Documentary-led filmmaking and photography
A BODY OF WORK THAT BELONGS TOGETHER
Based in Northern California—working throughout Napa, Sonoma, California, and beyond.
We leave room for real moments to unfold. Our observational approach stays close to people, place, and process, shaping what we find into films and photographs that feel lived-in rather than manufactured.
Wildly Simple works directly with in-house marketing teams. One studio carries the work from creative development through production and post, building the right team around each assignment so the process stays clear and the point of view stays intact.
Motion follows gesture, sound, and time. Photography distills the frame. When a project calls for both, we plan them together from the start while giving each form room to do what it does best.
IN GOOD COMPANY
Beringer Vineyards
Bella Union
Beaulieu Vineyard
Cakebread Cellars
Cangshan × Chef Thomas Keller
Cliff Lede Vineyards
Cobram Estate
Constellation
Crimson Wine Group
Crossbarn
Decoy
Delicato Family Wines
Don Sebastiani & Sons
DuMOL Winery
Duckhorn Vineyards
E. & J. Gallo
Etude
Far Niente Winery
Faust
Ferrari-Carano
Flowers Vineyards & Winery
Goldeneye
J Vineyards & Winery
Kosta Browne
MacRostie Winery & Vineyards
Markham Vineyards
Martinelli Vineyards & Winery
Meadowood Napa Valley
Napa Valley Vintners
Nickel & Nickel
Oakville Winegrowers
Paul Hobbs Wines
Pine Ridge Vineyards
Quintessa
Russian River Valley Winegrowers
Santa Lucia Highlands Wine Artisans
Sonoma County Tourism
Sonoma County Vintners
Sonoma County Winegrowers
Spottswoode
The Barlow
The Hess Collection
Three Sticks Wines
Traeger Grills
Treasury Wine Estates
Trinchero Family Estates
Visit Napa Valley
Williams-Sonoma
Beringer Vineyards Bella Union Beaulieu Vineyard Cakebread Cellars Cangshan × Chef Thomas Keller Cliff Lede Vineyards Cobram Estate Constellation Crimson Wine Group Crossbarn Decoy Delicato Family Wines Don Sebastiani & Sons DuMOL Winery Duckhorn Vineyards E. & J. Gallo Etude Far Niente Winery Faust Ferrari-Carano Flowers Vineyards & Winery Goldeneye J Vineyards & Winery Kosta Browne MacRostie Winery & Vineyards Markham Vineyards Martinelli Vineyards & Winery Meadowood Napa Valley Napa Valley Vintners Nickel & Nickel Oakville Winegrowers Paul Hobbs Wines Pine Ridge Vineyards Quintessa Russian River Valley Winegrowers Santa Lucia Highlands Wine Artisans Sonoma County Tourism Sonoma County Vintners Sonoma County Winegrowers Spottswoode The Barlow The Hess Collection Three Sticks Wines Traeger Grills Treasury Wine Estates Trinchero Family Estates Visit Napa Valley Williams-Sonoma
Ink Grade Estate
Cobram Estate Olive Oil
FEATURED STORIES
Selected film and photography work created for wine, food, agriculture, hospitality, and lifestyle brands.
CAPTURED IN SEASON
Every season leaves something behind. A winemaker’s hands at the end of harvest. Steam rising from a barrel. The quiet after the last table. Details that give a place its character—and disappear if no one is there to notice.
We work on location because weather, labor, light, and human rhythm cannot be separated from the story. Some moments exist for a narrow window. Being there is the whole job.
Each assignment creates a useful visual library of films, photographs, and supporting footage. Some projects stand alone. When the work continues, every return adds context.
WHAT WE MAKE
Our work spans brand films, short-form editorial, photography, and seasonal content libraries for wine, food, agriculture, hospitality, and lifestyle brands.
Every project is built on location, shaped around real people and places, and approached with the larger body of work in mind — so the assets can support the brand across campaigns, seasons, and platforms.
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Story-driven films for brands rooted in place, process, people, and point of view.
Our brand films are built through real environments, real voices, and the details that make a brand feel specific. We shape each film around a clear narrative thread, then capture the visuals, interviews, sound, and atmosphere needed to carry it.
These films can anchor a campaign, live on a website, introduce a brand, support a release, deepen trade education, or give audiences a more lasting sense of who you are and what you stand for.
Each production is approached with the larger body of work in mind, so the footage can also support short-form editorial, photography, campaign cutdowns, and long-term brand storytelling.
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Focused story pieces built for social, web, email, and campaign use.
These are not cutdowns or filler posts. They are standalone editorial films shaped around a single idea, voice, place, process, or moment.
Created from new production, existing interviews, archival footage, written narration, or a larger visual library, each piece is designed to feel connected to the brand while giving the story more places to live.
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On-location stills galleries for wine, food, hospitality, agriculture, and lifestyle brands.
Our photography is built around real places, real people, and the details that give a brand its texture: hands at work, seasonal shifts, product moments, hospitality scenes, vineyard and farm landscapes, and the quiet in-between frames that often carry the most feeling.
Captured alongside motion or as a standalone project, each gallery is created to support web, social, press, campaigns, trade materials, email, and long-term brand storytelling.
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For brands that think long-term, beyond the single shoot.
A seasonal content library is built through multiple productions across the year — each one connected to the last, each one adding to a body of work that grows with the brand. Long-form films. Short-form edits. Campaign cutdowns. Interviews. Stills. Audio. All made on location, in the same light, shaped by one creative direction from the first frame to the last.
The work doesn't reset. It compounds.
What your team ends up with is a library of assets — organized, consistent, and built to be used across every channel, campaign, and season.
Tell us what you’re building.