel before they enquire.
For Uchi Media, Chris shapes the commercial strategy, client relationships and overall direction, ensuring each project connects creative quality with real market outcomes.
Vinny – Chief Data & AI Architect
Vinny leads the data and AI architecture across the Uchi Global ecosystem.
With experience at Google and Databricks, he brings deep technical expertise in building scalable systems, structuring complex data and turning information into useful intelligence. For Uchi Media, Vinny’s role sits behind the scenes, helping the team think more intelligently about content performance, audience behaviour, automation and future creative tools.
As Uchi Media grows, his work helps connect cinematic storytelling with smarter distribution, better reporting and more informed creative decisions.
Gwen – Short Video Creator
Gwen helps turn Uchi’s long-form storytelling into fast-moving, platform-ready content.
As one of Uchi’s earliest team members, she understands the tone, audience and rhythm of the brand across social media. Her work helps properties and destinations stay visible beyond the main film, translating key moments into reels, shorts and social content that can reach people where they are already watching.
Gwen brings energy, instinct and consistency to Uchi Media’s social output, helping projects build familiarity over time rather than disappearing after launch.
Armelle – Head of Content
Armelle leads Uchi’s written and editorial voice.
With decades of experience across lifestyle, travel and digital publishing, she helps turn property and destination stories into clear, polished and engaging copy. For Uchi Media, Armelle supports the narrative layer around each project, from scripts and launch copy to articles, captions and campaign messaging.
Her work ensures that the story does not stop when the camera does. It continues through the words, headlines and editorial framing that help audiences understand why a place matters.
Creative Media that drives leads
Built for creative quality and commercial reach
Uchi Media is not a traditional production company, and it is not simply a social media service.
It is a creative media team built inside a live property platform, connected to a global audience of buyers, agents, developers and lifestyle-property followers. That gives us a practical understanding of what captures attention, what builds trust and what helps turn interest into enquiry.
We make films, campaigns and digital assets for projects that deserve to be seen properly.