Contact 7 Hills Productions
7 Hills Productions is a video production company headquartered in Irvine, California, with a studio base in Los Angeles and crews across the United States. Tell us what you are making and a producer comes back within one business day with an approach and a number.
No sales sequence and no mailing list. One producer reads what you send and answers it.
- Headquarters
- 5151 California Ave, Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92617 - Los Angeles
- Studio base in downtown LA
- Phone
- (949) 877-8377
- Reply time
- Within one business day
1 dayour published reply time, every inquiry
3–6 wkstypical delivery, brief to final cut
38US metros we can put a crew in
10,000+finished video assets delivered
Tell us about your video project
Fill in what you know and leave the rest. “Not sure yet” is a valid answer to every question here, and only three fields are required: your name, an email, and roughly what you are trying to make.
Reply within one business day
No mailing list, ever
Written quote normally within 24 hours of a call
- You send thisIt lands in our inbox with everything you entered, and a copy goes to you.
- A producer reads itNot a bot and not a call center. Someone who will be on the project.
- We reply in a dayWith the approach we would recommend and the questions we still need answered.
- You get a written quoteUsually within 24 hours of a short call, itemised so you can see what drives the number.
Based in Southern California, filming across the United States
7 Hills Productions films out of three home bases (Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego) and travels for production anywhere in the country. Outside California we combine a travelling producer and director with vetted local camera crew, so a shoot in 29 other metros is run to the same brief and cut by the same editorial team.
Home base Regular production market Crew available
Home bases
Where our own crew, gear and studio live. No travel costs on the quote.
- Irvine, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- San Diego, CA
Regular production markets
Cities we film in often enough to know the permits, the parking and the good stages.
- New York, NY
- San Francisco, CA
- San Jose, CA
- Las Vegas, NV
- Austin, TX
- Miami, FL
Crew available
Local camera crew we can book, with our producer and director travelling to run the shoot.
- Seattle, WA
- Portland, OR
- Sacramento, CA
- Phoenix, AZ
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Denver, CO
- Dallas, TX
- Houston, TX
- San Antonio, TX
- Kansas City, MO
- Minneapolis, MN
- Chicago, IL
- Detroit, MI
- Columbus, OH
- Nashville, TN
- Atlanta, GA
- Orlando, FL
- Tampa, FL
- Charlotte, NC
- Raleigh, NC
- Washington, DC
- Philadelphia, PA
- Boston, MA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Indianapolis, IN
- St. Louis, MO
- New Orleans, LA
- Honolulu, HI
- Anchorage, AK
Shooting somewhere that is not on this list, or outside the US? Put the city in the form and we will scope it.
Offices and studio
Meetings at the Irvine office are by appointment. Give us a day's notice so someone is there and not on a set.
Irvine headquarters
7 Hills Productions5151 California Ave, Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92617
United States
In University Research Park, minutes from UC Irvine and John Wayne Airport. Free parking on site. This is also where our own studio space and gear are based.
Open in Google MapsLos Angeles studio base
Downtown Los AngelesCalifornia, United States
Our second market. Crews work across LA County, and we book stages downtown and in the Valley depending on what the shoot needs. Tell us where the shoot needs to happen and we will find the right space for it.
Studios and locationsPrefer to see the numbers first?
Plenty of people want a budget before they want a conversation. The pricing page lists what each type of video costs and what drives the number; the estimator gives you a range in about a minute.
Video production pricing Budget estimatorUseful before you write: every service we offer, how a project runs, who we are, recent work, corporate video and video production in Irvine.
Not a project? Work with us instead
Plenty of the mail we get is not a client brief. If you are a freelancer looking for shoot days, an agency that needs a production partner, or a supplier with something we book on nearly every job, here is how to reach the right person without getting lost in the project queue.
Crew and freelancers
Send a reel and a rate
Directors, DPs, camera operators, gaffers, sound mixers, editors, colourists and motion designers. Put Crew, your role and your city in the subject line. We build a bench market by market, so tell us where you are based and how far you travel.
Agencies and partners
White label and overflow
We shoot for agencies and for other production companies that need a unit in a market they do not cover. Tell us the scope, the market and whether you need us credited or invisible.
Vendors and services
Stages, gear, casting, post
Studios and stages, equipment rental, casting, hair and makeup, catering, transcription and post houses. One paragraph and a rate sheet is enough. We keep a supplier list by city and go back to it.
Everything above goes to the same inbox as client mail, so the subject line is what gets it read quickly. We do not accept unsolicited SEO, lead generation or web development pitches.
Brands, health systems and universities we make video for
“Using exclusively 7 Hills Productions for the last 6 years.”
Contact and quoting questions
How do I get a quote from 7 Hills Productions?
Fill in the project form on this page. The more you can say about the goal, the audience, where the video will run and roughly when you need it, the closer the first number will be. A producer replies within one business day, and after a short call you normally have a written quote within 24 hours.
How quickly will someone get back to me?
Within one business day, and usually much sooner. Most inquiries get a reply the same morning or afternoon. If your deadline is this week, say so in the first line of the message field and we will treat it that way.
How much does a video cost?
A typical corporate or brand video lands between $6,000 and $15,000 once pre-production, a full production day and editing are included. Campaigns with several shoot days, actors, a studio or a large suite of cutdowns go well beyond that.
The full rate card is on the video production pricing page, and the budget estimator gives you a range in about a minute without talking to anyone.
Where is 7 Hills Productions located?
Our headquarters is at 5151 California Ave, Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92617, in University Research Park. We also work out of a studio base in downtown Los Angeles and cover San Diego, and we send crews across the United States.
Do you film outside California?
Yes. Orange County, Los Angeles and San Diego are where we are based, but we travel for shoots and work with a national network of camera crews, so a multi-city project can be filmed to one brief and cut by one editorial team. Tell us the cities on the form and we will scope travel or local crew for each one.
What do you need from me before we start?
Five things get a project moving: what the video needs to achieve, who it is for, where it will be published, a rough budget range and the date it has to be live. If you have a script, a brand guide or reference videos you like, send those too. They save a round of revisions later.
Can I rent your studio or hire a crew only?
Yes to both. Studio days and crew-only bookings are quoted separately from full production. See studios and locations for the kinds of spaces we can put you in, or tell us the dates and what you need on the floor in the message field and we will price it.
Who will I be talking to?
You deal with the people who make the video. 7 Hills Productions is a small core team led by founder and executive producer Merve Tekin, supported by a freelance bench of directors, camera operators and editors we have worked with for years. There is no account layer between you and the crew.
Tell us what you are making.
Two minutes on the form and a producer comes back within one business day with the approach we would recommend and a number to go with it.
