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HUMANS. ANIMALS. It's about US.
Our Mission: Padma Video tells stories about animals. We seek to illuminate the strong, beautiful and often complicated relationships between humans and other species.
HELPING OUR CLIENTS MAKE THEIR VISIONS REAL
Padma Video specializes in creating educational, marketing and documentary films about animals, always keeping our clients' image and budget in focus. Padma Video shoots, edits and creates graphics while delivering factually accurate and visually appealing videos with integrity and attention to detail.
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EVERY. FRAME. COUNTS.
Like music, our videos have rhythm. We meticulously research and shape the content, add music and sound effects, color correct and sweeten the sound. We edit in Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects and Adobe Audition. Motion graphics not only give our videos that extra "zazz" but they are an important tool when trying to explain an otherwise complicated concept.
MAKING SCIENCE UNDERSTANDABLE
Padma Video excels in making science relatable and entertaining. We break information down into understandable graphics and animation. Some of the topics we've covered include equine biomechanics, animal behaviorism, the physiology of hoof pathologies, the anatomy of saddle-fitting, nutrition and equine neuroscience.
Video Services
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
Documentary filmmaking allows for more expansion of ideas
than the increasingly common short-form internet videos.
The almighty doc allows us more time, more investigation, more "gray area," more perspectives, more truth, more...everything.
The question becomes...
what is the burning story that you need to tell?
DOCUMENTARY AWARDS
2018
"Don't Shoot the Zebra Pony"
Produced for Equitopia
Equus International Festival: Best Equine Educational Film
2022
"The 24 Behaviors of the Ridden Horse in Pain: Shifting the Paradigm of How We See Lameness"
Produced in association with Dr. Sue Dyson and
The Train with Trust Project
Equus Film and Arts Festival: "Best Educational Video" .
2023
Tryon International Film Festival: Best Short Documentary
2025
"Horses & the Science of Harmony"
Produced with Dr. Sue Dyson.
2025 Equus Film & Arts Festival, Reisterstown, MD:
Best "International Educational Film - Under 120 Minutes"
Director Kathryn Lauritzen "International Educational Director for Film Under 120 Minutes"
Equus International Film Festival, Missoula, MT:
2nd place for "Best of Festival,"
"The Harmony Award,"
"Best Scientific Presentation,"
"Best Horse / Human Bond" (Tie)
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
Padma Video has produced hundreds of tutorial videos and many online courses. Our goal is to create informational videos that are clear, understandable, and connect deeply with the viewer.
We want our client's videos to rise above the clutter on the internet and position them as factual, captivating and beautiful.
MARKETING & FUNDRAISING VIDEOS
Whether it's commercials, website, social media videos or non-profit fundraisers, we can help invigorate your marketing strategy and strengthen your brand. Padma Video will incorporate
your existing logo and "look" into motion graphics
or help you design a fresh new image.
About:
KATHRYN LOVES HORSES.
Padma Video founder, videographer, and editor, Kathryn Lauritzen, has been "horse-crazy" since she was a little girl. Kathryn spent much of her youth riding her bike to the barn to take care of her horses. After college, Kathryn entered radio as an alternative rock DJ and spent 30 years on the air in markets such as San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., New York and San Jose. During that time, she created hundreds of hours of audio production which naturally led to her passion for video production. Kathryn shoots on a Sony FS7, edits in Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, Photoshop, After Effects and Lightroom. Padma Video is named after Padma, Kathryn's beloved thoroughbred mare of 24 years. Padma means "lotus" in sanskrit. The lotus is celebrated in many world religions and cultures, symbolizing the struggle of the lotus bud to rise through muddy and murky waters in order to blossom in the light. Kathryn believes that finding the beauty in difficult circumstances perfectly epitomizes documentary filmmaking.
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