Teah Strandjord

Director

Director

I was honored to direct 3 videos for the American Lung & Association + Sanofi along with the Minneapolis ad agency Padilla and the Boston production company Hold Fast. For these spots I wrote a treatment, wrote the interview questions, and conducted the interviews (backed of course by the writers and creatives from Padilla who guided the language they needed to hear on behalf of the pharmaceutical brand). We shot one story each day across three days, shooting on the Alexa Mini with Zeiss Super Speeds.

Director | Producer | Editor | Finishing

Client: Thrivent Financial

Production Company: W2Films

DP: Roger JC Lee

Category: Doc-style, interview, portrait, long form, low budget, storytelling, people

Director | Editor

Client: Thrivent Financial

Production Company: W2Films

DP: Roger JC Lee

Shot in 20-minutes on the Alexa, this short doc is part of a year-long campaign with Thrivent Financial to tell the stories of their financial professionals.

Category: Doc-style, interview, portrait, long form, low budget, storytelling, people

Director | Producer | Editor | Finishing

Client: Thrivent Financial

Prod Co: W2 Films

DP: Roger JC Lee

Director | Producer | Editor | Finishing

Client: Lifetouch

Prod Co: W2 Films

DP: David Schnack

Lifetouch challenged me to create a touching piece that celebrated community, without showing any people / faces due to a rights and release conflict at the church. Fortunately, I talked a few people into showing their faces, and then creatively negotiated my way around showing the community at large. Lifetouch was very happy with this piece and have returned to get videos for other divisions.

Director | Editor | Color

Client: JCPenny Portraits

Production Company: W2 Films

JCPenny Portraits, owned by Lifetouch and Shutterfly, came to W2 Films requesting “storytelling” videos that would show prospective moms that a JCPenny portraits session is quick, easy, and fun. So I sketched up the idea to film the chaos of getting ready for a portrait session followed by the ease of worry once the session was over.

2nd Unit Director | Interviews

Client: Universal Studios

Production Company: Herzog

For this piece, Herzog brought me on as a “talent producer" / “2nd unit director”. It was an amazing two days on two sound stages at Universal, with some of the world’s biggest stars, where I conducted interviews, directed the camera (with the help of a technical director who sat at the monitor), and made sure we made our day which included a “junket-like” line of press. Many, many pieces of content came from these two days.

Director | Writer | Editor | Producer

Color: Crash + Sues

DP: TJ Schwingle

Music: Jack Whaley

Category: short film, trailer, passion project, comedy

TRT: :57

In 2012 I feverishly wrote and directed a 20-minute short film called Three Weeks. The film stars Superbowl Champion Ben Utecht as Charlie, and John Edel as Verne (the clown). The short was an official selection of the Twin Cities Film Fest and the South Dakota Film Festival.