Built in Miami · Shooting US & Europe · Since 2018

We're the Miami video production company that measures success in bookings, not just views.

Commercial films, brand campaigns, and monthly short-form content — planned, shot, cut, and posted by us. Based in Miami, filming wherever the work goes: South Florida, the US, Europe. You show up. We handle everything else.

Direction, shoot, edit, posting — all in-house Filming since 2018 Miami HQ · US & Europe
The problem

Most Miami business video looks expensive and does nothing.

The trophy film

A beautiful brand video that lives on a homepage nobody visits. It won the internal Slack channel. It never booked a single call.

The hard-drive handoff

The crew that shoots for a day, hands you 400 gigabytes of footage, and disappears. Now editing is your problem. It was never posted.

The dead calendar

The content plan that started strong and died by week two — because nobody who runs a real business has time to be their own production company.

We build video with a job to do — book the call, fill the schedule, sell the thing.

The work

What we've been shooting

Commercial. Events. Fashion. Monthly content — real projects for real clients, shot across Miami and beyond. Tap any card to watch. Results and numbers get added as they wrap — nothing invented.

Marketing agency branding video — cinematic studio merch shoot
Studio Merch Shoot · Brand FilmCommercial
Meet the new medical director at Med-Pro Medical, Boynton FL
Med-Pro Medical · Meet the DirectorCommercial
Athleisure fashion commercial for Anevis, Miami Beach
Anevis · Miami Beach Fashion FilmCommercial
Wine brand event recap — SoBe Wine and Food Festival Miami
SoBe Wine & Food Festival · RecapEvent
Brand content package — Biz Boost Saturdays Miami content creation hub
Biz Boost Saturdays · Content DayContent
EDM lounge event highlight — Nexus Miami 2025 cinematic recap
Nexus Miami 2025 · EDM NightEvent

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Services

Video production built in Miami, booked everywhere

Everything is shot to be used — on your ads, your feed, your site, your pitch. Nothing gets delivered to a folder to die.

01

Brand & commercial films

Commercial video production · Miami

The film that makes you the obvious choice. One hero piece built for your homepage, your ads, and your pitch — shot to sell, not to sit.

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Retainer
02

The monthly content engine

Social media content packages · Miami

One film day a month. 16–20 cut-down shorts, captioned, formatted, and posted for you. Your feed stays full without you touching a camera.

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03

Photo & campaign stills

Commercial photography · Miami

Campaigns, products, headshots, menus, socials — shot in the same visual language as your video, so everything you publish looks like one brand.

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04

Events & live shoots

Event video · music · activations

Openings, activations, shows, music videos. We film the night and hand you the recap your audience actually wants to watch.

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No mystery quotes. You get a fixed number on the fit call, in plain English — and it doesn't change after we shake on it.
Before you book

See if you're a fit.

Three quick questions, then book the call. Fifteen minutes. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you straight.

Question 1 of 3
What's your budget for this?

Last step: book the call.

Fifteen minutes. You talk, we listen — and you get a real number before you hang up.

Book a 15-min fit call

Reminder: six film-day slots a month. When they're gone, they're gone.

How it works

Three steps. No homework.

01

The fit call

Fifteen minutes. You talk, we listen, and we both find out if this is a fit. You leave with a fixed quote and a straight answer — no pitch deck, no pressure.

02

The film day

We plan the shots, build the run-of-show, and bring the gear. You show up and be yourself — we direct you and your people through the rest.

03

Content ships

Edits land captioned, formatted, and scheduled. You approve from your phone. The feed stays full and the phone gets busier.

2018
Filming since
4 hrs
One film day = a month of content
16–20
Shorts per film day
6
Film-day slots each month
The guarantee

The no-dead-footage guarantee

  • Fixed quote before we roll. The number from the fit call is the number on the invoice. No surprise line items, ever.
  • Delivery dates in writing. You'll know exactly when everything lands before we ever pick up a camera.
  • Revision rounds defined up front. Agreed in the quote — so "one more tweak" never becomes a fight.
  • You own every frame. Finished cuts and raw selects — your footage, your files, no ransom.
  • Content clients: beat your last 90 days or we work free. If our first 90 days don't outperform your previous 90 of content, we keep working at no charge until they do.
The honest filter

We're picky on purpose.

We book a limited number of film days each month, so we protect them. Here's the honest filter:

Probably a fit

  • You want video with a job to do — bookings, sales, a fuller schedule.
  • You're ready to be on camera, or to put your team and real clients on it.
  • One hero film or a monthly rhythm — either way, you're thinking past a one-week splash.
  • You're building a brand for the long run — in South Florida or way beyond it.

