Anchorage
Los Angeles, California | Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
Two brothers attempt to drive a trunk full of opioids from Florida to Alaska to cash-in big in the land of gold. A split-second act of violence in the California desert derails their plans and sets them on a crash-course with tragedy.
Anchorage
Los Angeles, California | Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
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Two brothers attempt to drive a trunk full of opioids from Florida to Alaska to cash-in big in the land of gold. A split-second act of violence in the California desert derails their plans and sets them on a crash-course with tragedy.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
THE STORY
Jacob (Scott Monahan) and John (Dakota Loesch) are two low-level Florida drug hustlers with a busted Crown Victoria and a dream. Driving a trunk full of opioids stuffed inside Teddy Bears towards Anchorage, Alaska, their plan is to cash-in big in the Land of Gold.
That plan gets challenged by their surroundings, their shortcomings, and their tendency to dip into their own supply. A split-second act of violence somewhere in the California desert derails their trip and sets the brothers on a crash course with tragedy.
This film isn’t a glorification of drugs but it isn't a demonization of drug users either. This isn’t a happy-go-lucky journey to the promised land; this is a journey to the heart of a family, the heart of addiction, and the heart of America.
The opioid epidemic has affected millions of Americans but is largely undiscussed in mainstream media. The filmmakers behind ANCHORAGE, their family and friends, have had firsthand experience with this crisis. This film is their way of addressing the issue and starting a long-overdue conversation.
THE TONE
The tone of Anchorage is like the desert itself: long contemplative stretches, a sense of decay, and then then the darkness creeps in. Jacob and John hop from an abandoned Air Force Base to a ghost town, from a once-was baseball field to a boarded-up mining site, decrepit structures dying in the middle of nowhere.
Working closely with our cinematographer Erin Naifeh we developed a visual language and stylistic approach for the filming of the movie. Our intention was to make you, as the audience, feel like you were stuck in the car with Jacob and John.
By using a 'curious camera' approach to filming every scene of the movie we were able to capture the small intimate moments and the textures of their surroundings that became the heart and soul of our story.
WHY WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
We have taken the ride this far and now we need your help to raise the funds to finish this film. But not just finish it. We want to make the best damn movie we possibly can. With your support, we will be able to get through the expensive process of post-production, editing, sound design, composing, coloring, festival submission fees, and screenings. Each aspect of post-production can get very pricey when dealing with a feature-length film, that's why every single contribution counts.
- Music Composer - They create an original score for the film.
- Sound Designer - They mix and master all the dialogue, music, and sound effects for the film.
- Editor - They edit together every scene to create the final version of the film.
- Color Correction - This process ensures that the visuals are of the highest quality.
- Music Rights & Licensing - This gives us the rights to use the songs we want in the film.
- Festival Submission Fees - These are the costs for entering the film into festivals nationally and internationally.
APPROACH
The creators Scott Monahan and Dakota Loesch met in the Los Angeles immersive theatre scene in their first collaboration together with Ceaseless Fun Productions. Since then they have worked together on five immersive shows and are regulars in the Los Angeles immersive scene. They spent the better part of a year developing this script together using the techniques and practices they had been honing with collaboratively devised theater and bringing it into the filmmaking process.
Associate director Meredith Treinen (Grief, Re-Lease, Ceaseless Fun Producer) rehearsed with the cast to find how these characters moved, spoke, and thought. Every cast member in this film is an immersive heavy hitter, and the crew is made up of creators, performers, and lovers of this medium as well.
Immersive wasn't just part of the development process, it's also going to be a continued element of this film. While in the post-production phase the creators will be launching Anchorage: The Immersive Experience which will bring three audience members into the back seat of the Crown Victoria with Jacob and John. See the incentives for early access tickets to the show.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Legend goes something like this: buy an oxycodone pill in Florida for $1 a pop at a pill mill and sell it in another state for $15, $20, or even $25. But If you could drive it all the way to Anchorage, Alaska? You could sell it for $50, $100, even $250 per pill. Sounds crazy right? Ask any drug runner and they'll tell you the name of someone that tried it. Since most people don’t know any drug runners, you’ll just have to take my word for it... but don’t tell anyone you heard it from me.
