Yoni has been working professionally as a director, editor, cinematographer, and video installation artist since 2004. His cinematography works have been selected for The Cannes Film Festival, South by Southwest, The Whitney Biennial, Oslo Architecture Triennale, and the Criterion online collection. He is a 2018 Independent Film Projects documentary fellow and has resided at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University, Dok.Incubator, The Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 2018, he was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces” of independent cinema.

Hadley is a director, writer, and professionally trained trapeze artist. Her directorial debut, Demon Mineral, premiered at DOKfest München in 2023 and in 2024 won the Slamdance Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature at Buffalo International Film Festival, and Best First Feature at The International Uranium Film Festival. She was a 2021 Redford Center Fellow and a 2021 Bay Area Video Coalition Fellow. Her work has been published, amongst other places, in Twykam Notes, Stirring, and Tipton Review. In 202o she was a Pushcart Nominee. Hadley is an experienced outdoors-woman whose interdisciplinary work is rooted in where the natural world, historical research, and social justice intersect.

FILM & VIDEO PRODUCTION

FORMIDABLE ENTITIES believes that time, like a good ritual sacrifice, is the production of sacred things.

FORMIDABLE ENTITIES offers over 14 years of experience in moving image making, video installation, visual art, sound, instruction, and performance. We work with filmmakers, cultural workers, activists, professional commissioners, musicians, stage performers, book smugglers, radicals, and roustabouts.

We have extensive experience with all variety of digital cinema cameras and production-related software, which are the preferred tools of our collaborators' revolutions and reveries, as well as our own.

We handle 4K+ acquisition and production, data management, post production, grading, sound design and mixing, and multi-platform delivery - from theatrical to VOD.

RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTARY WRITING

FORMIDABLE ENTITIES offers idea development, narrative-building services, and experienced researchers and interviewers. With backgrounds in library science and field research, we can unearth the perfect archival footage or find the longed-for last witness.

We can, if you wish, work with you from an idea’s conception to its unveiling.

We also offer online content management and have operational knowledge of file-based workflows used in video production, post-production, and distribution.

CREATIVE AND LINE PRODUCING

FORMIDABLE ENTITIES has many years' experience corralling photographers, videographers, production assistants, musicians, animators, and visionaries.       

We specialize in researching, evaluating, reporting, and recommending plans of use for photo, audio, and video systems, as well as emerging technologies.