I’m honored to have worked with so many great organizations and brands to tell their stories.
Clients include: Copacino + Fujikado, Hey!, GreenRubino, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Holland America Line, Columbia Crest, Washington State University, Splash.org, Days for Girls, Weld Seattle, Renton Tourism, The Clymb, World Vision, Evidence Action, Seattle Goodwill, Strong Against Cancer, Seattle Aquarium, and Seattle Children's Theatre.
Role: Cinematographer & Colorist
Agency: Copacino + Fujikado
Role: Director, Cinematographer, & Editor
Weld is a non-profit based in Seattle that hopes to end the cycle of addiction, incarceration, and homeless by providing clean and sober housing, mentorship, and community.
For the end of 2018 we set out to release a series of testimonials from people who are currently in Weld housing and seeing the benefits.
Role: Cinematographer & Colorist
Role: Writer, Director, Director of Photography
In the summer of 2018 I produced my first short film, ‘Next to Godliness’, where a lonely suburban mom meets a sketchy man in the neighborhood which sends her down a path she would soon regret.
The short in in post production and is slated to be released Feb. 2019.
Role: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, & Photographer
Days for Girls provides menstrual health and education solutions around the globe to over 1 million women and girls. In Nepal, the practice of chhaupadi is a unique challenge to women’s health and safety, but Days for Girls is addressing it.
Role: Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Days for Girls provides menstrual health and education solutions around the globe to over 1 million women and girls. They newest office in Guatemala is helping girls in the Lake Atitlán area stay in school by offering washable reusable pads.
Role: Director, Cinematographer & Editor
Splash.org wanted to start 2018 off right and release a series of videos highlighting their mission and beneficiaries. They released the first 3 videos on World Water Day, where they celebrated 10 years in operation and the completion of every orphanage in China.
Together, we produced one brand video and two student story videos about two girls living in Kolkata and Addis Ababa. A forthcoming video about a boy in Kathmandu will be released later in 2018.
Copywriter: Joline Tang
Role: Director of Photography & Interactive Designer
Agency: Copacino + Fujikado
CD: Mike Hayward
AD: Andy Westbrock
Editor: Brian Alter
2nd Camera: Matt Hartman
Gaffer: Ed Liming
Juan & Juan on Wine is a clever content series that feature's Columbia Crest's Head Winemaker, Juan Muñoz-Oca, and Estate Vineyard Manager, Juan Uribe. Together, they talk about the craft and care that Columbia Crest wines bring to winemaking.
I DPed the second year's series—"Food, Art, & Ratings", "Hands On", "High Tech", and "Spring Breaks".
Growing up in small-town Kansas, thumbing through National Geographics, I never imagined that one day I'd see so many of the world's wonders. I was always fascinated by other languages and culture as well as filmmaking. Now, I have the distinct pleasure of combining my two great passions.
I have explored 25+ countries in only the last 10 years, but I hope to continue to add to the list for the rest of my life.
Role: Cinematographer, Art Director, Editor
Creative Director: Mike Hayward
Agency: Copacino + Fujikado
Role: Cinematographer & Photographer
Jobs change lives. These four are is proof of that. Whether they were homeless, unemployed, jailed, or an immigrant, Seattle Goodwill was there for them. Through job training and GED courses, they found the skills they needed to go get jobs.
Editor: Brian Alter
Producer: Mimi Gan
Agency: Copacino + Fujikado
Music: Pico
Role: Cinematographer, Art Director, Web Designer
Agency: Copacino + Fujikado
CD: Jim Copacino
Copywriter: Barrie Arliss
Role: Photographer
Splash needed fresh new photos highlighting their work in Kathmandu and Kolkata. Here are some boys and girls enjoying Splash's 100% reliably clean drinking water.
Role: Cinematographer
Director: Aaron Lee
Role: Cinematographer, Animator, & Editor
Role: Photographer
Copacino + Fujikado launched a new website design in the fall of 2017. The refreshed brand look and site required fresh new headshots for the entire staff, too. At the time, I was an Art Director at Copacino and I took on the headshots. We wanted to show that Copacino and its staff or a fun, friendly bunch of humans. They headshots feature aspects of each employees job, personality, or personal life.
Role: Cinematographer, Editor, Interactive Designer
Holland America Line launched a new TV campaign—Why We Sail—about the transformative power of travel and how travel is fatal to prejudice.
They needed a microsite to direct people after the TV spot where interested viewers could hear about the power of travel directly from Holland America Line's own staff.
I shot this series of corporate testimonials as well as designed the microsite where they would live.
Role: Cinematographer & Editor
Weld is a non-profit, social enterprise based in Seattle that is committed to giving second chances to former inmates, people fresh out of recovery, or people coming out of homelessness—and many who come from all three backgrounds.
As a very young organization, they needed to tell their story to promote their new programs.
Role: Cinematographer & Editor
Old Timer, Arnie McCloud, of Newton, KS is a clock smith. He's repaired over 3,500 over the past 29 years.
Role: Cinematographer & Editor
Role: Videographer and Editor
Many people think that they are supporting the University when they buy branded merch, but the University only gets a small portion of those sales. This video is a fun teaser to promote supporting the Cougar Athletic Fund if you really want to support the team.
CD: Mike Hayward
Agency: Copacino + Fujikado
Music: Naked Giants
