Pairing visuals and sound, and turning it into an emotional story, is what fulfills me most.
Give me a camera, a location, your spoken words, and I’ll make you a compelling video that tells your story, moves your audience, and dazzles your eyes and ears. My name is Tristan Bennett. I’ve been working as a filmmaker, photographer, and social media professional for almost a decade. I’ve produced end to end just about every style of video you can think up. Documentary, short film, corporate marketing, small business testimonials, woodworking, dance and choreography, sports media, all the way down to Reels and TikTok's. In my spare time I still find myself working as a creative visual artist, making short films, and managing an artistic social media page with over 200,000 followers. If you’ve got a need for visual storytelling, I’ll find a way to go above and beyond for your next project.
Work
Understanding Nationwide: Underwriting
Genre: Internal Marketing
Roles: Cinematographer, Editor, Drone Pilot
This video is part of an ongoing series done for Nationwide Insurance that explains the in’s and out’s of the agriculture side of the insurance industry. The goal of this video was to explain the underwriting process at Nationwide through the eyes of an insurance agent, an underwriter, and an insured farmer in Pennsylvania.
Drive the 5: Nationwide
Genre: Social Media Campaign
Roles: Cinematographer, Editor, Drone Pilot
Part of a social media campaign for Nationwide Insurance, Drive the 5 was a series of videos highlighting 5 crucial ways that commercial drivers could help improve their driving habits. Each video delved into common mis-practices that can lead to dangerous results, and how drivers can correct them, leading to safer driving practices. This video introduces the campaign overall.
Baker Group: Offsite Manufacturing
Genre: Social Media Promotion
Roles: Cinematographer, Editor, Drone Pilot
Baker Group wanted a video that highlighted both their new manufacturing space, as well as it’s capabilities. That meant a brief seven hour trek to rural North Dakota to capture their work on a massive data center, as well as a quick hop over to Ankeny, IA to visit their capture their additional offsite manufacturing space. Through interviews, and lots of aerial coverage, we were able to help let the world know that Baker Group is growing, and growing fast.
Baker Group: Cooling Towers
Genre: Social Media Promotion
Roles: Cinematographer, Editor, Drone Pilot
Telling a story with this massive of a scale, literally, was quite the undertaking. We underwent several months of filming to catch the entire process of how Baker Group replaced the infrastructure at the top of a 30+ story skyscraper in Downtown Des Moines. Helicopters, cranes, controlled airspace, and mounting cameras to floating pieces of metal made this project a challenging, but incredibly fun one.
Iowa State University Research Park
Genre: Social Media Promotion
Roles: Cinematographer, Editor, Drone Pilot
Across several testimonial videos, we began telling the story of the Iowa State Research Park, and how they’re incubating budding tech and agricultural startups like no one else. We produced multiple videos highlighting key businesses within the park, and also put together this overview video highlighting all of the great work and research that’s happening up in Ames, IA.
MANRRS: 38th Annual Conference
Genre: Conference Video Recap
Roles: Cinematographer, Editor
MANRRS is an organization primarily run on college campuses across America. With an emphasis on diversity and inclusion within the agricultural and natural sciences industries, MANRRS seeks to pair industry professionals with undergraduate and graduate students looking for internship, mentorship, and job opportunities. We had the privilege to capture highlights from their 38th annual training conference in Chicago, Illinois, where we spent three full days filming every aspect of the conference. Contests, formal speeches and presentations, networking sessions, and plenty of dancing as well.
