About us
Before weddings,
we filmed quinceañeras
Three years of waltzes that happen exactly once, under light nobody chose. It turned out to be the best training a wedding could ask for.
How we look
Nobody remembers the photo they were asked to smile for.
There are two of us: Iris shoots the photographs, Mitchell the film. We've worked together for eight years and we still argue about the same question: when to press the shutter and when to hold still. The answer is almost always to hold still one second longer.
We won't ask you to walk in again. We won't cut into a speech to find a better angle. What happens, happens once: our job is to be there when it does, not to arrange it.
Close and quiet
A long lens is a form of respect
We work from a distance. Not out of shyness: a camera a foot from your face changes what you do with it. From the back of the room the scene is still the scene, and twenty minutes in you've forgotten we're there.
Grandmother hour
Our favorite hour belongs to the grandmothers
The sun goes down, the formalities end, and what's left are the far tables: the aunts, the friends from university, the grandmother who sat through the entire ceremony and is now laughing with her mouth wide open. That's the wedding. By then most crews have packed up. We stay until two in the morning, and if at two something is still happening, we stay longer.
What we don't do
We've all seen the drone at sunset
We don't shoot the list of forty group photos. We don't ask for the jump with the groomsmen or the staged kiss against a wall. There's no drone circling the church while an indie song plays. If that's what you want, there are people who do it very well and we'll gladly pass on names.
Plain facts
So you don't have to ask
- Where we're from
- Both of us from Ciudad del Este, based in Asunción. And from there to wherever it takes: we film weddings all over the world.
- How many weddings
- Forty-eight a year, nearly every weekend. By now there's no venue surprise we haven't seen twice.
- Why weddings
- We're romantics and we're not embarrassed to say it. It's the one day an entire family gets together on purpose and nobody performs.
- How long it takes
- Thirty working days, photographs and film. Promising less is easy; delivering it isn't.
- What we carry
- Two cameras each, prime lenses, and our own lights in case the venue decides to turn purple at eleven.
- What we speak
- Spanish, Portuguese and English, all three fluently. We never studied the Portuguese: we grew up on the border.
Let's meet
Coffee, then?
Before we talk dates and money we'd like to meet you. In Asunción, or over video if you're far. It isn't a sales pitch: thirty minutes and two questions.
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