The third year working with the comms team at Richemont Americas, and CEO Christophe Massoni, producing internal videos around workplace culture, business updates, and end of year recaps.

On Earth Day, Richemont Americas hosted a conversation about the company’s sustainability efforts with Chief Sustainability Officer Dr. Bérangère Ruchat, and Head of Sustainability of Richemont Americas, Jose Prudencio.

We also managed some event direction and planning on this one:  consulting on where to situate the speakers and seats in the vacant room for optimal aesthetics and video imagery; working with building staff to get camera friendly chairs, decor and plants delivered on time; positioning plants to be at the edges of the frame for all angles; rigging overhead lights in the exposed ceiling space above to keep speakers and the windows (“world of New York”) properly exposed; and finally running the 3-cameras and audio.

We shot the New York segment in this series of vignettes on Richemont’s various apprenticeship programs.

The challenge was capturing great looking content that would pair well stylistically with the high quality material being shot internationally by Richemont’s team in Europe.

To establish the apprenticeship story of our featured subjects, and capture the feeling of New York City and its towering architecture in midtown, we did some “run and gun” walking shots in the lobby of the Olympic building, and then headed to Cartier, one of Richemont’s maisons around the corner on 5th avenue. The gentle falling snow really added to the beauty and serenity of the story.

I love every chance I get to shoot for James Brown Media because the projects are always centered on big environmental initiatives and our energy transition.

I’ve shot a few events with JBM for NACFE’s Run on Less program, including the kickoff video back in 2018 with Richard Branson, and it was great to be called on to handle production for this RoL profile on Frito-Lay’s brand new electric truck fleet in Queens, New York.

The challenge was to deliver footage that fit in with the style of James’ larger Run on Less video series on the latest electric truck depots around the country, but at a much older, short duty-cycle facility in an industrial part of Queens, with active construction happening on the site.

We knocked out 8 interviews in two days under the summer sun, with the various players and stakeholders that make this kind of project possible:  Frito Lay and PepsiCo executives, fleet managers, drivers, infrastructure and OEM executives, and reps from New York City utilities and NGOs.  We also tracked and interviewed two Frito Lay drivers during their delivery routes, in the cab, and with our drone operator. 

Many of us have a general sense of the pros of vehicle electrification in improving energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gases, and improving air quality in our cities and neighborhoods. But what this final edit conveys – beyond the inspiration of seeing how many teams across the private and public sector come together to make projects like this happen – is that these efficiency and decarbonization initiatives are really driven by economic interests and improved quality of life, for nearly everyone involved.

Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, with more than 22,000 people in over 100 countries.

I’ve worked with five or six different teams across Havas’ global network since 2017, producing a variety of culture and communications content that’s been distributed globally on both their internal and public-facing channels.

Content has ranged from comms videos with global CEO’s, internal product roll-outs, outward-facing culture videos, leadership conferences, team building events, and a branded content series with industry executives on what makes media experiences meaningful.

Some of the projects have involved international travel, and it’s been great to get to work with so many teams and executives across the network.

A video series in conversation with media executives at the Daily Beast, The Guardian, Refinery 29, Dailymotion, Brut., Parsec, Intersection, Verizon Media, and Fast Company, centered on the changing landscape of media, and delivering more meaningful advertising and entertainment experiences.

Created by Havas Media Group, and produced by Robin Lewis of Havas and brand strategist Tim Ryan, I was brought in to takeover the video production and editing duties for the existing graphic Q&A template.

We had an hour to set the room, find the frame, light, set up both cameras and mics, and shoot!   

Doc coverage shot with Rashad Evans, former UFC light heavyweight champion, for the film The Hurt Business. Filming was on location in Florida, as Rashad was dealing with the setback of his 2nd ACL surgery.

Shot 3 interviews in New York, and edited a couple of videos for the annual V Foundation fundraising campaign for BRCA research, in partnership with Gray Foundation and the BRCA Foundation. Produced by BDA Productions.

I’ve done a variety of work for NYU Langone Health — from patient education videos for the Clinical Chief of Endocrinology and Division Chief of Endocrine Surgery, to nursing staff training videos, and communications and product roll-out videos for the new Kimmel Center.

Filming in settings with patients requires care, discretion, and keeping a light, organized footprint.

We’re pros at working safely in active medical offices, and making staff & patients comfortable.