Louisiana based Films In Motion, specializes in all aspects of film and television production, post-production, lending, and tax assisted financing. The company currently has offices in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana and Burbank, California, and is uniquely positioned to service all production’s needs. Recent projects include feature films, reality television, national commercials and more.
Films In Motion has grown into one of the largest film and television companies in Louisiana. If you are looking to outsource production or film in an incentive state, we're ready to be your team. The talented staff at Films In Motion has experience working on more than 50 film and television projects at nearly every budget level.
Let us remove the mysteries of production in incentive states. Our team is experienced on film shoots and red camera shoots, and we have become experts in high definition workflow.
We make life easier! We provide budgets for filming in multiple incentive locations so you can pick which incentive state works for you. And as your local partner, we save you time and money.
Films In Motion, through its owner Jason Hewitt is associated with Genesis Distribution, a new joint venture with David Garcia of New Conquest Pictures, which provides North American distribution for film projects. For more information on Genesis Distribution, please click here.
Jason Hewitt has produced over 35 feature film and television projects. As a Director his credits include Lionsgate’s action title “Blood Out” starring Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Luke Goss, Val Kilmer, Vinnie Jones, Tamer Hassan and AnnaLynne McCord, faith based film Measure Of Faith starring Glenn Plummer and Lark Voorhies. Highlights of the films he has recently produced/exec produced include “Odd Thomas” based on the Dean Koonce novels, starring Willam Defoe, Anton Yelchin, "The Courier" starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mickey Rourke and Til Schweiger, "Carjacked" starring Maria Bello and Stephen Dorff, "Escapee" starring Dominic Purcell and Faith Ford. "Season Of The Witch" starring Nicholas Cage and Ron Perlman for Lionsgate and Relativity. Just completed in 2010 and releasing in 2011, “Burning Palms” starring Zoe Saldana, Paz Vega, Adrianna Barazza, Dylan McDermont, Rosamund Pike, Nick Stahl, Shannen Dougherty. The 3D Thriller “The Mortician” starring Method Man and Dash Mehok, “Wrong Side Of Town” starring David Bautista, Rob Van Dam and Ja Rule, charting in the top 20 DVD titles in the US and the 4th highest selling DVD debut in the UK for 2010. Also released in 2010, Lionsgate’s “Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever”. “The Deadline” starring Brittany Murphy and Thora Birch, “The Open Road” starring Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, Ted Danson, and Harry Dean Stanton. “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” for Fox. In addition he has produced multiple films for NBC/Universal’s Sci-Fi Channel including “Warbirds” and “Lightning Strikes”. Other independent films produced by Hewitt include “The Abduction Of Jesse Bookman” an official selection of the 2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival and the 2008 America Black Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Best Film Prize at The 2008 American Black Film Festival as well as Best Actor Award for Mel Jackson the film’s lead. “After Autumn” one of four films selected for competition at the 2007 American Black Film Festival as well as “Saint Francis” which premiered at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. His expertise lies in physical production, creative writing, incentive based financing and deal structuring.
Hewitt’s company, Films In Motion has emerged as one of the premier production and post-production companies based in production rich Louisiana. Jason Hewitt, has extensive experience with tax credit transactions and has handled the purchase and sale of tax credits for many certified Louisiana productions, including:
Season Of The Witch, Carjacked, Escapee, Creature, Blood Out, The Mortician, Wrong Side Of Town, Burning Palms, The Deadline, The Open Road, Terror On, The Bayou, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Death Toll , Father Of Lies, After Autumn, Da Block Party 2, Da Block Party, The Rimshop, St. Francis, Crimson Highway, Loan Sharkz, Living Water, Warbirds, Cabin Fever 2, Jump Out Boys, St. Charles Story, Club 225, Celtic Media Center, Ghetto Stories, The Abduction Of Jesse Bookman, Blond Ambition, The Cleaner, Major Movie Star, Tekken, Robosapien, Harold and Kumar 2, Homeland Security, Full Throttle, The Voodoo Music Festival, Deacon Johns Jump Blues, The Miss Teen USA Pageant, Dream Home, Jeremy’s Family Reunion, Black Saturday, Only God Can Judge Me
Jason Hewitt, a native of Louisiana, left the technology industry in 2002 where he was an early mover in the Internet economy, founding the website creation and marketing management company Planet Symphony in 1994. The company gained national attention the following year when it staged the first ever broadcast of live audio and video images of Mardi Gras from three different cities over the Internet. Planet Symphony later split into two distinct entities: Planet Symphony, which was acquired by the Graham Group in December 1995 and StarSeed, which was acquired by Geocities in December 1998 ($33 million) to join the film and television industry. His first venture into film was as a partner in HK Pictures and subsequently he went on his own forming Films In Motion. A serial entrepreneur as well as a musician, Hewitt is an active public speaker and guest lecturer on the topics of filmmaking, music, entertainment, software development, digital distribution of assets, entrepreneurship and the future of the Internet.
After joining the US Peace Corps at the age of 13, Billy spent a year at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki reverse engineering the Antikytheria Mechanism.
After a research expedition in Pumapunku, Bolivia, Billy became a test subject for the European Sleep Research Society. Billy dabbled in aerolithology and ontology before eventually rejecting an internship working with the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.
Billy spent over a decade in commercial, music video, feature film and reality TV production in his hometown of Miami, FL and throughout Latin America before deciding to take his talents to Louisiana in 2009 where he joined Films in Motion as an intradepartmental production associate.
He was invited to join the Films in Motion team in 2008 by former band mate and owner of the company, Jason Hewitt. He began his career as a production coordinator and quickly worked his way up to accountant and Chief Financial Officer. Todd has helped Films in Motion grow to become one of the largest and most respected production companies in the state of Louisiana as well as within the industry. He has a bachelor’s degree in general studies from Louisiana State University. Todd is a native of Baton Rouge and lives with his wife and son.