Both Dakota Loesch and I have been personally affected by the opioid crisis. The same is true of so many of our family and friends, co-workers, and neighbors. Here lies the current problem: pharmaceutical companies are destroying America by preying on Americans. Opioids are tearing apart families, killing people of all ages, and the doctors are prescribing more and more and getting bonuses because of it.
Opioids are terrible. You can get hooked by swallowing a pill, but if you start snorting it or (even worse) smoking it, the addiction locks you in so fast that there isn’t a thing you can do about it. In 2010 alone, 85% of the nation's Oxycodone was prescribed in the state of Florida. 85%. I've heard stories of kids stealing them from their grandma who was ninety-two pounds soaking wet and prescribed one-hundred 120mg Oxys per month. That's enough to kill a mule.
The story of ANCHORAGE is a story about two brothers from Florida who were born into poverty, started their drug addiction young via prescribed medications, then graduated to opioids, and it all went downhill from there.
This is our story representing how this drug tears apart even the closest bonds of friendship and family. It's a film about how this nation of hustle and money and capitalistic greed leaves destruction in its wake. This is about toxic representations of masculinity within brotherhood and the violence within the world of men. And this story is just a teardrop in the ocean of stories of those affected by this drug. It’s a way for us to process what is happening to the people closest to us and to start a long-overdue conversation with the world.
We wrote this film because it's extremely personal to us, and a world that we both knew all too well. For many months we worked side by side getting this to a place where we could bring in the rest of the cast and crew. What surprises me to this day is how many people we shared it with had stories of their own, and were also affected by this crisis. We even ran into people while filming on location that would share their own experiences with this opioid epidemic and how it impacted their lives.
Thanks for taking the ride with us. Couldn't do it without you. We'll see you in Anchorage.
- Scott Monahan / Director / Jacob
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Music Composer
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This will allow us to bring on a talented Composer to create an original score for the film.
Sound Mixer
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This will allow us to bring on a Post-Production Sound Mixer to master the soundtrack of the fim.
Editor
Costs $4,500
This will allow us to bring on an Editor with the vision and experience to bring this film to life.
Color Correction
Costs $3,000
This ensures that the visuals of the film will be of the highest and most professional quality.
Music Rights & Licensing
Costs $2,500
This will allow us to include the songs that we have always dreamed of using in the film.
Festival Submission Fees
Costs $3,500
This will help cover submission costs for entering the film into international film festivals.
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About This Team
Director: Scott Monahan
Scott Monahan started his career as a child actor in Tokyo. He studied theatre at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia, before relocating to Los Angeles in 2011. His first feature was the lead role in I Was A Teenage Wereskunk (Amazon Prime). Featured roles include Anger Management (FX), Bakers Dozen (Amazon Prime), Love Shot (Netflix, Gravitas Ventures), as well as a lead character on TURNT (Facebook Watch), and Eating Cars (Post-Production). He directed and starred in FILM:ONE, an award-nominated experimental short film. He was an Artistic Director of the international theatre company Play Collaborative Arts and is currently a company member with the immersive theatre company Ceaseless Fun.
Writer: Dakota Loesch
Dakota Loesch is a Chicago-born character actor, writer, and director living and working in Los Angeles. His recent credits include the leading role in Love Shot (Netflix, Gravitas Ventures), as well as a featured role in Make Out Party (Full Spectrum Features) which is currently racking up laurels in the international festival circuit. He wrote and directed the award-winning web series Kiss Like Big Dogs as well as the immersive theatre show The Why. He is an active company member with the immersive theatre collective Ceaseless Fun. Dakota has also been a touring musician with various punk rock collectives since he was fifteen-years-old.
Assistant Director: Meredith Treinen
Meredith is a creative producer and director working in multi-sensory, immersive, and movement-based work. Her company Ceaseless Fun has presented its site-specific work throughout Los Angeles. She has directed live-action content and unique large-scale events for Amazon Prime Video, Apple, Postmates, and Adidas both in the US and internationally. She also creates her own devised theatre work (Grief, Re-Lease) drawing from her personal experiences and staging them using movement, vocal work, and immersive techniques.
