ONGOING PARTNERSHIPS
YOUR STORY DOESN'T HAPPEN ONCE A YEAR.
Most brands treat film like a one-time purchase — a big shoot, a big invoice, then twelve months of silence. The organizations that actually move people work with a filmmaker all year long. We embed with a small number of partners and build their story continuously: campaigns, events, social, the whole arc.
PATAGONIA · META · RITZ-CARLTON · SUBARU · CAN-AM · LULULEMON · BLACK PROJECT SUP · WILDERNESS COLLECTIVE · REEF · STETSON · SEA-DOO · VITAMIN A · MAAP · DOMETIC
WHY RETAINER
ONE FILM IS A MOMENT. A YEAR OF FILM IS A MOVEMENT.
A retainer isn't a discount on production. It's a different relationship — one where we already know your people, your rooms, your calendar, and your voice before the camera comes out of the case.
01
No re-onboarding tax
Every one-off project spends its first week relearning who you are. On retainer, that week is already paid for — permanently. We show up knowing the room.
02
Story compounds
Footage from March becomes the campaign film in October. A retainer builds an archive that gets more valuable every quarter instead of expiring with the invoice.
03
You stop guessing at cost
A flat monthly number replaces five separate scopes, five negotiations, and five surprise line items. You budget once and get a year of work.
THE OFFERING
THREE WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Every tier starts with a three-month pilot and continues month to month if it's working. Unused shoot days roll one quarter forward — we'd rather you use them well than use them fast.
TIER THREE
IN-HOUSE
For partners who want a creative team on the inside.
$7,500 /mo
3-month pilot, then rolling
— Everything in Signature, plus:
— Two shoot days every month — we're on your calendar, not in your inbox
— Full event production — multi-cam, live-to-screen, same-night recaps
— Annual story strategy, built with your team
— Fundraising and campaign films written for the ask
— Documentary-length work where the story earns i
TIER ONE
STEADY
For brands that need to stay visible without building a content department.
$1,500 /mo
3-month pilot, then rolling
— One shoot day per quarter — full crew, half or full day
— Four social cutdowns a month — vertical, ready to post
— Stills package from every shoot day
— Quarterly planning call
— Organized, delivered asset library
— Music licensing included
MOST COMMON
SIGNATURE
For organizations running real campaigns — a flagship story every quarter, plus everything around it.
$3,500 /mo
3-month pilot, then rolling
Closest to what we produced for Black Project SUP.
— Everything in Steady, plus:
— A flagship film each quarter — 2-4 min, story-led
— One shoot day every month
— Creative direction and concepting, not just capture
— 8-10 social cuts monthly
— One event or campaign moment covered per year
— Photography built into every shoot
INCLUDED AT EVERY TIER
Licensed music · Color and sound finishing · Two revision rounds per deliverable · Every aspect ratio you need · Cloud-delivered, organized archive · Full commercial usage rights
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE — BLACK PROJECT SUP, SIX MONTHS
CAMPAIGN SHOOT
Athletes on Maui — SUP, foil, sprint.
HERO + CUTDOWNS
A 60-second film, then shorter social edits from the same material.
UNSCRIPTED
Long-form episodes that run between launches, not because of them.
VERTICALS
Shorts and Reels cut from the episodes. Then the next campaign.
NOT READY FOR A YEAR?
START WITH ONE PROJECT.
Most partnerships start as a single job. Someone needs a film, we make it, and somewhere in the process both sides work out whether this should keep going. We take one-off work happily — no pitch about retainers, no upsell in the delivery email. If it turns into something ongoing, good. If it doesn't, you got the film you needed.
A SINGLE FILM
Concept, shoot, and edit — one flagship piece plus the social cuts out of it.
from $3,500
A CONTENT DAY
One shoot day, a month of social in a single go. Stills included.
from $1,800
EVENT COVERAGE
A day on site, cut into a recap film and a set of clips you can use all year.
from $2,500
If you move to a partnership within 90 days, your project fee comes off the first month.
THE PROCESS
HOW A YEAR ACTUALLY RUNS
01
We map the year
Before anything is shot, we sit down with your calendar — the events, the launches, the giving season — and build a shooting schedule around the moments that matter.
03
The archive compounds
Every quarter you have more usable story than the last. By month twelve, we're cutting films from footage nobody else could have gotten.
02
We show up on cadence
Shoot days are booked in advance. No scrambling, no rush fees, no "can you come Thursday." The rhythm is set and we keep it.
PROOF
WHAT A LONG RELATIONSHIP MAKES POSSIBLE
These aren't campaigns we parachuted into. They're partnerships measured in years.
ACTIVE PARTNERSHIP
BLACK PROJECT SUP
MAUI · SIX MONTHS AND COUNTING
A paddle company on Maui whose gear has taken more than forty champion titles. Elite product, and — like most specialist brands — a story that only reached the few hundred people who already knew.
We build the whole content side: product campaigns, an original series with the owner, and the vertical cutdowns that come out of it. Six months in, every piece feeds the next one.
6 months
of continuous production — campaigns, series, and social, still running
"Client quote goes here — one or two sentences, ideally about what the film did to the room rather than how nice it looked."
Chris Freeman, Founder, Black Project SUP
MARIN MONTESSORI
THE GATHER FOR GOOD · ONGOING PARTNER
The Gather for Good is Marin Montessori's annual fundraiser and speaker series — a stage that has hosted Al Gore, Sam Altman, and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull. Our job isn't to document the evening. It's to make the room feel something before the ask.
We produce the story films that open the night, the recap that carries it forward, and the year-round footage that makes both possible.
Millions
raised across Gather for Good events, supported by films we produced — [insert exact figure and year range]
"Client quote goes here — one or two sentences, ideally about what the film did to the room rather than how nice it looked."
Carolyn Woolf, Assistant Principal, Marin Montessori
WILDERNESS COLLECTIVE
A DECADE IN THE FIELD · PAST CLIENT
Wilderness Collective runs off-road, off-grid expeditions — motorcycle and UTV trips through Yosemite, Death Valley, Baja, and the Grand Canyon — for people who need to slow down by speeding up. I spent ten years with them: leading the tours, filming them, and building the brand partnerships that came out of them.
That work put me on trips with Can-Am and Sea-Doo, and inside lululemon's Escape and Explore collection — a limited-edition technical line born on a multi-day motorcycle expedition from Sequoia to Yosemite. Ten years of showing up for the same organization is where this retainer model came from.
10 Years
in the field with one organization — leading, filming, and producing brand partnerships
"Client quote goes here — one or two sentences, ideally about what the film did to the room rather than how nice it looked."
Steve Dubbeldam, Founder/CEO, Wilderness Collective