Here’s the Deal
Lightbox Filmworks is an independent video production company based in Portland, Oregon, with teams in Seattle, Washington, and Mammoth Lakes, California.
We create story-driven campaigns, brand films, commercial content, documentaries, and multi-platform creative for brands, agencies, nonprofits, and organizations across the West Coast.
But we’re not here just to make another video.
We work alongside internal marketing teams to develop ideas, take production off their plate, and create more useful content from every shoot.
We’re an Extension of Your Team, Not Another Vendor to Manage
Your team knows your brand, audience, products, and goals better than anyone.
We bring an outside perspective, creative ideas, story instincts, and the production experience to turn those ideas into something real.
Come to us with the creative already figured out. Develop it with us. Or let us take the lead.
All three work.
Start With the Goal,
Not the Video
Before we talk cameras, locations, or shot lists, we want to understand what you’re trying to accomplish.
Who are you trying to reach? What do you want them to feel or do? Where will the content live? What does your team need now, and what could it use three months from now?
Through our signature approach, The Impact Method, we build production around those answers.
That means thinking beyond a single deliverable from the beginning. A shoot might produce a hero story alongside :30 and :15 campaign spots, short-form social content, product stories, alternate hooks, different messages, photography, and supporting footage your team can continue using down the road.
More content isn’t the goal. More useful content is.
Define the goals and creative direction.
Bring the story to life on location.
Deliver a suite of content for your team.
What We Make
Our work spans commercial and documentary-style production, from brand storytelling to campaign content built for multiple platforms.
- Brand films and brand storytelling
- Campaign creative
- :30 and :15 spots
- Short-form and social content
- Product stories and launches
- Documentary storytelling
- Interviews and customer stories
- Recruitment and culture content
- Nonprofit and fundraising films
- Public-interest campaigns
- Event and brand activations
- Photography and supporting campaign assets
Every project is different. Sometimes the right answer is one great film. Other times it’s a campaign’s worth of content designed to work across paid, organic, social, web, broadcast, and wherever else your audience is paying attention.
Who We Work With
We work with brands, agencies, nonprofits, public organizations, and internal marketing teams that need more creative capacity and a production partner they can trust to run with the work.
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Meet the Team
Marc Rotse
Marc leads creative development and production at Lightbox, working with clients from the earliest campaign conversations through filming and delivery. His focus is finding the human story inside an idea and building productions that give marketing teams more useful creative to work with.
Ryan Marsh
Ryan leads post-production at Lightbox, shaping footage into finished stories across brand films, campaigns, commercial spots, and short-form content. He works closely with the production team from early in the process so what gets captured on set translates into stronger creative in the edit.
Cody Lewis
Cody leads cinematography for Lightbox productions, helping translate creative concepts into the visual language of each campaign. His work spans documentary-style storytelling, commercial production, outdoor environments, and location-based shoots.
Emily Cargill
Emily works across production and post, helping keep projects organized from planning through final delivery. Her combination of producing and editing experience gives her a strong understanding of both what needs to happen on set and what the team will need once the footage reaches post-production.
