It’s not every day you get approached to recreate the lifestyle of a multi million-dollar lottery winner but that’s the task that was given when E.B. Lane asked us to team up for another spot to add to the Wonderful campaign we started in 2011. Being an avid Arizona Lottery player myself, I’ve often dreamt of what it might be like to live the life of a jackpot winner. They say money can’t buy happiness, but we all know how...
At the 2013 Phoenix Addy Awards this past weekend, the TSF team took home three Gold Addy’s! The first was for CASA, a short film produced for the AZ Lottery with our longtime agency partners at EB Lane. CASA showcases how lottery funding is being used to support critical statewide programs. Stomp the Bus, ASU’s stadium football intro, won Gold for TSF and for two of our partners: Copper Post for Visual Effects and Animation and AMP Studios for Sound...
True Story Films premiered the new ASU Football Intro at last night’s home opener. Fans were thrilled with the return of Stomp the Bus! Check out the making of the new intro here. Sun Devils came out with a 63-6 win against NAU. Visit us on Facebook/truestoryfilms & @truestoryfilms to let us know what you think!
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Fox Sports swings by a True Story Films set to do a behind the scenes take on the upcoming ASU football intro Check out the Fox’s video here…
Hello from New York City and all points East. After 20 years in Phoenix and 8 years at True Story Films I have struck out to open up the East Coast Office of True Story Films. With a great sendoff from Phoenix early in the year and several days on the road of shooting and scouting I am finally settled. There are lots of things to learn about the big city… Cab or Subway – I’d like a washer/dryer in...
True Story Films is excited to announce that the documentary, “Blood Into Wine” will be receiving an award later this year. You can read the story here… (Story in French)
When TSF called to ask if I could shoot the production stills for their upcoming Arizona Lottery spot, entitled “Wonderful,” I was standing in a backyard in Van Nuys, California. I was covered in sweat and dirt shooting a Ford commercial, working with two elements that, as a steadicam operator, I dread: kids and dogs. We were on day three of a two-day shoot. Yep, things were going slow and we had spilled into an extra day. So, needless to...
Earlier this spring, Arizona State University launched a new athletics brand, featuring redesigned uniforms and an upgraded look more focused on the pitch fork graphic and university color scheme. Sparky the Sun Devil, originally designed by a Disney illustrator and ASU alumni, will take on a more supportive role in the new brand. The overhaul, nearly two years in the works by the creative team at Nike and key staff from the university’s marketing and athletic departments, has been met...
Through nearly 1,000 hours of shooting on its campuses and other strategic locations in every corner of the United States we’ve fostered some great relationships with Embry-Riddle administrators, faculty and students. It’s easy to understand why Embry-Riddle is often referred to as the ‘Harvard of the sky’. “Golden Eagles” are comprised of leading researchers and scientists, astronauts and aviators, policy makers, war heroes, community leaders, dare devils…and thousands of sharp kids who are getting ready to do something great with...
What began as a spec television spot for Sun Devil Football has grown into a yearly ASU Athletics marketing campaign and an important collaboration with departments and schools throughout all of ASU. We’ve produced student recruitment videos, national broadcast commercials, created video projects to aid development efforts and captured historic campus events. We’ve also entertained 70,000 fans in Sun Devil Stadium with videos that have become ingrained in school tradition. For more than a decade, we have partnered with Arizona...
Guidance Helicopters approached True Story Films looking to communicate its passion for training top-notch helicopter pilots while showcasing what makes them different from other helicopter schools. We reviewed the work of its competitors and interviewed the Guidance team extensively in pre-production to develop our creative approach. We discovered that Guidance is committed to training professional, career pilots that are skilled in high altitude flying. They use state of the art equipment and employ rigid safety standards to provide an efficient,...
Cary Truelick and Rob Beadle met in 1999 while working for the same production company. Upon realizing they had similar filmmaking aspirations, the two joined forces and created True Story Films in January of 2003. Read more here…