Probably not

  • You need something cheap by Friday.
  • Every caption needs three rounds of committee approval.
  • You want footage to file away "for when we need it."
  • The brief is "just make us go viral."

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Client words

Don't take it from us

"[REAL CLIENT QUOTE]"
[Full Name] — [Role], [Business]
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[Full Name] — [Role], [Business]
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[Full Name] — [Role], [Business]
Who we are

The team behind the vision

Daniel Bernadez, founder of Animate Reality

I've been making videos since I was ten. Miami just made it official.

I started with stop-motion Lego shorts filmed on a Nintendo 3DS. Fifteen years of editing, VFX, and shooting later, I turned the obsession into a production company — founded in 2021, built in Miami.

I was born in Mexico City and raised in South Florida, so this is home turf: I know what Brickell looks like at golden hour, which Wynwood walls have been shot to death, and how to light a storefront in Little Havana without losing the neon.

Every project still gets my eyes — I'm a Miami videographer and director before anything else, and I set the creative bar for everyone we bring on. As the team grows, the standard doesn't move: no account managers relaying notes, just the people actually making your stuff.

— Daniel Bernadez, Founder & Creative Director

Miami built Videographer · Director · Editor
Jake Chess, Chief Marketing Officer at Animate Reality, on a Miami balcony at sunset

Pretty is easy. Profitable is Jake's job.

Views don't pay rent. Jake runs the marketing brain behind every shoot — the funnels, the ad spend, the posting schedule — and pressure-tests all of it against one question: will this actually make you money?

If the answer's no, it never makes the shot list. No vanity metrics, no "brand awareness" hand-waving — just video with a straight line to booked calls and sold product.

Jake Chess — Chief Marketing Officer

CMO Strategy · Funnels · Distribution
Questions, answered straight

FAQ

How much does video production cost in Miami?

In the Miami market, a one-off commercial shoot typically runs anywhere from a couple thousand dollars to well past five figures depending on scope — and most companies won't tell you where you'll land until after a long discovery dance. We do it differently: you get a fixed number on the fit call, in plain English, and it doesn't change after we shake on it.

How fast will I get my content?

For monthly content clients, shorts from your film day ship on a posting schedule across the following weeks, so your feed never goes quiet. For one-off commercial projects, we agree on delivery dates in writing before we ever roll — no open-ended "it's in post" purgatory.

What do you need from me?

Honestly? A few hours and a real answer to "what do you want this video to do." We handle planning, shot lists, direction, gear, editing, captions, and posting. You bring yourself, your team, or your clients — we direct everyone once the camera's up.

Who owns the footage?

You do. Every frame we shoot for you is yours — raw selects available on request. We may ask to feature finished work in our portfolio, and you can say no.

Do you handle the posting too?

On monthly content packages, yes — captioned, formatted per platform, and scheduled. You approve from your phone. If you'd rather post yourself, we deliver everything ready-to-go with captions written.

Do you only work with med spas?

No. We shoot commercial films, brand content, events, and monthly social packages for businesses across South Florida. Med spas and aesthetic clinics get a dedicated productized system — the Glow-Up Engine — because that industry has very specific content needs. Everyone else gets a plan built around their goals.

What areas do you serve?

Home base is Miami — we film across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach every week. But we don't stay put: we've shot all over the US and in Europe, and destination film days are a conversation we're always up for.

What actually happens on a film day?

Before the day, we build a run-of-show: every setup, every shot, every talking point, scheduled to the hour. On the day, we show up with the gear, direct you and your people through it, and capture everything the month's content needs — interviews, b-roll, process shots, personality moments. You mostly just do your job while we film it.

How do revisions work?

Revision rounds are defined up front in your quote, so there's no guessing and no surprise invoices. We'd rather nail the brief in pre-production than fix it in post — that's what the fit call and planning are for.

Why a fit call instead of a quote form?

Because a form can't tell us what your video is supposed to do, and we can't quote honestly without knowing that. Fifteen minutes gets us both real answers: what you need, what it costs, whether we're the right crew for it. If we're not, we'll tell you straight.

I've never been on camera. Is that a problem?

It's the default, not a problem. Most of our subjects are business owners, staff, and clients — not actors. We direct you through everything, keep takes short, and cut around the awkward parts. On-camera comfort is our job, not yours.

I started this company because Miami businesses kept paying good money for video that didn't do anything. If you want content with a job to do, book fifteen minutes with me. Worst case, you leave with a plan and a real number. — Daniel · Animate Reality

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