Tytan Creates
As they strive to be the largest producer of independent films in the South, Tytan Creates' new venture is putting the little town of Eatonton, Georgia on the radar of every film maker in the country.
For years Savannah has been the ideal backdrop for films. From the Southern gothic moss dripping from centuries old oak trees, to the dusty cafe au lait colored sand dunes of Tybee with their cattails swaying in the breeze, film companies flock to this lush and unique landscape, finding inspiration in every patinaed statue, every turned up cobble stone. But as with anything truly sustainable in this world, aesthetics cannot be our bread and butter forever. The world’s attraction to this city is of course its beauty, but dig a little deeper and you will find layers upon layers of inspiring and interesting happenings all converging to create an endlessly unique town. It was only a matter of time before film companies stopped traveling here and started setting up shop.
Set back at the ending of Highway 80, right as you enter the sleepy, sunburnt town of Tybee Island, Tytan Creates stands blithely situated in what one could harken back to 1970s Venice Beach– creative types and locals co-mingling in a uniquely special ecosystem. Scott Jacobs and Jim Stone opened Tytan Creates over 10 years ago and established themselves as the premier commercial consulting agency in Savannah, specializing in creating content in the realm of film and cinematography. Almost two years ago, when they expanded their crew to include a Head of Film and a Senior Producer, Julio Saldarriga and Jim Wacker respectively, they started taking on more and more film projects and eventually decided to create a wholly separate entity devoted entirely to long form films. Thus, Tytan Pictures was formed and with it, the Tytan crew’s journey was catapulted into something entirely new and thrilling.
“I like to think we are storytellers,” says Wacker in the conference room of Tytan Creates, a sun-filled office overlooking picturesque marshes and palm trees. The whole crew is there, Stone, Jacobs, Wacker, Saldarriga, and Jessica Thomas, their 26-year-old associate creative director, who seems to bring an air of youthful confidence to the group. The camaraderie in the place is high, you can tell by the slight jabs and jokes they interject at one another throughout the interview. When it’s time to talk Tytan Pictures however, they each seem to bring a different, yet, passionate view of the project.
“About a year and a half ago is when we started looking at Tytan Pictures as a way to focus more on feature films,” says Wacker, “to create a separate and more permanent entity from Tytan Creates which does more short-form creative advertising.”
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