One Tree Forest Films
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Content at the speed of life. We specialize in creating original, short form content for online marketing campaigns.
11/22/2019
Want to join our crew as a studio/office manager? To learn more email us at [email protected].
10/16/2019
Sound booth complete. Nothing like a studio opening party as a forcing mechanism for finalizing the space!
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Our Story
After winning a Student Academy Award and Emmy for the short film Knock Knock (https://vimeo.com/261232295) Chad found himself in Hollywood, figuring out how to pursue his passion and make enough money to live. However, unlike most film students who graduate with eyes set towards the big lights, Chad never really saw himself happy as a cog in machine of large Hollywood productions.
Chad graduated in 2005 when YouTube was just launching and he was immediately drawn to the platform for its ability to democratize storytelling. His friends who were the “true” filmmakers weren’t interested in this platform full of cat videos and meme’s but Chad really thought there was something powerful about the ability for a filmmaker like him to create short stories and distribute them directly to an engaged audience with little to no barriers to entry.
Fast forward a few years, add a few right place, right time encounters and Chad launched One Tree Forest, a production studio that provided content to brands without all the historical barriers required to make great stories.
At just about the same time Chad was winning his Student Academy Award, Abby was graduating from school with a marketing, management, psychology degree and a dream of having a go at the advertising industry. She applied to all the big firms in Chicago and when she realized none of them would pay her enough to make rent she happened upon a small digital start up specializing in search and social marketing called Resolution Media.
