Firewater Film Company, Missoula, Montana + Salt Lake City, Utah

Utah Office of Tourism National Television Campaign

The Utah Office of Tourism is currently airing a national television campaign featuring the work of Firewater Film Company. Drawing from the HD library shot by Firewater in Summer 2007, you can Click here to view a sample

Utah Office of Tourism HD footage library

The Utah Office of Tourism and ad agency Struck Creative tapped Firewater Films to shoot a high-definition footage library covering the entire state. Shot during an epic 45 day shoot during mid-2007, Firewater traversed Utah with a crew ranging in size from 6 to 10. The result was 4 hours of stunning HD footage, culled from over 60 hours of raw material. Firewater also provided aerial and underwater cinematography. Click here to view a sample.

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Television Campaign '08

Working with the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Firewater (Damon Ristau, director, DP, and editor) created a spot to remind viewers (guys in particular) that forgetting Valentines day can be dangerous. Conveniently, this years festival kicks off on February 14th (the Day of Love, in case you've forgotten) offering guys a chance at redemption and escape from punishment. Click here to view the spot. Check out last years spot below.

Plantronics / Altec Lansing CES installation piece

Salt Lake City production house Impatient Cow tapped Firewater's Eric Ristau to act as Director of Photography for a three-panel installation for the electronics giant Plantronics / Altec Lansing booth at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Working with agency McCann Erickson, the team shot three vignettes, timed to the fraction of a second to allow the actors to pass seamlessly from one frame to the next, creating a single interwoven story. Click here to view.

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Narrated by Robert Redford

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance hired Firewater Films to produce a 20 minute film to update the organizations message. Using a combination of interviews, live action footage, and still photography donated by premier Western photogrpahers, plus nattation from Robert Redford, a supporter of SUWA, Firewater Film Company delivered this moving, informative presentation. Script by Chip Ward. Click here to view.

Upper Limit Aviation Television Campaign

Produced for Upper Limit Aviation, a helicopter flight school and charter service in Salt Lake City, the series of five spots were targeted at young, prospective students. Graphical elements, motion design, and an upbeat feel create an an effective campaign which stands out againt the background of mostly boring local television spots. Click here to view.

Utah Film Commission Television Campaign 1

Produced for the Utah Film Commission and aired during the Sundance Film Festival, this series of four spots won a number of awards including several Addys and the Spot-On Grand Prize. Using still photos from the film commissions websites and some After Effects motion design, we create the impression that the State of Utah can play almost any location on Earth, on-screen. Firewater provides all services, including creative. Click here to view.

Utah Film Commission Television Campaign 2

Produced for the Utah Film Commission and aired during the Sundance Film Festival, this series of four spots won a number of awards including several Addys and the Spot-On Grand Prize. Using largely text and still photos from the film commissions websites we essentially provide Utah's film production resume, culminating with a punchline. Firewater provided all services, including creative. Click here to view.

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Television Campaign '07

Working with the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Firewater (Eric Ristau, director, DP, and editor) created strange spot to grab viewers attention long enough to show them the festival's logo. Isn't that what television advertising is all about? Well, sometimes. This spot brings a whole new meaning to having something on your back. Click here to view.

Warming Island

A short documentary film produced, shot and directed by Firewater's Eric Ristau, Warming Island follows the first expedition to a newly charted island on the East Coast of Greenland, 400 miles North of the Arctic Circle. Discovered by explorer Dennis Schmitt, this geographical feature was always mapped as a peninsula, but warming temperatures have melted the isthmus, revealing the island. Featured on the New York Times website and on MSU's Terra: The Nature of Our World, footage from this film has been seen on CNN, BBC, ABC, ITN, and countless local stations. Click here to view.

Volumen

On tour in a 1984 Ford Ambulance with Montana indie rockers, Volumen, we find a band whose measurement for success isn't album sales or fancy touring vans, but something far more important. "Volumen" dives into the philosophy, madness, and fine living shared by a group of friends playing music for the love of it. Directed, produced, shot, and edited by Firewater's Damon Ristau, this film won two awards in the 2006 International Documentary Challenge (www.documentarychallenge.org). Click here to view.

6-10-08 Firewater Film Company announces production of an original feature film "The Best Bar in America" entering principle photography in July, 2008. The project is to be directed and produced by Firewater partners/brothers Damon and Eric Ristau

5-8-08 Firewater shoots Utah's Thanksgiving Point complex for Struck Creative and the Utah Office of Tourism

5-1-08 Firewater content laucnhed on the Utah Office of Tourisms new site-- utah.travel

4-8-08 Firewater Film Company enters pre-production in a soon-to-be-announced feature film, set to shoot in Montana and Utah in summer 2008.

2-13-08 Firewater Film Company content appears in national television campaign for the Utah Office of Tourism. See the spot to the left.

2-1-08 Firewates continues production on documentary feature film about the mythical creature said to inhabit the depths of Montana's Flathead Lake.

1-07-08 Firewater Film Company opens new editing facililty in Missoula, Montana, adding a second HD-equipt Final Cut work station, voiceover booth, digital audio console, and client work area.

1-02-08 Firewater produces spots for the '08 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

12-28-07 Firewater produces in-room HD video content for Utah's Zermatt Resort.

12-18-07 Firewater Film Company wraps production on the HD 'Behind the Scenes' featurette for the New Line Cinema feature film 'The Cell 2." Watch for clips soon.