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Erin McGrady + Caroline Whatley
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Short films, Film fests, YouTube, and Reels

In 2024 we received the No Man’s Land Film Festival’s Genderqueer Filmmaker Grant which helped us bring Full Spectrum - A Queer Outdoorsy Film About Autism, to life. It had its World Premier in Denver in 2025 as well as travel around via the NMLFF World Tour. During the No Man’s Land Flagship Festival Erin received the Fem-Wow Award for favorite All-Woman production / Director. Full Spectrum was also selected for the NMLFF World Tour and was recently selected for the Muskoka Film Festival in Ontario, Canada.

We’ve been hired by numerous outdoor brands to breathe life into projects.

Recent video clients include Outside, Merrell, Coleman, Orvis, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Stio, and ENO Hammocks.

 

Authentic Asheville’s 2024 Cinematography Reel

Marathon Motivation by Authentic Asheville

 
About a third of a circular yellow plate with a reflection in the shape of an arc rests on a bright blue background. The blue is met at an angle in the middle of the photo with a white background. On the white background are three cake pops.

Play With Your Food? We're In!

Erin McGrady January 19, 2022

When HippoPops, a small business in Asheville, NC, reached out to us about creating content for their website and social media channels we were pumped. We sourced numerous props to create imagery that matched the fun, colorful, happy vibe that the pops bring to people. And were thankfully able to stave off the temptation to eat the product before the shoot was completed.

Tags product photography, food photography, content creation, content marketing
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Food Photography + Van Life

Erin McGrady March 3, 2021

We love food and we love photography so naturally, we love combining the two any chance we get. ROVA Magazine, which dubs itself as The Magazine for Epic Road Trips, liked an idea we had for a story that involved finding and making local seafood on the Delmarva coast. (Delmarva is a mashup of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.) Our story was published in the April/May 2019 issue of the magazine. We have contributed four articles for them in the last two years.

Tags food photography, food styling
Authentic Asheville’s content creation for Founders Brewing and Men’s Journal.

Authentic Asheville’s content creation for Founders Brewing and Men’s Journal.

Founder's Brewing and Men's Journal

Erin McGrady March 2, 2021

We recently were asked to create some lifestyle food photography for an online campaign that Founder’s Brewing was doing with Men’s Journal. The idea was to use a recipe for making queso outdoors that featured their new line of hard seltzers, Mas Agave. Other than that, we had the green light to get creative. Here’s a few images of what we came up with!

Product and food styling by Caroline Whatley.
Photography by Erin McGrady

Tags food photography, food styling

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