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Documentary & Narrative Film Production in North Dallas & DFW | Story By Blank

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Documentary

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Documentary

Long-form and short-form. We embed, we observe, we capture what's real.

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Narrative Film

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Narrative Film

Scripted short films and brand narratives. Full pipeline from development to final cut.

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Brand Narrative

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Brand Narrative

Story-driven content that makes brands impossible to ignore. Built around a single, irresistible idea.

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Short Film

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Short Film

Festival-ready short films. We handle scripting, production, and post. You submit.

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Campaign Film

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Campaign Film

Mini-series and campaign content built to reach people and move them to act.

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Original Films Reel

Documentary · Narrative · Brand Film · 2022 – 2025

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What We Make

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Documentaries

Long-form and short-form documentary work, for the stories that need to be observed, not staged.

  • Long-form documentary
  • Documentary shorts
  • Cause-driven & community work
  • Observational & vérité pieces

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Scripted Shorts

Scripted, narrative-led work, built from concept through final cut. Development matters as much as the shoot.

  • Original scripted shorts
  • Adaptation work
  • Narrative experiments
  • Director collaborations

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Music Videos

Videos that serve the artist and the song: visual ideas that earn their runtime instead of filling it.

  • Performance-based videos
  • Narrative music videos
  • Concept-driven visuals
  • Live capture

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Festival Pieces

Original work made because we wanted to make it. Festival shorts, art pieces, the work without a brief.

  • Festival-bound shorts
  • Art & concept pieces
  • Director's original work
  • Anthology contributions

Photography

The frame that lives outside the film.

Editorial stills, on-set photography, and film-look portraits, shot alongside the project. The poster, the press images, the frames that carry the story into print.

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Passion projects we're working on

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The Long Game

A documentary following three high school coaches in the final season before retirement. Commissioned for a statewide athletic foundation. Selected for regional festival circuit.

Documentary Short

18 min

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Before the Door Opens

Scripted brand film for a boutique hospitality group. Shot on 16mm. Told entirely from the perspective of a room before the guest arrives. Screened at brand launch events in four cities.

Brand Narrative

6 min

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Still Running

Profile of a 72-year-old marathon runner training for his 40th consecutive race. Client-commissioned legacy film. Distributed through the client's foundation and submitted to three festivals.

Documentary

24 min

Why work with us

We care about
vision. Not just
deliverables.

Original Films projects are a different kind of engagement. We're not executing a brief. We're developing something with you. That means we bring creative opinions, push back when needed, and protect the story through the whole process.

Development included

Every Original Films project begins with a development phase. We help shape the story, the angle, the structure, the approach, before a single frame is shot.

Festival-ready craft

Color grading, sound design, and original score where the story calls for it. The final film is built to stand on its own in any context.

Collaborative, not transactional

You stay close to the project throughout. Review cuts, weigh in on music, shape the arc. This is your film. We're the ones who know how to make it.

How it works

From concept to
finished film.

Script · Production · Post · Delivery

Step 01

Discovery Call

Tell us everything. The story, the people, the moment, what you want it to feel like. We start with a conversation, video or in person. Listen first, then ask what we need to.

Step 02

Creative Direction

Mood boards, shot lists, the rhythm of the film, mapped out before the camera turns on. Same care on every project.

Step 03

Production

Cameras out, crew in. The shoot is built around making people comfortable in front of the lens, because that's where the human stuff lives.

Step 04

Delivery

First cut, seven days after the shoot. Color, sound, polish. Two rounds of revisions. Final film via private link, in every format you need.

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Not content.
Not coverage.
A film built to last.

Concepts · Development · Production · built from scratch

Questions people actually ask

Do you make music videos?

Yes. We make music videos for artists and labels, from performance cuts to fully concept-driven visuals, built to serve the song instead of just filling its runtime.

Can you make a festival-ready short film?

That is exactly our lane. We handle scripting, production, and post, so you get a finished scripted short film ready to submit.

How much does a documentary cost?

Budgets vary widely with scope, shoot days, and post. Tell us the story you want to tell and we will scope a real number with you.

Do you travel for film projects?

Yes. We are based in North Dallas and shoot across Frisco, Allen, Dallas, Aubrey, and Denton, and we are available for travel across the US when a project needs it.