Documentary and brand film production for organizations across the Midwest
See the workLong-form video, cut to fit everywhere you show up
Lofthouse Films is a video production company based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and documentary is our specialty. We work with brands, agencies, and organizations in Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, and across the Midwest.
We film real people and real work in a documentary style. It starts with long-form video, which gets cut down into the short-form videos, social cuts, and campaign assets that fuel your entire content strategy. Every shoot also adds to a growing content library your team can draw on all year.
What we make
Long-form video content
Documentary-style video content built around your people, your products, your customers, and your work. Made for wherever your audience is: your website, events, sales meetings, social, and streaming.
A content library
Every production is captured and catalogued so it keeps paying off. We cut it into social, sales, recruiting, and event pieces as your needs come up.
YouTube channels
We plan, launch, and program YouTube channels with original shows that attract your ideal customers and give your existing ones a reason to keep watching.
Brand films and commercials
Documentary is our specialty, not our limit. We also produce brand films, commercials, testimonials, and event videos when that is what the job calls for.
What we document
Most organizations have more worth filming than they realize. These are the stories we are asked to tell most often.
Product releases
The thinking, the people, and the work behind a launch, filmed as it happens instead of recreated after the fact.
Innovation and process
How the thing actually gets made. Shop floors, labs, job sites, and the people who know them best.
Industry insight
Your leaders and specialists on camera, answering the questions your customers are already asking.
Customers and community
The people your work reaches, in their own words. The stories that earn trust, donations, and referrals.
Founder legacy
Legacy films for founders stepping down who want to tell their story for future generations.
Events and trade shows
Video made for your trade show booth, along with openings, anniversaries, and annual gatherings, captured once and used all year.
Why Lofthouse
Your content goes further
We film with your whole content plan in mind, so every production gives you far more than a single video. More finished pieces, in more places, for longer.
You work with the people who make it
We are a small, family-run crew. The people you talk to are the same people who film and edit your work, so nothing gets lost along the way.
Real people, at ease on camera
Most of the people we film have never been on camera. Putting employees, customers, and leaders at ease is what documentary work teaches you, and it shows in the final cut.
We make our own shows too
Our team also produces The New North, an original docuseries watched by millions on YouTube. What we learn there carries into our client work.
Tell us what your organization should be making
A short note is enough to start. We reply within two business days.