Individuals, companies, families, founders. You have a story worth telling, and it deserves more than a slideshow. Tell it to us in a sentence, a paragraph or a phone call. We write it, cast it, build the world and score it, then hand you a finished film.
Most of them never get told, because telling a story on film used to mean a crew, a budget and a month of your life. It doesn't anymore. It means a conversation with us.
For individuals
Your life, your craft, your message.
The story of how you got here. The thing you believe that nobody has put into words. A letter to your kids they can watch in twenty years.
Founder and personal-brand films
A coach's philosophy, on screen
A tribute, a toast, a legacy piece
For companies
How you started. What you stand for.
The work your customers never see. The reason the founder started it. A brand film for the website, a launch spot for the ads, a recruiting piece that makes the right people apply.
Brand and origin films
Commercials, :15 to :60
Product launches and explainers
For moments
One day. One person. Told like a film.
A wedding, a birthday, a retirement, an anniversary. The moment that deserved a camera crew and never got one.
Birthday and anniversary films
Event recaps and invitations
Memorials and tributes
A story, start to finish
1927. The 18th hole. Four real people.
The Carry began as a two-sentence idea from a members' club: a golfer with one shot to win, a caddie who tells him to go for it, and two announcers calling it from a wooden tower. The four leads are real members, cast from a handful of photos. There was no set, no crew and no 1927. There was a story.
The client described the scene in a few sentences. The year, the shot, the four people, the feeling.
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A script
Dialogue for the player, the caddie and the two announcers. The client read every line before a frame existed.
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A cast
Four real people built from their own photos, with the wardrobe locked so they stay themselves in every scene.
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Seven scenes
Each one directed shot by shot: the camera, the light, the sound, the performance. Re-rolled until it was right.
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One film
Cut together, title cards typeset by hand, scored, and delivered in the formats it needed to live in.
✓
Real people stay real. The faces in a story are the client's own, built from their photos and checked scene by scene. Real products keep their real artwork. Every word on screen is typeset, never generated.
How it works
You bring the story. We bring the film.
You don't need a script, a storyboard or a shot list. You need to know who the story is about and how it should feel. We take it from there.
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Tell us the story
A call, a voice memo, a paragraph. Who it's about, what happens, how it should feel. Rough is fine. That's what the first conversation is for.
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We write it
A short script with dialogue and a scene list. You read it before anything is filmed and change whatever you want.
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We build it
The cast, the world, the camera, the sound. Real people from their photos, real products from their artwork, every scene directed by hand.
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You get a film
Cut, scored and titled. Horizontal for the website, vertical for your phone. Yours to keep and run anywhere.
Every one of these started as a conversation. None of them had a shoot day.
Brand film1:41
PLAYR1 · a brand"Three Jobs"
A hundred seconds of science for an energy-drink brand: thirty-seven trillion cells, three jobs, one formula. Built for screens that run with the sound off, so every line is on screen, typeset by hand, timed to the picture. The cans are the client's real artwork, never redrawn.
Commercial:60
Reliable Permit Solutions · a company"One Call"
A permit company for oversize trucking. Its drivers, its dispatcher, its phone number, and the story of what one call does for a driver stuck at a scale house. Built from a conversation about what their customers actually go through.
Short film1:05
The Country C1ub · two people"Pros Only"
Two friends, a golf course and a door that says members only. A spy scene written around two real people, cast from their own photos, that starts on the first tee and ends somewhere nobody expected.
Scene:27
Reliable Permits × The Country C1ub · a crossover"The Road"
A client's truck rolling into a story world that already exists, with a security escort and a driver in a cowboy hat. The logo and the phone number on the trailer are real. The gate is not.
Product spot:20
PLAYR1 · a product"Architecture"
Twenty seconds for a new energy drink. The can is the client's real artwork in every frame, dropped into a world of rivers, roots and lightning that would have cost a fortune to shoot.
A bakery at dawn, a dock at golden hour, a diner in 1962, a sky that doesn't exist. These frames were built from a line of description each. Your story could be set in any of them, with you in it.
No. Send a few photos and we build you, your team or your family into the film, in wardrobe and in character. Or keep it faceless and let the story carry it. Both work.
What if I don't know what my story is?
That's what the call is for. Almost everyone has it. They've just never said it out loud to someone whose job is to listen for it.
Is it really made with AI?
The world is generated, yes. The story, the script, the casting, the direction, the edit and the taste are human. Think of it as a film crew the size of one laptop, with a director who still has to earn every frame.
Will it look like everyone else's AI video?
No. The difference is direction. Every scene is written before it's built, every frame is checked, and anything that drifts gets re-shot. Watch The Carry above and judge for yourself.
Can you use my real product and logo?
Yes, and we insist on it. Your product goes in with its actual artwork, your logo stays your logo, and every word on screen is typeset by hand so it reads exactly as you wrote it.
How long does it take?
A :30 is usually back within days. A longer short runs a week or two depending on how many scenes and how many rounds of notes. You'll get a date on the call.
What does it cost?
It depends on length and the number of scenes, and it is a fraction of a shoot. Tell us the story on the call and you'll leave with a number.
Can you run it as an ad too?
Yes. The film is the piece most businesses are missing. If you want it in front of people with budget behind it, that's what the rest of Social Fire does.