Located in the heart of San Francisco’s culture-rich Mission District, this “pin-drop quiet” studio features a five-star camera-ready chef’s kitchen, white cyclorama, full-body green-screen, black limbo, and many location style shooting options. Highly organised management and numerous efficiencies round out the company’s turn-key approach to studio services.

Just minutes from downtown San Francisco, The Producer’s Loft Studio handles all the back-end support for video productions, still photography shoots and off-site meetings. The company systematises and incorporates many of the repeatable parts of production into a workflow that provides clients with numerous efficiencies; saving time and money.

Having invested in sound-isolation, The Producer's Loft is confidently one of the quietest shooting spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ideally suited for out-of-town productions, the studio has all necessary lighting and grip equipment on-site as well as in-house gaffer, in-house stagehand, and freelance teleprompter, make-up and location sound mixer personnel. Craft services are available upon request.

For meeting events, The Producer’s Loft Studio provides tables, chairs, HD video projector and screen, audio sound system, microphones, tech support, and a business-class internet and mesh Wi-Fi system.

EOS Aerial provides aerial cinematography and consulting to the commercial, print, and digital industries throughout California and the Western United States.

With well over 1000 commercials and print shoots to his credits, Jof Hanwright offers a wealth of knowledge, insight, and a photographic repertoire that is unmatched in the field. Having worked with directors such as Lance Acord, Dante Ariola, Forest Whitaker, and Kathryn Bigelow - and companies such as RSA, Park Pictures, Reset, and Anonymous Content - he has been pushed to the highest levels of visual excellence.

Jof offers visual solutions to the various challenges a project might present, and will always work with creative teams to deliver the most compelling and dynamic images possible. He is FAA licensed and fully insured.

Recent clients include BMW, Tesla, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen, Nike and AT&T.

From the bidding stage and throughout production, there is simply no other company that can offer the comprehensive set of resources, skills and knowledge to match what EOS Aerial brings to the project.

Tori B. Amos is a creative professional with an eye for detail. She works quickly and effectively as an art director, wardrobe and prop stylist and loves fashion and music. Her vision is that clothing is poetry in motion, with a story to tell.

Tori strives to bring a fresh artistic approach to camera. From the buttons, texture, and accessories, she looks for that extra something that has its own unique rhythm.

Her recent projects include commercial productions for (PG&E) Pacific Gas and Electric’s California state-wide campaign, that aired in three different languages during prime time TV. She also completed a national web campaign for Homelight Real Estate.

Tori also styled inter-office short films for PayPal and Netflix. She creates looks and set designs for high-end clients and corporations combining colours, style, and complementary accessories that stand out according to the clients’ needs and expectations.

“My dad was a director-cameraman in New York, my uncle a career editor at CBS news for 30 years for Walter Cronkite and Charles Kurrault, and the women in my life are powerful. I was fortunate to have a strong education, and I came alone to California with a camera, darkroom experience, and a backpack. 

I started as a printer in a huge commercial graphics shop, printing 8 x 10-foot advertising photographs. I joined freelance production in my early 20s as a PA and location assistant with great mentors, and after several years in huge features and commercials, I was drawn deeply into the rapidly evolving print industry. My storytelling and production methodology translated well from motion into stills, as catalogues exploded and lifestyle became a thing. 

The State of California and some major clients recognised my early work collecting and cataloguing locations, and quickly BPS became the largest and most diverse location library in Northern California. I continue to scout every day, building the location files at night. 

I have always loved the rush and urgency of our work, the quirky asks, the deadlines. Every project is unique and sudden, and new challenges are exciting and satisfying, particularly because we can meet them quickly based on our experience and wide-ranging contacts. I love to shoot, solve puzzles, and make introductions. I love to explore, and meet people. My clients are my friends.”

"Little Devil Productions is a full service production company focused on providing the ultimate level of quality and attention to detail. 

Producing around the globe, we leverage a worldwide network of trusted production partnerships ensuring highly skilled crews for projects of any size. Local crews are handpicked for each project and tailored to suit your needs. 

Just a few of the services you can count on when working with Little Devil. Art Buying, budgeting, casting, catering, craft service, crew hire, equipment rental, ground transport, insurance, location scouting and permitting, travel coordination and anything else you may need. 

Imagery from Luxury Magazine’s fall fashion editorial, shot in Mallorca."

Raygun Studio was triggered by designer and CGI artist Michael Tompert, creating one-of-a-kind iconic images and motion for brand identities and campaign heroes, which has repeatedly earned it a place in Luerzer’s "200 Best Digital Artists in the World”.

While they haven’t yet figured out how to turn water into wine, they can turn pixels into gold. Visualising ideas that only exist in a creative director’s mind. Crafting key visuals with a strong first read to stand out on a phone screen and deep detail revealed when closing in on a 20-foot tradeshow display. Setting those images in motion. Raygun brings images of the mind’s eye to life using CGI, photography, and digital painting.

The studio has over 10 years of experience working with design and advertising agencies for global brands including Apple, Disney, Ford, Gap, Gillette, HP, Nike, Microsoft, Pepsi and most recently Samsung.

Craig is an award-winning photographer that possesses a career as a photographer and videographer. He works with well-known periodicals such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, Silicon Valley Magazine, EatingWell Magazine and Forbes Japan. Craig has also worked with corporate and advertising agencies creating photos and videos. He will collaborate with you in creating images of the highest quality.

The brief is in! Your client wants you to create something that will tell a story and capture the appetite appeal of the product. Photographer and director Brent Herrig can help. Based in New York, Brent supports in-house and agency clients to achieve stress-free productions that hit the brief.

Recently, Brent consulted, designed, and photographed new cocktails, for Scottish-based Botanist Gin. Chef Danny Mena's latest book 'Made In Mexico' featuring Brent's work was published in early October by Rizzoli Publications.

Some of Brent's recent clients including Nespresso, Shake Shack and Dead Rabbit Bar rely on Brent to capture their vision of food, drinks and products in the most collaborative, efficient way possible.

What can Brent help you with? Contact him directly to talk about your next project.

Welcome to Showcase New York, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading creatives and companies working out of New York. 

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our New York Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications including Harper's Bazaar, Deloitte, Kate Spade, Elizabeth Arden, Estée Lauder, Coca-Cola, Sony, L'Officiel, Elle, Chanel, and Cheerios among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop - explores four decades of photography, from the late 1970s to today, documenting a revolution not just in music, but in politics, race relations, fashion, and culture. Until 18th May at International Center of Photography, New York.
• Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, the first major MoMA exhibition of Lange’s in 50 years, brings iconic works from the collection together with less seen photographs—from early street photography to projects on criminal justice reform. From 9th February to 2nd May at MoMA, New York.

Our cover image was shot by Julio Bárcena.

With over 60 years of experience, Mayo Studios is the premier destination for home, lifestyle, interior photography, 3D visualisation and video. 

Based in New York City, their 20,000 sq. ft. photo studio accommodates production on multiple sets. They have a collection of home interior settings purpose-built for image-making and a vast in-house prop/furniture collection. Mayo’s in-house team consists of photographers, producers, set-designers, carpenters, stylists, 3D and post-production artists. Each informed by strategy, trend and years of industry specialisation. 

They work with some of the home industry’s most celebrated brands including American Standard, Bed, Bath And Beyond, Bloomingdale’s, Brooklinen, Calvin Klein, Circa Lighting, Donghia, Frette, Grey, Hunter Douglas, Kassatex, Kate Spade, Knoll, Kravet, Léron, Matouk, Ralph Lauren, Scalamandré, Vera Wang and WestPoint Home.