Co-Director & Editor

Founder, Here and Now Agency

Paul grew up in Alaska and earned a masters in architecture at Cal Poly Pomona. An award-winning designer and photographer, he built Here and Now Agency agency from the ground up to best serve the design community and bring recognition to world-class spaces. HANA’s clients include Dior, the Pendry Group and a growing list of international design firms.

Co-Director & Editor

Photographer + Filmmaker, Here and Now Agency

Hayden grew up in the California Bay Area & earned a BA in Film & TV production at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. An up-and-coming creative who produces ideas beyond expectations, he’s shaped his style by telling stories through the details which commonly go unnoticed.

Director of Photography

Cinematographer

Hasitha Warnasooriya is a cinematographer based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has over 10 years of experience from filming Feature films, Documentaries, Tv series, Tv ommercials, Music videos and Web series both locally and internationally. Hasi has an unique & intuitive way of approach when it comes to creating moving images; particularly has a strong eye for natural beauty in landscapes, architecture and people which covers a range of styles and disciplines from bright, aspirational lifestyle pieces, to compelling, moody and dramatic scenes often collaborating in many languages and cultures, with any scale of a production.

Poster Art

Interdisciplinary Artist

MURUGIAH is an award-winning multi & interdimensional artist in London, UK exploring identity & awe & everything inbetween based in London, U.K. Born in England & raised in Wales with Sri Lankan heritage, Murugiah trained as an architect in London before choosing his current creative path, specialising in Fine art, illustration, art direction, typography and design. Today, he makes psychedelic work infused with the dichotomy of his Sri Lankan heritage and western upbringing. All made in a surreal, joyful, style using bright bold colours and detailed graphical compositions.

His selected collaborators and commissioners include New Balance, Apple, Disney, Marvel, Facebook, Penguin, Vans, Wired, Los Angeles Times, and Mondo. And he has been featured by BBC, Creative Boom, Creative Lives in Progress, Digital Arts, and SixtySix Magazine. Murugiah is currently available for projects and commissions.

Colorist

Born in Italy and raised in England, Ale Amato moved to Los Angeles in 2017 to pursue a career in Color Grading.

Since joining Primary in 2021, Ale continues to expand her portfolio by coloring for brands including Apple Music, Nike, State Farm, and Charles Schwab. Outside of commercial work, Ale enjoys color grading music videos and dynamic narrative films.

When she’s not in a color suite, Ale spends time outdoors camping, rock climbing, and skiing as well as playing classical guitar.

VFX

Art Director & Graphic Designer, Pencil Works

Music, Closing Credits

Producer & Songwriter

Sri Lankan-born and now based in Los Angeles, Ruwanga Samath has either composed and produced music for over 35 movies including the end title songs for movies such as Fast Five (Universal Pictures) Morgan Spurlock's The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (Sony Pictures) Reality High (Netflix) and Gideon's Army (HBO). He has also placed songs in movies such as TED (Universal Pictures), Spare Parts (Lionsgate), Tower Heist (Universal Pictures), You're Next (Lionsgate), Generation Iron, Saw IV (Lionsgate) and many more. Ru has composed music for a number of films including the upcoming documentaries; Long Live Rock…Celebrate the Chaos and Cosplay Universe and the upcoming Muhammad Ali film City of Ali.

Production Sound Mixer

Co-Founder, The Record House

Growing up listening to the classic rock artists Mert dreamed quitting school and becoming a rock star himself. Unfortunately, he soon realized that it wasn’t the 80s anymore and decided to live the simpler life. After getting his degree in Music Production and Engineering from Berklee College of Music, Mert went on to work at some of the most prestigious studios around the world such as; Abbey Road, British Grove, Capitol and Interscope Studios. After running the House of Rock studios with Beto Vargas, the two started The Record House.

Trailer Editor

Robert is an Australian-born trailer editor living and working in Los Angeles, CA.