Films
Documentaries, artist collaborations, performances and public conversations across my career. Films are listed by year, newest first, followed by ongoing collections.
2026 · Documentary
Can Culture Transform Communities?
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Filmmaker
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2026 · Introduction
Welcome to The Bent
Christian Rex van Minnen · The Bent
Video strategy, infrastructure, content operations and asset management
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2026 · Commissioned film
Love Letter to the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse
Commissioned by William Simpkins · Sponsored by the Santa Cruz MAH
Filmmaking by Andrew J. O’Keefe II
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2026 · Social media short film
Walk Santa Cruz
Walk Santa Cruz · Matthew O’Leary
Creative direction, storytelling coaching, filming and editing
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2025 · Documentary
Honoring Our Ancestors
An independent film by Andrew J. O’Keefe II
Producer, director, cinematographer and editor
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2025 · Documentary
Seymour Marine Discovery Center: Vision 2025
Seymour Marine Discovery Center · University of California, Santa Cruz
Documentary production, interviews, archival research, slide scanning and editing
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2024 · Campaign media
One Ride at a Time
Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District
Strategic video production, campaign photography and archival development
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2024 · Exhibition documentation
They Are Shooting at Our Shadows
Institute of the Arts and Sciences · UC Santa Cruz · 2024
Production, cinematography, interviews, editing and editorial supervision
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2024 · Recorded conversation
A Message to Future Generations
George Ow Jr. · UC Santa Cruz
Filming and video production
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2023 · Historical micro-documentary
Visit the Aptos History Museum
Aptos History Museum
Documentary production
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2023 · Independent mini-documentary
Liminal Space Collective
Liminal Space Collective
Filmmaking by Andrew J. O’Keefe II
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2023 · Artist talks, performance and lectures
UCSC IAS: Public Programs
Institute of the Arts and Sciences · UC Santa Cruz
Filming and editing (event capture)
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2023 · Public engagement recording
Dancing Waters — An Evening of Storytelling
Community Arts & Empowerment · Kathleen Crocetti
Livestreaming, event recording and unveiling photography
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2016–2023 · Book talks & recorded history
Hip Santa Cruz History Project
Book-launch recordings · 2016, 2018, 2022 & 2023
Filming and event recording
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2022 · Documentary
The Restoration of Evergreen Cemetery
Created with historian Traci Bliss
Producer
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2022 · Documentary
Birth Happens
San Lorenzo Valley Museum
Co-director, writer and producer
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2022 · Historical lecture
Blossoms into Gold — The Mekis Sisters
Donna F. Mekis and Kathryn Mekis Miller · Santa Cruz MAH
Filming and event capture
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2022 · Public art film & photography
Watsonville Brillante
Kathleen Crocetti · Community Arts & Empowerment
Filming and photography
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March 12, 2022 · Book talk recording
We Are Not Animals
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Filming and event recording
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2021 · Documentary
Enterprise Iron Works
Michael Leeds · Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Documentary production
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2021 · Documentary
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History · 25th anniversary
Documentary production
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2020 · Documentary
The History & People of Aptos
Strock Real Estate · With Lost Coast Media
Research, writing, archival producing, producing, editing and additional cinematography
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2018 · Fundraising documentary
Breakthrough for Psychedelic Medicine
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
Documentary media production
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2017 · Independent mini-documentary
Phaneros Family Campout
Phaneros
Filmmaking by Andrew J. O’Keefe II
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July 23, 2017 · Event recordings
RAW DAY
Robert Anton Wilson Trust · Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Videography and video production
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2013 · Artist trailer
Android Jones: Artist Trailer
Android Jones
Artist trailer production
View projectOngoing · Ongoing commissioned work
George Ow Jr. — Ongoing commissions
Historical lectures, community art and family history
Filming, interviews, photography and production
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Selected recordings · Historical lectures
Recording Sandy Lydon
George Ow Jr. commissions · Public history lectures
Filming and lecture recording
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