Director of Photography: Erin Naifeh
By the age of 20, I was accepted into IASTE 600. I’ve worked on a myriad of movies, commercials, television shows; while studying under award-winning cinematographers. In 2016, I began working as a cinematographer on small short films, indie features, and music videos. At age of 25, I shot my first feature film called Getaway Girls. Recently, I’ve started to Direct and DP my own projects. Being a cinematographer is not just about creating beautiful images. It is about diving deep into the stories of human beings, speculating how each of our lives are interdependent on each other or dissecting and exploring the complexities of life; then, visually communicating that in a holistic way. It’s about collaboration, creativity, camaraderie, and the process.
Producer: Gia Rigoli
Gia Rigoli is a filmmaker and producer with a primary focus on narrative features. At 22-years old, she produced her first feature film, Rock Steady Row, which world premiered at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival where it took home the Narrative Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for Best Narrative Film and was subsequently distributed by Gunpowder & Sky. Gia's other feature credits include Salton Sea and Birds Without Feathers which are distributed by Epoch Films and Synergetic Films, respectively. Her films have screened at over 50 festivals worldwide. Gia graduated with a BFA in Creative Producing from Chapman University where her senior thesis film, Pasajeros en Trance, was a Student Academy Award Finalist. She is currently developing a feature-length documentary (mentored by Michael Apted) focusing on the Arizona twin cities where she grew up on the US/Mexico border as well as numerous narrative feature films in various stages of development. Gia was selected as a 2019 Berlinale Talents participant and a 2019 Project Involve Producing fellow where she was awarded the Sony Pictures Entertainment Fellowship. She is currently co-producing her first Virtual Reality Interactive experience, Frontera, which was selected to participate in the 2019 Biennale College Cinema VR and Venice Production Bridge. Gia works as a freelance producer in Los Angeles and has produced dozens of short films, music videos, and commercials including branded content with Gucci, Garage Magazine, and VICE. Gia hopes to continue making films that focus on issues facing the Latino community internationally and domestically.
Producer: Ethan Seneker
Ethan Seneker is an American writer, director, and producer. He grew up in the Snoqualmie Valley of Washington State with his four brothers and two sisters before moving to Los Angeles when he was 17 years old. His films have received more than 60 awards around the world, premiering at festivals such as TIFF, SIFF, and Mill Valley. In the short time, he was in school, between working on several primetime TV shows and studio features, Ethan earned a spot on Variety's Students to Watch list. He is the Founder and Executive Producer of Spark Medium, an advertising agency that produces commercial work and music videos for clients such as Costco Wholesale, Proctor & Gamble, General Mills, Atlantic Records, and Sony Music among many others. Ethan focuses his time telling stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He is Native American, Grandson of Chief Phil Lane Jr. of the Chickasaw and Ihanktonwan Dakota First Nations.
Production Sound Mixer: Jed Shiheng Xu
Shiheng Xu is an award-winning Sound Designer, as well as a Location Sound Mixer who has designed and mixed for Wolf Entertainment, Endeavor Audio, Nike, FADER, Fortune, Oakley, FUSE, iHeartRadio, Eastbay, Lil Miquela, and Sam Dew.
Production Designer: Perry Powell
Production Designer and Art Director who has created designs for Netflix, NBC, HBO, Burning Man, Rupaul’s Drag Race Stars, Dread Pictures, and Lightning in a Bottle and Symbiosis Festivals.
Executive Producer / Production Company: Chad Shulz/The Malt Shop
Producer and entrepreneur Chad Schultz began his career like so many Wisconsin-raised producers: shoveling cow chips in summer, snowdrifts in winter. Despite an early affinity for film, it wasn't until backpacking halfway around the globe that he decided to propel himself through film school and move to Los Angeles. He produced web content with a couple of boutique production companies before co-founding a business model to foster and ease indie filmmaking in a rapidly changing production industry. Lo and behold, The Malt Shop.
Advertising: Nate Baird
Hi, I'm Nate. I'm the founder of Mongo Digital, a full-service digital advertising agency, loosely based in LA, and designed to serve the modern brand. I've had the opportunity to fill roles as a graphic design, front-end developer, and now, as a founder. I enjoy how technology enables us to connect and collaborate in ways we've never been able to before. My primary goal with Mongo is to enable brands to create sensible digital strategies and connect with their ideal audience online. I'd love to hear about what you're working on!
