The results are just coming in, and so far, Takeda Entertainment has won two 2014 national Telly Awards for films produced for CHRISTUS Health and General Motors. We’re excited because these Tellys reward storytelling that’s more raw an authentic. These awards add up to a total of 32 national Telly Awards for us.

This month, we begin a series of shoots on a B-to-C film for Sub-Zero/Wolf – the high-end manufacturers of kitchen appliances. We’ll be telling the story of how they are able to deliver premium Factory-Authorized service to their customers by highlighting one of their Premier Partners – American Appliance out of Golden, Colorado.

This week, we are traveling to Arizona to record CHRISTUS Health leaders for an inspirational film titled “Do Something.” Our storytelling goal is to help them encourage their members to do more to help others. Outreach is already part of the mission for CHRISTUS Health – but they know they can do better in the areas served by their 60 hospitals and nearly 200 clinics throughout the southern US, Mexico and South America.

This week, our crews are getting ready to fly to the Midwest to film the last chapter in year-long corporate documentary for Buick GMC. Since October, we’ve been following the progress of a Buick GMC dealership as they go through a fundamental change in their business model.

Philosophy Communication has hired Takeda Entertainment to produce a series of educational commercials for the 2014 Election. The goal is to ask voters to research energy development before voting on several proposed ballot issues.

This month, Takeda Entertainment film crews are flying across the country to shoot a series of client films for Buick GMC. We’ll be telling stories – one to energize dealers around the idea that they are a key part of increasing sales growth for the fourth quarter of the year, and the other to promote a new sales program that should help them hit their numbers.

This week, we head into the field with agency folks from BI Worldwide to produce another film for the oncology division of Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals. Our focus will be to produce an inspirational film for their sales group.

We like being the go-to production team for Buick GMC’s VP of Sales. Once again he visited a dealership and was so impressed he wants us to tell the story of what makes them special. So this week, we are scrambling to Texas to shoot, write, edit, and deliver a quick-turn, documentary film for the Buick Motor Car Division of General Motors. We’ll be telling the win-win-win story that partners dealerships with local schools and charities.

This week, our crews are getting ready to fly to the Midwest to film another chapter in an on-going corporate documentary for General Motors. Last October, we were initially hired to tell the story of a Woody Buick GMC which is going through a massive culture shift where its sales will be driven by appointments. This year, we’re back to follow Woody’s story as it continues.

Happy 2014! We’re hitting the ground running in the new year, producing a series of quick turnaround films for General Motors. All of these are based on films we had shot for their Buick GMC division last year – now with a fresh coat of paint. On some, we will be upgrading the animated graphics, and others, we will be adding footage from their Chevrolet and Cadillac divisions.

It’s nice to be in demand! With one month of shoots behind us, we begin a second month of shooting for an ongoing series of “Best Practice” films for Buick GMC. This time, we’re producing an additional three corporate documentaries, telling the stories of successful dealerships around the country.

This month, directors Lori Kay Allred and Scott Takeda and their film crews begin criss-crossing the country to shoot documentary footage for a series of films for Buick GMC. We’ll be highlighting five dealerships that are embracing new techniques to retain customers and improve sales.

Yee-Haw! We are popping the champagne and celebrating three national Telly Awards for films produced for Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals and Buick GMC. We told these stories with very different styles and execution, ranging from documentary and commercial for Eli Lilly to a animation driven documentary.

Our post production team is beginning work on five documentary-style films for CHRISTUS Health. We’ll be telling the story with footage we shot earlier this spring as well as photojournalism images that director Scott Takeda captured on the shoot. Our goal is to tell the story of how they started humbly in the 19th Century when a bishop requested for medical help from his home on Lyon, France to care for the plague-ravaged southern US after the Civil War.

This month, Takeda Entertainment teams up again with the agency folks at BI Worldwide out of Minneapolis to produce another informational film for Eli Lilly Pharmacueticals. Our focus will be to provide important 3rd Quarter information to their sales group.

Our fingers are moving as fast as they can! This week, our creative team is jamming at our workstations to finish a quick-turn promotional film using kinetic typography for Aptalis Pharmaceuticals. It’s an interesting storytelling challenge since the only elements are moving text and music.

We are thrilled to announce that our client film “Loretta’s Story” for Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals is a 2013 winner in the national BMA (Business Marketing Association) B2 Awards. Now in its 37th year, the B2 Awards honor the best business-to-business marketing from the world’s top agencies and production companies.

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.”