Kostic Films LLC

Serves Passaic, NJ

35244

Hired 23 times

2 employees

18 years in business

Not yet available

5.0

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Credentials

Background Check

Aleksandar Kostic
Completed on 11/27/2019

Introduction

Choosing Kostic Films LLC means working with a trusted, New York City-based film & video production company led by award-winning filmmaker Aleksandar Kostic, with a proven track record in commercial and cinematic projects since 2007. Our team brings artistry, professionalism, and versatility to every production, creating visually captivating content that resonates with audiences. We collaborate with each client to tailor our services, whether for high-impact commercials, branded interviews, or creative campaigns, using top-tier equipment like the Alexa Mini, Red Komodo, and Canon Cinema cameras. Our post-production team uses platforms—DaVinci Resolve, FCPX, and Adobe Premiere Pro—allowing us to produce content in HD, 4K,6K 8K +, ensuring your project looks its best on any platform. Our extensive experience includes collaborations with Spectrum, MoMA, CBS, YouTube, and others. When you work with Kostic Films LLC, you gain a creative partner dedicated to producing exceptional content that captures your brand’s unique story and engages your audience. Kostic Films LLC is an insured film/video production company: -General Liability with $1M per claim limit and $2M in aggregate limits. -$300k limit for Damages to premises.

Q&A

What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?

- We are flexible and we do offer discounts on multiple projects. Our goal is to establish a long term relationship. When you work with us, you are engaging a dedicated partner.

What is your typical process for working with a new customer?

1. We love when a customer shares with us samples of videos/projects that they like to be produced for them. That sample will help us understand production values and esthetic that customer is going for, and it will help us to know if the customer budget is realistic. 2. Upon approval, we send a contract to the customer and requesting 30% deposit of the whole budget. 3. Then moving towards pre-production and breaking down projects to be in-line with the customer's budget and idea. 5. In post-production, we are using virtual platform where the client can see first cut of the project and make comments and request edits and approval of final video.

What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?

Film Production at New School University New York City. 20 years of experience working on films and commercials in Europe and USA.

How did you get started doing this type of work?

I got my start in the film industry back in 2000 while living in Cyprus, where I worked on films and commercials shot on 16mm and 35mm. That early, hands-on experience with celluloid ignited my passion for filmmaking. In 2001, I moved to New York to study film production at The New School University. During that time, I directed and shot my short film Room (16mm), which received the Outstanding Conceptual Piece Award in 2004. The vibrant and diverse film scene in New York inspired me to launch my own production company, Kostic Films, LLC, in 2007. Since then, I’ve produced and filmed over a thousand commercials for businesses of all sizes, as well as award-winning short and feature films that have been featured at festivals worldwide. My work has also been recognized by major publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and others.

What types of customers have you worked with?

Marketing agencies, film production companies, film agents, film producers. Spectrum, YouTube, MTV, CBS, VH1, FIOS, NY1, MoMA, Barns & Nobles, Yelp, Zillow, AOL, Wiley, Scholastic, Yellow pages, SmbTeam. Lawyers, Healthcare & Medical Videos, Educational Videos, Corporate videos, Live concerts, Live Performance, as well as thousands of small, medium and large businesses in the metropolitan areas. We can do full production or separate services like directing, cinematography only or video editing.

Describe a recent project you are fond of. How long did it take?

There 3 kinds of projects that I am fond of: 1. If not directing my own films, it is to do cinematography for feature films with an engaging story and with experienced producers and directors that produced at least one feature film. 2. We specialize in Interview projects for marketing business or documentary films, where we use directing and lighting technics to achieve best results. For marketing production projects can take one day to do interview and to film a b-roll. It is all depends on size of project and production. 3. Small business printing shop in NYC, client send video example. Pre-production was two days exchanging emails and contracts. We shot on 4 locations in NYC in 8 hours and the first cut was presented to the client within 7 days of the shoot.

What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?

Finding a professional and experienced company is important, but even more is to find a production company, or individual, that is passionate, creative and dedicated and will understand customers business and it's goals in order to visually present it in its best and to attract more than just targeted customers.

What questions should customers think through before talking to professionals about their project?

When the client decide to contact the production company for the first time they should have: -Examples that he/she likes and shares with the production company on the first contact. -Budget, Target Audience, is it for the Internet or TV or cinema distribution, -Length of the project. - When project needs to be done.