Why PastPort
PastPort exists to bring history and heritage to life — accurately, responsibly, and memorably. We combine immersive storytelling, digital innovation, and specialist heritage expertise to create experiences that people trust, understand, and remember.
Our work is grounded in respect for cultural assets, intellectual property, and historical complexity. We do not simplify the past for effect; we translate it into engaging experiences that remain faithful to evidence, context, and meaning.
PastPort works closely with institutions, specialists, and communities to ensure that every project balances creative ambition with responsibility, care, and long-term value.
Creative Excellence with Purpose
PastPort brings together award-winning filmmakers, immersive creatives, and visual effects specialists with decades of experience across film, broadcast, live production, and immersive media including VR, AR, and XR.
We specialise in storytelling that communicates complex historical narratives clearly and emotionally, creating experiences that function as both meaningful public engagement and robust educational resources.
Heritage at the Core
Heritage underpins everything PastPort does. Our approach is informed by a broad understanding of history, place, and cultural significance, ensuring experiences are developed with accuracy, sensitivity, and long-term responsibility.
The team includes specialist expertise across archaeology, history, interpretation, and conservation practice. Archaeology plays a vital role where relevant, contributing evidence-based insight within a wider heritage framework that values context and public understanding.
One Integrated Team
PastPort operates as a genuinely integrated team. Creatives, technologists, producers, and heritage specialists work collaboratively from research through to public delivery.
This approach avoids disconnects between storytelling, technology, and historical integrity, ensuring each project is guided by a single, shared vision from concept to public experience.
Experience in Engagement and Reach
Alongside heritage and production expertise, PastPort brings significant experience in audience engagement and communications across immersive media and visual effects.
The team has supported the growth of creative and cultural organisations internationally, ensuring projects are not only well made but effectively shared with their intended audiences.
Partner Perspective
Archaeologist Peter Connolly (Humber Field Archaeology) speaks about the role immersive technology can play in interpreting heritage with accuracy and care.
His perspective draws on collaboration around the Hull South Blockhouse Virtual Reality experience - bringing a lost Tudor fortification to life through historically informed modelling and interactive exploration.