Black Box Productions

06/20/2023

🏆🎉 We're ecstatic to announce that Black Box Productions' 'Date Night' commercial for Milestones Restaurants has won the coveted WINA - World Independent Advertising Awards in the "Restaurants and Entertainment" category! 🍽️😂

This project has been a labor of love, full of hilarious moments and memorable stories. Want to know how we turned a simple concept into an award-winning campaign? Dive into our behind-the-scenes journey in our latest blog post!

Discover how our brilliant team brought the concept to life and the impact it had on audiences. 📺 Read, enjoy, and don't forget to watch the commercial that brought us this fantastic win! 🏅🎬

👉 https://www.blackboxproductions.tv/milestones-wina-award 👈

Explore the behind-the-scenes journey of Black Box Productions' award-winning 'Date Night' commercial for Milestones Restaurants.

04/13/2022

Black Box producer Josh Usheroff was recently a guest on the Creatives Grab Coffee podcast. He talks about the importance of strategy in marketing campaigns, his video origin story and growing a with intention. Details below...

Reposted from Creatives Grab Coffee] Internal Growth and Strategy (ft. Black Box Productions) | Creatives Grab Coffee 21

Welcome to Creatives Grab Coffee, a on the business of , hosted by Dario Nouri and Kyrill Lazarov.

This weeks guest is Josh Usheroff from Black Box Productions. Black Box Productions is a Montreal and Toronto based Video Production company that creates branded content and marketing videos for advertising agencies and corporate clients.

Link to the episode is at Creatives Grab Coffee].

01/21/2022

After our production company received a gold medal from the Luum Awards for a TELUS Stories for Caregivers project, we were interviewed by Tomilli Europe to discuss trends in marketing and our point of view about production and creativity in pandemic times.

TL;DR We believe that craft matters!

Josh Usheroff, Producer, Black Box Productions Josh Usheroff is a producer, director and cinematographer at Black Box Productions in Montreal. He specializes in commercial production and branded social video. What makes your productions unique? At Black Box Productions, we treat every project like a...

09/07/2021

We loved delivering joy for the Quebec portion of this national Lays campaign.
https://youtu.be/eZEAeZE-KAU

The Lay’s team is making surprise joy deliveries to communities across Canada!

06/22/2021

We were recently named by WINA World Independent Advertising Awards as one of the Top 3 independent agencies in North America. Thank you WINA!

03/12/2021

Interested in how video production has been affected by COVID-19? One year into a global pandemic, we reflect on how our creative approach has adapted.

https://www.blackboxproductions.tv/How-the-COVID-19-pandemic-changed-our-creative-approach-to-video-production

It's been one year since the COVID-19 Pandemic was declared. In this post, we reflect on how our creative approach and our workflow changed as a result.

02/27/2021

Filmed another "Moguls in the Making" video for GoDaddy. This one features the handcrafted woodwork of Gilbert Besnard. Check out BWA NÒB if you want to drool over wood bowls, knives and lamps.

In this home edition of Moguls in the Making, we interview Gilbert Besnard, craftsman and owner of Bwa Nob. Brought to you by GoDaddy. https://www.godaddy.co...

01/22/2021

"I am once again asking my production crew to dig out my car!"

12/11/2020

Congratulations to Laurent Duvernay-Tardif for being named as Sports Illustrated's 2020 Sportsperson of the Year. We had the great pleasure of filming him for SI to talk Superbowl, COVID, and the importance of making a contribution to society. Félicitations!

https://www.si.com/sportsperson/2020/12/07/laurent-duvernay-tardif-chiefs-sportsperson-award

A Super Bowl champion and doctor, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif traded in his uniform for medical scrubs to fight COVID-19.

03/08/2020

❤️ International Women's Day ❤️
Last year we worked with Cartier Women's Initiative to profile Margaret Magdesian, a brilliant scientist innovating neurological research. See how this entrepreneur is driving change in her field.

New models of human brain, spinal cord and innervated tissues using stem-cell and organ-on-a-chip technology to accelerate drug development.

02/11/2020

Producing a World of Wonder for Air Canada & Cirque du Soleil partnership

Ever wonder what's involved in creating a large scale commercial? Take a peek behind the curtain in our latest blog post about creating visual content for Air Canada & Cirque du Soleil with Wasserman.

Be sure to check out the video!



https://www.blackboxproductions.tv/air-canada-cirque-du-soleil-commercial

On set with Black Box Productions, a 787 Dreamliner and 10 world class circus performers.

11/28/2019

Hercules DJ Learning Kit

Just in time for Black Friday madness. Here's a little spot we shot with a small team and a couple of lights. Almost entirely handheld, our focus was on keeping the camera moving and the product looking sharp! Check out Hercules DJ Mix Room for the bedroom DJ in your life.

11/28/2019

Just in time for Black Friday madness. Here's a little spot we shot with a small team and a couple of lights. Almost entirely handheld, our focus was on keeping the camera moving and the product looking sharp! Check out Hercules DJ Mix Room for the bedroom DJ in your life.

