Film and Media Production
Seasoned directors and production. Industry-leading cinematography and talent.
Venture Out! Campaign
CINEMATOGRAPHY | PRODUCTION
In partnership with Bravoecho & Winter Park Ski Resort
Year
2023
Much of the ski industry is over-boiling with stoke, exclusivity, and elitism. On the other hand, there is an immense need to embrace new audiences, returning audiences, and fence sitters. The mountain resort experience can be intimidating for many. Weather, gear, terrain, skills, and insider knowledge can create the impression of a club that only a few have a membership to. In 2023 we partnered with Winter Park Ski Resort & Bravoecho to produce 5 commercials for use in the 2023 season.
2023 Winner of the MUSE Creative Gold for video tourism
2023 AVA Gold for digital marketing campaigns
2023 AVA Gold for video production
Spirit of the Peaks
DIRECTOR | CINEMATOGRAPHY | PRODUCTION
In partnership with REI CO-OP Studios and Wondercamp
Year
2021
Wondercamp, NativesOutdoors, and REI Studios presents Spirit of the Peaks, an Indigenous ski film featuring Lakota skier, Connor Ryan, and his journey to restore the bonds between the land he skis and the people who once called it home.
A proud Hunkpapa Lakota and passionate skier, Connor Ryan was born and raised on the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute homelands at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Connor's mission with the film is to do his part in restoring balance with all inhabitants of these mountains by illuminating the Utes' culture and traditional knowledge that can benefit everyone in the fight to preserve the land and dissipating snowpack. -REI
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2022 Wasatch Film Festival - Best Cinematography
2022 5 Point Film Festival - Best Cinematography
Visit Idaho Native Tourism Campaign
DIRECTOR | CINEMATOGRAPHY | PRODUCTION
In partnership with Visit Idaho and Madden Media
Year
2021
In 2021 we partnered with Visit Idaho to profile native artists within the state from the Shoshone-Bannock, Shoshone-Paiute, and Couer D’Alene tribes. These tribes nurture their unique artistic practices rooted in tradition and prepare the next generation to develop these skills.
We profiled three tribal artists, who use the media of beadwork, painting and music to tell their tribal stories.
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Ford Bronco Sky Islands Odyssey Campaign
PRODUCTION | TALENT
In partnership with Ford Bronco, REI CO-OP Studios, and Wondercamp.
Year
2020
The Sky Island region of southeast Arizona is among the most biologically diverse areas in North America. From parrots to jaguars, this desert oasis is beautiful, fragile and worth taking the time to explore. Four friends set off on a 220-mile bike relay in their all-new 2021 Ford Bronco Sport to test their ability and introduce people to a place they know and love.
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Welcome to Gwichyaa Zhee
DIRECTOR | CINEMATOGRAPHY | PRODUCTION
In partnership with The Wilderness Society, The Gwichin Steering Committee, and Patagonia
Year
2021
Just north of the Arctic Circle, the Gwich’in people are fighting to protect the lands and caribou from oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—a place that has provided them with a rich and bountiful existence since time immemorial. Indigenous groups in southeastern Utah are doing much the same, seeking to defend their homeland and cultural heritage from energy and mining exploitation in Bears Ears National Monument. "Welcome to Gwichyaa Zhee" is a short film that explores the commonalities and differences between the two, and why the Gwich’in people need our support.
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2020 Get Out The Native Vote Campaign
DIRECTOR | CINEMATOGRAPHY | PRODUCTION
In partnership with the Rural Utah Project
Year
2021
At the end of 2019, when the Rural Utah Project began to expand its programs into the Arizona portion of the Navajo Nation through the Rural Arizona Program, we knew that we needed a different approach. Instead of investing in a conventional digital advertising program, we chose instead to invest in individuals and content creators who were already organizing within their own communities, in their own voices. In a unique collaboration between the Rural Utah Project and NativesOutdoors, we set out to do just that
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The C-Team:
Beer League Mountain Biking on the Colorado Trail
AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY | TALENT
In partnership with Fat Tire & Kody Kohlman
Year
2021
The C-Team is a mountain bike film celebrating Fat Tire's 30th Anniversary. Inspired by the fabled mountain bike ride through Europe that spawned the craft beer icon, we assembled a ragtag crew to ride more than 500 miles down legendary Colorado Trail, from Denver to Durango, stopping in the mountain towns nestled along the route, in search of cold beer and good times.
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The Fifty: Episode 17: Mt. Tukuvinivatz
TALENT | PRODUCTION
In partnership with The Fifty Project & Cody Townsend
Year
2020
Mountains are a skier's passion, but for many people in North America, they're far more than that. They're a source of life, death, spirits, ancestry and most important, it's their home. Joining with Len Necefer PHD, Diné (Navajo), the CEO of Native Outdoors and a professor of Native American Studies along with Connor Ryan, Húŋkpapȟa (Lakota), Townsend goes into the La Sal Mountains, the ancestral homelands of the; Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Diné (Navajo), and ancestral Puebloan peoples, to ski as well as talk and learn about their individual connections with the mountains and how important they are not to just skiers, but to the world.
The FIFTY is a project following Cody Townsend as he attempts to climb and ski all fifty of the lines and mountains chronicled in the book, "The 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America."
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Messengers: A Running Story About Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante
TALENT | STORY ADVISING
In partnership with Yeehaw Donkey
Year
2018
On December 4, 2017, President Trump declared a drastic reduction of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments. This is the largest elimination of protected land in American history…and the President had made his decision without ever stepping foot there.
On January 13, 2018, we gathered a group of friends and ran 250 miles across both monuments in a single weekend to see for ourselves what would be left protected.
Now more than ever we believe in celebrating the things that unite us. Our run was about finding commonalities in the midst of a divisive political landscape and standing in coalescence— tribal members, athletes, dirtbags — for our public lands. We hope our footsteps carry a message: wild places are worth protecting, and sometimes the first step in doing that is to take another.
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