Kuffner Creative, LLC | Automatic Pilots Films | Portland, Oregon
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Video

 

Documentary Film

Within Reach: The Fight to Finish Cancer, which I produced and co-directed, is a documentary film produced by Providence Foundations of Oregon in partnership with ZP Productions. It was nominated for a regional Emmy by the Northwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, covering Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.

The film takes you behind the scenes of an immunotherapy clinical trial at Providence Cancer Institute, where doctors and scientists race against the clock to develop gene-engineered T cells for patients who have exhausted all other forms of treatment. Watch as Providence researchers make international headlines with a breakthrough in pancreatic cancer and meet the patients who are the first in the world to receive this type of innovative immunotherapy.

I am currently producing the upcoming documentary Unmatched: The Team that Changed the Beautiful Game, which will tell the untold story of the 2005 Portland Pilots: Megan Rapinoe, Christine Sinclair, and the greatest college soccer team of all time.

This film is being independtly produced by Automatic Pilots films, which I founded in 2024.

 

Video

Producing, creating directing, shooting, editing… I am always eager to collaborate on video projects big and small, and pride myself on being an excellent resource for creative ideas, storytelling, and coming up with strategies to maximize exposure and viewcounts.

My professional video work began in 2009 at the University of Portland's marketing department, where I served as the primary producer (and secondary shooter/editor) for everything from broadcast television commercials and special appeal videos to "viral" social media content. In 2015 I began graduate school in multimedia journalism at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communications, honing my skills in storytelling, videography, editing, photography, graphic design, writing, and motion graphics animation. 

Recently, I have partnered with Providence Foundations of Oregon to produce (and also sometimes shoot and edit) broadcast commercials, special appeal videos, social media content, and other philanthropy-focused videos. I love bringing fresh ideas to appeal videos with a particular eye on optimizing them for post-event sharing on social media, and I place a high emphasis on engaging viewers emotionally with powerful storytelling and beautiful images.

I am familiar with Canon, Sony, and Black Magic cameras, and I use Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects for editing.


 

Appeal Videos

Broadcast Commercials


Social Media Videos


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