St. Augustine Video Production Company

The featured four are the depth; the breadth is wider. Recent St. Augustine and Northeast Florida projects also include a brand video for the Ice Plant, the St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce's 120th-anniversary celebration, the Aviles Street Festival with the St. Johns Cultural Council, conservation storytelling with Live Wildly and the Florida State Park Foundation, and three years of graduation photography at Flagler College. Different clients, different formats — the same crew and the same standard on every one.

1. Discovery call — we start with a focused call to map your goals, audience, and timeline, so the shoot day runs efficiently and revisions stay minimal.
2. Pre-production — we handle creative direction and a shoot plan, including locations, talent, and a shot list, before anyone picks up a camera.
3. Production — a full crew films on the day, not just a camera operator, capturing the main moments and the details in between.
4. Post-production — editing, color grading, music licensing, and revisions, all handled in-house by the same team.
5. Delivery — you get a final master plus social cutdowns, delivered ready to publish, built to perform from social feeds to broadcast.

First Sight Films is Diego Cerquera and Dr. Trista Brophy Cerquera — a husband-and-wife team based in St. Augustine. Diego has lived here since 2003. In 2023 he left a nursing career to tell stories with a camera full-time, and the company has run on the same structure ever since: the people who plan your production are the people who film it, edit it, color grade it, and license its music. The core work never leaves the team.

That structure is why the details hold up. When a camera-shy interview subject froze during a nonprofit shoot in Maine, Diego moved the interview into her car and filmed while she drove — she relaxed, and the film got its story. When a corporate client's two-day agenda threatened to produce a room of tired faces, we mapped the most interactive sessions in advance and shot the energetic footage on day one. Those aren't production tricks; they're what it looks like when the person directing your shoot is also the person who has to make the edit work afterward.

Trista, our Managing Director, runs scheduling, logistics, and client communication — which is why booking us tends to be the easiest part of the project.

There's a philosophy under the process. Diego's shorthand for it: most production companies deliver a video — we deliver an experience and a result. In practice that means the project's goal sits at the center of every decision. We keep asking why until we understand what the finished piece is supposed to change for you, and we stay on it until it does.

It also means the work ethic is not negotiable. For the Rocky Mountain Conservancy, reaching the locations their team loved most meant hiking camera gear into Rocky Mountain National Park across two shoot days, so the film could show the park the way the people who protect it actually see it.

The same team handles color, sound, and music licensing on every project, which is the quiet advantage of in-house post: a film delivered this year still looks and sounds like one piece of work when you screen it years later, because nobody had to match a stranger's choices.

And St. Augustine is home, not a market. The venues and festivals on this page are places we work year after year — a four-year run with SJC Cultural Events, three graduation seasons at Flagler College, two years at Fort Mose. When a project needs a second visit to get right, being local means it gets one.

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