WE LOVE WHAT WE DO.
HADJI Studios is an award-winning Tampa-based boutique video production company and collective. We produce beautiful, exciting, share-worthy content for forward-thinking brands and companies with purpose. We are a talented team of filmmakers, storytellers, marketers, thinkers, explorers, risk-takers, and rebels. We approach work and play with curiosity and experimentation using what we learn to produce meaningful visuals that move people. We’ve never won an award in California, but that’s ok - we have in FL, NY, and Colorado.
We work with amazing talent in video, photography, branding, graphic design, animation, and digital strategy to offer custom and productized solutions to meet our client’s business and creative goals. As a Filipino-American owned company, we stand for equality and human rights and are committed to working with the underrepresented communities to produce the best possible work for our clients while doing our part to advance society and leave the world better than we found it.
WHAT WE DO
✔️ Stay Curious
✔️ Travel for both creative work and play
✔️ Obsess over the details
✔️ Have Plans A, B, and C
✔️ Take risks and own the consequences
✔️ Deliver on time
✔️ Encourage education + good hip-hop
✔️ Make things + break things
✔️ Value relationships
✔️ Hustle. Party. In no particular order
✔️ Support our minority communities
✔️ Support the fight vs human trafficking
WHAT WE DON’T DO
❌ Overpromise
❌ Take everything seriously
❌ Resist creative feedback
❌ Sacrifice quality for profit
❌ Work we cannot stand by even if it pays well
❌ Unreasonable requests
❌ Waste your time
❌ Work for free or discount
❌ Guerilla filmmaking
❌ Use corporate buzzwords
❌ Ride slower than 15mph on the bike trails
❌ Resist cheesecake
DJ BONOAN
Owner & Number One Chief Rocka
An expert in bulletproof coffee, DJ Bonoan is an engineer-turned-filmmaker passionate about all things video marketing, innovation, technology, road-cycling, chihuahua, Jeep, hip-hop, and Jedi. He launched HADJI Studios in 2017 as a means to fulfill a greater purpose: helping those in need and supporting the underrepresented. With over 15 years solving complex problems for Fortune 100 finance and tech companies, DJ combines high stakes analytical thinking with creative virtuosity to come up with some really cool videos that do some really cool things for really cool brands and businesses. When he’s not strategizing creative concepts or on set directing where the Lamborghini needs to be in frame, you can find him on the trails recording his next bike route on Strava.