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Pah! Studios.

We are CREATIVE.

The production engine of the family. Where the work is actually made.

What it does

Six pillars. One studio.

A Deaf-led production studio. Everything is originated in sign language, not adapted after the fact. Take one piece or the whole set.

Pillar 1Video & Film

The shoot. Narrative, commercial, and documentary work, originated and directed in sign language.

Pillar 2Post-Production & Editing

The cut. Editing, color, motion, and audio, handled after the camera stops.

Pillar 3Accessible Media & Localization

Captions, ASL, and translation built into the edit, never bolted on at the end.

Pillar 4Live & Event

Multi-camera, streaming, and the crew that makes a room work as a broadcast.

Pillar 5Photography & Visual

Stills held to the same standard: portraits, product, events, and stage.

Pillar 6Production Support & Studio Services

Crew, gear, and studio space for people making their own thing.

What it is

Media Services is the agency. Pah! Studios is the studio the agency books.

One sells the work and holds the client relationship. The other has the room, the gear, the crew, and the craft. Keeping them apart is deliberate, because selling well and making well are different jobs. A studio that starts from a clear, agreed brief gets to put all of its attention into the making.

The rest of the family books it directly. Entertainment Group, Rad Style Depot, and 258 Deaf Street come straight to the studio. Only outside clients come through Media Services, because that is what Media Services is for.

What we make

Deaf-native production, from the first frame.

Not access added at the end. A signed production is built in sign from the start, and the captions, the framing, and the cutting are all decided around that.

ScreenFilm, video, and content

Concept to finished cut. A green-screen stage with multi-light setups, character work in costume and makeup, series formats, and the edit.

StageShow production and technical direction

Format design, brand identity, live screen content, and cue-to-cue execution on the night.

StillPhotography

Studio portraits and headshots, product, and event work. The studio has run a photo line since 2007.

Deaf-led on both sides of the camera. Twenty years of production stands behind this list. It is short because it is what the studio does, not because it is what is left. Ask about any line on it and we have done it before, more than once.

The lineage

The name is older than the company.

2006The name appears. "Pah! Productions presents" on the title card of a senior-year film. The brand arrives four years before there is a company to put it on.
2007The photo line. An early photography arm, plus event and holiday portrait work. The studio was shooting stills before it was shooting video.
2010Pah! Studios becomes a company. The first incorporation, and the start of the lineage the parent company traces back to.
2011Video on the record. Professional festival coverage with two on-camera interviewers, still public. Documented Pah! video production runs five years earlier than most people assume.
2016The garage studio. The logo was projected onto a bare wall, traced, and hand-painted. Out of that room came the green-screen comedy work and a run of series production.
2018258 Deaf Street. Pah! Studios presented and produced the first Sign Language Culture Festival, at arena scale in Denver. The poster reads PAH! STUDIOS PRESENTS. The festival went on to become a company of its own.
ThenMerchandise, before it had a home. The studio designed, manufactured, sold, packed and posted its own product: apparel and licensed lines in retail boxes, with the order ledger behind them. One campaign put a share of every sale behind a Deaf crisis line, alongside a nonprofit gala for the same cause. Pah! did that work because there was nowhere else to put it. There is now, and it is called Rad Style Depot ↗
NowThe Production Infrastructure Division. The whole-ecosystem job moved up to Sesmedia Enterprises. The craft stayed here. Pah! Studios is the studio the rest of the family runs its media through.
Find the work

Look for the credit.

A lot of what this studio made is already out in the world with its name on it. You do not have to take our word for any of it. Go and look.

In the creditsProduced by Pah! Studios

Also Produced by Pah! Creative Solutions, the earlier name. Both appear on end cards, footers, and posters going back years.

On social#pahstudios · #pahcreativesolutions

Search either tag, or either name, and the work turns up: productions, brands, shows, and the people who made them.

In FranceFestival Clin d’Oeil, more than once

Pah! Studios has worked the major French Deaf arts festival across several editions: first producing a single act, then bringing most of its client roster over, and most recently producing a show for the festival itself.

The name the rest are held to. Since 2006.

Production

Make it here.

Outside projects come through Media Services, who scope it with you first. Tell us what you are making.

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