Fascination Film Studio

08/27/2026

Now this is thinking. Somebody had an eye on the future.

I’m working on a milestone film, which involved digitizing four large totes of 100 years of archive.

(Shoutout Mackenzie Gossman, one of her last projects of the summer.)

But in one of those totes was a DVD of the founder, and packaged with the DVD, wrapped in bubble wrap, a DVD player.

Someone who had seen Super 8 give way to Beta and VHS and MiniDV knew that something else would come along, and that maybe when someone in the future wanted to see this DVD, the players would all be gone.

Fortunately we do have DVD players at Fascination Film Studio; digitizing all sorts of old media is just part of the job. But I admire the thoughtfulness of someone who could see the fuzzy future because they had knowledge of the past.

What about you? If someone handed you a DVD, would you have a way to play it?

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Have old media to convert? There are lots of services that specialize in it, but it’s a part of what we do at Fascination Films.

08/12/2026

Massive archive job. Step one: all the memorabilia that’s been tucked away gets untucked.

All the things your family - or your social and marketing team - wishes they had handy for throwback is now all digitized and ready for you to use and peruse.

And - it’s ready for the film, too.

08/08/2026

What a nice surprise! The Last Harvest has been selected for the Star City Film Festival!

06/18/2026

Everything is better with bacon.

05/29/2026

"Legacy is the result of you. And if it’s the result of you, you’re writing it today, in how you live.”

Thanks for this article, Steve. It was written with business leaders in mind but I think it could have something for everyone.

There’s a question Teeg Stouffer asks every business he works with — not as a filmmaker, but as a storyteller. Who are you trying to talk to? Where are they? And have you earned their attention yet? Stouffer is the founder and executive producer of Fascination Film Studio, a heritage and legacy ...

05/26/2026

Got a new time lapse camera for a very specific project. Ran a little backyard test. If you were going to time lapse something, what would it be?

05/26/2026

05/17/2026

Something extremely exciting happens today: a new series on YouTube for IowaDairyFarmer.

We've done a lot of farm work, but it's been mostly heritage & legacy films. This is different - a weekly series.

Kind of a docu-series, but only in as much as it's a documentary style (not reality tv, not scripted) show every week. It will look a little different than most of the other farm content on YouTube, and I hope that you - and everyone out there - likes it.

Dan has built something very special over the past five years with his Iowa Dairy Farmer channels, mostly on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. We're helping there, but having a weekly deep dive into life on this dairy farm on YouTube will be something new.

I'm so impressed with Dan and his family, with the care he has for the cows and the land. He's a man of deep integrity, faith, intelligence, and work ethic. It is an incredible honor to me to help him educate people on what life is like on a dairy farm and where our food comes from.

Oh - and this doesn't mean that Fascination Films won't still be doing Heritage & Legacy Film work, or other kinds of documentaries either. All that continues, this is just an exciting new chapter in addition!

If you want to watch, this one won't be on the Fascination Films channel - you'll find this on the Iowa Dairy Farmer channel.

( - Teeg )

05/16/2026

Big news for us.

05/14/2026

Documentary takes us to a whirlwind of places. Each one is a story.

For me, this week, on top of a crop sprayer as it rolls through the field, into the sorting room for a non-profit, to a conference shooting a speaker reel, into the cattle barn, and buttoned up downtown for a financial summit.

Dizzying.

I taught energetic third through fifth graders how to run a PA, and I stayed up too late editing.

There’s a fascinating story behind every door and I’m intoxicated by helping tell them.