Portrait No. 002Reserved for the next story.
Independent Documentary
Studio Portrait
Documentary-first production company
Let’s Make You Timeless.
Films shaped around real people and real moments — with emotional weight and cinematic intention.
Jacksonville, Florida · Northeast Florida
Documentary should carry weight beyond its release.
Studio Portrait is a documentary-first production company centered on branded and original documentaries, with select post-production and a growing practice in wedding and narrative filmmaking.
Featured WorkStudio Portrait Film Collection
Portrait No. 001 · Branded Documentary · 2026
A Violent Soap Opera
View the portrait →Wedding CollectionFilms for moments meant to outlive the day.
Wedding Film
The Wedding Collection
Coming SoonNarrative CollectionOriginal fiction films, coming soon.
Narrative
Studio Narratives
Coming Soon01Jacksonville Headquarters
Serving organizations and stories across Northeast Florida.
02Documentary-First
Real people. Real moments. Filmed with the care we bring to cinema.
03Premiered at MOCA Jacksonville
A Violent Soap Opera · Downtown Jacksonville Art Walk · May 6, 2026.
04Preservation-Minded Delivery
Final masters prepared carefully for release, continued use, and preservation.
The Portrait Philosophy
We do not manufacture stories. We uncover the ones already there.
Documentary filmmaking begins with trust, observation, and enough patience for the story to show itself.
Studio Portrait makes documentary portraits with cinematic intention and a sense of permanence. In branded work, the business may bring us the subject; the story still leads.
Nonfiction deserves the same care, authorship, and cultural weight as narrative cinema.
Read the Portrait Philosophy →
Studio Reel · Coming Soon
The work, in motion.
A Studio Portrait reel is coming soon. This space will become the full reel as the collection grows.
What We MakeFour Film Disciplines
01Branded Documentary
Commissioned documentary portraits for businesses, founders, and organizations. The subject may be a business; the filmmaking remains documentary.
02Independent Documentary
Original nonfiction pursued because the story itself deserves to be documented, shaped through observation, interviews, access, and time.
03
Wedding Filmmaking Coming Soon
Wedding films created as lasting portraits — preserving your gestures, voices, relationships, and moments that define a day worth remembering.
04
Narrative Filmmaking Coming Soon
Original fiction films crafted with cinematic intention — from the first page to the final frame.
The category defines the work. The story defines how it is told.
Working Together
Built around the story.
No two portraits need the same production. We begin with the story, then build the scope around the access, people, schedule, and final film it actually needs.
01
Conversation
Tell us who or what the film is about, why it matters, and where you are starting from.
02
Proposal
We shape the approach around the story — defining access, crew, schedule, scope, and what the production needs to accomplish.
03
Production
We make the film with a clear plan and enough room for the moments no plan could predict.
04
Delivery
The finished portrait is mastered for where it will live and prepared to remain meaningful beyond its launch.
Behind the Portrait
Alexander Schleich
Founder & Creative Director
Alexander founded Studio Portrait after falling in love with documentary filmmaking and wanting to build a home for nonfiction stories made with cinematic care, not treated as disposable content.
“I want documentaries to receive the same love, care, and permanence we give narrative films.”Alexander SchleichRead the studio story →
Earlier Work
Three years behind the portrait.
Under The Big Top
Documentary beginnings beneath the circus tent.
This Guy Called Toby
Production work on a character-driven portrait documentary.
A Violent Soap Opera
Co-directing Studio Portrait’s first flagship branded documentary with Joselien Vasallo.
From the Journal
Behind the Portrait.
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