2014
Est. September 1, 2014 · The timeline cut

Celebrating twelve years
of Chronicle Cinema.

Twelve years on one timeline. Scroll and the playhead does the rest: every year is a clip, and you’re in the edit bay.

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2015
Chronicle Cinema's early office on East Broadway in Louisville: a patio table, a folding chair, and a printer
The first office
Where it all started
2014Year 0 · Founded
A U-Haul, a RED camera, and a name.

A U-Haul running on fumes, a RED camera, an LLC, and an office that was also an apartment. The crew filmed Save the Mess in a kitchen full of burnt bacon, and The Hero showed what the new company could do.

The HeroSave The MessDedication
2016
I Am Potential
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2015Year 1
A ninja star and a world premiere.

Black Diamond’s ninja star pinned a cockroach to the wall, and I Am Potential, with Judge Reinhold, premiered at the Louisville Palace.

I Am PotentialBlack DiamondLoctite
Marker · 2015: across the river, a company called Vidionix is founded. Remember that name.
2017
2016Year 2
Stories about people.

The Journey for Hosparus, Memory Bank on the cliffs of Montara, California. In November, construction began on a downtown Louisville studio.

Hosparus · The JourneyMemory BankBreak the Rules
2018
Chronicle Cinema's downtown Louisville studio
The downtown studio
Opened February 2017
2017Year 3
A studio of our own.

5,000 square feet downtown: collaborative space, production space, and a movie theater for screening our clients’ work.

Studio grand openingValvolineGold Star ChiliBlofish
2019
GE Appliances
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2018Year 4
Eight days’ notice.

GE and FCB Chicago called with the set built and eight days to camera. Open Doors put Chronicle on every screen in the region, and we crewed the feature Benched.

2020
A Chronicle camera operator films two performers leaning from a pickup truck with a neon No Country For Only Men LED sign, on Broadway in Nashville
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
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2019Year 5
Late night comes to Louisville.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee hired Chronicle for one field piece, then came back for five more, from Nashville to Red River Gorge.

Full FrontalTackleHack
2021
My Old Kentucky Home
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2020Year 6
An empty Churchill Downs.

Woodford’s My Old Kentucky Home: 1.3 million views in 24 hours, filmed in an empty 150,000-seat stadium. And Chronicle Connects was founded: an HP interview kit in a box that became a whole vertical.

2022
Bulleit
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2021Year 7
Coast to coast.

Three crews swept San Francisco for a leading VC firm’s office video wall, and Chronicle became the production partner for its annual global summit, a role we’ve held every year since. Bulleit got a year of content in three days.

2023
GymClass VR
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2022Year 8
Four cities, one Louisville.

GymClass VR turned Louisville into London, Chicago, Tokyo, and Rio. Conversion premiered and went on to stream on Apple TV and Prime.

2024
BigHat Biosciences
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2023Year 9
The film finds its audience.

Conversion went on the road, screening for audiences through the year. BigHat Biosciences joined a growing roster of biotech clients on the coasts: quieter on paper, and it set up everything that came next.

Conversion screeningsBigHat Bio
2025
Winter Walk
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2024Year 10
Christmas in August.

Hallmark asked for a snowy Christmas wonderland in a Louisville summer. Fake snow blew through Norton Commons, and Winter Walk aired nationally that December.

2026
Free Bird
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2025Year 11
Free Bird.

The official Free Bird video for Lynyrd Skynyrd: tens of millions of views. Second Nature hit screens, the LP Summit went to Vegas, and Chronicle became Equip Expo’s production partner.

2027
Studio C, Chronicle Cinema's LED-wall virtual production stage in Jeffersonville
Studio C
Jeffersonville, IN
2026Year 12 · Today
Studio C: a stage of our own.

On January 1st, 2026, Vidionix was acquired by Chronicle Cinema. Then the biggest swing yet: Studio C, the region’s only LED-wall virtual production stage. Twelve years in, and just getting started.

Year 12… and beyond.
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