What’s your story? That is our primary question for any video. We strive to captivate audiences through powerful narratives, creativity and authenticity. We provide video production services for each stage of the process, from concept and writing to camerawork to editing.
Filmmaker Profile: Agnés Varda
This 25-minute video is a deep dive into Varda’s work, as interwoven with personal milestones from her life. Based on a longer interview from 2017 by the Academy’s Oral History Project, I had the honor of distilling it down into a more compact, but thoughtful piece.
Edited by Amanda Law
Motion graphics by Tempe Hale
Cateogry: Short documentary
Client: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Innovating in AI
A short promo for the historic Silicon Valley research institute SRI about their background in AI research, beginning with the first mobile robot that had the ability to perceive and reason. (Run time: 1:39)
Edited by Amanda Law
Category: Promo video
Client: SRI
Jane Kim’s Murals in Mariposa
Inspired by the native plants and animals that the Sierra Foothill Conserancy–in collaboration with the Southern Sierra Miwuk Tribe–is seeking to restore along Mariposa’s historic creek, Bay Area muralist Jane Kim and her talented team paint two gorgeous public murals in town. (Run time: 2:53)
Videography by David Boomer & Amanda Law
Edited by Amanda Law
Category: Short documentary
Client: Mariposa County Arts Council
Something Good
Curators Rhea Combs and Doris Berger, along with Academy Museum Director Jacqueline Stewart, discuss SOMETHING GOOD – NEGRO KISS (1898), one of the earliest films featured in the Academy Museum exhibition “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971.” A parody of an even shorter, popular 1896 film called THE KISS, produced for Thomas Edison and featuring a white couple, the film disrupts the minstrel stereotypes commonly associated with African American performances in the late 19th century. (Run time: 5:33)
Edited by Amanda Law
Category: Short documentary
Client: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Unpacking the Universe: The Making of an Exhibition
Follow Los Angeles County Museum of Art curators Diana Magaloni and Julia Burtenshaw as they research and develop an unprecedented exhibition of ancient Colombian art. (9 Episodes)
Produced by Agnes Stauber & Amanda Law
Written by Alexa Oona Schulz
Directed by Agnes Stauber & Alexa Oona Schulz
Category: Short documentary miniseries
Client: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Community Music Center is 100!
Since 1921, Community Music Center has remained steadfast in the mission of making high-quality music accessible to people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, regardless of financial means. Join us in celebrating a century of music for everyone as we honor the past, celebrate the present, and reimagine the future.
Produced and edited by Amanda Law
Motion graphics by Victor Loh
Category: Sizzle reel
Client: Community Music Center
Luchita Hurtado: Memories of her son John Mullican
John Mullican, youngest son of painter Luchita Hurtado (Venezuela, 1920-2020), shares deeply personal memories of his mother’s art practice, and how it informed her relationship to the world around her. (Run time: 7:24)
Edited by Amanda Law
Category: Short documentary
Client: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Give My Love to the Folks at Home
16 million Americans served in World War II. This is the story of one soldier. And his mother. (Run time: 16:56)
Directed & Edited by Amanda Law
Category: Short documentary
Client: Mariposa County Arts Council
Artist Portrait: Hung Liu
In this short video, artist Hung Liu discusses her photographic practice and the artwork featured in the exhibition "Golden Hour: California Photography from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art". (Run time: 6:27)
Videography & Editing by Amanda Law
Category: Short documentary
Client: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
A History of Heritage
The mission of San Francisco Heritage is to preserve and enhance San Francisco’s unique architectural and cultural identity. This video was produced for the organization’s 2018 fundraiser gala.
Videography & Editing by Amanda Law
Category: Promotional video
Client: San Francisco Heritage
Vestaboard
A messaging board inspired by the split-flap displays of European train stations, but updated for the 21st century. (Run time: 30 seconds)
Videography by Amanda Law
Category: Promotional video
Client: Vestaboard
What does CMC mean to you?
Community Music Center students talk about the opportunities, lasting benefits and access to music the program provides. (Run time: 2:54)
Videography & Editing by Amanda Law
Category: Promotional video
Client: Community Music Center
Priorities for the Stanford School of Engineering
A year and a half into her tenure as Dean of the School of Engineering, Jennifer Widom shares her vision for increasing diversity at the school and building stronger interdisciplinary connections across campus. (Run time: 2:44)
Videography & Editing by Amanda Law
B-roll: Todd Dayton, Kurt Hickman, Amanda Law and Stanford Video
Category: Promotional video
Client: Stanford School of Engineering
Micro-robots inside the human body
Jinxing Li, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, explains his efforts to build incredibly small robots for the purpose of delivering drugs more precisely to the area of the human body that needs them. (Run time: 2:27)
Videography & Editing by Amanda Law
Category: Short documentary
Client: Stanford School of Engineering
