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Cut On The Action is a production company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

10/24/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doaisv4RZJA
Cut On The Action just completed the trailer for an upcoming movie that we did the post-production for. ON FATAL GROUND is the World War Two experience of three people: a German, a Jew, and a Russian. Through their eyes we see how otherwise civilized people and countries went down the path to total war and unspeakable barbarism. This film also includes their firsthand experiences with Hi**er, Stalin, and Auschwitz. The world must learn the lessons from World War Two to prevent it from happening again in our time. WARNING: this trailer and film contain disturbing and graphic historical images of war and The Holocaust. Movie coming February 2026.

10/22/2024

Photos from a camera test/stock footage shoot yesterday. We had rented two 12K cameras for a greenscreen shoot Friday but our client rescheduled the shoot late the night before; we had done an earlier test shoot of these cameras on greenscreen, but I wanted to give them a workout in the real world and compare them to some of our other cameras. I woke up at 5 am to catch the sunrise over San Francisco, then went down the coast a bit stopping to get targets of opportunity. It felt like being a working tourist, two elements which I enjoy thoroughly. The more significant part of the test will be in post, comparing color science and what we can do with the image.

05/30/2024

Some more on-set photos from shooting the feature film "Black Creek" late last year. Filmed at the Mescale Movie Set in Benson Arizona (east of Tucson), where countless westerns were shot including "The Outlaw Josey Wales", "The Quick and The Dead", and "Tom Horn". Black Creek is headlined by the amazing Cynthia Rothrock and has a fantastic cast; it's currently in the late stages of post-production.

05/06/2024

Cut On The Action recently journeyed to Phoenix, AZ to film for Prophix, a Canadian company with a financial performance platform. We turned the presidential suite at the resort into a studio to film over 35 interviews, and also filmed the rest of the three-day event run-and-gun-style to make a highlight/sizzle reel (YouTube link below). We love filming on the road and the Prophix people and their customers were fantastic to work with. Truly good times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty1-lvWE4bc

03/22/2024

Some recently declassified behind-the-scenes photos from shooting the feature film “Black Creek” last November in Arizona. Days were hot and nights were freezing; most of the shoot took place at night. Good times! Black Creek is currently in post-production and will be released later this year.

03/12/2024

Filming Shannyn Aspen on greenscreen yesterday for a series of corporate videos for Docker. Matthew was ably and cheerfully assisted by her canine wonder Aspen, as seen in these BTS photos. Fantastic shoot!

03/08/2024

Happy Women's Day to all women in the world! Cut On The Action filmed MPINCC - Meeting Professionals International Northern California Chapter's ACE event this week at Convene in San Francisco, giving us the chance to work with and to film numerous amazing and inspiring women; what a treat. The final speaker was Dima Ghawi from Jordan; her life's story is remarkable and how she dealt with adversity is a great lesson for us all. I highly recommend her memoir "Breaking Vases".

12/08/2023

Cut On The Action went on the road for several weeks in late October and November to shoot the feature film "Black Creek" in the Arizona desert; we are still restricted in what we can release about it but here is the first set of declassified photos. It was a grueling shoot with each day's work going until 4:30 am in the freezing and dusty desert (so many night scenes), but we loved every minute of it. The cart photo is from the first shooting day on the way to set and the photo of Matthew holding the camera is from the last day - still smiling :) Headlined by the amazing Cynthia Rothrock, directed by Shannon C. Lanier and written by Robert Clancy, it was an honor and a pleasure to work with the cast and crew as we bonded and triumphed during this very ambitious and successful shoot.

12/06/2023

Cut On The Action filmed a music video yesterday with longtime collaborator Mike Pierce. The incredibly talented Robert Barry performed along with two members of Boston; the song was touching and emotional and the performances perfectly reflected that. B-cam was using our Nikkor primes wide open, which gave a very organic and unique feel to the shots. We didn't get back until 11 pm but couldn't help staying up later to review the shots.

10/21/2023

It's AI week at Cut On The Action as we film and post-produce a video for a very promising stealth AI startup. We filmed the founders yesterday and got a deeper insight into their unique and practical approach to how AI can actually help individuals. Can't say more right now but we fully enjoyed interviewing these interesting and sharp people. Cut On The Action has been involved in AI for many years now but have been heavily focused this year on finding AI initiatives that consider all the ramifications of this evolving technology.

Matthew Verkler Marcus Verkler

09/21/2023

Cut On The Action filmed at Intel Innovation yesterday at the San Jose Convention Center. Our two-camera shoot involved filming demos and interviews with a number of Intel executives; ambient noise is always a challenge for these environments but our post production tools will help dial that out to a large extent. Shoot day is always a great day!

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