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JAMES AVERY · BRAND FILM · 2026
Crafted in Kerrville
Three years inside the workshop where America's most personal jewelry is made by hand. A short documentary about craft, family, and the quiet work of doing one thing well.
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Jonathan Mills Media · Established Kerrville, TX
Films for brands that mean it.
Director of photography behind brand films for James Avery, Peterson Health, and the Hill Country's most considered companies. Real estate, aerial, and editorial photography on request.
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The Studio Roster
In good company.
James Avery
Peterson Health
CENTURY 21
CasaKeepers
The Staging Company
MARY LEE FOUNDATION
James Avery
Peterson Health
CENTURY 21
CasaKeepers
The Staging Company
MARY LEE FOUNDATION
Featured · 2025–26
Brand films,
told carefully.
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PETERSON HEALTH · DOCUMENTARY · 2025
The Hours Between
A short film about a small-town hospital that became a regional one — without forgetting why it started. Filmed across overnight shifts in three Hill Country counties.
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CASAKEEPERS · BRAND FILM · 2025
Remodeling Reimagined
A construction firm that builds the way good books are written — slow, considered, with an eye for the room your clients will live in for the next twenty years.
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MARY LEE FOUNDATION · DOCUMENTARY · 2024
Ten Acres of South Austin
The supportive housing community changing how Texas treats accessibility. A documentary commissioned for the foundation's 50th year, screened at the Texas Capitol.
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Director · DP · Editor Established 2014 Kerrville, Texas + Hill Country Director · DP · Editor Established 2014 Kerrville, Texas + Hill Country
Capabilities · 04 disciplines
One filmmaker.
Four disciplines.
The studio is built around long-form brand work — but the same eye covers everything from cinematic real estate to editorial portraiture. Scroll →
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Discipline · 01
Brand Films
Long-form documentary brand work for clients who'd rather be remembered than seen. From 30-second cut-downs to 5-minute shorts, made with the people inside the company.
- — Strategy + scripting
- — Direction + cinematography
- — Edit, color, sound
- — Multi-cut delivery (web / social / broadcast)
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Discipline · 02
Documentary
Short films for foundations, healthcare systems, and mission-led organizations who want their story told in the room, not from a podium.
- — Field interviews + verite
- — Original score on request
- — Festival-ready masters
- — 3 — 12 minute runtime
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Discipline · 03
Real Estate
& Aerial
Cinematic property films for luxury listings and ranch sales across the Hill Country. FAA-licensed drone work, branded and unbranded delivery.
- — Cinematic walkthroughs
- — FAA Part 107 aerial
- — Twilight + day variants
- — 24-hour turnaround available
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Discipline · 04
Photography
Editorial stills paired with film projects, plus standalone portrait and architectural work. Same eye, slower shutter.
- — Editorial portraiture
- — Architectural + interiors
- — On-set film stills
- — Print-ready masters
Fig. 02 · Studio, Kerrville · Self-portrait, 2025
The Studio
I love the feeling of being charged to tell someone else's story with passion and excellence.
Jonathan Mills Media is a one-filmmaker studio based in Kerrville, Texas. For ten years I've directed brand films for the Hill Country's most recognized companies — and the regional nonprofits doing the quietest, most necessary work.
I believe a good brand film does what a good piece of writing does: it makes the audience feel like they were let in on something true. Every project starts with sitting down — really sitting down — with the people whose work we're about to film.
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Filmmaker
How we work
A working method built on listening first.
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Listen
Two-hour discovery call, in person where possible. We map what you actually want the audience to feel — not the brief, the feeling.
Week 01
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Frame
Treatment, shot list, rough storyboards. A single page that everyone — client, crew, talent — agrees on before a camera comes out of the case.
Week 02 — 03
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Build
Production days. Small crew. As few decisions on set as possible — because the decisions worth making were made the week before.
Week 03 — 05
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Deliver
Two rounds of revisions, masters delivered in every cut you'll need (web, social, broadcast). Originals archived. Available for a phone call any time after.
Week 06 — 08
One word from the room
Jonathan didn't just film our story — he found it. What he handed us back was the company we'd been trying to describe for ten years.”
A. Reilly · VP, Brand · James Avery
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Photographs
Same eye, slower shutter.
The next film
Begin a story worth telling.
Two-hour discovery call, no obligation. Brand films, documentaries, real estate, aerial, and photography — book the call and we'll figure out which one you actually need.
Or write directly · hello@jonathanmillsmedia.com · (830) 377-6854