We are a boutique video/audio production house providing visually compelling video, animation and creative content to help our clients’ brands shine.

Founder and Creative Director
Eric Manche

Eric Manche is a creative director, filmmaker and artist living in Austin, Texas. He has worked as a creative consultant, serving a diverse roster of clients, since 2008. In addition to his professional practice, his first feature length film, Slimed, was released by cult film company Troma Entertainment in 2018. He is a member of Basic Cable Television, a comedy video collective that formed while he was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design.

He and his wife, painter Sara Vanderbeek, also run DORF, an experimental art space established to support and promote local artists as well as add momentum to their South Austin art community.

Co-Founder / Development
Sara Vanderbeek

Sara Vanderbeek is a Texas-based multi-disciplinary visual artist who creates concept-driven series focused on reframing the window and vernacular of portraiture. Her brightly colored work contextualizes autobiographical experiences, appropriates visual imagery and responds to culture and politics. Her artwork has been included in several solo and group shows nationally, including the McNay Art Museum, Art Palace, The Contemporary Austin, grayDUCK Gallery, Freight Gallery, Deitch Projects, Co-Lab Projects and was included in the 2013 Texas Biennial at Blue Star Contemporary. In addition to her studio practice, she works as an independent art consultant and Director of DORF, an alternative gallery space in Austin. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2003.

Director of Photography / Post-Production
Ben Powell

Photographer and documentarian Ben Powell’s assignments as a cinematographer have taken him to communities around the world, while his documentary films as a director have focused on landscapes near and dear. His first feature documentary, Barge, won Best Documentary prize at the Dallas International Film Festival and premiered on STARZ in 2016. Powell has received artist grants from the Austin Film Society and the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant, and holds a BFA in Film, Animation, and Video from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Producer / Sound
Landry Gideon

Landry Gideon is a seasoned audio engineer, sound recorder and producer/director of the documentary One Act Play, an intimate glimpse within the theater departments of several Texas high schools. He was a co-founder of the Austin based production company Triad Media and since 2011 has worked as a sound mixer and boom operator on narrative and documentary features, commercials, short films, and live events. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Texas RTF department.