About Echo Productions

Echo Productions Company Profile
Echo Productions was established in 1993 and produces video programming for local, state, national, and international clients in addition to providing crew for broadcast, corporate, and commercial productions.

The company also produces documentaries, visitor center exhibits, and public outreach programs on paleontology, archaeology, natural history, and adventure. Echo Productions has also worked with Native American individuals and groups throughout the Southwest and has filmed on Indian lands.

With extensive broadcast production experience, Echo Productions is often hired to provide camera operators and crew for single and multi-day shoots. Our location in Flagstaff, Arizona makes it especially convenient for production work in and around Grand Canyon National Park. Some of our recent projects include Wonders of the Grand Canyon for CNN/Turner Networks and Top 20 Country Countdown for cable television channel GAC.

Corporate, non-profit, and business clients that have hired Echo Productions include hospitals, medical manufacturers, engineering firms, and environmental organizations. Banner Health hired Echo Productions to produce a recruiting video for Page Hospital that featured the hospital's philosophy of healing along with the attractions found in the region. The United Way of Northern Arizona also hired Echo Productions to produce a 30-minute financial education video to assist the population they serve throughout Arizona.

Several documentaries produced by Echo Productions are being distributed on DVD in national parks and monuments in the Southwest and on this website. These include Escalante - The Bones of the Earth, Inflatable Journey, Marks of the Ancestors (2nd place award in the Red Earth Film Festival), The Spirit Walls of Nine Mile Canyon, and In the Shadow of the Volcano (broadcast on KAET Arizona Public Television 2000/2001, screened at ICRONOS Archaeology Film Festival in Bordeaux, France 2002).

Echo Productions also produced visitor center exhibit programs for Lowell Observatory, the Museum of Northern Arizona, Casa Grande National Monument, Wupatki National Monument, and Sunset Crater National Monument. The Sunset Crater visitor center's interpretive exhibits were recognized by the National Park Service with the Freeman Tilden Award.

Brian Cass Profile - Producer and Cameraman
Brian Cass is the owner of Echo Productions and brings over 25 years experience in the video profession. He has extensive experience as a writer, editor, and camera operator and often takes on these duties on Echo Productions' projects. He has produced a number of educational programs, which are being distributed throughout the United States, on topics such as natural history, archaeology, and Native American culture.

Brian has also produced many corporate, marketing, instructional, and promotional programs for businesses and other organizations. This work includes recruitment programs for hospitals and medical manufacturers, promotional programs for mechanical engineering firms and school safety products, as well as fundraising programs for non-profit organizations. Other business-related projects he has worked on include the production of commercial television spots, web video programs, and event videography.

In 2008, National Geographic Television hired Brian as cameraman, writer, and editor in the production of two program segments for the series Wild Chronicles that were broadcast on PBS. The first, Utah Plesiosaur, required several days of remote field work in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument where he accompanied paleontologists searching for fossil remains of ancient sea reptiles. A second project, Nevada Ichthyosaur, focused on the challenging process of removing a large fossil from an isolated mountain range of western Nevada.

In 2007, Brian received local press coverage in the newspaper Flagstaff Live in an article entitled "Archetypal Adventure" featuring the making of his film Inflatable Journey that documented a wilderness river trip in southern Utah. The film was screened at the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival and the Prescott Creeks Festival.

Brian also produced Marble Canyon Track Site, a segment for National Geographic Today (2003, National Geographic Channel) about the discovery of an ancient animal pathway near the Grand Canyon. For the Echo Productions documentary In the Shadow of the Volcano: Prehistoric Life in Northern Arizona (broadcast on KAET Arizona Public Television), he both wrote and edited the program in addition to working as cameraman. He also produced a program segment Skiing the Henry Mountains about a backcountry skiing adventure that was broadcast worldwide in the series Game For It on the National Geographic Channel (Australia/Europe).

In 2002, Brian was a principal camera operator for a Museum of Northern Arizona exhibit featuring the collaboration between two Hopi Indian artists who reconstructed an 11th century Hopi mural.

In 2001, Brian also produced, wrote, and filmed the natural history documentary Escalante - The Bones of the Earth, which was screened at the Moab Film Festival.

Some of Brian's camera operator credits include programs for CNN (Wonders of the Grand Canyon), GAC, Discovery Channel (Storm Warning!!), and The History Channel (Beyond the War of the Worlds, and Travel With Heritage: The Grand Canyon Region of Northern Arizona). He was also camera operator on segments for the program Daily Planet on Discovery Channel Canada (Big Foot Hunters, and Man-Made Flood in Grand Canyon).

Brian holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and received his Telecommunications & Film training from the University of Utah. He presented a seminar session Behind the Camera: A Documentary Perspective for the ACTE Conference for Arizona teachers in Tucson, Arizona and was also a panel member during a filmmaker symposium at the 2001 Moab Film Festival. Brian is a member of the Arizona Production Association.