about us

Maria and Irene are both Boston-bred, New York-based filmmakers. They met when they both worked at a camera store ten years ago, and have been friends and collaborators ever since, even moving to Romania together to co-shoot Irene's first feature length project. A few years ago, both of them independently started to have friends approach them and ask them to make their wedding videos. All the friends were thrilled with the results, and Maria and Irene found that they loved the process of making wedding videos. Since they both had the same idea at the same time, they decided to start a business together.

Irene is an award-winning documentary filmmaker - she produces, writes, directs, edits and shoots her own work. She has lived between Boston and New York (with interludes of filming and working in London, Romania, and Russia) for the past eight years. Her work has shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the MoMA, has screened at film festivals around the world, and has been broadcast on television in the US, Europe, and Taiwan. She's also been the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the LEF foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the New York State Council for Arts. She's been featured in Filmmaker Magazine's annual "25 New Faces of Indie Film" issue as well as on Boston Magazine's Hot List. To learn more about her films, please visit her website,

Komsomol Films.

Maria has worked in filmmaking for twelve years, primarily as a cinematographer. She is currently producing and shooting a film in Kenya about women's politics in the upcoming 2007 Kenya elections. Maria has completed photography on four short narrative films, and numerous documentaries, notably Irene's 2001 feature film "Reconstruction." Maria teaches filmmaking at the International Film & Video Workshops in Rockport, Maine; the Reelworks Film Lab in New York City; and in Westchester County elementary schools.

Maria and Irene also collaborate on Exclusively Gay Wedding Videography, a business started in the summer of 2004 when Massachusetts recognized its first gay marriages. They encourage you to visit their sister site, and to show your support for gay marriage.