We’re a full-service video agency, deployed around the world at a moment’s notice to transform brand and business directives into compelling film work. We’re passionate about taking projects from start to finish, or plugging into any aspect of production as needed, for clients of all sizes.
Beautiful work that works.
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Here’s who we are.
Ricardo Manavello is the Prime Alpha Bossman and CEO of Artex Productions, and has been the captain steering the ship since the company’s inception. During weekends and holidays, he is also an award-winning cinematographer who has shot multiple feature films, big-label music videos, and national commercials, which have helped him develop the aesthetic that drives our brand. His alter ego is Puddles, The Kleptomaniac Clown- losing a diamond necklace has never been funnier.
Tim Warren has been The Ideas Guy at Artex Productions since 2006. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from the University of Miami in 2014, and is a multiple-award-winning director of commercials, as well as short and feature films. He is also a polished copywriter and understands how to use video to sell stuff you may want to sell or convey ideas you may want to convey. It’s his job to buddy up to our clients and make sure their vision is being realized. When not being utilized for this end, he rests in a hyperbaric chamber, where his dreams are projected in 3D space and recorded by stenographers for future use.
Chris Dreseris is the Five- Star Generalissimo of Producing at Artex Productions. He serves as the point man for logistics and budgeting on all of our shoots, and has produced spots for Coca-Cola, Visa, and AT&T, to mention a few. When not producing or coordinating our various projects, Chris shmoozes, works the room, power-networks, and performs incredible feats of strength such as pump-squatting like a million pounds. He comes from the land of An Extensive Sales and Marketing Background and graduated from Florida State University, where he studied business law and strategic management. He is a noted meatball enthusiast.
Charlie is an industry veteran who spent 15+ years within WPP agencies in Miami (Ogilvy Latina) and NYC (Ogilvy & Mather, BIG, Brand Union), including Google NYC, and MethodGroupe Miami. Throughout his career, he’s managed various initiatives across the globe for brands like Absolut, Aetna, American Express, Bank of America, BlackRock, Cadillac, Chevrolet, The Coca-Cola Company, DuPont, ESPN, Ford, Google, IBM, Perrier, Samsung, Shazam, Sony Playstation, Sprint, Stolichnaya, Time Warner Cable, Tribeca Film Festival, and Yahoo! Charlie brings a passion for making smart, beautifully designed work that drives business results.
The Supreme Sorcerer of the Online Marketing Arts at Artex Productions, and has the rare ability to manipulate and commune with Google Waves, allowing him to harness and point them, laser-beam style, at our website. Having received his degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, he of course opened a bridal boutique with his wife, and learned the secrets of the Dark Art of SEO from sagely masters in Chicago to promote the business. He was so successful with this venture that he decided to dive full-time into Internet Marketing, and he’s been a crucial member of the Artex team ever since.
As the Production Coordinator at Artex, Kyle ensures that all projects arrive on time and under budget. In his spare time, Kyle is an award-winning writer and producer who has made a bunch of films and web series you probably haven’t seen. To his knowledge, he is the only person to have won both a Chinese Short Film Academy Award and Most Improved Free Throw Shooter at Gloria Dei Youth Basketball Camp. When Kyle is not winning awards and sinking J’s, he’s probably cornering you at a party to talk about his screenplay.
James “Segars” Segars was born under the Seven Moons of Valerium, blessed by the High Spepton himself with the powers of Post Production, and chucked to Earth in a box. Since emerging, he has shared his gifts with the New York comedy and reality TV scene, as well as single-handedly closing the Great Galactic Rift. After a dowry of farmland, Artex bribed him to work as their Post-Production Supervisor, where he turns our videos into the tightly-constructed little babies that they are.
Tonda Ros is the resident Whiz-Bbang Scientist of Motion Graphics and Animation at Artex Productions and has extensive background in cinematography, graphic design, animation, and cat training. With the fusion of these elements, he provides our clients with a unique style of motion design that combines photographic elements with modern cel animation. His work has been sought after for national commercials, theatrical trailers, music videos and title sequences for both television and film. He is also Grade-A Awesome, thanks for asking.
Staring at you from the GREEN CORNER is Stephanie Hallett, the Reigning Welterweight Art and Animation Champion of the World. She sees you, trying not to glance at her championship belt. She smirks. At you? A bell rings, and instinctively you throw up your hands. But it's already too late. With the blinding speed of a genetically modified herd of gazelles combined into a single gazelle, she has already struck, with a classic combo- of artfully-realized Animation, chased by a lead fistful of imaginative Art Direction. You taste pennies- blood? As your vision goes blurry, the last thing you remember is her smiling down at you. Pointing at her belt.
Brian Mejia is a being of pure sound that we at Artex Productions accidentally created in top-secret science experiment gone horribly wrong. Rather than unleash him on the world, we have harnessed his powers via a high-tech containment unit so that all he does is create impact-laden sound design that gives our clients' videos the cinematic OOMPH they need to land at maximum impact. The being known as Brian has lent his ear to countless advertising pieces, narrative film work, and art projects, but unfortunately, you can't meet with him face-to-face as his mere presence will cause you to go mad.
Here's what clients are saying.
Here’s what we’ve won.
EDGE F&B
GOLD ADDY GFX
2019
EDGE F&B
NY INT’L AD FESTIVAL
2019
EDGE SPA
GOLD ADDY GFX
2019
EARN YOUR GREATNESS
SILVER ADDY SFX
2019
EDGE GRAND PLAZA
IAC BEST OF SHOW
2019
ST. CROIX RIVER
GOLD ADDY BEST IN SHOW
2019
CELEBRITY EDGE
GOLD ADDY CAMPAIGN DOP
2019
CELEBRITY EDGE
GOLD ADDY CAMPAIGN DOP
2019
EDGE GRAND PLAZA
SILVER ADDY
2019
THE BLACK LABEL
GRAPHIS NEW TALENT
2016
THE BLACK LABEL
GOLD ADDY
2015
THE BLACK LABEL
NY INT’L AD FESTIVAL
2015