Welcome to Smiling Eye Pictures; a full-service video production company with a mission rooted in strong story-telling and technical excellence.
Quality Content
Since 2011, Smiling Eye Pictures has created video content for Forbes companies, start-ups, non-profits, and family-owned businesses. From generating original creative content to exporting a final mixed edit, we put our best foot forward to increase traffic and attract consumers to a brand or business’s online and television platforms.
From Our Clients
When Hurricane Sandy hit, Adam came back with the most moving footage. Friends of Firefighters proudly shows his video on our website. We’ll always be indebted to Adam for capturing the devastation with dignity and respect.
Nancy Carbone, Founder and Executive Director, Friends of Firefighters
Adam is amazing. His work is professional, fun, and engaging, and he’s a lovely person. A real find.
Susan Danziger, Founder and CEO, Ziggeo
Adam Watstein is one of the most creative and resourceful producers I have ever worked with.
John R. Green, Executive Producer, ABC TV
The IECA Foundation Board could not be more thrilled with the video Adam created. From the very beginning, he understood our mission.
Judy Berg, IECA Foundation Board
Adam can do everything: writing, producing, shooting, and editing, and he can do it faster and better than everyone else. He’s a God-send.
Adam Davis, founder Atomic Entertainment
Adam’s insight in telling the story we wanted told was fantastic. We’re using the videos on a daily basis and have received rave reviews. Smiling Eye Pictures provided us with a tool that everyone here is extremely proud of.
Jim Stayton, Newark Boys Chorus School
Services
Smiling Eye creates compelling video and still photography for some of the world’s top companies.
We produce content for Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, art institutions, online resource sites, media organizations, and small businesses. We’ve been trained in traditional methods of writing, directing, editing, and cinematography, and our approach to all of our projects is based on classic principles of storytelling and technical execution.
Smiling Eye Pictures supports all video platforms; whether the Website Builder used was Wix, Squarespace, or Hibu, if it is advertising needed for Social Media Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram, or Streaming Sites such as Hulu, Youtube, itunes, and Crackle, or if videos are needed to be prepared for Local Cable Companies like Comcast, Charter, and Cox.
Television
We’ve created television content for some of television’s most popular and critically acclaimed shows, including The Walking Dead, The Ones Who Live, and Better Call Saul. Whether we are producing, directing, shooting, or editing, we are dedicated to supporting the golden age of television with quality work.
Journalistic Narrative
Smiling Eye covers news events, non-profit appeals, private parties and events and exhibitions that requires a journalistic approach. We have experience navigating sensitive projects with care and professionalism.
Commercial Comedy
We create commercial comedies of all kinds. Writing comedy is one of our favorite things to do, and we work with some of the top comedic writing talent in NYC. We can handle all aspects of production and post, and we can deliver a piece of scripted or unscripted comedy of any length.
Sports
We have worked with world-class athletes and fitness centers. Founder Adam Watstein’s sports background, which includes Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts, has allowed him to film some the world’s top fighters, including former two-time UFC champion, Randy Couture, and former Strikeforce champ, Jacare Souza.
Still Photography
Smiling Eye specializes in product, food and restaurant photography, real estate, portraits, and events. Adam’s philosophy for food photography is “I shoot things to make them look like I’d want to eat them. And then I eat them.”
About Us
Smiling Eye Pictures is a boutique film production company in New York City founded by filmmaker, Adam Watstein.
A native New Yorker, Adam Watstein has been behind the camera most of his life. A degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Film Production set the course for a life dedicated to filmmaking. He co-wrote, produced, directed two independent features, Off the Hook and Loudmouth Soup, and in 2011, he founded Smiling Eye Pictures and he has created over 750 videos to date.
“Our work really is all about telling stories, ” says Adam. “It’s what we love and what we bring to everything we do at Smiling Eye Pictures—whether it’s one of our feature films, TV or web videos, or still photography.”
Contact
We’re storytellers; writers, filmmakers, photographers.
Phone: (917) 602-7930
Email: awatstein@mindspring.com
