FIELD NOTES / STORIES FROM THE WORK

Notes from behind the story.

Origo eMandi

They asked for one 20-minute film. We made three.

One film cannot serve policymakers, farmers, and food processors at once. Splitting the brief made it their most-watched video ever.

Zavenir Daubert

The film that changed how employees saw their own company

People were leaving because they thought the product harmed the world. One film reframed what their work protects.

Etsy India

Dayawanti had never faced a camera. That was the job.

A first-time subject, a one-day shoot window, and the craft of making a nervous person feel safe enough to be true.

Etsy India

The story fell through at the airport. The campaign didn't.

Our artisan cancelled as we reached check-in. What happened next is why Etsy kept trusting us with fifty films.

Avon Cycles

What a one-call yes looks like

One phone call, ten days, two Himalayan locations, nine hours of shooting. What compounded trust makes possible.

Redux Foundation

The film nobody commissioned

Mid-schedule on paid work, we found a story about to go untold. So we told it.

AnakKita

Maria wasn't in anyone's brief

The strongest story we filmed in Bali was one nobody assigned us. That's the point of storyfinding.

Cult Sport

Fifteen products. Ten hours. One crew.

A full product launch's worth of films and stills in a single shoot day, with nothing pushed to reshoot.

Rotex Automation

The approved script was the problem

A global industrial company handed us a finished script. The bravest thing they did was let us cut it.

Sonepar

The CSR film that refused to be a compliance report

Sonepar India asked us to showcase their contribution. We asked what would make anyone care?

Texas A&M University

Fourteen years apart, two American universities asked us for the same thing

In 2011 it was the University of Illinois. Now it is Texas A&M. What keeps a category of client coming back across a decade.