who we are
At the Pocket Media Group we believe in story. It’s in our DNA. Whether it’s a photograph, a video, a design or three words in a tag-line, stories deliver. They communicate. They connect. And that’s the point, right? To have your message heard. Let’s talk.
Founder and Creative Director Doug Sadler is an award-winning independent filmmaker (Best New American Film Seattle Int’l Film Festival; Best Director & Best Feature Film Savannah Int’l Film Festival; Best American Film Festroia Int’l Film Festival Spain; Humanitas Award Finalist) and alumnae of the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmaking program whose films have shown at festivals worldwide, in US theaters and on the Sundance Channel and Netflix. He has taught narrative filmmaking at Johns Hopkins University and was a filmmaker-in-residence at MICA / Johns Hopkins’ MFA Film program, where he mentored filmmakers and taught directing and narrative film. Educated at Vanderbilt University and the American Film Institute, he specializes in discovering the story behind a mission and crafting creative ways to communicate the complex.