JEFF THOMAS
I have made a career of combining video production and spending as many days outside, as possible. As an award winning outdoor & adventure producer with 20 years of experience, I have worn nearly every hat. I have worked with an extensive list of outdoor brands, resort destinations, production companies & media agencies. Past roles include, co-producer/director at Switchback Entertainment (2010-2015), where I co-produced & co-directed over 5 seasons of Salomon Freeski TV alongside award winning short films. Before Switchback I produced a variety of my own independent films (2003-2008) while then co-directing/editing/shooting for Poor Boyz Productions, winning multiple awards including ‘Ski Movie of the Year’, Every Day is a Saturday. (2008-2010)
More recently, (2015-2018) I was director of video production creating & establishing a successful video production department and strategy at Origin Outside (now MMGY Origin), an outdoor sports digital media and advertising agency. With Origin, I co-concepted, produced and co-directed, ‘Best Use of Video Marketing’ in 2017 (NSAA Awards) for the Whistler Blackcomb Resort movie, MAGNETIC, alongside countless other campaigns, films and video strategies for brands throughout North America.
For the past 9 years (2018 and beyond), I have continued to merge brand and storytelling - producing and directing over 50 short films and strategic video content for a variety of brands, agencies and partners, including a handful of feature length winter-sports films with BLANK Collective Films, HEAD Winter-sports and Salomon. In 2021, I was lucky enough to once again win ‘Ski Movie of the Year’, with Tales From Cascadia.
I’ve continued to operate at a high creative pace, concepting and producing two to three feature-length winter films each year, alongside multiple marketing campaigns, short films, and hours of four-season brand and commercial content.
That work has been created for a wide range of distribution channels, from online and social platforms to paid media, inflight entertainment, broadcast, awards, worldwide premiere tours, and partner campaigns. It’s a workload that requires constant adaptability: moving between big-picture storytelling, production logistics, athlete-driven documentary work, commercial deliverables, and fast-turn creative needs.
SERVICES:
Concepting - Pre-production - Production - Post Production
GEAR:
General cinematography: RED 5 & 8 K’s, NIKON/RED 6K,
Specialized cinematography: FREEFLY EMBER (high speed camera), DJI DRONES
4 person Post-Production Studio
Creative Partners include FPV Pilots, Audio Post Producers, Motion/Graphic Designers, VFX Artists, Line Producers.