Has joined the post-production team at Films In Motion as a full-time editor. He credits his strong writing background and his experience working in advertising, product reviews, newspapers and screenplays as the source for his keen eye to details and good story-telling. Most recently he edited the films Should’ve Put A Ring On It and Waiting Room. In addition to this, he has worked as an assistant editor on the feature Measure of Faith. As an avid aficionado of campy B-movies and the macabre, Matt can usually be found writing, shooting and producing short horror movies in the New Orleans area. That is, of course if he is ever allowed to leave his editing cave at Films In Motion. Matt earned a bachelors degree in journalism from Louisiana State University in 2010.
He is the newest member of the company joining the team as a VFX/3d artist. Leo’s work is diverse and can be seen in the hit franchise Harry Potter as well as on television for the Sci-Fi channel. He is proficient in the VFX programs Maya and 3DS Max in addition to the industry standards. Leo grew up with an avid love of video games which led him to study at Minneapolis College of Art and Design to become a 3d Artist. He found his way down south and is pleased to be a part of Films In Motion. Leo spends his free time being a main character and generally saving the world. And yes ladies, he’s single.
He is an editor at Films In Motion having joined the team in 2009. He has been the lead editor on several studio films such as Lionsgate’s Blood Out starring Val Kilmer and 50 Cent and Anchor Bay’s Carjacked starring Maria Bello and Stephen Dorff. He was the editor on the feature Escapee starring Dominic Purcell and Faith Ford. He is also an editor for the hit series on Discovery Channel, Sons of Guns. In addition to this, Matt is the company’s main editor for all local and national commercial campaigns. Prior to this, he was a producer and director at Shadow Broadcasting working for several local news stations. When not at work, Matt enjoys the open road, drinking water, video games and his iPhone.
She was most recently a producer on the films Switchin’ the Script and Measure of Faith. She was an associate producer on the hit series Sons of Guns for Discovery Channel. She was a coordinating producer on History’s documentary titled: Einstein and The Two Eclipses as well as a casting producer on the award-winning CBS series Survivor. In addition, she has been a production coordinator on films, music videos and commercials for companies like Lionsgate/Relativity, MTV and Nike. Prior to her broadcast career, she spent several years working in publicity for a top, international fashion company dealing with celebrities and their publicists, agents and press. As a result of her 11 years working and living in Los Angeles, she has strong connections throughout the Hollywood industry. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Louisiana State University. And she credits Jason Hewitt with being the best boss an employee could ever ask for…no, seriously – he’s the best.
He was born in New Orleans. Early on he took a liking to movies and often refers to himself as an "HBO kid." He studied film production and post production at University of New Orleans. After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles for a few years. Two years ago he returned home to Louisiana to work on Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia. He currently works as a visual effects artist and sculptor.
Interests include writing, digital painting, mma, energy devices, art deco, jet packs, and the future.
After graduating from Southeastern Louisiana University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications. Jason began his career in television broadcasting. He was part of an expansion of services to television by Shadow Broadcast Services. After helping to complete the construction and set up of two studios and their components for broadcasting to live television, he ran and staffed those studios for four years. The studios provided live broadcasts of the local traffic conditions in the morning, noon, and evening local news shows for three studios here in Baton Rouge. During that time he also produced and edited commercials. In 2009, after the merging of the services of the company with WAFB, Channel 9, Jason went to work at their station. At WAFB he was a crew member who was tasked with camera operation, audio, live remotes, editing packages for news, and working a graphics machine (Deko).
He also continued to edit and shoot commercials. Jason produced commercials for the Baton Rouge Symphony, Medical Training College, Inventory Liquidators, Ashley Home Furniture, and Party Time. He also produced a series of recruitment videos for All-Star Automotive.
In May of 2010 Jason was hired at Films in Motion at Celtic Media Centre and began working dailies on Creature. Since then he has worked on the following films: Blood Out, Escapee, The Courier, and Measure of Faith. He now has experience with data wrangling on set, project set-up and management, film editing, coloring, film finishing, and on-lining the film. Jason can work in Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer. He also knows how to move a film from edit to finish using a Davinci Resolve system (currently the only system in the state of Louisiana). He has learned from accomplished and experienced professionals in the industry such as Academy award nominated editor, William Steinkamp (Scent of a Woman, Out of Africa and A Time to Kill), Golden Globe winning director, Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now), colorist Omar Godinez (Primer), director Jason Hewitt (Blood Out), and Resolve engineer David Catt.
Jason is married and resides in the Baton Rouge area. He enjoys writing and producing music in his spare time. He donates his time to the Baton Rouge Symphony by producing all of their concert commercials for air on local television.
Joined the Films In Motion family in 2010 and feels extremely grateful to be a part of the industry explosion in Louisiana and to be part of one of the largest production companies in the state. She is a California native and film fanatic! Often referred to by friends as ‘the human IMDB’. Deirdre has been a production manager and production coordinator on countless feature films, documentaries and commercials working for such companies as Anchor Bay, Lionsgate and JEEP. In addition to this, Deirdre serves as the in-house post-production supervisor having recently completed work on Arclight Film’s feature, The Courier starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Mickey Rourke and the Stephen Sommers directed film, Odd Thomas, starring Anton Yelchin and Willem Defoe.
Prior to this work, she was a travel coordinator for Road Rebel Entertainment in San Diego. California. She received her degree in film and video production in 2009 from S.D.C.C. Deirdre has fallen in love with Louisiana and enjoys exploring the region during her free time.