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
THE STORY
Jacob (Scott Monahan) and John (Dakota Loesch) are two low-level Florida drug hustlers with a busted Crown Victoria and a dream. Driving a trunk full of opioids stuffed inside Teddy Bears towards Anchorage, Alaska, their plan is to cash-in big in the Land of Gold.
That plan gets challenged by their surroundings, their shortcomings, and their tendency to dip into their own supply. A split-second act of violence somewhere in the California desert derails their trip and sets the brothers on a crash course with tragedy.
This film isn’t a glorification of drugs but it isn't a demonization of drug users either. This isn’t a happy-go-lucky journey to the promised land; this is a journey to the heart of a family, the heart of addiction, and the heart of America.
The opioid epidemic has affected millions of Americans but is largely undiscussed in mainstream media. The filmmakers behind ANCHORAGE, their family and friends, have had firsthand experience with this crisis. This film is their way of addressing the issue and starting a long-overdue conversation.
THE TONE
The tone of Anchorage is like the desert itself: long contemplative stretches, a sense of decay, and then then the darkness creeps in. Jacob and John hop from an abandoned Air Force Base to a ghost town, from a once-was baseball field to a boarded-up mining site, decrepit structures dying in the middle of nowhere.
Working closely with our cinematographer Erin Naifeh we developed a visual language and stylistic approach for the filming of the movie. Our intention was to make you, as the audience, feel like you were stuck in the car with Jacob and John.
By using a 'curious camera' approach to filming every scene of the movie we were able to capture the small intimate moments and the textures of their surroundings that became the heart and soul of our story.
WHY WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
We have taken the ride this far and now we need your help to raise the funds to finish this film. But not just finish it. We want to make the best damn movie we possibly can. With your support, we will be able to get through the expensive process of post-production, editing, sound design, composing, coloring, festival submission fees, and screenings. Each aspect of post-production can get very pricey when dealing with a feature-length film, that's why every single contribution counts.
- Music Composer - They create an original score for the film.
- Sound Designer - They mix and master all the dialogue, music, and sound effects for the film.
- Editor - They edit together every scene to create the final version of the film.
- Color Correction - This process ensures that the visuals are of the highest quality.
- Music Rights & Licensing - This gives us the rights to use the songs we want in the film.
- Festival Submission Fees - These are the costs for entering the film into festivals nationally and internationally.
APPROACH
The creators Scott Monahan and Dakota Loesch met in the Los Angeles immersive theatre scene in their first collaboration together with Ceaseless Fun Productions. Since then they have worked together on five immersive shows and are regulars in the Los Angeles immersive scene. They spent the better part of a year developing this script together using the techniques and practices they had been honing with collaboratively devised theater and bringing it into the filmmaking process.
Associate director Meredith Treinen (Grief, Re-Lease, Ceaseless Fun Producer) rehearsed with the cast to find how these characters moved, spoke, and thought. Every cast member in this film is an immersive heavy hitter, and the crew is made up of creators, performers, and lovers of this medium as well.
Immersive wasn't just part of the development process, it's also going to be a continued element of this film. While in the post-production phase the creators will be launching Anchorage: The Immersive Experience which will bring three audience members into the back seat of the Crown Victoria with Jacob and John. See the incentives for early access tickets to the show.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Legend goes something like this: buy an oxycodone pill in Florida for $1 a pop at a pill mill and sell it in another state for $15, $20, or even $25. But If you could drive it all the way to Anchorage, Alaska? You could sell it for $50, $100, even $250 per pill. Sounds crazy right? Ask any drug runner and they'll tell you the name of someone that tried it. Since most people don’t know any drug runners, you’ll just have to take my word for it... but don’t tell anyone you heard it from me.
Both Dakota Loesch and I have been personally affected by the opioid crisis. The same is true of so many of our family and friends, co-workers, and neighbors. Here lies the current problem: pharmaceutical companies are destroying America by preying on Americans. Opioids are tearing apart families, killing people of all ages, and the doctors are prescribing more and more and getting bonuses because of it.
