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New 2011 Cinematography Reel

Check out our new showreel featuring a compilation of work from the past year.

CinSyn Hosts Santa Cruz’s 1st Camera Olympics

UPDATE! It’s time to announce the winners of the different camera olympic events…. Scavenger Hunt: April Short won a Plantronics Headset Camera Tag: Blake Allan and James Tipton won a goodie bag of Niman Ranch Sustainable Meats Short Film Contest: Josh Gorham and family won $50 to Bay Photo Congrats …

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Achron Trailer featured on Destructoid.com

Last Monday, May 16th, Destructoid.com posted the new ACHRON pre-launch trailer recently produced by the Cinematic Syndicate. “…The concept alone is truly innovative. Suffice to say, it’s easily among the most promising independently developed titles I’ve seen in quite some time….” -Tim Sheehy of Destructoid.com ACHRON is not your average …

Niman Ranch Demo Intro

We worked with Sarah Willis and the marketing department from Niman Ranch to produce, shoot and edit a comprehensive training video for Niman Ranch food demonstrators. All footage was shot on location at New Leaf Market in Santa Cruz, California with other video clips of the Willis Ranch and other …

Projection Room at The Nick

A recent project led the Syndicate to the Nickelodeon Theatre for some stock footage. We we’d like to share some of the more interesting parts of the process.

Bright Green Strategies Talks about LEED

Bright Green Strategies (brightgreenstrategies.com) recently went live on a community access show entitled ‘Going Green’ in Gilroy to speak a little bit about how the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design program (LEED) is paving the way to a new generation of green building standards. We incorporated live footage with …

New Leaf Markets – 25 Years of Serving the Community

Sarah Owens, marketing director for New Leaf Community Markets explains how New Leaf gives back to their Santa Cruz Community with programs like Envirotoken and how New Leaf celebrated their 25 year birthday bash in October, 2010.

Fall 2010 Open House at the Firelight Foundation

On November 16th 2010 the Firelight Foundation (downtown Santa Cruz, CA) hosted an open house and invited community members to hear a firsthand story of how just a small grant to a grassroots org can impact local Rwandan communities.

Chris Cain LIVE at the Rene Solis Tribute 201

Chris Cain performs at The Avalon in Cupertino, CA for the 2010 Rene Solis Tribute Concert.

‘Indian Christmas’ by Cape Sound – Music Video

A music video shot for ‘Indian Christmas’ by Cape Sound (from Santa Cruz, CA) Song & guitar played by Erik Oatman Drums by Jesse Clark (jesseclark.org/coda) Cello by Alexis Hawks (audiafauna.com) Song recorded & mixed by Jesse Clark with the help of Edan Mason at the UCSC EMS Studios. Production …