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Know Your Place, our documentary for Heart of Florida United Way, won three 2025 Telly Awards and a 2024 Golden Brick Award. Watch it now: KnowYourPlace.org
Our Legacy Life Project initiative has continued to grow since 2018. We capture the life stories of older relatives so that their stories can live on — IN THEIR OWN WORDS — for generations to come. When we think about those who came before us, we sometimes wonder how, and why, they made certain choices. This service allows them to speak their descendants and pass along their hopes, dreams, and lessons learned.
Details: LegacyLifeProject.com
When Hermès opened the store at Millenia Mall in Orlando, they threw a huge party and invited a who’s who of Orlando’s fashion community to celebrate with them. We were there to capture the event.
Made through our 2020 Give Back program, which offered $25,000 in free video production to Central Florida nonprofits. More than 50 applied, and one of the groups selected was Rebuilding Together of Central Florida. Their vision is to create safe homes and communities for everyone. We watched them repair roofs, redo bathrooms, and transform a kitchen for a wheelchair-bound resident.
Made through our 2020 Give Back program, which offered $25,000 in free video production to Central Florida nonprofits. More than 50 applied, and one of the groups selected was Paddle with a Purpose. Their mission is to engage people to volunteer in the conservation and cleanup of our waterways. We filmed one of their cleanups at Lake Ivanhoe and even helped collect trash while we worked.
Slackline Press is a small letterpress studio on the shoreline of Connecticut, owned and operated by Lourdes Irizarry. Lourdes is a designer, illustrator, and printmaker who digitalizes her hand drawn designs which are then transferred to polymer plates and printed on her 1896 Goulding platen press.
Made through our 2020 Give Back program, which offered $25,000 in free video production to Central Florida nonprofits. More than 50 applied, and one of the groups selected was Heart, Hands, and Hope. Every Thursday, Midway Coalition volunteers hand out a box containing a week's worth of meals to families in the community. We tagged along to their Thursday meal distribution in Sanford with our gear in tow.
The making of a Slightly Alabama River Flask. Filmed at the Knickerbocker Manufacturing Company in Ridgewood, New York.
Bungalow Scenic Studios is a full-service custom design and fabrication studio. We created a video that showcases their process and talent from concept to install. We traveled to different install sites and spent days filming timelapse footage for this video.
Late in the summer of 2015, we met Canlin Frost of Canlin Handcrafted, who is a traditional furniture designer based in Winter Park. Over the next several months we documented his woodworking process, which includes using only handmade tools. We produced this short film that highlights the beauty of his craft and the philosophy behind it.
From opera singers on swan boats to conventions, warehouses to Hermès, and all the dogs we met along the way. A look back at all the amazing shoots we were able to be a part of in 2019.
The incredible Architects Of Air, a “monumental inflatable luminaria,” designed by Alan Parkinson, came to Orlando for Immerse 2019. Luckily, we got to capture the magic on video.
Aloft Downtown Orlando partnered with Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando to begin Orlando's first hotel foster dog program. The program has been wildly successful, as hundreds of dogs have found their forever homes.
June 12th is Orlando United Day: A Day of Love and Kindness. Three years after the Pulse tragedy, our community remains Orlando United. Love and Kindness on the Lawn was an event to celebrate the strength of our community as we remember the lives lost. At the end of the event, hundreds of people came together to create a giant red heart.
Our fourth annual film for the nonprofit, REBUILD globally. This film follows the story of Rony, a young man who has benefitted greatly from the education and job training programs that REBUILD offers to people in Haiti.
What started as an inquiry into their own business practices, Beth Hobart and her team started this collaborative project to create a product that is given as a gift to their home buyers. Discontent with purchasing generic items from mass market stores to fill up a gift basket, they found a way to put their purchasing power to great work, through an ethical fashion company in Haiti. The result is the “Live Locally Love Globally” bag, their way to #dobusinessbetter.
Our third film for the nonprofit REBUILD globally focuses on the root causes of poverty in Haiti and how this organization is equipping individuals to overcome it. By creating education and job training programs, REBUILD has begun to build an educated workforce that is positively impacting the economy and the lives of so many families in Haiti.
