event video // Tacoma Film Festival 2018

I filmed and edited this highlight video incorporating my motion graphics and original music for the 2018 Tacoma Film Festival

promo video // Tacoma Film Festival 2018

I used the graphic art from the poster I designed to create motion graphics for use alongside my original footage to edit together this little promo video for the 2018 Tacoma Film Festival.

poster art // Tacoma Film Festival 2018

I’m proud to be once again tasked by The Grand Cinema’s Tacoma Film Festival to create this year’s poster art.

event film // Tacoma Film Festival 2017

We were on hand all week to capture the 2017 Tacoma Film Festival—from screenings to workshops to parties—here’s our look back at our favorite TFF yet (including original music composed in-house!)

promo films // Tacoma Film Festival 2017

We worked with the Tacoma Film Festival once again—this year to help turn their annual poster art into moving pictures as promo videos. We combined original footage with an original score to complete the effect. The best part of this project was driving around Tacoma capturing the footage!

photos // Tacoma Film Festival : 2016

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The 2016 Tacoma Film Festival wraps up this evening. We snapped a few photos at a couple events—here are a few of our favorites!

poster art // Tacoma Film Festival 2015

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Coming in October, Tacoma Film Festival 2015 is shaping up to be another excellent one—and we were honored to have the chance to once-again provide the poster art above!

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poster // Tacoma Film Festival

As passionate filmmakers and cinephiles, we felt very much in our essence creating the poster for this year’s Tacoma Film Festival.  For the art, we wanted to play with the escapist whimsy of cinema to create a surreal design, one that was inspired by the interaction of light with space but—like a good film—is imbued with some added layers of visual meaning pertaining to both cinema and Tacoma. Continue Reading

Cult Sonoma video // Film Festival

We are so lucky in Sonoma to have a world class film festival every spring—the Sonoma International Film Festival.  We were even luckier this year because we were able to have access to the whole festival and document it day by day for Cult Sonoma—including filmmaker interviews, special event footage and even some playful words from Lifetime Achievement honoree Susan Sarandon.

Click through to see the other two short videos…

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