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Brand films people
are still quoting
a year later.

Concept to camera to final cut, under one roof, with one crew. No outsourced editor, no borrowed DP who has never met your brand, no gap between the strategy deck and what actually ends up on screen.

  • From $3,000 per production
  • Custom quotes for anything bigger
  • 25+ brands
  • 36M+ reached
The Last Mile · Anchor reel · 2025 · multi-format commercial

Why us and not the other shop

Everyone can shoot.
Almost nobody can land it.

01

One roof, no handoffs

Strategy, production and post are the same building and the same people. Nothing gets lost in a handoff because there is no handoff. It is also why we can turn work around faster than shops twice our size.

02

The bar is a reaction, not a spec

Hitting a brief is the floor. We shoot more coverage than the cut needs, grade every frame, and keep cutting until the thing earns a second watch. Hennessy, Diageo and Sysco did not hire us for adequate.

03

Built to perform, not to win awards

Every deliverable ladders to a business outcome. Monaco saw a 20,000% engagement lift. Hardcore Italians went from a 50K following to over a million. We track what happened after launch, because that is the point.

What we make

The full production menu.

Brand films

The three-minute hold. Founder narratives, origin stories, documentary-style brand films that give people a reason to care before you ask them to buy.

Commercials & spots

Product launches, seasonal campaigns, DTC performance creative. Cut for broadcast, web and paid social from a single shoot.

Social & short-form

Vertical-first, algorithm-native. Reels, TikToks, Shorts, UGC-style content and influencer-led campaigns built by people who actually use the platforms.

Animation & motion

Motion graphics, animated openers and billboard-scale visuals that have played at venue scale for Shabu Chicago and Lunar New Year campaigns.

Aerial & drone

Property reels, venue overviews, drone shows and establishing work that makes a small business look like a national brand.

Event films & recaps

Multi-camera event coverage with sponsor-ready recap cuts. We have run coverage on 20K-attendee activations.

Interviews & testimonials

Client testimonial films and credibility pieces. Cut long for the site, cut short for ads, cut shorter for the feed.

Multi-cam podcast

Full podcast production in our studio: multi-cam capture, sync, cleanup, mix and short-form cutdowns from every episode.

Music videos & narrative

Scripted, multi-scene work with talent, styling and art direction. The hardest lift we do, and the most fun.

Branding

The film is downstream
of knowing who you are.

Half the briefs we get are for a video when the real problem is that nobody inside the company can say what the brand stands for in one sentence. We fix that first, then we shoot.

Brand identity

Positioning, voice, visual direction and the one-line thesis everything else hangs off.

Content strategy

What to make, for which platform, in what order, and how often. The calendar behind the camera.

Creative direction

Campaign-level art direction across every asset so the whole thing reads as one idea.

Pitch decks

Investor and sponsor decks designed to the same standard as the film work.

Engagement models

Four ways to work with us.

Published floors, not published quotes. Every project gets a real scope and a real number after we talk. What we will not do is pretend we are a commodity content shop.

Single production
$3,000 floor
One shoot day. For a specific thing you need made now.
  • One shoot day, our crew and gear
  • 1 hero cut + 3 to 7 short-form versions
  • Full pre-production and creative concepting
  • Color, sound and multi-platform delivery
  • Stills pulled from the shoot day
Scope a production
Most chosen
Campaign / launch bundle
$4,500 floor
A launch, a season, a moment. Multi-location, multi-format.
  • 1.5 to 2 shoot days, multi-location
  • 1 hero film + 8 to 10 short-form cutdowns
  • Photography captured on the same days
  • Motion graphics and animated elements
  • Paid-social variants and cutdown ladder
  • Launch plan and performance check-in
Plan a campaign
Monthly content engine
$6,000/mo floor
A retainer. Content stops being a project and becomes infrastructure.
  • Recurring monthly shoot days
  • Rolling photo + video + short-form drops
  • Content calendar and strategy included
  • Repurposing long-form into short-form
  • Priority scheduling and studio access
  • Monthly performance reporting
Talk retainer
Custom scope
Let’s talk
Bigger, stranger, or nothing like the three to the left.
  • Multi-city or travel productions
  • Broadcast and out-of-home deliverables
  • Full brand identity built alongside the film
  • Scripted and narrative work with talent
  • Event, film and social bundled as one scope
  • Licensed music, talent and usage rights
  • Anything a day rate cannot honestly price
Get a custom quote
Reference day rates

Social media video, half day: $2,200 (1 main video + 3 cutdowns). Full day: $3,000 (1 hero + 5 to 7 short-form). 1.5-day multi-location: $4,500 (1 hero + 8 to 10 short-form). Skit and narrative work is a higher lift and always custom quoted.

