Always driven by storytelling.
Whether it’s writing a screenplay or a shot list, storytelling is at the core of what I do.
Timeline
Ohio University
2018
Cinema Libre Studio
HGTV
Pie Town Productions
2021
2022
Freelance Filmmaking
Sales
2025 – Present
Ohio University
2018 - 2021
My time at Ohio University was an important era in my life where I grew with both challenges and opportunities. It was here I learned that my path in film and storytelling was firmly where I belonged.
Here I pursued numerous opportunities to hone my craft: I worked as a videographer, editor, and social media marketer for Ohio University, giving me a better education than any class I ever took. I also completed video production for non-profits, threw myself into writing numerous screenplays, and created my first pitch decks and story bibles.
My time here also provided unique challenges to face. The masks that blight the photos of me during my peak filmmaking period in college remind me of the challenges I overcame – forging my resilience even in the height of a global pandemic.
Cinema Libre Studio
2021 - 2022
On my first day in Los Angeles I was immediately thrown into the adventure that was working on set for “I am Gitmo”. Cinema Libre is where I grew from a green production assistant to a fully capable executive assistant and distribution coordinator.
During my time at Cinema Libre I organized premiere events, created slide decks, sat in on pre-production and pitch meetings, reviewed perspective projects and wrote coverage. It was an immense privilege to help create the promotional material for a film I worked on. More importantly it was an exciting time to talk about the potential of future projects the studio might pursue and pitch to other companies.
HGTV + Pie Town Productions
2022 - 2025
After my time at Cinema Libre I was looking for opportunities that would give me experience and more stability as I continued to learn and navigate the film world and find my place in it.
A chance meeting lead to over 2 years of wonderful experience coordinating over 400 episodes of House Hunters(yes you read that right), learning the ins and outs of production from concept to execution to post production workflows. I closely helped create a new show Izzy Does Even learning to do things I never saw myself doing like becoming a commercially certified drone operator.
Freelance Filmmaking and Sales
2025 - Present
Well they say all good things must come to an end, as a result of the very public corporate restructuring HGTV decided to take a “break” in House Hunters Production, which is what powered Pie Town Productions.
Like so many others I had to restart and refocus. However I also saught out stability while I did this. It may seem like a strange detour on paper, but working as a sales representative at Drone Robotics Tech gave me valuable sales and pitch experience that has actually been transferrable to many other areas of my life – especially development.
During this time I explored new ways to power my life, and honed in on my core interests: writing and development of ideas.
So what’s next…?
My ultimate passion is storytelling and craftsmanship. While my journey is adventurous and diverse in experience, underneath it all it is clear that finding a way to do that in a fulfilling sustainable way is what drives me. I’ve changed everything about my life over the years–– but that is the one thing that never changes.
During my journey through different aspects of film I found immense clarity that development was where I belonged. The path may be difficult at times, but in my experience nothing worth doing is ever easy, but anything that fulfills you is always worth pursuing.
If you’re reading this and you made it this far I hope you will consider me for future opportunities in this line of work, I have passion, drive, and vision – and I’ll bring that with me wherever I go.
–Ray Frost