Opioids are terrible. You can get hooked by swallowing a pill, but if you start snorting it or (even worse) smoking it, the addiction locks you in so fast that there isn’t a thing you can do about it. In 2010 alone, 85% of the nation's Oxycodone was prescribed in the state of Florida. 85%. I've heard stories of kids stealing them from their grandma who was ninety-two pounds soaking wet and prescribed one-hundred 120mg Oxys per month. That's enough to kill a mule.
The story of ANCHORAGE is a story about two brothers from Florida who were born into poverty, started their drug addiction young via prescribed medications, then graduated to opioids, and it all went downhill from there.
This is our story representing how this drug tears apart even the closest bonds of friendship and family. It's a film about how this nation of hustle and money and capitalistic greed leaves destruction in its wake. This is about toxic representations of masculinity within brotherhood and the violence within the world of men. And this story is just a teardrop in the ocean of stories of those affected by this drug. It’s a way for us to process what is happening to the people closest to us and to start a long-overdue conversation with the world.
We wrote this film because it's extremely personal to us, and a world that we both knew all too well. For many months we worked side by side getting this to a place where we could bring in the rest of the cast and crew. What surprises me to this day is how many people we shared it with had stories of their own, and were also affected by this crisis. We even ran into people while filming on location that would share their own experiences with this opioid epidemic and how it impacted their lives.
Thanks for taking the ride with us. Couldn't do it without you. We'll see you in Anchorage.
- Scott Monahan / Director / Jacob
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Music Composer
Costs $2,000
This will allow us to bring on a talented Composer to create an original score for the film.
Sound Mixer
Costs $4,500
This will allow us to bring on a Post-Production Sound Mixer to master the soundtrack of the fim.
Editor
Costs $4,500
This will allow us to bring on an Editor with the vision and experience to bring this film to life.
Color Correction
Costs $3,000
This ensures that the visuals of the film will be of the highest and most professional quality.
Music Rights & Licensing
Costs $2,500
This will allow us to include the songs that we have always dreamed of using in the film.
Festival Submission Fees
Costs $3,500
This will help cover submission costs for entering the film into international film festivals.
Share this update!
About This Team
Director: Scott Monahan
Scott Monahan started his career as a child actor in Tokyo. He studied theatre at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia, before relocating to Los Angeles in 2011. His first feature was the lead role in I Was A Teenage Wereskunk (Amazon Prime). Featured roles include Anger Management (FX), Bakers Dozen (Amazon Prime), Love Shot (Netflix, Gravitas Ventures), as well as a lead character on TURNT (Facebook Watch), and Eating Cars (Post-Production). He directed and starred in FILM:ONE, an award-nominated experimental short film. He was an Artistic Director of the international theatre company Play Collaborative Arts and is currently a company member with the immersive theatre company Ceaseless Fun.
Writer: Dakota Loesch
Dakota Loesch is a Chicago-born character actor, writer, and director living and working in Los Angeles. His recent credits include the leading role in Love Shot (Netflix, Gravitas Ventures), as well as a featured role in Make Out Party (Full Spectrum Features) which is currently racking up laurels in the international festival circuit. He wrote and directed the award-winning web series Kiss Like Big Dogs as well as the immersive theatre show The Why. He is an active company member with the immersive theatre collective Ceaseless Fun. Dakota has also been a touring musician with various punk rock collectives since he was fifteen-years-old.
Assistant Director: Meredith Treinen
Meredith is a creative producer and director working in multi-sensory, immersive, and movement-based work. Her company Ceaseless Fun has presented its site-specific work throughout Los Angeles. She has directed live-action content and unique large-scale events for Amazon Prime Video, Apple, Postmates, and Adidas both in the US and internationally. She also creates her own devised theatre work (Grief, Re-Lease) drawing from her personal experiences and staging them using movement, vocal work, and immersive techniques.
