When most people think of nature documentaries, they imagine hour-long or feature-length films meant to unravel complex stories or deep dive into pressing issues facing wildlife and our planet. While those can be incredible,...
Telling a compelling story on video doesn’t have to be complex or overwhelming for your conservation organization. In fact, breaking it down to the essentials can help you produce a video about your environmental...
I want to share some behind-the-scenes updates: I've recently made a significant investment in new filming equipment in 2024 to keep elevating the quality of my work. This new cinema filming equipment has been...
Some wild places and the work being done to save species keep pulling me back. For the past seven months I've been in the field for many many hours in the Long Point Biosphere Region...
The WorkCabin Creative feature-length conservation documentary A Priority Place: Hope For A Forest is now streaming on Kinema. The 70-minute documentary was filmed and produced for the Long Point Biosphere Region. The project was fully...
How much does a video cost? That's why you've probably arrived here. The truth is, every project is unique and so is cost. So I've created this blog post to help you understand that being...
How much does a video or film cost? In any conversation we have, I'll share my experience of costs related to past projects in my 10+ years of conservation filmmaking. It's a realistic way of...
If you've watched conservation documentaries, you know how engaging and authentic they are at showing people working in the field doing research, monitoring, restoration, etc. These films pull us in, in a deep way,...
As a solo conservation filmmaker, one of the most important roles I play isn’t just being behind the cinema camera — it’s being the person who puts others at ease. Whether I'm working on...
I'll say this a thousand times to clients: Narrative storytelling is the secret sauce to connecting your conservation organization to audiences. It's not rocket science. It's a simple fact. Humans are hardwired to respond to stories....
