ABOUT

Toolbox Pictures is a full service video production company which creates emotionally compelling content for broadcast clients, corporations, and non-profit organizations.  Award-winning producing, cinematography, and editing will ensure that your story is told in a way that engages most effectively with your intended audience.  Toolbox Pictures also offers FAA certified aerial photography and cinematography.


Howard Shack is an Emmy Award-winning Producer and Cinematographer with over twenty years of experience creating content for clients such as PBS, Discovery, and National Geographic.  He has worked on many award-winning films and television programs including Earth Days, the Closing Night Film at Sundance Film Festival (2009), and Sentenced Home, winner of multiple Audience Awards at international film festivals.  His corporate and non-profit clients include Disney/Pixar, Boeing, Phillips Academy, Seattle Aquarium and Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. His work has taken him to every state in the U.S. as well as international productions in countries such as Nepal, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, El Salvador, England, France, Poland, Italy, Russia and Greenland.  

Howard founded Toolbox Pictures so that he would be able to offer his visual storytelling expertise to a wider range of broadcast and online clients.  The latest tool in the toolbox is a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone and an FAA certified Remote Pilot License.  Howard is looking forward to creating evocative aerial images for all of his clients.