The Great American Block Party hosted by Lake Nona is a family friendly affair celebrating July 4th. Snow cones, face painting, live music, an apple pie contest, fireworks, Mr. and Mrs. Uncle Sam on stilts... we were happy to capture it all.
Orlando Fringe Festival 2018 hosted an extended performance of “Josephine,” the one woman cabaret show that tells the story of the iconic Josephine Baker, the first African-American international superstar and one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th Century.
This teaser for Outfront Media showcases the installation of 3-D letters onto a billboard. This commercial was shot entirely with our drone. For information about our drone photography and videography services, please contact us.
Travel journalist Sarah Sekula goes vertical and spends the night on the side of a cliff in Estes Park, CO, with the good people from Kent Mountain Adventure Center. Learn how you can get your adrenaline fix with a 24-hour cliff-side adventure.
Could you fit your life into a tiny home of 250 square feet? There are 22 of these at WeeCasa in Lyons, Colorado, which you can rent for a day, a week, or a month. Video hosted by Sarah Sekula, filmed by Jim Hobart and edited by Morgan Walker of Macbeth Studio.
With a growing interest in Fleet Farming and a demand for private garden installations, Fleet Farming Orlando also offers Fleet Garden Installs For those who wish to maintain their own gardens and reap all of the harvest, Fleet Farming will install easy to maintain, long-lasting, cedar-framed garden beds that you can harvest from on your own.
Email fleetinstalls@ideasforus.org to schedule a $50 site assessment.
In January 2017, the entire Macbeth Studio crew traveled to Haiti for a week, to document amazing growth that REBUILD Globally has made in the lives of its workers. With the launch of Deux Mains, their for-profit fashion brand, the level of craftsmanship, quality, professionalism and comfort has been exponentially improved. We were happy to debut this video at the Runway To Haiti fashion show in May of 2017. The event raised over $70,000 to bring a dignified living wage to more hard-working citizens of Haiti.
2016 had its ups and downs, for sure. But it was a really great year for Macbeth Studio's video department. We shot footage all over the country, from San Diego, CA to Brooklyn, NY, and from Pompano Beach, FL to Falmouth, MA, as well as all around our home in Central Florida. We shot for non-profits, one-man operations, and large corporations. We rode with the Breitling Jet Team and a hang-glider, went zip-lining and para-sailing. We also filmed artisans as they made letter-press cards and woodworked tables and hand-stitched leather wallets and sandals. Here's 90 seconds of our best images from the year.
SPX, a company that makes athletic training products, asked Macbeth Studio to create a mini-documentary of a day in the life of renowned hockey coach Paul Vincent.
Nineteen degrees north of the equator, warm Caribbean waters wash on the soft sand of the Greater Antilles.
Haiti is where Julie Colombino landed two weeks after the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010. After working with various relief agencies to provide basic, immediate solutions, she saw that what people really needed was dignified employment. So she set about creating a sustainable business model.
Today, more than 25 workers create sandals out of upcycled tires and locally sourced materials, and they are sold in stores around the world, including in the Kenneth Cole boutique in SoHo, NY.
Macbeth Studio founder Jim Hobart and his wife Beth drove the Pacific Coast Highway from San Diego to San Francisco. Along the way they stopped many times to take in the picture-postcard views, and Jim flew his drone and captured the rocky coastline. Video-editor Morgan Walker took the footage and created this labor of love on her own time.
An outdoor picnic for up to 1,000 people, at a secret location, where you have to bring your own tables, chairs, silverware, and centerpieces. Oh, and you MUST dress all in white, head to toe. What could be more fun? Macbeth Studio was selected to cover Orlando's first Dîner en Blanc event (after signing an NDA promising not to give away the secret location), and we had a great time capturing the festivities and traditions. These include the napkin wave and the sparklers, plus a big dance party after the dinner is done. Good times!
This is the official trailer for a one-hour documentary film which was created in partnership with Heart of Florida United Way, and seeks to showcase the lived experiences of Black Central Floridians, pre-civil-rights.
In it, we interview 11 prominent figures who have incredible stories to tell and insights to provide.
Full film is available at: KnowYourPlace.org