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Cal Lewin began his career as an award winning creator of fictional short films shown on public television. He has written and directed over 300 TV commercials. For Lockheed-Martin, Mr. Lewin provided marketing videos, national magazine ads, brochures, logos, and new product names for the introduction of a $450 million commercial satellite company Space Imaging. Cal wrote a marketing analysis for a new product for Unisys Computers including recommendations for product positioning, marketing strategy and support materials; and designed, produced and directed a video for a $200 million new product launch (including 5 foreign language versions). His print ads have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Stereo Review, at the Consumer Electronics Show and the Geospatial Information Technology Association national conventions. Cal's abstract computer animation set to classical music has won numerous awards and regularly appears on the ARTS Channel. He was invited to Denmark to address Danish advertising professionals, he addressed the University Film Association annual meeting in Denver, his articles have been published in the American Society of Cinematographers Magazine and Alaska Magazine. Cal taught courses in film making at the University of California as well as guest lecturing at the UCLA film department.

Victoria Eubank Lewin began her career in New York City at CBS publishing, later she became a producer for Skyline Films including marketing films for clients like the NYC Ballet and Celotex. As producer/writer/interviewer of the Opticus Films public TV program The World in a Box, Victoria traveled all over the world filming the operations of the UN World Food Programme, FEMA, the World Wildlife Fund, the Library of Congress, Oracle, and a dozen other major organizations. A member of SAG/AFTRA, Victoria appeared in national commercials for Fab, Wheaties, Wonder Bread, Gallo Wine, McDonalds, Nationwide Insurance, Comet Cleanser, Tropicana Orange Juice and Ortho Pharmaceuticals. She produced a half-hour documentary on race relations in high schools for HUD. Her skills as an interviewer have earned her many awards. In Alaska she wrote, directed and hosted a series of over 1,000 public radio interview programs celebrating the cultural diversity of Alaskans including Inupiat, Yup'ik, Athabascan, Tlingit, Haida, Aleut and non-native Alaskans.

Public Television Our science documentary
"The World in a Box" recently aired nationally on public television.

Selected Clients & Underwriters

A C Nielsen Research
Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute
Alpine Car Stereo
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Baskin Robbins Ice Cream
British Petroleum
CBS
Chuck Jones Animation
Environmental Systems Research Institute
Hewlett-Packard
IndyMac Bank
Infinity Speakers
Intergraph
Japanese American National Museum
Johnson-O'Malley Indian Education Program
Kodak
Lockheed-Martin
Maui Arts and Cultural Center
Oracle
Oregon Bach Festival
Penn General Insurance
Port of Dutch Harbor
Potter, Katz, Postal & Ferguson
Swedish National TV Network
Unisys
Universal Pictures
University of Oregon Art Museum
US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
Vivitar
Wells Fargo Bank

Selected Awards

Advertising Club of New York
International Bank Marketing Association
New York International Film & TV Festival
Milan International Film Festival
Houston International Film Festival
Telly Awards
Aurora Awards
CINE Awards
Eastman Kodak Awards
Public Relations Society of America

Opticus Films Corporation was formed in 1986 by Victoria and Cal Lewin to provide creative media production and marketing consulting. Our national award winning work has included a wide variety of traditional and internet advertising and marketing materials, hundreds of TV commercials, public TV documentaries and classical music videos. Based in Seattle, we have served clients in the US, Europe and Canada.

Abstract Classical Music Videos
Opticus is one of the foremost producers of experimental abstract video art set to classical music, taking many international awards including a 2002 Platinum Best of Show from the Aurora Awards. Since 1997 we have created all video materials and TV-PSAs for the Grammy Award winning Oregon Bach Festival. Our "Bach St. John Passion" is currently airing nationally on the ARTS Channel.