Company Profiles

LOTS OF EXPERIENCE AND A WIDE VARIETY OF SUBJECTS

The Echo Productions team has worked on programs broadcast nationally on the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. Our documentaries have been screened at film festivals around the world. Others play regularly in visitor centers at National Parks and monuments. Our corporate clientele is varied; from healthcare providers to engineering firms to private archaeology research contractors to astronomical observatories.

ROUGH & TOUGH

The Colorado Plateau is our territory. With our cameras we have traveled the sublime waters of Lake Powell, 4-wheeled across sagebrush covered plateaus, rafted the monstrous rapids of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, and backpacked for several days into sandstone canyons. We love it. Whether you hire us to work in our backyard or send us somewhere else (how about Australia?) we will take our experience with us.

WRITERS, CAMERAPERSONS, AND EDITORS

We can write a mean sentence, grab the shots, and cut out the riffraff. We work with all kinds of budgets--large and small. And for those projects that need it, we can incorporate animation and music scoring.

The experience is there. Let us work to bring your project to the screen.

Brian Cass
Video Producer

Brian Cass is as comfortable working a camera in remote wilderness locations as he is writing and editing in the studio. As the owner of Echo Productions, he brings over 20 years experience in documentary, educational, promotional, and corporate video production.

His versatility is evident in the variety of subjects his programs have covered. They include a series of biographies on astronomers that he produced as an on-going display for the renowned Lowell Observatory and the documenting of two Hopi Indian artists as they reconstructed an ancient mural as part of a museum exhibit. He has produced programs for a non-profit organization that offers wilderness trips to underprivileged inner-city youth, and another program used to attract public health nurses to the Indian reservations in northern Arizona. Indeed, it is the wide range of subject matter and the different stories that appeals to Brian. He has produced a number of educational programs with Southwestern themes on natural history, archaeology, paleontology, and American Indian culture. Several of these programs are being distributed nationwide.

Brian’s experience has earned him stints as a camera operator on programs for the History Channel (History of the War of the Worlds, Travel With Heritage: The Grand Canyon Region of Northern Arizona), Discovery Channel (Storm Warning!!), and Discovery Channel Canada (Daily Planet).

His pieces have also aired on National Geographic Channel. These include Marble Canyon Track Site, that he produced for National Geographic Today about the discovery of an ancient animal pathway near the Grand Canyon. Another piece, a short documentary featuring a backcountry winter adventure, Skiing the Henry Mountains, has been broadcast worldwide in the television series Game For It (Australia/Europe).

Brian often takes on multiple duties in the programs and documentaries he produces including camera, writing and editing. Some of his programs include Escalante—The Bones of the Earth, about the natural history of the Escalante canyons region of southern Utah, that was screened at the Moab Film Festival (November 2001) and is now being distributed nationwide and the recently released Inflatable Journey—A Brothers’ Adventure on the Escalante River (2007).

His credits also include producer/camera/writer/editor of In the Shadow of the Volcano: Prehistoric Life in Northern Arizona (broadcast on KAET-PBS). Other documentaries he produced include the award-winning Marks of the Ancestors—Ancient Indian Rock Art of Arizona (Red Earth Film Festival, OK).

Making his home in Flagstaff, Arizona, Brian has devoted much time exploring the Colorado Plateau region and learning about its interesting human and natural history. He is intrigued by the unique landscape of the area and finds it an interesting subject— along with the people who study it, admire it, and protect it.