Case study

Horizon Focus

Vireo Health//2021//Documentary
Vireo Health
Strategy//Creative//Production//Post-Production//Strategy//Creative//Production//Post-Production//
The breakdown

Vireo Health is a publicly traded medical cannabis company competing in a highly competitive and regulated market. Its investor communications covered the numbers, but they could not fully capture the history, future, and people behind the company.

Horizon Focus // Full Film

The brief

Vireo came to Current Resident requesting a handful of Investor Day videos - something to run alongside their decks while a room full of skeptical shareholders sat in their seats. The more we listened to what they were after, the clearer it became that a handful of videos weren't going to spark the change they were after.

What the work had to do:

  • Make a clear, credible case for investors without leaning on another PowerPoint.
  • Connect Vireo’s financial story to its impact on patients and communities.
  • Build trust with regulators, partners and audiences outside the investor room.
  • Give employees across the country a shared understanding of the company’s mission.
Interior lab and greenhouse
Puerto Rico drone shot comning over the ocean into the treeline
Interior lab and greenhouse
Tell them a story they can't look away from, and then offer to make 'em buckets of money.
The bet

The original plan called for ten individual videos. We proposed building one feature-length documentary instead: a film that could move between the financial case for investing and the human reason to give a damn.

That meant coordinating production across seven states in ten weeks, then shaping leadership, operational and patient stories into one clear narrative. The larger format gave Vireo room to take the audience on a journey and tell a more complete story than a collection of standalone videos ever could.

Horizon Focus // BTS

The payoff

Horizon Focus premiered at Investor Day and went on to earn national recognition, including a Clio. The film helped investors and external audiences better understand Vireo’s mission, business, and differentiation in a crowded category.

Internally, it created a shared reference point for teams across the country, aligning people around the work happening beyond their individual markets. It became a source of pride for the organization and a lasting expression of what they were building together. Vireo's own leadership called it something they'd be proud of for the rest of their lives. We'll call that a W.

Trophies
  • Award
“This blew me away. It tells not only how we started Vireo, but what makes us different. You all are a different breed from the rest of the pack.”

— Dr. Kyle Kingsley, Chairman & CEO, Vireo Health

Is this you?

You’re…

  • Preparing for Investor Day, a major company milestone, or another high-stakes leadership moment
  • Trying to pull one coherent story out of a business with a lot of departments, priorities, and points of view
  • Responsible for making performance, strategy, and numbers mean something to the people in the room

You need…

  • One clear narrative that connects the numbers to the people and purpose behind them
  • A centerpiece film that can command a room without feeling like another corporate presentation
  • A library of content that keeps working across investor, internal, and external communications

Sound familiar? Let's talk.

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Made by Good People

Crew

Director
Mckade Riedman
Director
Whitney Allen
EP
Patrick Shelton
Line Producer
Jihane Ghostine
Client Producer
Sam Gibbons
Field Producer (MN)
John Wildauer
Associate Producer
Zoe Esser
DP
Kellen Witschen
1st AC (MN)
Sophie Mayhew
Camera Op (MN)
Jacob Velander
FPV Drone Op (MN)
Jourdan Gomez
FVP Drone Op (MN)
Jay Byrd
Gaffer (MN)
Sam Mayhew
Script Continuity (MN)
Bud Hjelmberg
Sound Mixer (MN)
Connor McLevish
Sound Mixer (MN)
Nick Christopulos
1st AC (AZ)
Aaron Fedor
Steady-Cam Op (AZ)
Mic Waugh
Gaffer (AZ)
Jake McDaniel
Sound Mixer (AZ)
Matt Hass
PA (AZ)
Tyler Christensen
Grip (MD)
Mark Hutchings
Drone Op (MD)
Geoffrey Green
Camera Op (NY)
Cameron Mitchell
Drone Op (NY)
Stephane Attuil
Grip (NY)
Charles Wyllie
Sound Mixer (NY)
Scott Clementson
Drone Op (PR)
Christopher Behnen
Head of Post
Chaddix Malchow
Editor
Bud Hjelmberg
Editor
Mckade Riedman
Editor
Whiney Allen
Editor
Dallas Currie
VFX
Kyle Franke
Composer / Mix
Taylor Lewin
Lawyer
Dan Boen

Vendors

Drone Services
NY Drone Zone
Location Services
Charlotte Ariss Locations
Equipment Rental
Cinequipt
G&E Rental
Atom Burst
G&E Rental
Monsoon Production Services
Legal Services
The Boen Law Office

Special Thanks

Special Thanks
Mike Welsh
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