Anotherlight

What Anotherlight does

Anotherlight (legal name: Anotherlight asbl) is a Belgian nonprofit association (asbl) founded in 2006 and headquartered at Rue de Mulhouse 36, 4020 Liège, Belgium. The organization operates as an audiovisual education and training hub, delivering a catalog of 21 programs split between four entry-level amateur workshops (acting in front of camera, screenwriting, fiction creation, documentary creation) and seventeen professional formations covering directing (840h), production assistance (360h), stage management (340h), film makeup (350h), hair/makeup/costume (125 days), post-production (91h), DaVinci Resolve color grading, Pro Tools sound, facial animation in Maya/3ds Max and Mudbox, YouTube channel creation, social media, corporate film, and a Casting Workshop & Masterclass. Programs are delivered in person at Pôle Image de Liège and in Brussels.

The organization's revenue model is fee-for-service workshop and tuition income, priced per program (e.g., Stage 15+ at €300, Stage 15- at €150, screenwriting at €315, fiction creation at €300, casting masterclass at €450), with longer IFAPME-certified professional formations priced through the official Wallonia vocational training framework. Go-to-market is hybrid: community-led and event-driven, leveraging the institutional website (anotherlight.be), Facebook and Instagram organic social, direct email ([email protected], phone +32 455 11 57 53), Google Forms for amateur workshop registration, and co-enrollment partnerships with IFAPME Liège-Huy-Waremme (core), IFAPME Mons Borinage and Technifutur (secondary), plus instructor supply from Walloon production companies (Frakas Production, Tarantula, Les films du fleuve, Versus Production, Dérives, Helicotronc).

Anotherlight is governed by a Coordination lead (Robin Dagallier), an operational team of approximately twelve working filmmakers and audiovisual technicians, and a four-member Board of Directors. It has no external investors, no funding rounds, no parent company, no proprietary technology or AI components, and no intellectual property filings. Customer segments span individual amateurs aged 15+, youth under 15, job seekers and career changers enrolled via IFAPME, cultural associations, and SMBs seeking corporate video training. Geographic scope is regional, limited to Wallonia (Liège and Brussels), Belgium.

Name

Anotherlight

Legal name

Anotherlight asbl

Website

https://anotherlight.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Anotherlight asbl is a Liège-based Belgian nonprofit founded in 2006 that delivers amateur audiovisual workshops and IFAPME-certified professional film training programs (directing, production, makeup, post-production, 3D animation) to individuals, job seekers, and SMBs across Wallonia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Audiovisual arts training and cinema education

NAICS

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (512)

SIC

Services-Allied To Motion Picture Production (7819)

akta.pro primary industry

Screenwriting Workshops (Film/TV/Web) (EDAMAMAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Virtual Training, Workshops & Masterclasses (Interactive Sessions) (MPAGAOAJ), Project-Based Learning & Presentation Coaching (EDANADAH)

Keywords

• Audiovisual training
• Film workshops
• Cinema education
• Screenwriting courses
• Film production training

Headquarters

HQ city

Liège

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Workshop fees: The organization generates revenue through paid workshops and training courses in audiovisual arts. Fees vary by program: Stage 15+ costs 300€, Stage 15- costs 150€, Scriptwriting workshop (7 evenings) costs 315€, Fiction creation costs 300€.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Anotherlight asbl delivers paid introductory workshops and longer professional formations in audiovisual arts from its bases in Liège and Brussels, covering acting in front of camera, screenwriting, fiction creation, documentary creation, directing, production assistance, stage management, makeup, post-production, and adjacent digital skills. Programs are run by active professional filmmakers and technicians and delivered both directly through Anotherlight's own venues and through IFAPME-certified vocational channels.

Product overview

Anotherlight is an educational organization (asbl/non-profit) operating as an exploration and training hub dedicated to audiovisual arts. Rather than a unified software product, it offers a portfolio of distinct educational programs: four introductory workshops in audiovisual skills (acting, screenwriting, fiction, documentary) and seventeen professional formation programs covering the full film production spectrum including directing, production management, technical crafts (makeup, post-production, sound), and new media (YouTube creation, Da Vinci Resolve, facial animation, social media). Programs are delivered in partnership with IFAPME Liège-Huy-Waremme and are held primarily in Brussels and Liège, Belgium.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Jeu Face Caméra (Face-to-Camera Acting Workshop)

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• IFAPME Liège-Huy-WaremmecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary educational partner for professional training courses including Audiovisual Director (840h), Production Assistant (360h), Stage Manager (340h), Cinema Makeup Artist (350h), Production Administrator, and Director Assistant programs. The partnership follows the official academic calendar (2025-2026) with courses held 1-2 days per week.
• IFAPME Mons BorinageminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSecondary educational partner offering Production Assistant training with courses held 2 days per week in Mons location.
• TechnifuturminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration partner for Social Media training program. Technifutur handles enrollment for this specific course.
• Pôle Image de LiègecoreOthersPrimary training venue for workshops and courses. Located in Liège, providing infrastructure and facilities for audiovisual training.
• Frakas ProductionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProduction company providing instructors (Cassandre WARNAUTS, Jean-Yves ROUBIN) for Production Assistant training program.
• TarantulaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProduction company providing instructor Valérie BOURNONVILLE for Production Assistant training.
• Les films du fleuveminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProduction company providing instructor Delphine THOMPSON for Production Assistant training.
• Versus ProductionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProduction company providing instructor Gwennaëlle LIBERT for Production Assistant training.
• DérivesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProduction company providing instructor Julie FRERE for Production Assistant training.
• HelicotroncminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProduction company providing instructor Julie ESPARBES for Production Assistant training.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• SAE Institute Belgium: Global audio, film, and creative media school with a Brussels presence offering diploma programs in audio engineering, film, and animation. Competitor for the same aspiring-creator market across Belgium, but operating as a commercial rather than nonprofit training provider.
• KASK School of Arts (Ghent): Ghent-based higher-education arts school offering programs in audiovisual and performing arts. Comparable as a Belgian film/arts training institution, though operating in the Flemish-speaking region and serving a different language community.
• La Cambre (ENSAV Brussels): Brussels-based school of visual arts including audiovisual and photography programs. Comparable as a Wallonia-Brussels creative-arts educator, but broader in scope beyond pure audiovisual production training.
• INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle): Brussels-based higher-education institution training directing, cinematography, editing, sound, and production for film and television. A larger, more established Belgian film school serving an overlapping student population in the French-speaking creative ecosystem.

Direct peers

• IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion): Louvain-la-Neuve-based audiovisual and theatre arts school offering degree-level training in directing, production, sound, and editing. Directly comparable as a Belgian French-speaking audiovisual training institution, though organized around accredited degree programs rather than short workshop and formation cycles.
• ARF (Atelier de Recherche et de Formation): Liège-based training organization offering professional development courses. Comparable as a Wallonia-rooted, workshop-style training operator with similar operating scale and target learner segments in the Belgian French-speaking market.

Regional players

• ECAL (École cantonale d'art de Lausanne): Swiss university of art and design with an audiovisual and cinema program. Comparable as a French-speaking European creative-arts training institution, but based in Switzerland and operating as a public university rather than nonprofit training hub.
• 3iS (International Institute for Image and Sound): French audiovisual training school with campuses near Paris, offering degree and short-form programs in directing, production, sound, and editing. A French rather than Belgian operator with a similar pedagogical approach but larger commercial footprint across the Channel.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Anotherlight.asbl
• Instagraminstagram.com/anotherlightasbl

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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