Full Frame Documentary Film Festival ‘22

Pre-show Trailer

Each year, the 60 second or so video that plays ahead of each film at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, in Durham, NC, not only puts a spotlight some of the event’s top supporters, but also gives audiences their cue that the movie is about to begin.

Inspired by themes of connectivity, particularly during another virtual film festival, Full Frame entrusted Poolbar to design and execute the vision for this year’s trailer.

As a longtime fans of Full Frame, it was an honor to help craft the 2022 festival trailer along with our friend and talented composer, Joe Basile, who heads up The Chicken, a music and sound design studio based in Philly.

Full Frame’s Emily Foster, helped tremendously with early creative direction, which lead to a delightfully tactile approach to telling a story about how small connections can lead to larger impacts, despite the limits of our occasionally awkward and dysfunctional digital lives.

Text adapted from this Full Frame Festival blog post

Stills from the final cut