Work
- ReelMarch 8, 2020Reel
Music Video
- NetflixJanuary 26, 2023Netflix
Bill Russell: Legend
- Elliot LeeMarch 18, 2021Elliot Lee
Good Bad Ugly
- Amazon MusicMarch 8, 2020Amazon Music
Yuna cover of TLC's
- Sotheby’sJanuary 30, 2023Sotheby’s
A Journey Through China's History
- Ro & the StardustDecember 11, 2022Ro & the Stardust
- Canadian Paralympic CommitteeDecember 6, 2021Canadian Paralympic Committee
"We're Here" :60
- Kaiser PermanenteDecember 6, 2021Kaiser Permanente
To the Heroes of 2020
- BBC Studios
Tupac: A Life in 10 Pictures
- White CastleDecember 15, 2020White Castle
Say Anything :30
- CitiMarch 13, 2021Citi
Justin Thomas
- Fordham UniversityMarch 14, 2021Fordham University
Feerick Center for Social Justice
- Kaiser PermanenteDecember 6, 2021Kaiser Permanente
Yoga Teacher :30
- Showtime Boxing
Gary Russell Jr. Profile
- NBC SportsDecember 11, 2022NBC Sports
Sunday Night Football Promo
- BBC StudiosDecember 11, 2022BBC Studios
Rise of the Bolsonaros
- USAADecember 15, 2020USAA
R. Riveter
About / contact
ABOUT
Trent Watts has DP’d over 850 productions in the past 11 years, specializing mostly in commercials and documentaries, and slowly moving into narrative work since moving to Brooklyn. He started his career in DC and Baltimore, cutting his teeth on hundreds of low-budget commercials, and often helping clients as a Co-Producer by crewing up, scheduling, and budgeting their shoots too. While trying to focus on DP work, he somewhat-accidentally grew a thriving production company that served the top commercial clients and agencies in the area. Still wanting to be “just a DP”, he downsized his producing roles in 2019 and moved to Brooklyn to further his cinematography career and work in the larger creative infrastructure of New York. His background in producing means he’s always taking a big picture approach to the project, and making decisions that are sensible for the budget and schedule of each project. He still has a large network of crew in DC-Baltimore and travels down a couple times a month for shoots.
APPROACH
Trent’s process starts with carefully listening to collaborators to understand the story they’re telling, the bigger picture of what they’re trying to accomplish, and the initial obstacles/concerns/intricacies of their project. Drawing on his years of experience as well as the experience of his crews, he works through solutions to present the best options to maximize production values AND tell the most compelling story. He enjoys the process of working through the unique technical, logistical, and storytelling challenges of each project, having a solid plan in place, and then throwing that plan out to improvise when necessary, always with a story-first (or brand-first) mindset. On set, he loves fostering a positive collaborative atmosphere, where crew and talent are empowered to work at their fullest potential.