The ladder.
Start small and safe during the acquisition hold. Climb to the flagship once the dust settles. The numbers below are the shape of a conversation, not a quote. Each rung is a real piece of work with a real reason to exist.
The Invisible Designer
The 8–12 minute documentary portrait of a theater sound designer. One production, rehearsal to opening night, no narrator. Fundable at brand-marketing level without group sign-off, which is what makes it the right move right now.
Read the treatmentKokkedal — the factory film
The homepage-grade, keynote-ready brand statement. Mylar, gold, 200 steps, no voiceover. The film that makes the price make sense and walks DPA into the Audiotonix family as the design-led Danish brand. The bigger swing, made second.
See the treatmentThe trade-season retainer
A standing relationship that feeds Journeys and the trade calendar: a portrait series across theater, classical, broadcast, and touring. The chapters you're missing, made to one standard, on a rhythm you can plan around. This is how the catalog becomes a library of films.
The chapters you're missingWhat you get on every piece of work.
The standard doesn't change with the budget. The scope does.
- A director and a point of view, start to finish
- Master and web encodes, plus social cutdowns
- A stills package shot alongside, for press and decks
- Full usage rights, no per-placement licensing
- Built to drop into the homepage, Journeys, and the keynote
The order is the point. Safe first, flagship second, cadence once it's proven.
Start where the risk is lowest and the story is most ownable.
The documentary is the entry: small enough to approve during a regulatory hold, ownable enough that it's clearly DPA's and no one else's. It proves the register. Then Kokkedal makes the flagship case for the acquisition moment. Then the retainer turns one film into the library the catalog has always deserved. One conversation starts all three.
Start the conversation