Selected Work
Real properties, real production.
Hall Park Hotel
Umani Resort
Cinematic films, photography, and social content for hotels, resorts, and travel brands.
Nicolas Chae creates visual stories that capture not only where guests stay, but how a property feels.
From architecture and interiors to food, amenities, surrounding destinations, and the small moments that make a stay memorable, each project is designed to give hospitality brands a versatile library of premium visual content.
His approach combines the craft of filmmaking with an understanding of how modern audiences actually discover and experience travel online.
Cinematic property films, brand stories, destination films, and campaign pieces.
Platform-native vertical content designed for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and other social platforms.
Editorial-quality imagery of rooms, architecture, food, amenities, experiences, and lifestyle.
Authentic moments that show what it actually feels like to experience the property.
Photography and video that highlight restaurants, bars, room service, dining experiences, and signature dishes.
Content that connects the property to the surrounding city, landscape, culture, and travel experience.
For properties looking for a premium bank of visual content.
A more comprehensive visual story, built to give a property a substantial library of content.
For launches, seasonal campaigns, new properties, destination campaigns, and larger creative initiatives.
Hospitality marketing lives across multiple screens.
A single production should be able to become a hero film on a website, a Reel on Instagram, a TikTok, a collection of editorial photographs, and a library of assets a team can continue using throughout the year.
Nicolas approaches every project with that ecosystem in mind – creating work that feels cinematic enough for a brand campaign while remaining native enough for social.
Nicolas is an award-winning filmmaker and creator based in Los Angeles, bringing together professional production experience and an established digital audience.
His creator background gives him an understanding of what makes people stop scrolling, while his filmmaking background brings the visual language, storytelling, and production discipline of traditional film into every project.
For select hospitality partnerships, production can be paired with creator-led storytelling and distribution across Nicolas's social channels.
This can include behind-the-scenes content, first-person travel storytelling, property experiences, and platform-native content.
Creator distribution is scoped separately based on campaign goals, deliverables, and usage.
Standard production packages include defined organic usage across the property's owned digital channels.
Paid advertising, third-party advertising, print, outdoor, tourism campaigns, extended licensing, exclusivity, and perpetual usage are quoted separately based on scope.
Discuss Usage + LicensingWe learn about the property, audience, goals, upcoming launches, and the story worth telling.
Creative direction, shot planning, production schedule, and deliverables are established before arrival.
Film and photography are captured with the property, guest experience, and final content ecosystem in mind.
Final assets are edited, color-graded, sound-designed, formatted, and delivered ready for use.
Additional licensing, social content, creator distribution, or campaign work can be added as the relationship grows.
Have a property, destination, or hospitality campaign in mind? Let's talk.