Our company
About us
We are a short-form production company founded by feature filmmakers. We specialize in dynamic, impactful content with a narrative edge. Rather than starting in shorts and aspiring to features, we made movies first, and then brought our skills (and sensibility) to shorts.
We’ve had the privilege of working with some of the biggest movie stars, film festivals, and distribution companies in the world. That, plus more than 20 years of marketing experience with some of the world’s most powerful brands, allows us to bring a wealth of best practices to our work with you.
FORMSHORT is also proud to be an official MBE (Minority Business Enterprise), with over 65% ownership by people of color.
Your brand
Your story
Your results
Our work
what we've done
Our award-winning content combines classic storytelling principles—honed over two decades creating narrative feature films in Hollywood—with cutting-edge visual equipment and techniques. We combine beautifully lit and crafted footage with advanced motion graphics to create unparalleled emotional engagement for your viewers.
We have a special focus on educational & non-profit institutions, and we invite you to compare our work with anything else on the market.
Have a look, and see the FORMSHORT difference for yourself.
Education & advancement
Branded content
Our services
how we help
Given our unique experience—in both filmmaking and marketing—there’s a lot of services we can offer. But what’s important to us is giving you the ones you actually need, at a price you can afford. As independent filmmakers, cost-consciousness is always a top priority,
Our approach is always customized, and unique to each client—we’re here to achieve your objectives, not ours.
PRODUCTION
Using decades of experience producing high-quality content—whether it’s with a budget of millions, or nothing but a million favors—we’ll use cutting-edge equipment and techniques to develop polished, beautiful work that you’ll be thrilled to call your own.
PRE-PRODUCTION
From script development and creative design to budgeting, casting and crew hiring, we’ll handle all the logistics necessary for the shoot, keeping you involved all the way through.
SHOOT
Our experience as feature filmmakers delivers huge dividends in the shooting process; our expertise and contacts enable us to produce content unlike any other company out there.
POST-PRODUCTION
Through editing, sound mix, color correction, visual effects and graphics, we’ll work closely with you to ensure the final product achieves your vision, and exceeds your expectations.
CONTENT CREATION
Whether you’ve developed your own marketing plan or we’ve helped you build it, we’ll create dynamic, innovative content that is strategically designed to achieve your objectives.
EDUCATION & ADVANCEMENT
The story of a school is the story of its people; reach your funding, recruitment and publicity goals with polished videos that make you proud.
BRANDED CONTENT
Let us tell the story of your brand (and the people behind it), and we'll strengthen your relationships with your most valuable customers.
advertising & SOCIAL MEDIA
Let us help you disrupt the conversation, influence your followers, and get your story into the feeds that are most important to you.
MARKETING
With over 20 years experience building marketing campaigns for some of the most powerful brands in the world, we treat video production as an integral part of a cohesive marketing effort, providing all the benefits of a full-service agency at a fraction of the cost.
STRATEGY
We start with a very simple question—what are your goals? And how can we create an integrated marketing campaign and video production strategy to help you achieve them?
STORYTELLING
As narrative filmmakers, we know that whether it’s a 30-second product spot or a 10-minute lifestyle video, it’s about story; and we help you tell yours in a way no other company can.
DISTRIBUTION
Having distributed and promoted content all over the world, we can help you make sure your content is made available to, and seen by, the widest audience possible.
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Leadership
who we are
With over two decades of experience in both narrative filmmaking and corporate marketing, our leadership team provides one-stop shopping and turnkey solutions. Having worked with some of the biggest stars and companies in Hollywood, and created marketing campaigns for some of the most notable names in the Fortune 500, we have a skill set that simply can’t be found at other video production company.
Every FORMSHORT project is personally supervised by a Managing Partner, to ensure we exceed your wildest expectations—with the product itself, and with your experience of having it created.
JOWAN CARBIN
Carbin’s film WELCOME TO LIFE premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, won Best Director at the Director’s Guild of America, and was a finalist at the Student Academy Awards; his first feature, THE SECURITY OF FEAR, is in festival circulation, and his second feature, DOPE LITTLE CREATURES, is in development at a major studio. His short-form work has included major brands such as Bacardi, JP Morgan Chase, Sephora, Doritos, ONSTAR, Patron, and GMC, and he has produced content for Amazon Studios, Facebook Watch, Soledad O’Brien Productions, Complex, Authentic Entertainment, Endemol Shine, YouTube, Discovery+, Netflix, and NBCUniversal.
DANIEL RAGUSSIS
Ragussis founded a successful marketing consultancy servicing a broad range of organizations, from major corporate clients (AOL, Fannie Mae, Verizon, DHL) to non-profits and tech startups, all while covering widely divergent industries, from healthcare and financial services to energy and telecom. He then moved into feature filmmaking; IMPERIUM, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Toni Collette, was released by Lionsgate and Universal. It was a New York Times Critics Pick; the LA Times called it “impressively dimensional… tense, gripping and disturbing,” and Entertainment Weekly hailed it as “a tense, chilling thriller… Radcliffe is brilliant.”
Clients
who we serve
The best part of our day is working with our incredible clients. We have a special focus on education and advancement, creating videos for organizations as varied as the University of Southern California, the Ackerman Institute for the Family, and the National Academy of Engineering.
We’ve also had the opportunity to create branded content, social media and advertising for brands as diverse as Doritos, Facebook, Bacardi, JP Morgan Chase, GMC, ONSTAR, Sephora, Patrón, Daya by Zendaya, Soledad O’Brien Productions, Vox Creative, Netflix, and Amazon Studios.
TESTIMONIALS
why we're here
In our world, nothing remotely compares to the feeling of a satisfied client.
We pride ourselves on creating a seamless, turnkey experience for our customers. You really and truly won’t believe how easy it is to have us work for you. Let us give you an amazing product; but just as important, let us make your job easier, thrill your internal stakeholders, and make you look great. We provide a white glove service experience that simply doesn’t exist at other production companies.
Amazon Studios
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Ackerman Institute for the Family
Soledad O’Brien Productions
Vox Creative
Culinary Content Creator
Awards & Recognition
what we've won
Our content has played at the most exclusive film festivals in the world; won dozens of international awards; and even qualified for the Academy Awards®. All this recognition means one thing for our clients—stunning results that empower them to achieve their goals.
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Contact
Get in touch
We'd love to hear more about how we can help you achieve your goals. Send us a message by using the form below, or reach out to us by phone or email. We’d be thrilled to speak with you.
Email: info@formshort.com
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