WHAT WE DO
We tell stories with you and your brand through film and animation, bringing to bear our deep well of experience in comedy, production, performance training and improvisation to keep your story as engaging and entertaining as possible.
What's a 'Lekker'??
Lekker is an adjective in the dutch language meaning ‘tasty’, or otherwise pleasing to the senses…
...Lekker Media is a San Francisco-based media production company founded in 2006, specializing in media production and training. Our background is in improv and sketch comedy, so we usually like to do something fun.
Really – doesn’t everybody??
We’ve produced, directed, shot, edited and developed creatively everything from custom comedy shorts to product launch videos, to simple sit-down interviews and demos, to documentary-style short profiles. We’ve created short animations, presentation intro videos, magazine-style reportage & event video, and broadcast PSAs.
We even use our decades of experience in performance to work with our clients to train & get them ready for presenting, whether delivering their talk on screen or on stage in a more traditional public speaking setting.
The common thread in these various projects is our approach which is to have quality work created collaboratively that is set apart by a thoughtful, inventive, and ideally fun take on the material.
LEKKER LUMBERGH
LUMBERGH'S BACK - a series of spots we produced via Brass Ideas for Atlassian's HipChat campaign.
Get in touch with Lekker to talk about your project - 'That'd be greeeeeaaat...'
Lekker Media was the producer on Brass Ideas' series of spots for Atlasstan's HipChat, hiring production companies and helping wrangle talent and IP negotiations for with Gary Cole and Fox Studios.
Presentation Training
On camera or on stage
Studies have shown people fear public speaking more than death...
We've helped everyone from coders to C-suite execs get ready to present to audiences in a multitude of settings: from on-camera presentations, all the way to the stages of events like Adobe MAX and Google I/O. We've even taught folks how to hold their own live on stage with A-list talent and have a good time doing it.
...We're here to help you put death back on top!
We draw on our team's combined decades of experience as performers, directors, writers, producers, and businesspeople. We apply our skills directly to equipping presenters with the tools performers use to create compelling experiences for audiences every day. Get in touch with us to expand that comfort zone!
WHO WE ARE
Jamie Wright
Founder/Creative Director
Jamie founded the production company Lekker Media, in 2006, making comedy shorts, documentary pieces & PSAs for such clients as Publicis/Hal Riney, Adobe, Cisco, experiential event company GPJ, and the California Department of Public Health.
Though Jamie is a Bay Area native, he started his work in comedy and video in Amsterdam for the improv & sketch comedy theater Boom Chicago. There he shot, wrote and directed short videos for theater, mobile and the web, including the pre-YouTube viral hit Florida Voting Machine for the 2004 presidential election (garnering an EPICA Award nomination for best short animation). While in Amsterdam, he also pioneered the theatrical integration of live digital video and improvisation with Boom’s cast and technical crew. His work has appeared on broadcast television in Europe and the US, and has been featured on CNN and in Time Magazine.
He served for 10 years as Executive Producer of the San Francisco Improv Festival until 2019, and is currently co-director of the upcoming feature-length documentary “The Committee: a Secret History of American Comedy”.
In his time working with and directing the hit improvised powerpoint show Speechless, he also worked with the spinoff company of the same name (later freestyle+) training people in the business world on how to level up their presentations and find some actual joy in their experience with public speaking.
Anthony Veneziale
Creative Partner
Anthony has collaborated with Lekker Media since 2007 as an actor, director and writer, and is a Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated performer for his work with Freestyle Love Supreme.
Having graduated Wesleyan University with a BA in Film Studies, Anthony moved to New York City and co-founded production company Back House Productions. Their first musical In The Heights eventually went to Broadway, where it won the Tony Award for best new musical of 2008.
Most recently, he was a producer and director on the Pivot channel's series Freestyle Love Supreme, which is an improvised, hip hop television show based on the group of the same name which he started with Tommy Kail, Chris Jackson and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
In San Francisco, he also co-founded the hit improvised Power Point show Speechless, which is was a phenomenon in the presentation training world as well as the SF performance scene. His latest venture is as co-Founder and co-CEO of freestyle+, with a mission to help people incorporate play into their daily lives in order to help them be the best version of themselves and to promote a sense of pro-sociality in our society.
His partner Caricia Catalani and he started a non-profit participatory film project called The VideoVoice Collective. They’ve worked in the United States, and with Kiva.org in Indonesia, giving marginalized communities the skill sets and equipment to make their own documentary videos to influence change in their neighborhoods.
LEKKER TALK
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