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ABOUT

A boutique creative studio located in Santa Monica, Transmission creates commercial and branded content in collaboration with some of the world’s most iconic brands. Our relationships with brands span industries, but all hold a common faith in the power of storytelling.

Transmission has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto.

KRISTIAN
ANDRESEN

Kristian Andresen began his film career more than 20 years ago when he guarded a set parking lot on some of the poorest, most dense and most drug-addled streets in North America

His personality and workaholic attitude enabled successful navigation and ascension through the world of film production. Quickly becoming a well- respected producer in commercials and music videos, Kristian orchestrated and oversaw the collaboration of countless talented individuals and highly skilled technicians. Harnessing the talent and creative drive of those around him, Andresen founded Famous Kids in 2003, a sister company to commercial powerhouse Circle Productions. Shortly thereafter, Kristian was given the opportunity to take the reins at Circle Productions’ Toronto office.

Kristian founded Transmission in 2007 to be a full service production company, enabling all processes from development through postproduction. After a string of high-profile advertising work, Kristian produced Transmission’s first feature film, Skyline that grossed over 80 Million worldwide the highest grossing independent Sci-Fi film to date. Andresen is currently in development with several narrative projects, and leading the production on several marketing projects.

MIKE
GEORGE

Mike George is a Creative Director and Film Director based in Los Angeles, California. Mike has created award-winning campaigns for some of the world’s most successful entertainment properties and brands.

Early in his career, Mike launched one of the industry’s first viral content divisions at the world’s largest entertainment marketing company, Trailer Park Inc., where he created content for Pixar’s Wall-E and Ratatouille, as well as Borat, Mission Impossible, and many others. From 2006 to 2011, Mike served as Creative Director at 20th Century Fox Marketing where he led content-driven campaigns for dozens of films, including Avatar, The Simpsons Movie, Knight and Day, Taken 1 and 2 , and the billion-dollar grossing X-Men franchise. To date, he has directed over 200 branded content pieces, including integrated marketing campaigns connecting major Hollywood studios to beloved consumer brands such as Coke and Red Bull.

When not working at Transmission Mike can often be found producing badass, theatrical editorial content with our sister company Big Picture.

JOE
LAFLEUR

Getting his start as a P.A. on a Viagra spot in 1999, Joe’s career in commercials has been on the rise ever since. An “I can do this!” attitude led pretty quickly to a descent little hobby directing music videos between working production on big commercial shoots.   This combination of hands on experience, and watching and learning from a who’s who of international commercial directors, along with experience on the logistical side taught him all aspects of the business… some would say he might even know too much for his own good.

With some pretty descent success in music videos and the sudden development of the web, there were new opportunities to create ads online. Joe’s early work included award-winning content for Bootlegger, branded documentary shorts for Nike and web commercials for Air Jordan.

Over the last decade Joe’s client list has grown and now includes work for Miller Genuine Draft, Grolsch, Miller Lite, Gibson’s Whiskey (see a trend here?), Connect Hearing, McDonald’s, BC Hydro and much, much more. Joe likes to think of himself as a visual storyteller with strong product, but loves comedy as well!

CLIENTS

20th Century Fox • Disney• Focus Features • Fox Sports • F/X • Google • HBO • LinkedIn • Miller Coors • MovieTickets.com • NBC/Universal • Netflix • NFL • Open Road Films • Red Bull • Screen Gems • Sony Pictures • Sprint • Warner Bros. • Yahoo!

AWARDS

Our team is comprised of multiple nominees and recipients of both Clio and Golden Trailer Awards, most recently winning Best Original Trailer of the Year for The Nice Guys at the 2017 Golden Trailer Awards, and receiving Clios in the Creative Content category for Snowden and Deadpool (2016), and the Annie digital campaign (2015). Mike George also directed Creativity Magazine‘s #3 Best Integrated Marketing Spot for Deadpool (2016), and is a recipient of the Director’s Choice Award from the 2016 North Hollywood Film Festival. Jeff Cassidy recently received multiple nominations from numerous film festivals, and award shows for his short film Sidekick. 

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