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Photo Agent: Polaris Images & Getty

For Shawn Hayes, the ancient practice of falconry is more than a deep connection with raptors. It’s his life’s work. As an American falconry ambassador, he’s carved a space for himself where people of color haven’t always been welcome.

Commissioned by Patagonia Films.

Director: Brett Marty & Josh Izenberg
Cinematography: Owen Bissell, Niki Waltl, Jason Joseffer, Josh Izenberg, Brett Marty, Ben Ditto, Eric Bissell, Kesten Migdal
Editor: Traci Loth

FINDING MEANING IN MUSIC: How a tech pioneer, faced with a deadly illness, prepared for his unexpected final act.

Commissioned by The New Yorker.
Also a Vimeo Staff Pick.

Director: Brett Marty
Cinematography: Phillip Briggs, Jason Joseffer, Wynn Padula
Editor: Traci Loth

This is the trailer for YOUTH (2016), my directorial debut and first large-scale film. We're currently in the final stages of post-production, and the film is set to premiere in the spring of 2016.

Click here for the YOUTH website.
IMDb Page: Youth (2016)

Director: Brett Marty
Cinematography: James Laxton
Producer: Joshua Izenberg
Written by Amelia Whitcomb, Brett Marty & Joshua Izenberg
Starring: Jessica Stroup & George Maguire

A doc-style series for Better Therapeutics — a wonderful company that helps people reverse diseases (like Type 2 Diabetes) by changing the behaviors that cause them.

An unconventional field biologist wages a high-tech war against ravens in the Mojave — think laser cannons, exploding tortoises, autonomous drones — in a last-ditch effort to save the last of the desert tortoise from extinction.

Director: Brett Marty & Josh Izenberg
Cinematography: Phil Briggs
Editor: Jen Bradwell

For screening info click here.

A short doc, commissioned by KIPP Bay Area, interweaving the stories of students, teachers, and parents working to “Be the Change” in their communities.

A short, humorous video for the launch of PayPal's mobile payment app in conjunction with Thrutu.

A doc-style series for Clover Sonoma about The Fight for Sustainable Family Farms in Northern California.

A traditional customer testimonial about the partnership between Snowflake & CapitalOne.

Client: Snowflake
Agency: Glass & Marker

An animated product introduction for Brex — the first corporate credit card for startups.

An animated product introduction for Box.

Two rural families in India, each with children suffering from Congenital Heart Disease, set off on a long journey toward a hospital that promises free treatment.

Directed by: Brett Marty & Josh Izenberg
Cinematography: Phillip Briggs
Editor: Stef Sequeira
Assistant Editor: Kee Heywood
Graphics: Colin Gill
Sound Design: Andrew Haak
Re-Recording Mix: Jeremiah Moore
Color: Robert Arnold
Produced by Brett Marty & Josh Izenberg

A series of 30s & 15s spots for Traditional Medicinal's new line of Stress Ease teas.

A few of my favorites (right) from the 2012 & 2016 presidential campaign trails.

During the past few presidential elections, I have been on the campaign trail as a photojournalist. In 2008, I worked for the political blog FiveThirtyEight, which was later acquired by The New York Times (and more recently, ESPN). In 2012, I partnered with TalkingPointsMemo & Corbis Images as a freelance photojournalist. In 2016, I was back home with FiveThirtyEight.

Photo Agents: Polaris Images & Getty

Contact for prints.

A commissioned doc about the once-in-a-century shift happening in the way companies do business — and the end of ownership itself.

Client: Zuora
Agency: Glass & Marker

A short doc on humanity's search for the first potentially habitable exoplanet, by my team at Speculative Films.

The film appeared on National Geographic, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Wired, Vice, The Verge, Astronomy Magazine, and was a Vimeo Staff Pick.

A series of videos for HackerOne, a company that connects companies with trust hackers to get ahead of security vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.

A piece of branded content for American Giant.

A short animation produced to promote Salesforce Chatter.

Without a doubt, Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) is one of the nicest companies I've worked with.

They wanted something where the product was the hero — and a series celebrating the small business owners who their products help.

A mini-documentary telling the company story of Monetate. It uses animations and interviews with customers and Monetate's senior team.

A package of videos I made for Acompli. The first is a more traditional ad, a "teaser" for the launch of the company itself. The second is a product video for the release of their flagship product.

Acompli was acquired by Microsoft in the fall of 2014 and rebranded as the new Outlook.

A short animation for AT&T.

A launch video for Estimote's Smart Beacons (iBeacons) for iOS and Android.

Very cool company out of Poland. The world is about to get pretty different. 

A mini-doc that tells Sharethrough's company story.

An Apple-style app video for the launch of Evernote Peek, the first Smart Cover app, and a series of user testimonials for Evernote. 

Apple heard about the Peek product and wanted to rush the release, so we only had 36 hours – from concepting through production – to make the video.

I made this stop-motion piece with the super talented Vermont artist Devon Kelley-Yurdin. Hundreds and hundreds of tiny pieces of construction paper, moved less than a millimeter at a time.

A second never seems quite so long as when you have to divide it up into 24 segments.

A YouTube pre-roll ad campaign for Syncplicity.

Part of a branded content campaign for Sharethrough's "Every Day Should Be the Super Bowl."

Part of a viral campaign to launch voice search for Dolphin Browser HD. Campaign can be seen here: youtu.be/JD3EN48gwhY

Views: 1.2 million

A product story animation for News360.

A world where everything's made of cardboard. A short online spot for OfficeDrop.

This was a really fun new genre for me: the book trailer. I made this for Daisy Rockwell's Little Book of Terror, an incredibly compelling and complicated book of paintings and essays about The Global War on Terror. Released by Foxhead Books.

Daisy's paintings and books can be seen at DaisyRockwell.com.

A screencast created for Sumo Logic as an introduction to – and walk-through of – their product.

A product launch video for Fingerprint Play, a learning game series for kids.

A comedic video for the launch of SportStream, now an app for Facebook.