Company
Cinematiks LLC creates and produces new media work for the Internet and independent films with a special interest in true stories and documentaries. The company always looks to the future for cutting edge concepts in popular culture and conceptual thinking – new and interesting ways to present work across a variety of platforms including mobile delivery. It is an artist driven company that seeks stories of real people whose lives broaden the viewer’s experience across boundaries of genre, special interest, historic and cultural differences.
We also offer a wide variety of services including performance, audition and recital videos, professional website design, tape and DVD duplication and transfer.
Please contact us at 415-468-0772 to discuss how we can assist you with your needs.
Who We Are
Leslie Streit is a writer, director, producer. Her 2005 film, God Wears My Underwear, a documentary-narrative hybrid, ties the 1940s Jewish Holocaust to the 1950s genocide in Tibet. The film was screened at several international festivals, including XXVII Festival Internazionale Cinema e Donne, DNA Film Festival (Best Film), WCFF, M-SPIFF, NYIIFVF and IFFS. It is currently being distributed through iTunes.
Streit’s other short films have been broadcast on Bay Area PBS, OffLine, iFilm, FilmFilm.com and have appeared at the Tokyo Video Festival, Il Coreografo Elettronico, the San Antonio Underground Film Festival, the 21e Festival International du Film Independent, Women Make Waves and the Video Screening Project 2001. In addition, Streit was among ten international artists selected for the “Memory S-[X]-ick” exhibition, as part of the Hong Kong Arts Biennial 2002 for her short Eyewitness. Her screenplays have been optioned many times. Awards include Screenplay Winner – Telluride IndieFest, Honorable Mention – Cinequest, Best Film – DNA Film Festival.
In 1994, Streit and Robin McCain created and performed in Vlad Draculea in The Year 2000, a scripted film/multimedia/live performance which toured to Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1996, Streit co-produced VD2001, an award-winning Internet site based on their Vlad Draculea stage production and one of the first serials to appear on the web.
Streit and McCain produced Anarchist, a graphic novel for the Internet based on an award winning screenplay by Streit. Previously, Streit and McCain formed New Name Performance, an experimental theater company. They now produce film and new media under the name Cinematiks, LLC.
She is currently working on The Elly Glass Project – a sponsored project of the San Francisco Film Society and the online comedy cooking series Evil Auntie’s Quick & Sexy Family Cooking, an Official Honoree of the 2009 Webby Awards and a Silver W3 Award winner. A new project Maria Vegh – An American Ballet Story is in the early stages of production and is a sponsored project of ODC Theater San Francisco.
Robin Elaine McCain is a pioneer in applied multimedia, computer graphics and theatrical productions. She holds a B.A. degree in radio/tv/film & technical theater from Rhodes College. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) where she serves as a board member of PGA NorthWest, PGA Green Committee and on the PGA Documentary and Nonfiction Committee.
McCain has been a member of USITT, Bay Area Video Coalition, Film Arts Foundation/San Francisco Film Society and appears in Who’s Who.
Currently she is filling several production roles on The Elly Glass Project, a feature documentary about the architect of the first solar house in America, as co-producer, sound, grip and webmaster.
McCain also stars in the online comedy cooking series, Evil Auntie’s Quick & Sexy Family Cooking, for which she is co-producer, editor and vfx artist.
Earlier she was co-producer and responsible for digital visual effects on God Wears My Underwear, an award winning experimental film about the Holocaust and reincarnation which toured to several international festivals and is currently in distribution via Gigaplex on iTunes.
McCain has co-produced over two dozen projects with Leslie Streit. Most notably, Vlad Draculea in the Year 2000 (1994), a multimedia stage production which toured to the Edinburgh Festival and provided the inspiration for VD2001 (1996) the first serial on the World Wide Web (winner of several awards), Eyewitness (1999) an internationally acclaimed short film and Anarchist, a graphic novel for the Internet.
McCain’s work in multimedia, computer technology and graphics has led her to a number of well known clients including Intel Corporation, LucasFilm and NASA.
