Hi! I'm Annelise, a Senior Integrated Creative Producer based in Chicago, specializing in premium brand storytelling across broadcast, digital, social, photo, print, experiential, post, and in-house studio production.

My career started in the edit suite cutting 16mm film at Columbia College Chicago and then assisting at Hootenanny TV, transcoding footage, prepping media, and sitting in on color, VO records, and mix & finish sessions. That foundational understanding of the final frame is what lets me reverse-engineer complex productions from day one.

Over the past decade-plus I've worked both sides of the agency wall. At The Escape Pod, I led integrated campaigns from brief through final delivery, covering bidding, business affairs, live-action, and post supervision across edit, color, audio, and finishing. At Gravity Well Studio, our team spent nine years building a full-service in-house studio from the ground up: video, photography, editorial, audio, and virtual production. We built an LED volume wall with Unreal Engine capability, which let us shoot in-camera VFX, cycle environments with zero company moves, and pull entire multi-market campaigns out of a single production. For example, one two-day shoot delivered 77 assets.

I'm fluent across the full production pipeline: vendor negotiation, union (SAG) and non-union talent, AICP/AICE standards, and post oversight. I've led crews of 40+ on national broadcast sets and run lean shoots across Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Oregon, Louisiana, Texas, and New York, with final work airing in North America, UK/Europe, and APAC. I also know how to leverage the Illinois film tax incentive so brands can film locally and put more of the budget on screen.

Directors, DPs, VFX artists, developers. I speak all of it. Whatever the scale, the goal never changes: one team, one dream, one finished piece of content everybody's proud of. Come wander the production garden.