Swandive.media

07/26/2023

With Gratitude we invite you to celebrate our 40th Annie-versary of Annieglass 🥳🥳 Come celebrate with us this Saturday, July 29th from 1:00-4:00pm at our Watsonville studio. We will have live music, demonstrations, raffles, drinks, food truck, viewing of the documentary Resilience from .media and more!

06/22/2022

Check our 2021 reel, featuring a few of our favorite shots from productions over the last couple of years. New projects are in the works - can’t wait to share what we’ve been up to lately! 🎥 🎞

01/31/2022

Do you enjoy exotic fungi as much as we do? We’re big fans of the incredibly delicious mushroom varieties that are friends at produce. Types include yellow oyster, lion’s mane, shiitake, reishi, and many others! If you haven’t checked out their retail shop in Santa Cruz yet, go check them out at 224 Laurel Street. It’s an exotic mushroom gold mine.

01/10/2022

Check out off-grid solar lights, photographed aboard at Cowell’s Cove in Santa Cruz. This photo series originally appeared in

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07/21/2021

What do you do when a Malawian prison’s superintendent tells you, “I make the films now.” This official for the Nkhotaota prison-located near the rural banks of Lake Malawi, Africa-got a kick out of the DJI Ronin stabilizing system, enough to second guess his career choice... at least for a couple minutes. Photographed during a documentary film project in 2017, these are the moments we live for.

10/29/2020

2020 has served up a whole lot of curve balls, but despite the difficult times, Swan Dive Media has had some amazing opportunities to work on awesome film projects around the country. Check out a few of our favorite selects in the video - enjoy!

11/13/2019

08/21/2019

If you haven’t already picked up a copy, check out the current issue of Santa Cruz Waves magazine—it’s our Five Year Anniversary issue and features highlights of some great work we’ve put into this publication over the past half decade.

Part of my inspiration to co-create Swandive.media - along with cinematographer Michael Daniel- was to help tell informative stories through creative film, many of which have a lot of cross over with the subjects I’ve written about for SCW magazine. What a trip to look back on five years of local journalism and see how far we’ve all come. Can’t wait to see what the future holds for all of us as writers, filmmakers and newsmakers!

08/14/2019

We're excited to be partnering with the City of Santa Cruz and several other organizations to help develop story content for Virtual Reality applications. The premise is to develop informative stories that people will experience through VR at public libraries in Santa Cruz County.