The studio
Fourteen years
in one room.
Production 34 started in 2012 with one camera, two clients and an edit bay borrowed from a friend’s post house in Greenpoint.
Today it is thirty-four people who still work in the same building — which is the whole point.
Our story
We kept the
small-crew habit.
Most production companies grow by adding producers and renting the rest. We grew the other way: the people who pitch the idea are the people on set, and the person who colour-grades the film sat in the van on the way home.
It means we take fewer jobs per quarter. It also means the film that gets delivered is the one that was pitched, not a compromise negotiated across four vendors.
- Founded2012
- StudioBrooklyn, 2,400 sq ft
- Crew34 on call
- Second baseLos Angeles
How we work
Four rules we do not break
One number, before we shoot
You get a fixed price with the treatment. Change the brief later and we re-quote in writing — never an invoice surprise at delivery.
The director stays to the grade
Whoever directs the shoot sits in the colour suite. Continuity of taste is not something you can hand over in a document.
We own the gear we rely on
Camera bodies, lenses, lights and the stage. If it is rented, we say so in the schedule instead of discovering it on the day.
Every deliverable, in writing
Ratios, runtimes, captions, loudness specs. Agreed before the edit starts, so the export day is boring.
Who runs it
The people on your call
Mara Kessler
Founder · DirectorTheo Okonkwo
Head of ProductionInes Roux
Colourist · FinishingInventory
What is already in the building
Camera
Two large-format cinema bodies, anamorphic and spherical prime sets, three documentary kits, and a B-camera package small enough to travel as luggage.
Lighting & grip
LED and tungsten inventory sized for a six-person crew or a thirty-four person shoot, plus a 2,400 sq ft stage with a cyc and silent HVAC.
Post
Three editorial suites, a calibrated grading suite, and a mix room with stems for broadcast and social delivery.
Aerial
Licensed Part 107 operators in-house, FPV and heavy-lift platforms, and insurance that covers filming in populated areas.
Come see the room.
We are ten minutes from the L in Brooklyn. Coffee is genuinely good.