about us
Bend, OR | Brooklyn, NY
We’re a filmmaking-photography duo based in Central Oregon who believe the best moments are rarely the loudest ones. We met while making a documentary about a family in Iraq—a five-year journey that gave us a finished film, a love story of our own, and a production baby named Heron.
Our work is rooted in the same spirit that brought us together: capturing real life as it unfolds. We make wedding films that feel like documentaries, full of honest, in-between moments. And we photograph families the same way—intimate, unscripted, and full of soul. We’re drawn to the in-between: the glances, the gestures, the slow unfolding of real life.
We’re not here to stage perfection—we’re here to capture feeling—in the ordinary, the overlooked. Our vérité style is a little quirky, always cinematic, and fully human. Something that feels like you.
Alexander
Alexander is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, director, producer, cinematographer and editor, with over a decade of experience making premium documentaries for clients like National Geographic, CNN, A+E, Peacock, Scripps News, and more. He’s a Columbia Du-Pont Award recipient, 2024 PGA Awards nominee, and two-time grand jury award winner at festival world premieres. His work focuses on global conflict, human rights, climate, culture and politics. As a journalist, he embedded with the Proud Boys for several months and reported from the January 6th Capitol Riot, which resulted in the 2024 film 64 Days: The Insurrection Playbook. He's covered the opioid epidemic, US Mexico relations, UAP's, Covid-19's origins, The Syrian Civil War, illegal puma hunting in Patagonia, and most recently ISIS’s genocide against the Yazidi community.
Editorial and commercial work, visit www.alexanderspiess.com
Annelise
Annelise is an award-winning independent American-Italian documentary producer and photographer based between Bend, Oregon and Brooklyn, New York. The focus of her work began with travel photography in the US and Europe. It evolved into human rights and migration-centered work as she completed a Master in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam, and found herself heavily involved in and inspired by the current refugee crisis. Work and study brought her through Europe and the Middle East, where she captured both the hardship and beauty of displacement, and the aftermath of war. She partners with organizations in refugee camps worldwide on communications campaigns. She has also worked for CNN, History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic Society, PBS, and the E.W. Scripps Foundation.
Editorial and commercial work, visit www.annelisemecca.com