We last wrote one of these on May 1, 2020, on the occasion marking our 31st year in business. At that point, we had been shut down for a month and a half due to the Covid pandemic and our future (along with most people’s) was far from certain. We had completed two projects in Jacksonville during the first week in March and we had a corporate shoot scheduled in a Nashville Hospital for mid-March (that never saw the light of day).
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Black Watch Productions—35 Years and Counting
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
My partner Monica and I incorporated Black Watch Productions on May 1, 1989. Almost exactly one month later, my younger brother David succumbed to the AIDS virus he’d been fighting for only a little over a year. Back then that wasn’t a fair fight, and the diagnosis was essentially a death sentence. What struck us was how little we knew about HIV/AIDS at that time, even though the disease had been raging since the early ‘80s. Inspired by my brother’s tragedy our new company gravitated to what is now referred to as Cause Marketing. Our very first project was a PSA…
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31 and Counting
Black Watch Productions marked our 31st anniversary on May 1st, and a strange anniversary it was. We have been officially shut down since April 5th, and in reality, a few weeks before that. We did two shoots in Jacksonville, Florida during the first week in March and we were supposed to produce a three day shoot in Nashville during the third week in March. Since it is a health care video, set in a hospital, it was, of course, postponed until the end of April, and then postponed again to a time to be determined. We do have two projects pending,…
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How Does A Production Company Get To 30?
On May 1st, Black Watch Productions celebrated our 30th year in business. So how does a production company, especially one located in the volatile market that is New York City, get to 30? You get to 30 because of the people who have supported you when you were (literally) a mom and pop enterprise, working out of your apartment. The tremendous relationships that we have built over the years, with clients, employees, crews, vendors, all have shaped us as a company and as people. When my life partner, Monica, and I started this enterprise in 1989, commercial production companies were almost…
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