HBO — Back to One
HBO
Cinetech piece for HBO's LPZ programme. The longest-form commercial work in the reel and the one that sets the standard for everything after it.
Richmond County Media, LLC
We make it beautiful. Then we make it ship.
Cinematic film and photography, and original software, from one company in New York.
NYS + NYC certified MBE · Claude Partner Network
Why we are built this way
Wall Street discipline to creative projects.
Cinematic artistry to corporate productions.
Most creative shops can make it beautiful. Most technical shops can make it work. Richmond County Media does both, because it was built by someone who did both — hands-on filmmaking, and project management for financial services IT.
That is not a positioning exercise. It is why a shoot gets scoped like a software project, why you get a defined delivery process instead of a vague promise, and why the person grading your footage can also read your API docs.
What do you need?
Four ways in.
- AI & product buildsSoftware, prototypes and product design, built with AI tooling by a team that has shipped its own app to both stores.
- Film & videoNarrative, documentary, nonprofit and commercial work. Gimbal-smooth where it should be polished, handheld where it should be close.
- PhotographyCorporate, events, sports and production stills. Documentary foundation, cinematic grade, consistent across a session.
- Public sector & MBEA certified NYS and NYC Minority Business Enterprise, set up for supplier-diversity goals and public-sector procurement.
Selected work
Documentary foundation. Cinematic elevation.
Riding Redemption
South Shore Media
A ten-minute narrative short made in partnership with South Shore Media. Three-act structure, handheld where the scene calls for immediacy.
SIEDC — tourism series
Staten Island Economic Development Corp
One of eight destination films produced for the Staten Island Economic Development Corp. A delivered series, on brief and on schedule, for a public-sector client.
SDI at the High School of Art & Design
School of Design Institute
Documenting a design programme inside a New York City public high school — the same commitment to arts education that City Kids Cinema was built on.
Tangled Ball
Tangled Ball
Brand film with a clean commercial grade and a controlled, gimbal-led camera throughout.
Paradise City — behind the scenes
film
Documentary-style production coverage. Candid and textured, conveying the craft and energy of a working set.
Latinos in Cannabis
National Hispanic Cannabis Council
Event film for the inaugural Latinos in Cannabis, presented by the National Hispanic Cannabis Council.
All Star Family Orthodontics
All Star Family Orthodontics
Small-business brand film — clear, warm and built to work as well on a practice website as in a waiting room.
Our own product
We didn't just use AI. We shipped with it.
Rokstr Sports is an AI-powered team management platform for youth leagues and clubs — in beta on the Apple App Store and Google Play. We designed it, built it, and shipped it end to end.
Built with Claude Code and Claude Design. Not a prototype, not a pitch deck — a product in users' hands.
01
Team & league management
Rosters, scheduling, RSVPs, live play-by-play scoring and auto-tallied box scores — sport-agnostic across soccer, basketball and baseball.
02
AI photography marketplace
Facial recognition and jersey-number OCR sort hundreds of game photos to the right player automatically, turning a shoot into purchasable galleries in minutes.
03
Photographer reservations
Connects leagues with photographers, who earn a share of every photo sale directly through the platform.
Claude Partner Network
Most agencies use AI to make content faster. We use it to build software.
Richmond County Media is a member of Anthropic's Claude Partner Network. That membership is not a badge on a slide — it reflects how the technical side of this company actually works.
Building Rokstr Sports from concept to app store gave us practical fluency in AI-assisted development: architecture, prototyping, code review, and the judgment to know where these tools help and where they quietly do not. That is what we bring to a client build.
What that looks like
- AI-assisted application development
- Rapid prototyping and product design
- Technical discovery and scoping
- Project management for creative and technical delivery
Capabilities
Four service lines. One standard.
Film & video
Narrative features, nonprofit advocacy, educational programs, cultural documentation and commercial work. Three-act structure even in short form.
- Professional color grading
- Clean audio mix
- Platform-matched delivery specs
Photography
Documentary foundation, cinematic elevation. Corporate and headshots, events, sports, and behind-the-scenes production coverage.
- High-resolution, color-corrected
- Consistent grade per session
- Organized online gallery delivery
Web & digital
Sites that are visual experiences rather than text on a page — with information architecture that holds up as the content grows.
- Responsive and accessible builds
- Clear documentation
- Defined post-launch support
AI & technical delivery
Software and prototypes built with AI tooling, run with the discipline of a financial services IT project.
- Structured discovery
- Clear scope and timeline
- Proactive status communication
How the work runs
01
Discovery
We align on the goal before anyone picks up a camera or opens an editor. What the work is for determines what it should be.
02
Production
Transparent planning, a defined scope, and status you don't have to chase. The schedule is a commitment, not an estimate.
03
Delivery
A defined review process and no ambiguity about what's included or when it arrives. Formats matched to where the work will actually live.
Community
City Kids Cinema
An after-school filmmaking program for middle school students, created in 2024 and piloted at MS 224 in the Bronx during the 2024/2025 school year.
Not a media-literacy survey and not an app-based curriculum. Students work with real filmmaking equipment and a real production workflow, taught by a working filmmaker — the same gear and the same process used on paid productions.
Professional workflow
Students learn on production equipment and follow the same shot-planning and post process used on commercial work.
Access and equity
Free, professional-quality creative education in a neighborhood where it is otherwise hard to find.
A pipeline, not a photo op
The goal is a generation of diverse young storytellers who have already touched the real tools.
Next: additional schools, formalized curriculum documentation, and grant and corporate sponsorship to sustain the program.
For procurement
Certified, and set up to be easy to buy from
- New York City MBE
MWCERT2023-1028
NYC Small Business Services · valid to 30 November 2028
- NYS vendor ID
21366285
B2G vendor identification number
- NYS vendor number
VN-0214335
Statewide vendor record · application BLA-0000117780
- New York State MBE
Certified 29 September 2025
Executive Law Article 15-A · valid to 29 September 2030
- Legal entity
Richmond County Media, LLC
New York
- Past performance
SIEDC — eight-film destination series
Staten Island Economic Development Corp
- NAICS 512110
Motion picture and video production
Primary
- NAICS 541613
Marketing consulting services
Secondary
Capability statement — Available on request
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Tell us what you're making.
Discovery conversations are free and genuinely useful — even if we turn out to be the wrong fit for the project.
info@richmondcountymedia.com