TELOS puts ideas
on film.
on screen.
on tv.
on video.
on the web.
Tom Ball, Founder & President
the TELOS vision
TELOS Productions was founded by Emmy Award-winning producer and director Tom Ball and is widely recognized for its artistically driven, expert storytelling in documentary and commercial film projects.
We understand the determination of the creative mind because we’ve grown as we’ve had the privilege to work with highly sophisticated clients. Putting ideas on the screen is never simple. It requires brainstorming sessions, script-writing and rewriting, hours of interviews, careful cinematography, rigorous editing, music selection and craftsmanship but, it isn’t just that we do this and do it well; it’s who we are.
“The best part about my job is interviewing fascinating world-class achievers at the height of their powers and trying to capture—in their own words—what makes them tick.” — TOM BALL
The joy of the creative process is where production stops being a commodity and strives to become art.
Programming that engages the viewer, both emotionally and intellectually, through expertly shot and edited productions which tell a story and are filled with ideas. That’s the TELOS vision.
Filled with story-telling intelligence, sensitive handling of visual images, lyric music, dramatic pace, the interplay of light and dark, and curious suspense. We’re amazed and enthralled by what you’ve created.”
Architect, Frank Gehry (right) discusses the Lewis Science Library at Princeton, from the TELOS documentary Extreme Visions.
“You have done it again! How can you so consistently pull the rabbit out of the hat? The production was artistic, sensitive and understatedly grand. I am…grateful to you for chronicling the thought process that has gone into a large and significant project for the Cleveland Clinic. You continually raise our expectations for ourselves.”
Landscape Architect Peter Walker’s circular fountain from the TELOS documentary, Focused Calm: The Architecture of Healing at Cleveland Clinic.