The work we don't sell
Client work has a clean line through it. You hire us, we build it, you own it, and you can walk away with every file. We don't want that arrangement to be anything else.
Collaborations invert it. We put in our own time, our own money, and our own name, and whatever comes out belongs to everyone who built it. This isn't a discount on the pilot. It's a different deal.
What it looks like
Someone reads how we think about this work and recognizes something in it. They have a room, a kitchen, a record collection, an audience, an idea they can't fund. We have production, strategy, and a willingness to spend our own money on things worth existing.
A dinner series. A listening night. A book club that meets in the back of a shop. A pop-up that gives two businesses a reason to share a customer.
Small things, made properly, that could keep happening.
What each side puts in
We bring the making: shooting, editing, writing, the plan for getting people in the room, and a share of the cost.
You bring what we can't: the space, the audience, the craft, the reason anyone would show up in the first place.
Both names on it. Both of us out something if nobody comes.
What makes it a yes
- It makes a place better by existing, not just louder.
- It could plausibly pay for itself one day. We're not looking for a charity case, and we're not offering to be one.
- Whoever's on the other side is as invested as we are.
- We can start with one night, one run, one issue, before anybody commits to a year of it.
What it isn't
- Free work. If what you need is content made and handed to you, that's the pilot, and it's paid.
- Spec work. We don't audition.
- Unlimited. One or two of these at a time. The paid work comes first, and a collaboration nobody has time for isn't a favor to anyone.
Raising one
Tell us what you want to make and what you'd bring to it. If it isn't a fit, we'll say so quickly and tell you why.