A Backstage Pass to the World
What’s This?
We made a microsite for you to highlight some work that we think fits the Why Utah pitch. Below are some things we made that represent us
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Real People Doing Real Things
Nice to meet you, we’re More Big Days
This cosmic union of storytellers began in the hot springs of Utah on set for a White Claw beverage commercial - Ian our mastermind editor/director and Jerry the Utah-based cinematographer/co-director.
We’ve been telling stories about real people doing real things for decades.
We know how to plan road trips. We’ve taken ultra runners from Texas to California to run the border wall for The North Face, we’ve journeyed a nuclear physicist to the line of totality under the solar eclipse, tested the first electric pickup truck on a 12 day sufferfest from Tahoe to Mexico, and let influencers loose on a van trip from LA to Seattle. Not to mention the countless doc trips we’ve done (hundreds collectively) - our backs ache just thinking about it.
VISIT MISSOURI
Directed and cut by Ian
Meet Beta.
One of our favorite projects to date. We got tasked to distill a highly innovative, one-of-a-kind electric aerospace company into a 3-minute recruiting and sales video.
Some Things We Like
Sleeping in the dirt. Landing airplanes on dry lake beds in Utah. Leading Boy Scouts. Releasing a cutty back to a crystal clear stream. We like being outside with people we love and we love people who like being outside. That’s why we decided to make it our jobs. So how did we get here?
We made the pilot for the much-decorated newsmagazine show VICE on HBO and our circle got bigger. Eclipses happened, we danced with dictators, chewed gum in the Oval Office and then we made Weird Waves for Vans and it blew up.
Meteor showers rained down and we made more documentaries, taught Harmony Korine how to camp, sailed to Antarctica (twice), and taught a generation of filmmakers how to do more with less. We started to take less commercial flights and put more miles on our trucks across the Greatest Snow on Earth.
Aviation electrified Ian, we explored America, found weirder waves, and found the biggest wave yet when we shot the pilot of HBO’s 100 Foot Wave. Our circle keeps growing, our passions keep rewarding us, and our vision for how to find great stories is getting even sharper in our age.
ETIHAD AIRWAYS
Travel Places.
Etihad Airways
"The World is Ready"
Etihad Airways "The World is Ready"
Gallery
A few films we made that we think you’d like!
NIGERIA OIL PIRATES
From the HBO Series “VICE” where we ventured far up the Niger Delta to meet the folks hacking into the Shell Oil pipeline. We did about 150 shoots like this but are sparing you from watching any more ;)
100 Foot Wave - HBO
Shot by Jerry. Be sure to ask him how he thought it was a good idea to turn down directing this project!
WEIRD WAVES
Glacier surfing in Alaska
NEOM
Visit the Future. How do you tell a story about a place that doesn’t exist yet?
RIVIAN
Taking Rivians all new electric truck in a rally race across the desert
KELLY SLATER
The winningest surfer in history and the star of this 11 part series. Cut by Ian