Stan Nalewski

**Editor. Filmmaker. Photographer. Storyteller.**
Whatever the label, my work is rooted with the same intention: to shape real moments into meaningful stories.
I’ve spent my career blending nostalgia, emotion, and modern craft across documentaries, commercials, and brand films — always chasing honesty over perfection. I’ve led projects for major clients from Kellogg’s to the Chicago Cubs and earned recognition along the way. Including an Emmy for my editing and cinematography on the *Humanly* campaign and Travel + Leisure Magazine’s Photographer of the Year. So no matter the medium, I create to preserve moments and memories that were meant to last.

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou

I’m drawn to the small moments — the glances, the sounds, the textures that many overlook.
My work lives in that space where memory meets reality, blending old footage, new stories,
and honest emotion into something moving or still, but always human.

I’ve spent over a decade in the advertising world,
but everything started with a skateboard and a camera,
recording the people I loved and shaping those memories
into the first stories I ever told.

And when I’m not working, I’m probably reorganizing my ever expanding shoe collection, booking my next trip, or listening to Kendrick Lamar with my wife, Jen.

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