Kort Falkenberg III – Director/Editor

Although born in New York City, Kort moved to Los Angeles at a very young age and considers himself a Los Angeles native. He often calls those first four years in New York the hardest years of his life! Fast-forward to his first gig writing, directing and editing commercials and music videos at Chrysalis Records, and he never looked back. He has gone on to edit over 300 commercials, promos, television spots, and award ceremonies for many clients including Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars), Television Academy (Emmys), Artisan, Atlantic, EMI, Enigma, Fine Line, Fox Searchlight, Gramercy, Hollywood, RCA/BMG, Savoy, SRO, 20th Century Fox, Amazon Prime, BBC America, Castle Rock, CBS, Columbia, Discovery, Dreamworks, FX, Harpo, HBO, MGM, Morgan Creek, Netflix, New Line, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Relativity, Sony, StudioCanal, Universal, Warner Brothers, and Walt Disney.

Additional commercial collaborations include Acura, Apple, Carl’s Jr., General Motors, General Tires, Mattel Toys, Maxon/Cinema 4D, Mitsubishi Electric, Porsche, Rockwell International, Shubert Theater, Spaulding, Vons, Walt Disney Educational Media, Yamaha, Yamaha Marine, and Yamaha Motorcycles. 

Recent collaborations in animation, voiceover and episodic television for Amazon, FX and Netflix have inspired Kort to form a new creative partnership with Joriah Kavanagh. With editing as their cornerstone, this new partnership also includes developing independent projects such as The Bunkbed Trilogy audiobook series for kids and a slightly irreverent puppet travelogue series for kids and adults alike.

Joriah Kavanagh – Producer/Editor

After calling New York City home for twenty years, Joriah is again a Los Angeles-based producer, editor and performer who gets away to Taos, NM as much as possible. Growing up in a creative family of craftsman and performers in the pursuit of entertaining an audience provided a backdrop to his own creative pursuits. An early opportunity as a production assistant in music videos sparked a career in production and performance spanning film, television, theatre, video and music festivals. Clients include Atlantic Records, Broadway Musical Theatre Express, Def Jam, EMI, Epic, ESPN, Field Trippin’ Fest, I.R.S. Records, Island, MTV, New Line Cinema, New York City Opera, Rhino Home Video, Silver Screen Pictures, Universal, and Vermeer Pictures.

Additional multimedia and publishing collaborations include Blue Cross Blue Shield, Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development, Caterpillar, Christie’s, International Museum of the Horse, Kentucky Horse Park, Lawrence Finney Art, Mint & Boxed, Michael Franks, Mode Magazine, NASA, New Mexico Historic Sites, Phat Farm, and World Equestrian Games.

The projects closest to his heart have been those produced with Donna Vermeer at Vermeer Pictures. In partnership with MacArthur Foundation, Smithsonian, World Bank, and World Resources Institute, this series of environmental projects, Investing in Nature’s Capital and Sustaining Profits and Forests, addresses ecology and environment by focusing on how business and society thrives through investment in nature. Sustainable solutions continue to inform his ongoing work with nonprofit groups today.

A lifelong friendship and shared creative experiences with award-winning director, editor and musician Kort Falkenberg III has forged a new creative partnership providing production and post-production services focusing on editing and voiceover.