Viva la France! This week, our field crews are in Lyon, France for an extended shoot for CHRISTUS Health – an international, Catholic health system headquartered in Texas. We’ll be working with its leadership team to tell the story of its origins which date back to a 19th Century priest and a convent of nuns from Lyon. We’ll craft this footage into a series of documentary films that will premiere at their summer meetings.

We just won a Bronze WorldMedal from the prestigious New York Festivals International TV and Film Competition for a mini-documentary we produced for Eli Lilly and Company. Titled “Loretta’s Story,” this documentary followed a cancer patient as she lives her life that’s being extended by a new class of drugs. Other winners included the BBC, Sesame Street, NBC for its Olympics Coverage, and HBO.

Snap your fingers, and we’ll be there! Buick GMC’s VP of Sales visited an Indiana dealership and was so impressed with their operation, he asked us to shoot a quick-turn film of it. Our field crews are just getting back from a two day shoot for this stylized documentary film tentatively titled “Customer Loyalty – It’s What We Do.”

This month, Takeda Entertainment is providing directing and producing assistance to Brock Creative, LTD in its multiple productions for AJA Video Systems – a leading manufacturer of professional broadcast television and film systems. We’ll be assisting in directing and project management areas.

Brrrr! This month, our field crews are on the frozen tundra filming a top-secret training video of some yet unreleased General Motors vehicles. Our story will focus on the rigourous testing that GM puts their cars through before releasing them for sale. We will be shooting the testing process throughout the year and will present the film when these cars are released in the 2014 model cycle.

This week, our field crews are shooting a documentary-style film on highlighting several top Schwan Food Service drivers and their customers. The films will be shown at an upcoming sales meeting for the multi-billion-dollar, home-delivery food service.

Happy New Year! Our crews are flying across the country for a series of field shoots for eleven client films for Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals. We will be stretching our storytelling muscles. Some of these films will be documentary-style, others commercial, and some graphics-driven. One will be comic book driven. (Pow! Bang! Punch!)

We are thrilled to be working with DJ 2nd Nature again, this time for some cutting-edge films for WorldPay, a worldwide payment processing leader. DJ 2nd Nature will mix our footage with music and pop culture clips to create a mixed-media art form.

This week, our creative team is on-site in Texas to produce a quick turn film for Lilly Pharmaceuticals. And by quick, we mean blindingly quick – turning a film in two days. (That’s not a typo.) Fingers and toes crossed!

Our crews are just returning from a week-long shoot in the Midwest for a series of films we are producing for Lilly Pharmaceuticals. These films including the documentary “Loretta’s Story” will be shown at an upcoming meeting in the fall. Our goal is to tell stories that humanize the work Lilly does for cancer patients.

Our crews are just getting back from two weeks on the road, shooting footage for two corporate films for Buick. They are using the new Canon C-300 cinema camera. Our story focus is showing how Buick is continuing to show gains with younger buyers who like it’s European styling.

Our creative team is in post production for three documentary-style films highlighting a new drug by Astellas Pharma and Medivation, Inc, and how it’s helping cancer patients and their families. Our story focus is how this new drug is giving families more quality time to enjoy their lives.

Director/producer Scott Takeda and his creative team are preparing to produce three additional corporate films for consumer goods company Proctor & Gamble, while incorporating their partnership with the upcoming 2012 Olympics. These films will be titled “Become the Change.”

We’re celebrating a national Telly Award for a film it produced for Buick GMC. Our film titled “Dealer Voices” won the Silver Telly (the top prize) in the Employee Communications category. This is our 27th National Telly Award.

Director/Producer Scott Takeda has just returned from a field shoot in Cincinnati and will begin working with the creative team to craft nine corporate films for Proctor and Gamble – the multi-national consumer goods company. We’ll be telling a story about how the company is people focused.

We are putting the finishing touches on a documentary film for Buick GMC. Our goal is to tell a story about a New Jersey dealership who is using a back-to-the-basics training program to drive sales. Buick’s VP of sales recently visited the store and was so impressed he asked us to capture their story.

Pop the champagne! It’s time to celebrate. Our film “Dealer Voices” for Buick GMC picked up two major awards at the 2012 BMA Gold Key Awards which features exclusively business-to-business (B2B) entries. It won top film and “Best of Show.”

Our fllm crews are just getting back from Tuscaloosa, Alabama after covering the damage left by a tornado that hit last April. Our mini-documentary follows survivors of the deadly storm, showing their efforts to rebuild their lives. We will be using still images shot by Scott Takeda to emotionally drive the story.

Director/Producer Scott Takeda heads to Indianapolis this month to direct a series of corporate films for Eli Lilly and Company. He’ll also be bringing in his news photographer experience by shooting still images to help tell the story. The focus will be on the 2012 changes it has for the oncology division.

There is quick…and then there’s really quick. To kick off 2021, director/producer Scott Takeda flies to Indianapolis to direct a near-impossible, quick-turn corporate film for Elanco – a pet pharmaceutical company. The shoot is Wednesday and the film premieres four days later at their 2012 sales meeting.