BYB Pictures is a full service video production company founded in 2016 and run by three lifelong best friends. BYB brings a unique, honest, and people first approach to each of its projects. With a constant desire to keep learning, our team has been fortunate to work in both the commercial and entertainment industries with great partners that include award winning ad agencies, political campaigns, non-profits, start-ups, international media companies, liquor brands, schools, entrepreneurs, and more. The BYB team has taken on many roles for its various clients, ranging from concept development, script writing, pre and post production, coloring and sound design, the full production process, aerial cinematography, sound, lighting, audio, camera, etc., our team can do it all.

• Sound Mixer
• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Colorist
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Fixer
• Grip
• Production Company
• Post-Production Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Copywriter

I am video creative and commercial filmmaker with proven experience directing and photographing projects for agencies and clients alike. Always with a strong sense of collaboration and an emphasis on the concept, I view each project with a fresh perspective, and strive to create images and performances that inspire, inform and entertain. Past clients include Aetna, New Balance, Timberland, MLB, CVS, IBM, MTV among others. Many of these projects have received industry awards and recognition such as Hatch Show, New York Emmy, Gold Addy, and the Cannes Advertising Festival among others...

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Production Company
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP

Jason Jaacks is a filmmaker and photographer focused on social and environmental issues. He’s ducked the border into Mexico with traditional leaders of the Tohono O’odham tribe, spent a year documenting a Native American spoken word team, and led a source-to-sea expedition down the Elwha River. His most recent film, Silent River, follows a young woman as she defies death threats to save one of the most polluted rivers in Mexico. Jason has produced video for National Geographic, MSNBC, Discovery Digital, PBS, and Fusion, among others. He is a National Geographic Explorer and holds a Masters of Journalism from UC Berkeley.

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP

Musician, songwriter, composer, producer, content creator

• Digital Content Creator
• Social Media Producer

“Tim, you are the most determined and unflappable person I have ever met.” -Gov. Tom Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland Security, United States of America. Tim Gray is a national award-winning documentary film director, producer and writer based in Rhode Island. Tim has produced and directed 17 documentary films to date on the personal stories of the World War II generation. All of Tim’s films air nationally on American Public Television and also globally in such countries as China, Australia, France and England. Tim’s film travels have taken him to: Guadalcanal, Corregidor, Bataan, Manila, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, the Russell Islands, Banika, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, France (eleven times), Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg (twice), Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany (twice). Tim has won 5 Regional Emmy Awards for his films, 2 International Indie Film Fest Awards and a National Programming Excellence Award from American Public Television.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Field Producer
• Production Assistant
• Documentary DP
• Reporter / Journalist

David Helfer Wells is a film-maker and photographer who divides his time between Providence, Rhode Island and Bangalore, India. One day you can find him creating still and moving images for clients, such as Edible Rhody and the Providence Preservation Society on the unique local culture of America’s smallest state. Other days he may be working on personal/grant funded projects on the beautiful Narragansett Bay with the support of Rhode Island’s Council for Humanities and State Council on the Arts. In India’s “Silicon City” Bangalore, he is busy creating visual narratives for clients such as Bryn Mawr College and Aramco World or working on personal/grant funded projects supported by the Fulbright and Alicia Patterson Foundations. He has worked on assignment for such magazines as Fortune, Life, National Geographic, Newsweek, The Sunday New York Times, and Time, among others. One editor described him as a “…specialist in intercultural communication and visual narratives that excel in their creative mastery of light, shadow and sound, stills and video.” His project on the pesticide poisoning of California farm workers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has also worked for corporations such as Consolidated Natural Gas and DuPont as well as for non-profits such as the Ford Foundation and the New Israel Fund.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Production Company
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP

My company, Harken Productions, has been around since 1997 producing social issue oriented videos and running a youth media program since 2002. My first film Death: A Love Story premiered in documentary competition at Sundance in 1999, won several festivals, played national PBS, and is now available in over 400 colleges and universities here and in Canada. I now produce shorts, video for business websites, civically engaged media with youth, and for all who want to engage in critical and civic engagement. I also teach in the Film Media department of U. of Rhode Island. Would love to work with you!

• Sound Mixer
• Documentary DP

I'm an animator and illustrator based in Providence, Rhode Island. I specialize in various forms of 2D animation including hand drawn animation, stop motion, and motion graphics. My work spans a wide range of subjects including scientific and health-related educational shorts, commercial work, music videos, and documentaries. I draw inspiration through collaboration, especially with artists from different creative, cultural, and social backgrounds. My goal is to promote new stories and new perspectives.

• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Creative Director
• Audio Storyteller

My name is Mallory Hopkins and I am a Journalist and Editor. I am currently a senior at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. I'm majoring in Journalism and Documentary Production and Minoring in Environmental Science. I am currently a co-editor for the Flagler College Gargoyle.

• Sound Designer
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Field Producer
• Production Assistant
• Production Company
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist

I am a multimedia journalist living in Newport, Rhode Island. I am comfortable working in print, radio and video. Of late, I have been reporting on economic, environmental and immigration issues. I have a Masters degree in journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Translator

• Music Composer
• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

• Executive Producer
• Field Producer
• Fixer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Reporter / Journalist