One Tree Forest Films
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About One Tree Forest Films
One Tree Forest Films is an independently owned commercial video production and branded content studio based in Chicago's West Town neighborhood. Founded in 2009, the company brings together creative development, live-action filmmaking and post-production for advertising, documentary-style brand stories and digital campaigns. Its work spans national brand campaigns, public advocacy, product demonstrations and narrative commercial spots.
The studio develops projects from initial ideas through finished assets. Creative services include concept development, scriptwriting and storyboarding, followed by directing, cinematography, multi-camera production, location filming and sound recording. Its post-production capabilities cover editing, color grading, sound mixing and finishing, alongside motion graphics, visual effects and 2D and 3D animation. Campaign planning also encompasses social video strategy and capturing multiple assets within a production.
Selected work
The studio co-created and produced #MoreThanMean – Women in Sports 'Face' Harassment for Just Not Sports in 2016. Featuring sports journalists Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro, the campaign addressed online harassment directed at women working in sports and reached an international audience.
Its ongoing work for Gatorade includes the Player of the Year program, with national athlete announcements, commercial shorts, highlight reels and award-show screen content. Other Gatorade productions include Unstoppable, a documentary series featuring Raven Saunders and Trayvon Bromell ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the Beat the Heat athletic safety campaigns featuring professional football players.
Product and food filmmaking forms another substantial part of the portfolio, including more than 100 art-directed tabletop and recipe videos for GNC. The studio has also produced solar education content for ComEd, narrative advertising for American Family Insurance and At the Intersection of Analog & Digital, a short documentary about Electronaut's audio engineering and amplifier manufacturing.
Across these projects, One Tree Forest combines commercial production with documentary storytelling, serving clients in sports, food and beverage, energy, healthcare, financial services, consumer products and entertainment.
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Leadership and background
- Founder Chad Cooper works as a director and editor. His student film Knock Knock received a Student Academy Award and an Emmy; these were individual early-career achievements rather than studio awards.
- Owner and Executive Producer Abby Cooper joined the leadership team after twelve years across Omnicom Media Group agencies, including Resolution Media. She was named the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association's Digital Person of the Year in 2015.
Production model
The company describes a “swing player” approach in which core directors, producers, camera operators and editors rotate across disciplines. Its internal team is supplemented by project-based crew, an operating model intended to reduce agency redundancies and support fast turnaround.
Campaign recognition
- #MoreThanMean received a Peabody Award and CLIO Sports Grand in 2016, a Gracie Award Grand in 2017, and a Cannes Lions shortlist selection in 2016. The report describes an estimated production budget of $300 and hundreds of millions of worldwide impressions.
- The Gatorade: Beat the Heat campaign received a Bronze Telly Award in 2017; Inside Endurance / #MyFuelMyJourney received a Bronze Telly Award in 2012.
- TUMS: #TUMSworthy Tour was a finalist at the 8th Annual Shorty Awards.
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Where One Tree Forest Films is based
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chicago offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Chicago Headquarters & Creative Studio** Status: active Headquarters Address: 2219 W Grand Ave, Suite 1E, Chicago, IL 60612 Email: info@onetreeforestfilms.com Phone: +1 (773) 828-9027 Office webpage: https://onetreeforestfilms.com/contact/ Current company headquarters and creative studio in West Town. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 333 N Oakley Blvd, Suite 106, Chicago, IL 60612 Historical business address identified in an earlier listing; dates of occupancy and physical closure are not established.
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