About Us
Houston Creative Media is a Texas-based, Award-Winning, 100% Woman-Owned production company focusing on storytelling using media.
We started in 2016 with one mission: to fuse technology and creativity to create meaningful art. Our goal - then and now - was (and is) to use video and audio to reach, educate, and inspire. We’ve done a good job so far, and we have high hopes to continue to do so.
What are we about?
We focus on using video and audio production to tell positive, uplifting stories that inform, educate, and entertain. We strive to partner with people who are taking action through their service to make the world a better place. We shoot video, record audio, edit audio and video, and incorporate motion graphics to weave digital content into cohesive and moving works of art.
Are we good?
We think so. We hope you do, too. We’ve achieved international recognition (2018 Greek Event Awards Bronze Medal) and we were the recipients of a 2019 Lone Star Emmy for a medical documentary about a leading cancer doctor (“Dr. Philip Salem: 50 Years in Cancer Medicine”), and a 2020 Lone Star Emmy as editor, motion graphic artist, and sound engineer for the nature documentary “Against All Odds: Emperor Penguins of Snow Hill Island, Antarctica.”
Our Values
Our values are pretty basic: We believe in honesty, transparency, and compassion. We’re a multi-cultural and multi-lingual company founded by a woman immigrant, so we appreciate diversity. We strive to honor the dignity of every man, woman, and child, regardless of national, ethnic, religious, or other identities.
Compassion drives everything we do.
Our His Her-story
2016
Houston Creative Media is founded. Crossing our fingers, working our tails off. Praying for a miracle…
2017
Building the business…Not sleeping a lot. Shooting a commercial in London.
2018
Our first award!
We won the Bronze Medal at the 2018 Greek Event Awards in Athens, Greece, along with our partner, the Trianon Filmcenter for promoting local arts and culture in the the region of Notias Kynorias (Arkadia, Peloponesse). Ναι, μιλάμε ελληνικά. Commercials in Glasgow and Manchester, England.
2019
Our first Emmy!
We won a 2019 Lone Star Emmy for our co-production of the medical documentary “Dr. Philip Salem - 50 Years of Cancer Medicine.”
2020
Our Second Emmy!
We won a 2020 Lone Star Emmy for our documentary film “Against All Odds: The Emperor Penguins of Snow Hill Island, Antarctica.”
2021 - 2023
We go national in the U.S.
Our video work appears on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, CW, the Travel Channel, ABC, Apple TV, and Roku airing on American Dream TV and for other select clients.
2024 and Beyond
PBS
On March 9, The Life: Sex Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery, a film for which we did the motion graphics, will be distributed by NETA to PBS for national distribution.
And there’s more…
We’re the co-owners of he co-owners of the Filmcenter Trianon, an independent Cinefilm (Arts) theater in the heart of Athens, Greece (started in 1960 by our family), and NoTraditional, a Greek nonprofit focusing on promoting the arts and local culture in mainland Greece, the Greek islands, and Cyprus.
About our logo..
The icon/symbol in the logo of Houston Creative Media is the Phoenix, the universal symbol of rebirth, and life from ashes.
The Egyptian phoenix was said to be as large as an eagle, with brilliant scarlet and gold plumage and a melodious cry. Only one phoenix existed at any time, and it was very long-lived—no ancient authority gave it a life span of fewer than 500 years. As its end approached, the phoenix fashioned a nest of aromatic boughs and spices, set it on fire, and was consumed in the flames. From the pyre miraculously sprang a new phoenix, which, after embalming its father’s ashes in an egg of myrrh, flew with the ashes to Heliopolis (“City of the Sun”) in Egypt, where it deposited them on the altar in the temple of the Egyptian god of the sun, Re. A variant of the story made the dying phoenix fly to Heliopolis and immolate itself in the altar fire, from which the young phoenix then rose.
The font in our logo is Font Diner Dot Com Sparkly, reminiscent of quirky 1960’s television shows. Coincidentally, it’s also the same font used the titles in the Amazon Prime smash hit “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”
And last but not least -
We’re Proud Texans
“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study and the passionate possession of all Texans.”
- John Steinbeck, from his memoir “Travels With Charley: In Search of America.”