Director of Photography: Erin Naifeh
By the age of 20, I was accepted into IASTE 600. I’ve worked on a myriad of movies, commercials, television shows; while studying under award-winning cinematographers. In 2016, I began working as a cinematographer on small short films, indie features, and music videos. At age of 25, I shot my first feature film called Getaway Girls. Recently, I’ve started to Direct and DP my own projects. Being a cinematographer is not just about creating beautiful images. It is about diving deep into the stories of human beings, speculating how each of our lives are interdependent on each other or dissecting and exploring the complexities of life; then, visually communicating that in a holistic way. It’s about collaboration, creativity, camaraderie, and the process.
Producer: Gia Rigoli
Gia Rigoli is a filmmaker and producer with a primary focus on narrative features. At 22-years old, she produced her first feature film, Rock Steady Row, which world premiered at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival where it took home the Narrative Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for Best Narrative Film and was subsequently distributed by Gunpowder & Sky. Gia's other feature credits include Salton Sea and Birds Without Feathers which are distributed by Epoch Films and Synergetic Films, respectively. Her films have screened at over 50 festivals worldwide. Gia graduated with a BFA in Creative Producing from Chapman University where her senior thesis film, Pasajeros en Trance, was a Student Academy Award Finalist. She is currently developing a feature-length documentary (mentored by Michael Apted) focusing on the Arizona twin cities where she grew up on the US/Mexico border as well as numerous narrative feature films in various stages of development. Gia was selected as a 2019 Berlinale Talents participant and a 2019 Project Involve Producing fellow where she was awarded the Sony Pictures Entertainment Fellowship. She is currently co-producing her first Virtual Reality Interactive experience, Frontera, which was selected to participate in the 2019 Biennale College Cinema VR and Venice Production Bridge. Gia works as a freelance producer in Los Angeles and has produced dozens of short films, music videos, and commercials including branded content with Gucci, Garage Magazine, and VICE. Gia hopes to continue making films that focus on issues facing the Latino community internationally and domestically.
Producer: Ethan Seneker
Ethan Seneker is an American writer, director, and producer. He grew up in the Snoqualmie Valley of Washington State with his four brothers and two sisters before moving to Los Angeles when he was 17 years old. His films have received more than 60 awards around the world, premiering at festivals such as TIFF, SIFF, and Mill Valley. In the short time, he was in school, between working on several primetime TV shows and studio features, Ethan earned a spot on Variety's Students to Watch list. He is the Founder and Executive Producer of Spark Medium, an advertising agency that produces commercial work and music videos for clients such as Costco Wholesale, Proctor & Gamble, General Mills, Atlantic Records, and Sony Music among many others. Ethan focuses his time telling stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He is Native American, Grandson of Chief Phil Lane Jr. of the Chickasaw and Ihanktonwan Dakota First Nations.
Production Sound Mixer: Jed Shiheng Xu
Shiheng Xu is an award-winning Sound Designer, as well as a Location Sound Mixer who has designed and mixed for Wolf Entertainment, Endeavor Audio, Nike, FADER, Fortune, Oakley, FUSE, iHeartRadio, Eastbay, Lil Miquela, and Sam Dew.
Production Designer: Perry Powell
Production Designer and Art Director who has created designs for Netflix, NBC, HBO, Burning Man, Rupaul’s Drag Race Stars, Dread Pictures, and Lightning in a Bottle and Symbiosis Festivals.
Executive Producer / Production Company: Chad Shulz/The Malt Shop
Producer and entrepreneur Chad Schultz began his career like so many Wisconsin-raised producers: shoveling cow chips in summer, snowdrifts in winter. Despite an early affinity for film, it wasn't until backpacking halfway around the globe that he decided to propel himself through film school and move to Los Angeles. He produced web content with a couple of boutique production companies before co-founding a business model to foster and ease indie filmmaking in a rapidly changing production industry. Lo and behold, The Malt Shop.
Advertising: Nate Baird
Hi, I'm Nate. I'm the founder of Mongo Digital, a full-service digital advertising agency, loosely based in LA, and designed to serve the modern brand. I've had the opportunity to fill roles as a graphic design, front-end developer, and now, as a founder. I enjoy how technology enables us to connect and collaborate in ways we've never been able to before. My primary goal with Mongo is to enable brands to create sensible digital strategies and connect with their ideal audience online. I'd love to hear about what you're working on!