Cinematic film + systems
We make cinematic films for small business and brands, then build the funnel and follow-up around it. And we measure what it brings in: calls, form fills, booked sessions.
5.0 on Google 6 reviewsFor years we did business work the way most filmmakers do — make it beautiful, make it true, hand it over. And for years the same thing happened. A client hired us. We did the best work we'd done to date. They loved it. They posted it. It got likes from their cousins and their competitors. Then nothing. No calls. No bookings. No line on the P&L that moved.
We used to explain that away — wrong audience, bad timing. The actual answer was simpler: a film with nothing behind it is a very expensive Instagram post. We'd been handing people the loud part and no quiet part. No page for the film to live on. No capture. No follow-up. The landscape had changed. We hadn't.
So we learned the other half of the job. There are two ways to move a person to action — inspiration and manipulation. We picked one, and we've never once regretted it.
Every LIFTED engagement moves through the same story-psychology sequence — four beats that turn a true story into inspired action. Scroll through it.
The psychology
The tension, the truth, the reason to care. Before any camera comes out, we find the one decision your film has to drive.
The craft
This is where LIFTED is undeniable. Film-level visuals that make you look and feel like the market leader — not another voice in the feed.
The deliverable
Trailer, short, doc, film, or series. One shoot yields cutdowns — a library of assets, not a one-off video sitting on a hard drive.
The outcome
Attend. Buy. Believe. Share. Every asset gets deployed into a VidLead funnel — landing page, CRM, lead capture, five-email nurture, retargeting cuts — so the film that inspired them has somewhere to take them next.
A beautiful film nobody can trace back to the calendar is a guess. So we set up the tracking before the first frame is shot, and you see what the work brings in, and what it doesn't.
01 · Before launch
We write down where you are today: calls, form fills, booking requests, and cost per lead if you already run ads. Everything after gets compared to that.
02 · Before the shoot
Call and form tracking, booking events, and a CRM pipeline go in first, so every lead shows which page, film, or ad it came from.
03 · After the click
New leads land in your CRM and get email and SMS follow-up right away. We track who replies, who books, and who goes quiet.
04 · 30 / 60 / 90 days
At each mark you get a plain-language report: calls, form fills, booking requests, cost per lead when ads run, and what we'd change next.
Book a Greenlight Session“We've used LIFTED for years.”
Steve Bock Executive Director, Re‑fined
Now booking · Q4 2026
One shoot day. A season of assets. A funnel that runs them. Anything booked after mid-October doesn't finish in time for the holiday season — that is a true deadline, not a fake one.
One flagship film. Enough to prove the offer.
The full Fall Story Slate — story, cinema, asset kit, funnel.
Signature + Fractional CMO through the holidays.
Real-deadline scarcity
Book by mid-October 2026 to launch before the holiday season. After that, we deliver into January — which is fine, but it isn't your holiday quarter.
“Their ability to draw the story out with such attention to detail and immaculate editing to produce a product that feels cinematic is worth every cent (& more!).”
Amy Hines · Google review
“Ian and Kadri are easy work with, reliable, professional, and they deliver their product quickly!”
Lindsay Ivey Molliconi · Google review
“They were professional, on time and delivered a quality production.”
Louie Cruzado · Google review
Video isn't content. It's infrastructure for a client engine you can measure. We build both halves — the film people remember, and the system that turns it into booked work.
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A growth partner who aligns story, offer, and audience — every asset has a clear job to do.
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Film-level visuals from founders who are behind the camera on shoot day — no account managers, no handoffs, no junior editors learning on your budget.
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Expert strategy at every step. We help you prioritize, decide, and keep your marketing focused — from planning through optimization.
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We build your funnel, install your CRM, and deploy automated email, text, and chat follow-up so leads move to a booked call — automatically.
People assume a husband-and-wife shop means one professional and one helper. We'd like to clear that up. We're both behind the camera on production days. What's different is what we own after the cards come out.
Cinematographer, Fractional CMO & Co‑Founder
Ian blends strategy and creativity to help brands tell stories that inspire action. He's the cinematographer on most production days, then builds the half that runs quietly: the funnel, the CRM and the follow-up behind every film. With a background in music, film and digital marketing, he stays on as fractional CMO to make sure the work builds trust, engagement and growth.
Creative Director & Co‑Founder
Kadri combines strategic vision with creative execution, producing films and photography that help brands tell stories with clarity and impact. With a background in publishing and media production, she ensures every project is both beautiful and effective.
Ian's mother got sick, and seven months later she was gone. She left a death benefit behind — and what she had wanted the whole time was for her kids to go be the best they were capable of being. So Ian and his sister, Vonny, bought a camera with it. Together, the siblings and Kadri filmed it, Kadri cut it, mission complete.
The first thing they made was a tribute music video for her. Nobody hired them. It was love expressed through film and music.
Then people watched it, and people moved. “That was beautiful.” And then, over and over: “Could you tell my story like that?”
That is the whole thesis of this business, and we got it for free on day one: a true story, with no strategy anywhere near it, inspired people to act. We have never once needed convincing.
“Lifted is top tier. I’ve been using their service since 2016 and never considered another company for my film and photography needs.”
Timothy “Tim” Wingate Jr. · Google review
Free · 20 minutes · No pitch deck
A strategic fit call to learn about LIFTED, clarify where your story or funnel may be underperforming, and identify your best next step. Before the call, we'll run a quick AI-assisted diagnosis of your site and socials so we start with a brief, not a blank page.
Pick a time that works. You’ll get a confirmation and a calendar invite within seconds.