09/24/2019

AI Generated Music Video for Broken Social Scene

We created the music video for Broken Social Scene's "Can't Find My Heart" with the help of DeepDream pioneer Alex Mordvintsev.

02/27/2019

ENHIOR'HÉN:'NE Screening at

ENHIOR'HÉN:'NE [Tomorrow] screens at Les Rendez-Vous Québéc Cinéma, part of the Cinema Politica program, March 2, 2019.
This short documentary film explores Mohawk children's predictions about the world 200 years from now.

Directed by Whitebean Films.
Cinematography by Josh Usheroff, Black Box Productions.

Screening details at: https://rendez-vous.quebeccinema.ca/films/enhiorhenne

Québec Cinéma x Cinema Politica Network

02/19/2019

We're honored that Corporate Vision just named us the "Best Commercial Film & Video Production Company" in Canada #2019. Thank you!

https://www.cv-magazine.com/2019-black-box-productions-ltd

02/14/2019

❤️❤️Love is in the air❤️❤️

Fashion Film we shot this summer with director Joseph Ghaleb, DP Josh Usheroff and stylist Maude Sen.
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01/17/2019

BMW Canada

Driving into the sunset with race car driver Bruno Spengler and Philippe Létourneau for BMW Canada. Less than 24h after filming the video is live.

Who's looking forward to seeing the new models at Salon International de l'Auto de Montréal?

Bruno Spengler and Philippe Létourneau are here for their exclusive Q&A from the Salon International de l'Auto de Montréal. We'll be live shortly with Bruno and Philippe.

01/16/2019

It's been since we started Black Box. From buying our first HDV camera, working out of our industrial loft space, and "designing" our own logo, to today with operations in Montreal and Toronto, shoots that take us around the world, and producing TV for major brands. We're grateful to have loyal clients who trust our vision and amazingly talented collaborators who show up to set ready to give their all every time. Here's to the next ten! 🎉🎉🎉

11/02/2018

We're honored to have been selected by the TELUS Fund to produce our Stories for Caregivers pilot. More details to follow...

Exciting news: We've been working hard to bring you new stories of caregiving, and we are very proud to announce the 5 recipients of development funding for new Stories for Caregivers series coming in 2019! Congratulations to Black Box Productions, Waterford Valley Pictures and Supes Legit Productions, Fireweed Creative, M1 Films Inc., and North of Now Films!

We will be showing the pilot episodes soon, so stay tuned to hear these amazing new caregiving stories. In the meantime, catch up on the original episodes of Caring for Those Who Care, followed by brand new episodes - starting November 5th!

The TELUS Fund was overwhelmed with 50 submissions from passionate storytellers committed to generating awareness of caregivers and promoting their well-being, and we were thrilled with the quality of submissions. Thank you everyone who took the time to submit an application.

08/01/2018

Black Box Productions's cover photo

06/22/2018

INFINITIMSport

While most of Montreal was sitting on a terrace during F1 weekend, we were at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve with INFINITI & Renault Sport capturing the Infiniti Engineering Academy national competition.

🇨🇦 #2018

Last week Chase Pelletier became our INFINITI Engineering Academy 2018 Canadian winner.

Lets take a look at what it took to get there!

06/13/2018

Thrustmaster

At E3 Expo, helping Thrustmaster produce fast turnaround videos of the new products in their booth. If you're into flight simulations or racing games, you'll love their wares.

Day 1 at is done. Missed it? Here's a quick vid of all the new gear we showed off!

01/17/2017

Annual Public Meeting

Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des Arts du Canada is live-streaming their Annual Public Meeting and they just played a new motion graphics "bumper" that Black Box Productions designed. Exciting to think that our work is going to appear as the official logo animation for Canada's most prestigious art institution. Nice!

Find out about our work this past year and what lies ahead at our Annual Public Meeting January 17th. Join in person or catch the livestream!

09/13/2016

Multi-camera shoot in Toronto with our brand new Black Magic Ursa Mini 4.6k

07/25/2016

What It Takes To Be An Olympian – Black Box Productions

The Sports Experts campaign we shot was viewed over 120,000 times since it launched last week. Click below to see Olympian Alexandre Despatie's advice about to be a champion.

http://www.blackboxproductions.tv/news/what-it-takes-to-be-an-olympian/

06/16/2016

L’Équipeur Says Happy Father’s Day! – Black Box Productions

Celebrate Father's Day with L'Équipeur. Every father is special. What makes your dad the best?

http://www.blackboxproductions.tv/news/lequipeur-says-happy-fathers-day/

05/25/2016

BlackBox Productions () posted a photo on Twitter

"We are at the cusp of a new era of storytelling in which the user is the author, the experience is immersive and the story is non linear." Mike Yapp, Zoo.

https://t.co/POTPeL40NE

Get the whole picture - and other photos from BlackBox Productions

05/25/2016

Instagram video by Black Box Productions • May 25, 2016 at 1:04pm UTC

Arriving at C2mtl - day 2. Want to talk about branded content and videos? Let's connect.

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05/20/2016

Deep in Virtual Reality with Minority Media – Black Box Productions

Check out our latest shoot with Minority Media Inc. featuring their new virtual reality video game: Time Machine VR.