Based out of Chicago for over 15 years, Ryan and his team have utilized their documentary storytelling skillset to create doc-style videos for companies, non-profits, museums and schools across Chicago and around the world.
Flyback Productions has provided high quality media services for clients spanning the gamut - from Fortune 500 companies to the smallest non-profits.
From Ford and VH1 to the Cook County Juvenile Court and the Chicago Alternative Schools Network. From the medical industry to the trucking industry to the hospitality industry to the music industry, Flyback can tell any story in a style and aesthetic uniquely adapted to each project’s needs and goals.
CURRENT CLIENT ROSTER
Flyback Productions is the creative agency for Poverty Aleviation Charity (PAC), a nonprofit organization on a mission to use art as a conduit to transform passive compassion into immediate assistance through the distribution of money given, without expectation or judgment, directly to families suffering poverty.
Flyback creates marketing videos for the Illinois Holocaust Museum and has even served as an official corporate sponsor for the exhibit Stories of Survival, which ran from Jul 19, 2018 - Jan 13, 2019.
For the 3rd school year, Flyback has served as creative agency for Chicago’s premiere Jewish day school, Bernard Zell, creating marketing and fundraising videos. This past year, Ryan was invited to mentor a small group of 8th grade students in order to produce a grant-funded short documentary film on the teachings of Elie Wiesel.
Flyback has produced several videos over the years for the investment and financial resource website Investopedia.com.
SAMPLE VIDEOS
RBG Exhibit Video (2020)
CLIENT: Illinois Holocaust Museum
SUMMARY: Flyback Productions created two marketing spots for the traveling exhibit on the life and work of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
2019 YEAR IN REVIEW IN OAKLAND, CA (2020)
CLIENT: PAC
SUMMARY: This video begins with fundraising show in Oakland, CA that featured the Breeders and Fred Armisen and then shows how the money from this show was used to change the lives of families in Oakland.
VIRTUAL GRADUATION INTRO (2020)
CLIENT: Prospect High School
SUMMARY: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this suburban Chicago high school hired Flyback Productions to create an intro video to set the emotional tone for their virtual graduation ceremony. This included the unique production approach of directing several families on how to film their own footage at home.
‘MITZVAH MOMENT’ ANNUAL FUNDRAISING VIDEO (2020)
CLIENT: Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School
SUMMARY: While Flyback produces several videos for the school over an average year, this was use at the annual fundraising event to raise money and it ended up being the most successful fundraiser in the school’s history!
STEP THE FU** UP FOR CHARITY (2019)
CLIENT: PAC
SUMMARY: In order to raise funds for the charity, Steve Albini, Jeff Garlin, and Jeff Tweedy work for an evening at Chicago’s famed Weiner Circle, where the staff insults and swears at the customers as they serve them Chicago dogs. Hilarity ensued!
STORIES OF SURVIVAL (2018)
CLIENT: Illinois Holocaust Museum
SUMMARY: Curator Arielle Weininger and Photographer Jim Lommasson go behind the scenes on this riveting exhibit about the deeper meaning of artifacts salvaged by the survivors of genocides.
PORTRAIT OF HERITAGE BIKES AND CAFE (2017)
CLIENT: Investopedia.com
SUMMARY: Flyback produced this short portrait of a Chicago entrepreneur and his bike/coffee shop for financial resource website Investopedia.com
SMART SEAT ANIMATION (2017)
CLIENT: Comfort Motion Global
SUMMARY: Flyback was hired to produce this animation for web and corporate presentations about a smart car seating technology that moves automatically and imperceptibly for the health of the driver. This technology is now in all Mercedes and will be expanding.
TRUCK DRIVER RECRUITMENT (2016)
CLIENT: AREA Trucking
SUMMARY: Headquartered in Northwest Indiana, AREA Trucking operates nationally and hired Flyback to create this video to recruit new drivers
SALESPEOPLE OF THE YEAR BANQUET (2011)
CLIENT: Allscripts
SUMMARY: This internal video was shown at an annual international convention in Las Vegas. The client hired Flyback Productions to produce a video weaving the award winners into a Jay-Z music video. This video remains a Flyback Productions classic!
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
"Flyback Productions is a small operation that boasts some of the greatest talent in Chicago. My post production needs were handled flawlessly and the entire process from concept to final edit was a joy. Ryan’s genius and passion for production has built a company that I would be happy to work with again."
Kristen Kassouf - Ford Global Brand Entertainment
"I would like to thank you and your colleagues at Flyback Productions for how well you and your team did on the production of the 3 minute USA video. It was a huge hit at the convention and it struck a good balance of emotion and fact. Plus it demonstrated to the Super 8 USA owners and management how we in China are trying to be a helpful part of the worldwide organization."
Mitchell A. Presnick - Chairman and CEO, Super 8 Hotels (China) Co., Ltd.
"Flyback Productions provides the high-stylized, quality work our company demands with the creativity and cred that connects with our target audiences."
Sharon Ricketts, Director of Entertainment & Multicultural Marketing, Chevrolet
AND MANY MORE!