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Portland’s Transportation System Plan

Portland’s Transportation System Plan (TSP) is the city’s 350-page roadmap for the next 20 years. My task was to distill it into a 7-minute introduction that conveyed the key issues and challenges in a way any citizen could understand.

Featured, Food and Wine

Cave of Fermented Dreams

This past summer, I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to document an earth-shattering discovery: a primitive cave culture whose works had lain dormant for untold years. Journey along with us as we uncork… the Cave of Fermented Dreams!

Featured, Transport

Designing a Smarter Street

Portland’s Bureau of Transportation had a problem: there were just too many fatalities and injuries – both pedestrian and driver – on some of the city’s east side streets, but the solution seemed so counter-intuitive their constituents rebelled. So they asked me to help explain the logic behind the new strategy and reboot the communications behind their outreach…

Featured, Spots

Parking Kitty

This music video we directed and shot for the City of Portland’s new parking meter app was a huge success, trending on Twitter locally. But it was getting a front row seat to watch an incredibly talented musician at work that really made this project amazing.

Featured, Nonprofit

Transform with Us: the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine

Asked to capture the spirit and rigor that has made the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine “the Harvard of Chinese medical schools” (as Dr. Hong Jin wryly says in the piece), we created this branding and inspiration video as it settled into its new campus in downtown Portland.

Featured, Nonprofit, Social Justice

A Dream within Reach

At age 52, Minh Hoang decided to leave everything he had ever known in Vietnam and emigrate with his family to the United States. That incredible story is why this was one of the more inspiring pieces we’ve ever had the privilege to work on

Featured, Nonprofit, Trailers, Transport

Discover Sunday Parkways

Five times a summer, in different parts of the city, Portland closes a few streets to cars and funny thing happens: people of all ages come rushing out to play in the streets. And man is it inspiring, as I think our film for Sunday Parkways captures pretty well.

Featured, Spots

If I Made a Zoo

For the first time in decades, the Oregon Zoo’s signature winter festival – Zoolights – would open its doors without the attraction that virtually defined the event: the Zoolights Train, offline because of an extensive remodel of the Zoo grounds. So how do you get people to come to an event without that event’s signature draw? It starts with letting your imagination run a little wild… as the star of our spot does.

Featured, Nonprofit, Social Justice, Transport

Oregon Walks

A short film we created for Oregon’s premier walking advocacy organization, unveiling a new name and a bold new vision – from script and messaging to direction, videography and editorial.

GYROSCOPE PICTURES

Film and video design and production, from script to post, from director, cinematographer and editor Matt Giraud.

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Portland’s Transportation System Plan
Eye in the Sky
Cave of Fermented Dreams
Designing a Smarter Street
Icebreaker Cool-Lite

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