BRKLY

BRKLY is an independent film and television production company founded in Los Angeles in 2009 by director, designer and producer Neil Berkeley. Its work spans feature documentaries, broadcast design, commercial production and animation, combining a background in graphics and visual storytelling with long-form nonfiction filmmaking.

The company began as a design-driven commercial and broadcast animation studio. Its early work included motion graphics packages, main title sequences and promotional launch campaigns for television franchises such as Top Chef, Project Runway, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Scandal and Brother vs. Brother. These projects established a production practice encompassing show identities, animated sequences and marketing materials for network and cable television.

Documentary filmmaking

BRKLY subsequently expanded into feature documentaries, with films exploring artists, performers and other creative figures. It produced and created animation for Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012), a portrait of artist Wayne White that premiered at SXSW and aired on PBS's Independent Lens. Harmontown (2014) followed writer Dan Harmon's podcast tour, while Gilbert (2017) offered an intimate portrait of comedian Gilbert Gottfried and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Later productions include Maestra, a documentary about orchestral conducting presented at Tribeca in 2023, and Group Therapy (2024), a documentary directed by Berkeley. The company's production history also includes Jonathan Scott's Power Trip (2020), associated with the temporary Future You Media banner used by Berkeley for selected projects around 2018–2020. BRKLY remains the continuing public-facing production company.

Alongside its documentary slate, the studio offers live-action direction, creative post-production, broadcast branding and promotional campaign production. Its work serves film, television, streaming and commercial advertising markets. BRKLY also produces The Neil Berkeley Podcast, extending its nonfiction interests into audio through weekly, in-depth conversations with documentary filmmakers.