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Ultimate Skyfighter

Reality competition show looking for the real life Top Gun (in development).
Co-produced with Mark Burnett’s One Three Media and David Ellison’s Skydance Productions.

Urbantrike

Urbantrike is a start-up of cool dudes intent on bringing back the big wheel. When they launched a Kickstarter to get rolling, we got to make this video to help them achieve their goals (and then some.) Brand ID pieces followed.

Boatlift

Tom Hanks narrates this epic story of the 9/11 boatlift that evacuated half a million people from the stricken piers and seawalls of Lower Manhattan.

BOATLIFT premiered at the 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Summit in Washington. The Summit kicked off a national movement to foster community and national resilience in the face of future crises. In addition, this documentary short film has received over 9 million views on YouTube and is shown in schools, corporations, church and community groups around the world.

Heart Healers International

Heart Healers International is a not-for-profit that’s doing remarkable work. They are literally saving hundreds of lives – and may potentially save nearly 100,000. They’ve helped create the first pediatric heart surgery facility in Uganda and are working to reduce the burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease in all of East Africa. We do their branding work, create their fundraising films, identity packages and provide ongoing creative consultation.

The Greatest Tunnel Ever Built

NYC’s urban miners, called Sandhogs, have built every tunnel under the city for over a hundred years. They are rough and tumble brotherhood of men who work hundreds of feet below New York, in a parallel universe. Their work is crazy dangerous, but also wildly important. Without these tunnels, the city above literally couldn’t exist.

This award winning feature film served as the pilot for the epic series SANDHOGS. In order to make this film Eddie Rosenstein became a union miner himself, working for months on a drill and blast gang. As Eddie helped mine the tunnels, his union brothers in turn helped make this landmark film.

HISTORY
90 Minutes
Narrated by Edward Burns

My Sweet Radio

Music video for Jullian James

Surveillance City

A reality TV pilot about a hi-tech security company run by tough former NYC police detectives who monitor over 25,000 security cameras and conduct private criminal investigations for exclusive clientele. These guys are like a police force for hire!

60 minute pilot for truTV

Missing and Endangered

Over 70,000 people go missing every year in America. For those over 18, without criminal evidence, it’s left up to the person’s loved ones to find them. We embedded with two families as they tried to locate their missing and endangered daughters. One family had their dreams come true. The other had their hearts broken.

MISSING & ENDANGERED
one hour pilot produced for
A&E Television

Series sold to and currently airs on
INVESTIGATIVE DISCOVERY
as LAST SEEN ALIVE

Sandhogs

New York City’s urban miners, AKA ‘Sandhogs’, are the men who make the city tick. They build the water tunnels, the subway tunnels, car tunnels. If not for the Sandhogs working 800 feet below, life would be impossible for the 8 million people above. The hogs are an unsung, wild group of men who’ve handed the business down from father to son for generations and do one of America’s most dangerous jobs. This series for History Channel is their story.

HISTORY
13 x 60

How the States Got their Shapes

Pop-Culture meets American History meets Travelogue.
Eddie Rosenstein Co-EPed season 2 with Half Yard Productions,
Brian Unger hosts.

H2/History
13×30

Boundless

New music video for VARICK’s hit single, BOUNDLESS. Directed by Carlos Almonte.

SW24

SW24 is one of the nations leading security solutions for both home and business. We’re proud to have been working with this company to help define and tell its story since its inception.  Here is one of the recent videos we created for them.

Zip Aviation

Television and viral marketing campaign for New York’s premiere helicopter tour company.

Corning

When Corning was celebrating a corporate anniversary, we produced several videos to help commemorate the event. They used these pieces to help put the past and the future of this storied American company into perspective for both the shareholders meeting and their worldwide work force. We also created three brand spots.

It’s so much fun shooting glass and light!

Kenneth Cole

When designer Kenneth Cole was given the humanitarian award by the CFDA
we got made his tribute film, which then ran on their homepage.

Colgate

The Colgate Clock has stood sentry over the New York harbor for over a hundred years.
When they lovingly restored the landmark this year, they hired us to film the entire process – in time lapse!
Then we made a film commemorating the clock’s triumphant return, in time to kick off their annshareholder’s meeting.

Amex

An externally facing branding film, introducing American Express’s “Welcome In” Campaign.

A Tickle in the Heart

One of the classic films about klezmer music and the Jewish experience, this hilarious feature length documentary centers around the Epstein Brothers – musicians who played Bar Mitzvahs and weddings for fifty years. Now in their 80’s and retired to Florida, their band is about to be discovered!

Worldwide Theatrical Release
Winner of 16 Film Festival Prizes
Broadcast on PBS • Available on Netflix

FDR Four Freedoms Park

The FDR Four Freedoms Park is New York City’s newest landmark public space. Set on four acres of Roosevelt Island in the Hudson River, this is the last completed work of famed architect Louis Kahn. We were hired to document the entire three years of the construction process. From our footage, we completed pieces to assist their fundraising, branding and promotion. Our work culminated in a documentary film about the park on PBS.

Reality People

What happens to people who become famous on Reality TV? Can they ever go back home, back to being “real” people?

REALITY PEOPLE, the first documentary about reality TV cast members hoping to perpetuate their fifteen minutes of fame, was the pilot episode of The AMC Project, a doc series about entertainment from signature filmmakers.

AMC
60 Minutes

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MR. ALLEN

“The Gospel According to Mr. Allen” follows three addicts through Harlem, NY’s most infamous rehab as they try to break the grip of drugs. Peter wants to stay out of jail. Michelle would like to get her children back. And Brett hopes for a record contract. But can the battle against poverty, hopelessness and addiction really be won?

James Allen’s brainchild, the Addicts Rehabilitation center offers a unique perspective. Famed for its tough-love, trash talking staff as well as its Gospel Choir, A.R.C. continues to write the rules. This is a passionate film about people who never give up on people.

Winner, 14 Film Festivals
Broadcast on A&E

Waging a living

If you work full time, you should not be poor, but more than 30 million Americans – one in four workers – are stuck in jobs that do not pay the basics for a decent life. In this landmark film for public television, we followed people for three years to see what, if anything, they could do to try to make a living wage.

THEATRICAL RELEASE/PBS POV

Autobiography: Dennis Hopper

The pilot episode for AUTOBIOGRAPHY, a new series at AMC in which celebrities tell their own life stories. Dennis Hopper, instrumental in some of the greatest films over four decades, went first. As you can see from this clip, he held nothing back.

Miss Shade is Missing

The award winning documentary short film about the worst day of the year for a third grade class in Brooklyn. It was a very bad day. And a very funny one.

Winner, Best Short Film, 5 Film Festivals

School Play

A documentary feature film about, well, a school play. But not your average school play! These suburban kids are about to get pushed beyond their wildest dreams. This funny, intimate film devolves into a madcap coming of age and loving portrait of ‘life in the American Family.’

Directed by Eddie Rosenstein and Rick Velleu
WINNER: 12 Film Festival “Best Documentary”, “Best In Fest” and “Audience Awards”
Available on iTunes, Amazon, Etc

For more, go to www.schoolplaythemovie.com

Rebuild

A short film about the rebuilding of the World Trade Center
as a metaphor for the rekindling of the American spirit post-9/11.

Produced for the Port Authority of NY/NJ (owners of the WTC)
Narrated by Tom Hanks

The Red Cross In Haiti

When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, the American Red Cross immediately deployed us to help detail their efforts. This is the first piece we made, which helped ARC raise millions of dollars for Haitian relief. We’ve gone back at least once a year since to help the Red Cross detail their progress.