Ryan is truly an artisan of the moving image. Whether he's serving as cinematographer, director, editor or all three at once—Ryan’s work reveals an incredible ability to make the intimate feel spectacular and the spectacular feel intimate. From short-films and documentaries to commercials and other branded content.
What do you find when you look through a little pocket of genuine New York Italian in Northeast Minneapolis? At Geno’s, you’ll find Tony, the classic paisan who loves his chicken parm, and Barb, the classic church basement lady who loves her wine slushies. Salut! Enjoy the fun we had, shooting this spot on June 26th- we sure did.
Project Hope. A mission in which a house was built to completion in under three days in order to raise money for a family that suffered a devastating loss. Uptop is proud to be part of helping document this story with our friends at Eclipse Media Productions, and we'll be sure to keep you informed as we do so.
Scholarship America and their corporate partners offer financial support to college students so they can reach their educational goals. Over the past few months, We traveled to six different cities in three different states, documenting the stories of scholarship recipients from Wells Fargo, Houston Livestock and Rodeo and The Mike Rowe Foundation.
We’re grinning from ear to ear about the accolades our short film, Half Smile, received at 2017’s Z Fest Film Festival. Our awards tallied eight, including Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Cinematographer. Once again, we’re thrilled to be part of such a creative community in a town that supports the arts.
Unless you were living under a Wookie Mask in 2016, there’s a good chance you caught some sort of live video on social media. Whether it was the Uptop Crew getting blown away by the magic of our friend Tim Gabrielson (we’re pretty sure Jay is still recovering) or that time Joe got a bunch of strangers to sing Happy Birthday to Ryan at the airport, it’s obvious that Facebook Live is taking the interwebs by storm.
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Denver Colorado set the stage for a 2-day shoot with the now resurrected band Five Iron Frenzy. After calling it quits 8 years ago, the band is back together with much thanks to it’s fans for a mind-blowing Kickstarter campaign. Uptop Films captured two music videos for the band. The first music video was to the song “Zen and The Art of Xenophobia”. We took over a local high school auditorium and recreated some famous scenes from American History with a somewhat twisted tale.
Our second music video was filmed during a live performance of the song “So Far” at the famous Ogden Theatre in Denver. Over 700 people from all over the country packed out the theatre. The fans went crazy during the live concert as they showed their love for the resurgence of the band.
Ryan and Joe of Uptop Films actually both grew up listening to FIF, and Ryan took it to the next level as he was a die-hard follower (which made signing up for the gig really easy). While in Denver, our crew spent 4 days doing everything from Pre-Production, Set Design, Casting and Storyboarding/Collaborating with the band.