Add-ons: rush delivery +20% · styling and art direction $150 to $300 · additional edited images $40 each

Selected work

Recent productions.

Noble Thai · Cinematic restaurant brand film · March 2026
Monaco Cocktail · The Can · 900K+ views · 1M+ on the launch video
Sushi Plus · Cinematic brand story · 3-minute anchor film
Hennessy x LSC · Premium spirits activation
Hardcore Italians · Founder narrative
Windy Acres Farm · Full-length brand film

How we work

Four moves, every time.

01

Discover

Audience research, brand immersion, goals aligned before anyone touches a camera. The questions before the camera turns on.

02

Strategize

Creative concepting, format and platform planning, full pre-production. The work before the work.

03

Create

Full-scale execution with our own crew, our own gear and a director who already knows what the cut needs before the day starts.

04

Deliver

Post polish, multi-platform optimization, delivery cut for social, broadcast and web. Then we track how it performed.

“Holy Cow brought our vision to life with stunning production quality and creative excellence. Helping us build our following from 50k to over millions.”

Michael GarisocaFounder, Hardcore Italians

“The creative vision and execution from Holy Cow exceeded our expectations. Our campaign saw a 20,000% increase in engagement and delivered exceptional ROI.”

Ivan NaviiBrand Director, Monaco Cocktails

“From concept to final delivery, Holy Cow was the perfect creative partner. Professionalism, responsiveness, and creative talent made the entire process seamless.”

Kevin ChorzempaVP of Operations, Sysco

Questions

Before you send the brief.

What does a typical project cost?
Single production days start at $3,000. A launch or campaign bundle across multiple locations starts around $4,500. Ongoing monthly content engines start at $6,000 per month. Anything that does not fit those three is custom quoted, and plenty of our best work lands there. Those are floors, not quotes. The real number depends on crew size, talent, locations, animation load and how many finished cuts you need.
Do you write the concept, or do we bring one?
Either. Most clients bring a business problem and we bring the concept. If you already have a creative direction locked, we will pressure-test it and then execute it. Discovery and strategy are built into every engagement, not billed as a separate consulting phase.
How long from kickoff to delivery?
A single-day production typically delivers in one to two weeks. Campaign bundles run three to five weeks depending on animation and revision cycles. We also do same-day delivery when a moment demands it, and we have done it enough times to promise it honestly.
What do we actually get at the end?
Every production delivers a hero cut plus platform-optimized versions: 16:9 for web and broadcast, 9:16 for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, 1:1 where it matters, plus stills pulled from the shoot. You own the finished files outright.
Do you handle branding, or only production?
Both. Brand identity development, content strategy, creative direction and pitch deck design all sit inside this lane. Most of our best film work happens when we built the brand thinking first, because then the film has something to be about.
Where do you shoot?
Our own studio in Pilsen for controlled work, and on location anywhere in the Chicago metro. We are FAA-compliant for aerial work. Out-of-market travel is quoted separately.

Start here

Tell us what you
are actually trying to do.

Not the deliverable. The outcome. “We need a video” is a format. “Nobody knows we exist outside Chinatown” is a brief, and it is the one we can actually solve.

We reply within one business day with either a scoping call invite or an honest referral somewhere better suited.

“Duo should be very proud of the work that he produces. Great to work with, exceeding our expectations. Easy experience, got the message we wanted.”

Kristin SrailMarketing Manager, Windy Acres Farm

Send a brief

Video, branding, or both.

Prefer email? duo@holycow.productions · +1 (312) 927-8868