Ricky Staub and Dan Walser

Three Feature-Film Production Principles You Should Apply to Every Project

Ricky Staub and Dan Walser of Neighborhood Film Co. share how remembering the human element are key principles in any…

Behind the Scenes of Lacoste’s ‘Crocodile Inside’ Spot with Iconoclast Producer Charlotte Marmion

Just like a good book, film or poem, a good ad requires repeat viewing. On the first watch of LaCoste’s…

Case Study: Using a Musicbed Artist to Set the Tone for a Network Series

At Musicbed, we preach the importance of music every day, but sometimes we don’t have to preach at all. There…

Global Creative Producer Kaki Orr on Producing Stories and Results for The North Face

Whether you’re on the creative team or production team, you need to master the art of compromise. Someone is going…

Blue Ox Films on Expanding Project Scope and Building Rapport for a Docu-Series

Every brief that comes across a filmmaker or agency’s desk provides a choice. In that moment, you can choose to…
Concrete Cowboy

Producers Roundtable: How to Get Your Film Off the Ground

Director/Writer Ricky Staub and Producer/Writer Dan Walser are the founding team behind Neighborhood Film Co., a production team who recently…

Building Cadillac’s Oscars Spot From Scratch

We’ve talked many times about creative constraints and their value, but sometimes as filmmakers we don’t have the luxury of…

Behind the Production of ‘Prodigy’, Quibi’s Brand-New Short Film Series

In filmmaking, it’s really easy for a project not to make it off the ground. At the beginning of pre-production,…

Be a Creative Producer: A Conversation with Wunderman Thompson’s Amanda Riley

Amanda is the director of integrated production at Wunderman Thompson in Chicago. If you don’t know what that title means,…

Behind The North Face’s Mind-Blowing ‘Imagination’

There are a lot of action-sports films out there. A lot. Maybe that’s because in extreme sports the drama is…