We’re an award-winning full-service video production company based in New York and we’re here to tell your story.
Our team is wildly creative, holds every project deadline and budget sacred, and we’re determined to make each collaboration a joy.
Welcome to Kinetic… scroll down and let’s get acquainted!
What’s happening at Kinetic
Meet the Team
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Andrew Lawton
Producer/Director
Award-winning filmmaker Andrew Lawton (PGA) hails from Melbourne, Australia, and has spent the past twenty years working with many of the biggest names in the industry. Most recently, he directed Neil Patrick Harris, Liam Neeson, Helen Mirren and Alec Baldwin in ‘A Roundabout Road to Broadway’ for NBC. This special won Andrew a Telly Award, AVA Digital Gold Award, Hermes Creative Gold Award, Creativity International Gold Award, and the Marcom Platinum Award. He followed by directing Jane Krakowski in ‘From Basements to Broadway’, Vanessa Williams in ‘Thriving Through Theatre’, and co-producing the feature documentary “Vigilante” with Cinema 59 productions. Andrew is the writer/director of the films ‘Couch Surfer’, ‘Rain’, ‘Some Guy Called Toby’ and ‘Have You Seen Calvin?’, the latter winning Best Film at the 2016 Chicago Comedy Film Festival. He has also directed numerous commercials and a series of music videos for Universal Music Group.
Andrew first moved to the U.S. on scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College and graduated with his MFA in 2003. A proud New Yorker, he currently resides with his wife, two sons, and an adorable peagle in Sea Cliff, just outside NYC. Learn more at Wikipedia and The Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
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Jenn Swanson
EDITOR/ANIMATOR
A graduate of The University of Washington’s DXARTs program, Jenn is an accomplished animator and video editor. She has designed and animated ad campaigns, marketing content, event branding, storybooks, and even interactive museum exhibits! With Kinetic Studios, Jenn has animated the NYC Department of Health’s “Back to Work” vaccine campaign, plus a series of videos for Atlas Air. Most recently she has been working with Peacock on Gabby’s Dollhouse content. During her free time, she is either learning new motion design skills, getting more involved in the independent film scene, or at the whims of her needy german shepherd.
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NATHAN SHERRER
Production Crew
Hailing from Florida, Nathan Sherrer is based in Brooklyn and graduated from The King’s College in 2014 with a Bachelor’s degree in Media, Culture, and the Arts. Recent Kinetic Studios productions include a new campaign for the NYC Department of Health plus a film for the Jewish Community Relations Council.
Outside of Kinetic, he has lent his skills and support to a variety of productions in visual mediums, assisting with photoshoots, film sets, interviews, and live events. He also edits videos as a hobby. A recent project involved him producing and editing internet sketches for the comedy group Young Unprofessionals, a group he also contributes to as both a writer and an actor. His skills, understanding, and awareness grows a little more with each project but, at the end of the day, he’s just a soul who’s intentions are good. Oh Lord, please don’t let him be misunderstood.
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Andrew Abballe
Cinematographer
Andrew Abballe is a Brooklyn-based cinematographer, an avid photographer, and an experienced colorist as well. He has a great deal of experience working as an operator on corporate/promotional work with Kinetic Studios, but freelances on commercials, music videos, and narrative projects too. He also recently shot his first feature film. His repertoire is constantly expanding, as is his skill set. He graduated with a BFA in Film/Video and a concentration in Cinematography from the School of Visual Arts in 2015 and hasn’t stopped shooting since. -
TIANA LOCKE
Production Crew
Tiana Locke is a New York-based filmmaker and editor. With Kinetic, she has most recently worked on productions for the NYC Department of Health plus a new film for the Jewish Community Relations Council.
Independently, she’s well-versed in shooting/editing short films and promotional content for brands as well as social media. Graduating from SUNY Cortland in 2017 with a BA in Media Production, she continues to grow.
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Angie Brayman
EDITOR
Angie Brayman is an award-winning creative editor hailing from metro Detroit. A graduate of the Specs Howard School of Broadcast & Media Arts, she’s passionate about social issues, comedy and television (not necessarily all at once) and collaborates on as many of those projects as she can. A few of her favorites have been editing multiple webisodes for ADAPT Community Network, cutting the featurette for the film “A Girl Like Her” airing on Netflix and the online short film documenting the rise of the Downtown Youth Boxing Gym in Detroit.
When she’s not editing, Angie can be found onstage as an improviser with ComedySportz and on the ice as a player and board member with one of the country’s largest women’s hockey leagues. Her claim to fame is having Jimmy Fallon read her name along with her submission during a “Screengrabs” segment on The Tonight Show.
Awards
HONORS FOR “A ROUNDABOUT ROAD TO BROADWAY”
Marcom Platinum Award (2017)
Hermes Creative Gold Award (2017)
AVA Digital Gold Award (2017)
Telly Award – Bronze (2017)
Creativity International Gold Award (2017)
HONORS FOR “HAVE YOU SEEN CALVIN?”
WINNER: Best Short Film – Chicago Comedy Film Festival (2016)
Nominated: Best Short Film (Narrative) – Burbank International Film Festival (2016)
Nominated: Best Short Film (Comedy) – Black Bear Film Festival (2016)
Nominated: Best Short Film – New Haven International Film Festival (2016)
A Studio like no other
A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE FOR YOU AND YOUR CLIENTS
We’ve built our studio in a stunning four-story building in Manhattan’s Seaport that dates back over 200 years. Back then ships used to literally power into the building to unload their cargo, before heading back out to sea.
Today, the building has been fully renovated without sacrificing any of its rustic charm. What’s old is new again because we’ve packed Kinetic with cutting-edge technology to power your next production. We welcome the challenge of driving every stage of every project too. Casting, scripting, scouting, production management, filming (naturally!), editing, animation, scoring… it’s all in our wheelhouse. So whether you need one or every phase of a production covered – call on Kinetic. We live and breathe this stuff and absolutely love it!
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