Sarie Cruz
Director + Producer, Advertising Video Professional
- Role
- Manager of Video Production at Hearst Newspapers
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sarie Cruz
Sarie Cruz is a motivated creative video production professional with over a decade of industry experience in advertising, digital and television projects. She is adept at working independently and collaboratively on projects, and committed to achieving great quality visuals with awesome storytelling. She brings a positive energy on set successfully and efficiently managing large scale production teams of 100-150 crew. She has a stellar track record of professionalism with agencies and clients and has directed multiple videos online that have amassed over millions of views, her successful national and global scale advertisements have always pushed metrics and sales to greater heights. Sarie works very closely with artists, brands, clients and agencies toward achieving their creative goals and sales metrics through fulfilled video based in Houston, TX - I have more flexibility to travel anywhere in the US, Europe, Asia and the rest of the world. I\'m always jet-setting to wherever the projects take me.As a full-time Advertising Professional, I have a strong background in Video Production - as a Director & Executive Producer for commercials, music videos and documentary shows with many direct clients, international & local award-winning ad agencies and creative artists.I\'m the CEO, Co-Founder and Creative Director at my production company - Seabiscuit Films Inc. established in 2012. As both Director and Show-runner, I have worked big television networks like CNN for Hungry with Chef JP, TV interstitials with Fox International Channels (Discovery Channel, FOX, National Geographic) and At the Table with Metro Channel by ABS CBN. I have also built awesome relationships and created Youtube content with the Philippines\' top grossing celebrities - Anne Curtis (BLK Cosmetics), Erwan Heussaff (FEATR) and Judy Ann Santos (Judy Ann\'s Kitchen). I worked on the award-winning Overnight documentary series with Erwan Heussaff, the Tokyo Travel Guide and Origins Philippines in collaboration with Tastemade that is now available for streaming on Youtube, Peacock and Apple TV.I am also a Creative Director Consultant for a fintech based in San Francisco, CA called Pomelo Inc.
Experience
Manager of Video Production
May 2025 — Present · US
I handle full scale advertising video production creative, marketing and strategy from coast to coast in the United States for all Hearst Newspapers and LocalEdge markets. Concept to delivery.
Education
Assumption College, San Lorenzo
High School Diploma
De La Salle University
AB Communication Arts, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia
2007 — 2010
Skills
- Commercials
- Final Cut Pro
- Film
- Video Production
- Video
- Post Production
- Film Production
- Creative Direction
- Television
- Producing
- Documentaries
- Video Editing
- Videography
- Copywriting
- Music Videos
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