Documentary · In production
Full Circle
Phillip Gottfredson connects descendants returning to the places where Utah’s massacres and forced removals happened.
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Film · Photography · Art
Stories that help us see each other more clearly.
Know the Soul is the creative studio of David and Jen White. We make films, photographs, and paintings about people and the places that shape them.
See the filmsSunny · Original film in post-production
Our North Star
The quality of the work lives in the relationships behind it. In the time spent listening, the trust built, and the care taken with someone else’s story.
DirectionProductionCinematographyPhotography
From the field
Story is the throughline.
From family life on the road to digging up stories of Utah’s past, we follow what matters to the people in front of the camera.
Original films
Two films in the works.
One follows a family raising their kids on the road in a converted school bus. The other returns to Utah’s hardest history with the Native and settler descendants who still carry it.
Documentary · Post-production
Sunny
A young family, a rolling home, and the moment the freedom of the road begins to change.
Meet SunnySelected collaborations
Bring us into the story.
Available for documentary and commissioned work, from intimate interviews to remote field productions. Cinematography, field production, photography, and aerial work in collaboration with your team.
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The Good Line × Utah Office of Tourism
Utah's Dark Skies
Three landscapes, one night sky. Field production, photography, and aerial cinematography across Antelope Island, Canyonlands, and the Uintas.
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The Good Line × Adobe
Stories across distance
Four films with The Good Line for Adobe: creative lives in Los Angeles, community care in Malawi, and cultural heritage on Rapa Nui.
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JR Law Group · With Sled Dog Studios
A clearer way forward.
Educational films and client stories, brought together with a brand identity and website. A shared production with Sled Dog Studios.
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The studio
Two ways of seeing. One studio.
Know the Soul is the shared creative practice of David and Jen White. David directs, shoots, and edits the films. Jen is a painter and the studio’s creative producer, and her keen intuition and understanding of people are central to the studio’s voice.
Her paintings have a home here alongside the films and photographs.
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Some stories need a community before they can reach one.
If either of these stories resonates with you and you’d like to get involved, we’d love to talk.
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Tell us who it’s about and why it matters to you. We’d like to hear it.
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