world leaders in multicamera FILMMAKING
BRINGING THE HOLLYWOOD LOOK TO LIVE EVENTS & BROADCASTS
As one of the first companies to use cinema cameras in live broadcast and multicamera environments, Colvin Theatrical is a world leader in multicamera filmmaking, having been featured in Reuters for broadcast innovation, and with films syndicated on streaming, broadcast and television.
Founded as a tool for live theaters to stay open during the pandemic, we streamed our first concert in 2020. Since then, we have produced dozens of captures and broadcasts for outlets like PBS and Broadway on Demand.
We subscribe to a simple philosophy: bring the best attitude, preparation, savvy, creativity and ingenuity to our projects and our partners; make our projects highly profitable, helping bring investment into the event film industry; and, keep innovating - push the boundaries of what is possible in performing arts and live event filmmaking.
SPECIALTIES
CONCERT
Video: Star pianist Matthew Whitaker, filmed and broadcast by Colvin Theatrical, performs a live cinema broadcast concert for Wayman Britt’s Fulfilling the Dream Celebrity Open. After performances on Ellen, The Today Show and Colbert, Whitaker chose Colvin’s capture to use for promotional material due to the film’s intimate, unique and cinematic capture approach.
THEATRE
Video: Colvin Theatrical’s capture of Putnam County Spelling Bee. CT joined Farmers Alley to create a one-night film capture, testing new camera and editing technologies. Filmed with a full audience, one-night only, and no rehearsal, with post-production completed in under a week, Putnam shows that great captures can be accessible to theaters of all sizes.
OPERA
Video: Snippet from Colvin Theatrical’s and Opera Grand Rapids’s Stinney: An American Execution on PBS.
Stinney, broadcast in 2024, is the first full-length opera captured on cinema cameras.
Developed with PBS and Emmy-winner Douglas Chang, Stinney tells the true story of George Stinney Jr., the youngest person ever legally executed in the United States. Warning: harsh language.
We BELIEVE FILMED PERFORMANCES SHOULD BE watchable, engaging, and electrifying.
CASE STUDY: THE American association of community theatre
In 2021, Colvin Theatrical produced, directed, and managed an internationally-covered film series for the American Association of Community Theatre, which premiered during AACTFest 2021 on Broadway on Demand. Colvin’s digital solution helped empower AACT’s bi-annual festival - the largest community theatre gathering in the world - to move to a virtual space, after facing the possibility of pandemic-forced cancellation. For AACTFest, Colvin traveled to 11 theaters across the country - from Boston to Seattle - and produced 11 full-length film captures in under 27 days, completing post-production on all 11 films in under 14 days. The festival was sponsored and supported by Disney, Concord, Broadway Licensing, and more - and featured many of Broadway’s biggest names as keynote speakers.
