Cultural Shortfilms

prepared for Sigma

A series of short films centered around Interesting subjects around the world with an emphasis on using Sigma gear to capture these films. This series is the culmination of three passionate creatives who want to highlight the stories and culture of interesting people around the globe. We've seen a push to storytelling in the past few years and want to work alongside Sigma to capture these stories in partnership with Sigma.

who we are

daniel mcmullin
director

I began my career as a brand strategist and digital designer. This has been an incredible asset in my creative work. Having a designers perspective helps me think critically about important elements in the projects I work on, such as what's the relevance of the project to the brand, whether it's geared toward the appropriate audience, and if this project embodies that brand's identity.

Bryce Way
director of photography

Based in Los Angeles, but rarely home due to his travel focused work. Bryce is often on the move, capturing stories from around the world unless he's grounded on a film project.

Storytelling lies at the heart of both his personal and professional work, and he’s committed to doing whatever it takes to capture the perfect shot and create moments that leave a lasting impact.

Rachael Dickhute
Producer

A producer and marketing strategist with over 17 years of experience in creative direction and digital storytelling. With a background in global brand campaigns, content creation, and a life spent traveling the world, she brings a unique lens to film production. Her role bridges the creative and commercial—capturing behind-the-scenes moments while driving each film's visibility across festivals and beyond.

the team

Proposal Breakdown

Sigma has been carefully selected as our top choice as a partner for these films and would ideally be our sole partnership across these films.

The Shortfilms (8-10 minutes)

We specialize in sourcing interesting stories around the world, our work is to tell these stories of unique subjects in a shortfilm cinematic style. We have sourced 3 unique stories to start this series about individuals whom we think have met the criteria for interesting subject (the character), brilliant visuals (occupation/passion), and unique location. With these criteria we distill the leads we get to the ones we find will make for the most potent shortfilms on both a storytelling aspect and creative visual aspect.

The BTS Shorts (2-3 minutes, 1 per film)

The BTS shorts are solely centered around how we are using Sigma gear to create these shortfilms, the gear we are using, how we set up this project, and why Sigma is the perfect partner for these films.

To fully embody Sigma and your products playing a pivotal role in us creating these films we will also film and edit a Behind the Scenes short that showcases the gear in these environments. Placing us, the creatives, in wild situations that are attention grabbing and embody the message of going the extra mile to capture unique impactful visuals for our films. These will be kept light and witty.

The Shortfilm Subjects

We've carefully sourced these individuals as unique subjects for the first two short films of this series to be filmed in 2026

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  • Alejandro (Costa Rica) - Calm and chaos
    Project start date: January 2026

    Adrian has been Toro Wrangling in Costa Rica for the past 3 decades. His lifestyle at his ranch is the polar opposite to his time in the Rodeo, this balance of Chaos and Calm has established his temperament of generosity and humility.

    With this story we take a look into the life of a man who has lived off the land, kept his hat down, and worked hard. But to appease the wild nature of man, he wrangles massive bulls with his trusted horses.

    Production Schedule:
    • Pre-Production: January 20th - 28th
    • Production:
    • Post-Production:
  • Frederico (oaxaca, mexico) - jeweller of Oaxaca
    Project start date: February 2026

    This man has been trekking in Uganda for the past 16 years and we want to capture how the safari culture has changed in Uganda and his personal story with the animals and his profession.

    Production Schedule:
    • Pre-Production: February 2026
    • Production:
    • Post-Production:

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