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Production Studio - Already Alive
Director - Michael Marantz
Director of Photography - Tim Sessler
Producer - Jason Oppliger
Post Producer - Drew English
Original Music - Michael Marantz
Edit - Michael Marantz
Assistant Edit - Drew English
Local Brazil Producer - William Guimaraes
Local Brazil Production Company - Southside Productions
This is one of 10 stories celebrating Facebook's 10th anniversary and a decade of connections made possible through the platform.
This spot features musician Matthew Dear as he collects and composes thousands of audio emissions from the world’s most powerful machines to create an original track. Nominated for two Webby Awards and two AICP Awards.
Director: Tucker Walsh
Producer: Jason Oppliger
Produced by: Missing Pieces
One woman decided not ignore a great injustice done to her by the government.
This is the story of Amanda Nguyen's and her organization, Rise.
Featuring: Amanda Nguyen
Director: Victoria Rivera
DOP: Soren Nielsen
AC: Taylor Antisdel
Gaffer: Sean Li
Sound Operator: Monica Rodriguez
Sound Operator: Katerina Aurigema
Hair and Makeup: Elvira Gonzalez
Hair and Makeup: Michelle Coursey
PA: DaeQuan Alexander Collier
PA: Carrington Amey
PA: Kodi Perryman
Production Studio: Already Alive
Executive Producer: Michael Marantz
Executive Producer: Jason Oppliger
Saskia Niño de Rivera founded her non-profit Reinserta after years of working in the social work programs of Mexico. Her goal is to end the cycle of crime in Mexico, no small task. But her organization Reinserta is taking a multifaceted approach and changing lives for the better.
A short film for the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards to both honor Saskia and also provide Reinserta with a promotional film, this film allowed me to spend more time in a woman’s prison eating quesadillas than I ever have before. It should be noted as well: Saskia is one of the coolest people on planet earth.
Credits: Writer, Director, Producer, Editor.
"Why We Create Music", commissioned by music organization ASCAP, tells the story of the absolute importance of music with the individuals who create it. Fifteen musicians, ranging from Bill Withers to Aloe Blacc to Lady Antebellum, sit down with the director, Michael Marantz, to discuss their labor of love, songwriting and composing. Each featured artist was asked to contribute a musical or lyrical element to a base song that Marantz composed, ultimately generating the collaborative soundtrack that plays over video footage of them in the process of writing it.
Director / Composer - Michael Marantz
Director of Photography - Tim Sessler
Music Engineer / Editor - Drew English
Producer - Jason Oppliger
Creative Consultant - Brittany Darwell
Talent Agency - The Meta Agency
Tipping Point Community, an organization that helps combat poverty in the bay area, commissioned us to make a short film for their 2014 benefit. We chose to tell a common story of challenge and hardship in the bay area due to poverty. A hardworking family put into a bad situation and not given much hope to get out of it.
The film has been formatted in an ultra-widescreen format for the special screen it was shown on at the benefit on May 8th, 2014.
Director - Michael Marantz
Director of Photography - Tim Sessler
Producer - Jason Oppliger
Production Manager - Drew English
Produced by - Already Alive
Produced/Directed/Written: Jason Oppliger
New Organ is a fundraising platform for Regenerative Medicine Research.
For this piece, they tasked us with creating a campaign that was unique, felt organic and unfussy, and explained just exactly what in the world Regenerative Medicine is.
So I found Luke through some internet sleuthing, wrote a campaign centered around actual progress, bribed Luke to learn his lines, and directed this piece: Push The Button.
Credits: Writer, Producer, Director, Editor.
Director / Music / Edit - Michael Marantz
Director of Photography / Writer - Jared Levy
Producer / Writer - Jason Oppliger
Produced by:
Already Alive
Melcher Media
A very specially thanks to Jake Barton of Local Projects for the collaboration in making this film.
Also a special thanks to The Future of Storytelling Conference and Charlie Melcher for organizing such a terrific event.
Chevrolet had this new car— a car for city dwellers who wanted something small, something gas sipping, something that allowed you (dear city dweller) to get out of the city. A promise of freedom! But they wanted the hipster kids to hear about it and they were like, how? I developed this concept as hybrid episodic content that would be about destinations you could drive to from major metropolitan areas, and also showcasing up and coming indie bands. You know: all the things.
The final concept was a set of downloadable maps to interesting spots, food recommendations, specialized music performances in unique locations, and a mini documentary about your new favorite band. This is the pilot episode. As we went out to film, Chevy came to the conclusion that hipsters don’t actually buy cars and threw all of their ad money into courting aging nuns or yuppies or whatever, but for real, you could repackage this original idea and do it with any car. Subaru, you watching? Let’s talk.
Credits: Concept, Writer, Director, Producer, Editor.
As seems to happen at universities, some incredibly wealthy person gave something like 70 million dollars for the development of a new program. It was to integrate disciplinary approaches and professional practice, applying knowledge, research and skills in problem-solving, with engagement from community partners. Real world interactions, real world stuff. Duke approached me asking to make a documentary about this program, Bass Connections, but the more we talked, the more I realized their biggest issue was that no one understood what this Bass Connections thing really was. We needed something that explained it.
One of the huge parts of Bass Connections is teamwork, so it was important that no one person stood out. To do this, we wanted to take the identity out of the equation and tell a story collaboratively. The students and faculty who interviewed with me were truly impressive people. A special thanks to all of them for being such good sports about letting me turn them into colors!
Credits: Concept, Writer, Director, Editor.
