Puritano Media Group
About Puritano Media Group
A founder-led production company in Occoquan, Virginia, making video and interactive eLearning for organizations with something real to say.
The company
Puritano Media Group was founded in 1996 in Occoquan, Virginia, and has produced video and interactive eLearning in the Washington, DC area ever since. Our clients are associations, nonprofits, government agencies, and companies. The work ranges from a single interview day to a multi-month accredited course, and it is all planned the same way: on paper first, with the audience and the job of the piece settled before production starts.
Our philosophy is plain. Integrity in how we quote and how we shoot. A fair price, published rather than negotiated in the dark: $2,800 per shoot day, $150 per hour for post-production, two revision rounds included. And delivery on time, scheduled backward from the date the piece has to play. From the first conversation to the final file, one standard applies: the work has to hold up in the room where decisions get made.
The founder
Charlie Puritano is the founder and director of Puritano Media Group and of 309 Films, its independent film division. He is an Emmy Award-winning producer-director with more than three decades producing and directing, working across documentary, association and nonprofit film, and interactive learning.
As a producer, his documentary Smile for the Dead, produced through 309 Films, aired on PBS and won 42 festival awards. As a director for hire, he brings the same discipline to brand and organizational work: the interview method, the archive instinct, and an editor's sense of where a story actually turns.
PMG is deliberately founder-led. Every project is directed or overseen by Charlie personally, produced with a trusted bench of specialist crew drawn from the Washington area production community.
In his own words
Charlie, in his own words
Draft for Charlie to personalize.
Favorite job
The documentary work. Smile for the Dead took years and traveled further than any of us expected, all the way to PBS. The anniversary films run close, though. You get one day with people who built something together across fifty years, and the room trusts you with the story.
Best thing about the job
The interview. Sit someone down, ask the right question, and wait. People will tell you the true thing if you give them room to say it. Everything else in production is logistics arranged around that moment.
Other facts
Luna is a favorite band, and I still think in songs when I am cutting a film: where the verse ends, where the chorus has to land. I work out of Occoquan, Virginia, a river town small enough that the whole office can walk to lunch.
Work with a founder-led company.
Every project starts with a conversation about what the finished piece has to do and who has to see it. Call us, or send the details and we will reply within one business day.