Founder | Director | DP | Editor

Shawn Vela

Cinematographer | Photographer

Jeff Ottum

Cinematographer | VFX Specialist

Kai Honeck

Field Audio | Sound Mixer | Editor

Carlos Medina

From Concept to Completion and Beyond!

Vela Visuals is a full service video production agency that helps businesses clarify and share their message through video storytelling. With an emphasis on creating lifestyle, commercial, and documentary films.

Founded by Shawn Vela, a 15-Time Emmy® Award-Winner. Shawn is a Film Producer, Director, Documentarian, and Video Development Specialist. Shawn has produced, filmed, or edited video materials for brands such as Legoland California Resorts, Kayak, New Balance, Draft Kings, Invisalign, SAP, Hillsong, University of Central Florida, and many more. 

Shawn has worked with broadcasters such as BT Sport, FOX, as well as countless independent production companies. He has directed, filmed, and edited more than 50 documentaries for web and traditional broadcast.

So whatever your goals are – to inform or inspire on the web, on television, or internally – our ability is to make the world’s most relevant form of communication work hard for you. If you have a story to tell we can help you bring it to life.

Emmy® Acceptance Speech - Flying Fortress: The Mel Jenner Story
Alive: Taking A Stand For Christ
2016 Sunoast Emmy® Award Winning Film
Remembering The Fallen
2017 Sunoast Emmy® Award Winning Film
Restoration
2017 Sunoast Emmy® Award Winning Commercial
Pulse: Beauty From Ashes
2017 Sunoast Emmy® Award Winning Film