CREATIVE media
What we make
when
no one is asking.
Creative Media is the studio’s original practice — the films, the audio, the experiments, the half of the studio that runs on a different clock. It’s where ideas live before they have clients, and where the work that matters most tends to start.
Active slate
Featured
In development · Feature
15 to Sunrise
A horror film about the long hours before dawn at a roadside diner — and what arrives in the last fifteen minutes before the sun comes up.
- Format
- Genre
- Status
- Origin
- Director
From the short
that started it.
A small, perfectly-pitched piece of dread. The kind of short that announces a filmmaker.
- Recognition · Short film
- Best Short Film — Nosferatu Festival
- Honorable Mention — Ice Movie Awards
- Best Horror — Red Movie Awards
- Best Fantasy Short — IndieX Film Fest
- Best Short Film — The Dunwich Horror Fest
The slate
What we're working on
right now.
Creative Media moves more slowly than the commissioned studio. Some of these have been with us for years; some are still finding their shape. We post updates when there’s something to show.
Feature
In development
15 to Sunrise
- 90 min
- Festival 2027
Audio
In Production
The Long Distance.
- 8-episode season
- Fall 2026
Feature
In development
Untitled winter short.Sunrise
- 12 min
- Dec 2026
Audio
In Production
Field Recordings.
- Audio sketches
- Ongoing since 2024
The archive
Released, finished,
or out in the world.
Tools serve the work.
- Festival run
The Long Distance · Season 2
- released
The Long Distance · Season 1
- released
First Light
- released
2021
Sara and the Animals
- Festival Award
Why originals
The other half
of the
studio.
The commissioned studio funds the original studio. The original studio teaches the commissioned studio. They share a building, a team, and a set of standards — but they answer to different audiences.
Original work is where we get to find the form before the brief exists. It’s matters slower, less profitable, and harder to talk about — and it’s also the reason the rest of the studio is any good.
If something we make moves through the world and lands somewhere — a festival, an inbox, a long conversation — we treat that as the point. The films and the audio aren’t a side hobby. They’re the half of the practice that decides what the whole practice is for.
We post about the work occasionally on the studio’s journal and quarterly newsletter — sign up below if you’d like to keep up.
Quarterly notes
Four letters
a year,
at most.
What we’re shooting, what we’re listening to, and what we’re trying to figure out. Four times a year, written by a person, no tracking pixels, easy to unsubscribe from.
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