WHAT IS CINEMA VITAE?
Vi•ta | \ˈvē-tə\ n., pl. vi•tae \ ˈvē-ˌtī\ [Latin, “life”]: a brief biographical sketch
Cinema Vitae is a video production house focused on storytelling. We approach every project looking for the human-interest story at its heart. Your business is not successful just because you are good at sales. It is successful because of you. It is the story of your hard work and inspiration. A wedding is not only a solemn vow and a reception. It is a high-point in a long-running love story that still has much to be written. A birthday is more than an annual measuring of age. It is a time to celebrate and recount a life journey, be it merely a few years along or decades en route. So it is with every occasion.
We are video producers who come from a journalistic and documentary background. We have more than 20 years experience producing long and short documentaries, news, advocacy and corporate promotion videos.
We are an FAA-licensed drone operator for aerial videography, offering a new perspective to any story. We also provide live-streaming services for any event, to share special moments with family and friends unable to join in person.
STEVE NETTLETON
Director
Steve Nettleton is a director, videographer, writer, editor, producer and voice-over talent based in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the recipient of the 2001 Online Journalism Award for Enterprise Journalism, from Columbia University. Steve has worked as a staff correspondent and writer for CNN, and then as a freelancer, based in Beijing, China, creating video projects varying from short news features to documentaries for clients including UNICEF, Asian Development Bank, Al Jazeera English, SKY1 and the Food and Agriculture Organization.
In 2003, Steve was embedded with the US Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade in Northern Iraq to cover the Iraq War for CNN.
Since 2016, Steve has been living in LA with his wife and two daughters. He speaks Chinese, conversational French and rudimentary Romanian.
