a creative studio for startups

San Francisco, CA
We’re honored to be recognized by the @tellyawards for our work with @hark_labs and @bySyncere. Hark: Gold — Commercial / Tech Syncere: Silver — Documentary / Short Syncere: Bronze — Commercial / Tech
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the people have spoken The BEST startup launch video of 2025, people’s choice, goes to… 🥁🥁 SOCRATICA with the 2x win 🏆 @socraticainfo #playback2025
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congratulations to our Playback winners!
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AND THE WINNER FOR THE OVERALL BEST STARTUP LAUNCH VIDEO IN 2025 IS… WAVES!! @waveglasses 👏🏆 #playback2025
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🏆 WINNER of the Bootstrapped category… Socratica 👏👏👏 @socraticainfo #playback2025
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🏆 WINNER of the Viral category… Cluely!! @cluely #playback2025
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what if we kissed at the launch video film festival
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Announcing our nominees for the Generated Award, presented by @fal.
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Details from Playback.
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Waves has been nominated for the Best Overall Award. @donaldjewkes @crsamra
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behind the scenes on our recent work with @mercury
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Simcluster has been nominated for the Generated Award. @simcluster @npceo_
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PLAYBACK JUDGE DROP. We are incredibly grateful for our panelists who will be reviewing the 75+ submissions to our upcoming film festival.
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Figma has been nominated for the Best Overall Award. @figma @iverson
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WINNER of the Generated category… Simcluster 👏👏 @simcluster #playback2025
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Announcing our nominees for the Best Overall Award. 🧵
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Recent work with the incredible team @mercury – thank you for going offscript!
We’ve been building IO* to grow with every founder, from your first expense to your next big milestone. Now — more than ever — it’s with you from day one.
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Again, Tomorrow has been nominated for the Best Overall Award. @nikhilganesh001
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Cluely has been nominated for the Best Overall Award. @richardzphotoz @cluely
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Browserbase has been nominated for the Viral Award. @browserbase
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HF0 has been nominated for the Generated Award. @hf0 @austinpeirson
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Minimum Viable Demos has been nominated for the Bootstrapped Award. @mvdemos_ @donaldjewkes
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Introducing Robbie Janney, the Head of Content & Community at Eddie AI, with over ten years of commercial video storytelling experience.
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Socratica has been nominated for the Bootstrapped Award. @socraticainfo @donaldjewkes
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Introducing Pojo Riegert, the Creative Director for Mark Rober and previously Zach King.
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Introducing Luke Anthony, the Head of Short Form Content at Mr Beast, previously working with Zach King.
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Announcing our nominees for the Viral Award. 🧵
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Introducing Vikram Gandhi (@vikramkgandhi), an award-winning and director and executive producer behind Barry, 69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez, Trigger Warning with Killer Mike, and more.
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Adam has been nominated for the Bootstrapped Award. @adamdotnew @zachdive @aaronli
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Introducing Patrick McGuire (@patrickmcguire), former VICE and Red Bull media exec, currently building Cool Tech News.
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Introducing Ashley Dasom, a media producer with a billion view digital footprint, currently the Artist Project Manager at TheBlackLabel.
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Luma AI has been nominated for the Generated Award. @LumaLabsAI
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Waves has been nominated for the Viral Award. @donaldjewkes @crsamra
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We're hosting a film festival. Submit your launch video at offscript.cc/playback
Your launch videos were meant to be seen on the big screen. Introducing PLAYBACK, a film festival for tech. In SF. 9/9. Who will you nominate?
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Announcing our nominees for the Bootstrapped Award.
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Figma has been nominated for the Viral Award. @figma
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With Love has been nominated for the Bootstrapped Award. @withlove_labs
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Overheard at #playback: “Every story in the valley deserves to be told.” 👏📣 #sfsupremacy
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Cluely has been nominated for the Viral Award. @richardzphotoz @cluely
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We are super excited to partner with @heyeddie_ai as our official event sponsor for Playback!
.@heyeddie_ai is partnering with Playback, a film festival for ...launch videos. Yah it’s novel and quirky. And I love it. It represents the wider awakening of the importance of great video storytelling. And aligned with our mission to uplift this incredible craft. Join us in San Francisco on Sept 9 and to watch the shortlist of films and celebrate the storytellers behind them. Register here: luma.com/uarv3r0e?tk=UrRpHj
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Replying to @CompositeAI
this is fire!! you should submit it to the @wentoffscript film festival
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Verci has been nominated for the Bootstrapped Award. @joelyoon_ @vercinyc
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Ditto AI has been nominated for the Viral Award. @ditto__ai
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Anything has been nominated for the Best Overall Award. @EveSymington
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Playback is the place to be tomorrow night.
Replying to @michelleefang
Tuesday 9/9 ‣ Datadog Summit San Francisco events.datadoghq.com/summits… @datadoghq ‣ From Garage to Autobahn: Mobility Innovation eventbrite.com/e/from-garage… ‣ Building Agentic Interfaces luma.com/jwxx5p59 @floguo @annarmonaco @mathurahravi ‣ KCD SF Bay Area community.cncf.io/events/det… ‣ Beta Pre-Acceleration Program|Cohort 10 Kickoff lu.ma/7kfrxv3q @UofBeta ‣ Daytona AI Builders - SF, September '25 luma.com/osqspvsm ‣ MCP After Hours: AI Dev Tools and Talks luma.com/okggck57 @speakeasydev ‣ Deploying agents and MCPs in production with TypeScript luma.com/k19zrg9p @14__ai ‣ FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! luma.com/2opylbqn @founderscommon ‣ Playback: The Launch Video Film Festival luma.com/uarv3r0e @wentoffscript
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Replying to @bephrem
Great analysis — we appreciate the kind words!
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