Chris Ohlson

Executive Producer | Branded Content & Original Storytelling | Building Creative Excellence at Scale

Brooklyn, New York, United States

About

As the Executive Producer and a Co-Founder of Revelator Productions, I've built and scaled a creative powerhouse from zero to multi-million dollar operations across Austin, NYC, and LA, delivering 500+ campaigns for Fortune 500 brands including Adidas, Toyota, TikTok, IBM, and Indian Motorcycle. My unique perspective—bridging independent film artistry (2015 Independent Spirit Piaget Producers Award) with commercial production excellence—enables me to create content that resonates culturally while driving business results.

Experience

  • Executive Producer at REVELATOR
    Oct 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 9 mos

    Revelator is a full-spectrum video production team with hundreds of brand films, mini-docs, music videos, product profiles, and customer testimonials to its credit. With a seasoned roster of award- winning directors and producers, Revelator has the depth of experience and breadth of skills for a variety of video approaches. In recent years, Revelator has also built a dedicated team focused on technology stories. Everything from AI and Machine Learning to Blockchain, AR/VR, IoT, 5G and the intricacies of financial technology. Recent clients include: Google, Samsung, IBM, Dell, Dun & Bradstreet, Viacom, Pandora, Western Union, Total Wireless and many, many more.

  • Producer at Discreet
    Jan 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

    In the provocative new feature from San Francisco-based filmmaker Travis Mathews (Interior. Leather Bar., 2013) a troubled drifter named Alex (Jonny Mars, A Teacher, 2013), travelling cross country in an old van, makes a pit stop in his hometown in rural Texas awash in right-wing talk radio. A quick visit with his estranged mother, who has recently gotten sober after several relapses, uncovers a startling revelation that forces Alex to confront demons of his past that he long thought dead and buried. As Alex struggles to reconcile with the unexpected news, he falls into a dangerous spiral of self-exploration that brings a collection of unusual unsuspecting people into his orbit, including a bored, local teenage boy; a YouTube spiritual guru (Atsuko Okatsuka, Littlerock, 2010); and a mysterious figure from his past. With Discreet, Matthews expertly takes the audience through a challenging and kaleidoscopic journey, including provocative and kinky online hook-ups, into the underbelly of small-town America to bear witness to its prevailing cycles of sexual and emotional need, its depravity and pain. (via Joe Bowman, San Francisco International Film Festival)

  • Producer at Mr. Roosevelt
    Jan 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

    After a death in her family, struggling LA-based comedian Emily Martin returns to Austin. There she finds herself in the awkward position of staying with her ex and his new girlfriend until the funeral, while trying to close old doors from her past. Cast: Noël Wells, Nick Thune, Britt Lower, Daniella Pineda, Andre Hyland, Doug Benson, Armen Weitzman, Sergio Cilli.

  • Producer at Thank You A Lot
    Jan 2012 - Dec 2016 · 5 yrs

  • Producer at Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    Sep 2008 - Jan 2016 · 7 yrs 5 mos

    Synopsis: A lonely Japanese woman abandons her structured life in Tokyo to seek a satchel of money rumored to be hidden in the Minnesota wilderness. Justin Chang / VARIETY: “Indeed one of the treasures of the dramatic competition — an infinitely sad, tender and beguiling study of delusion and alienation that, as carried on the brilliant shoulders of Rinko Kikuchi, builds to a final stretch as strange and gripping as anything I’ve seen at the festival this year.” Rodrigo Perez / THE PLAYLIST (INDIEWIRE): “A kind of peculiar, intelligent fairy tale, the Zellner brothers magical ‘Treasure Hunter’ leaves much to chew on... and much of this frosty and bracing expressionism will be a subjective experience. But either way, its ambiguity should dazzle and delight." Scott Foundas / VARIETY: “Our desire that life should be more like it is in the movies beats at the heart of “Kumiko the Treasure Hunter,” a wonderfully strange and beguiling adventure.” Eric Kohn / INDIEWIRE: “The brothers' strongest emotional achievement... pushes their style up to a new level of sophistication.” Cory Everett / THE PLAYLIST (INDIEWIRE): “strange, sad character portrait of a lonely dreamer on a quest. Moody, melancholic & cinematic.” Nigel M. Smith / INDIEWIRE: “Rinko Kikuchi is sublime in Zellner bros wondrous, strange & hilarious KUMIKO.” Davy Rothbart / GQ: “Loved it! Will go in my festival wrap up as one of my faves of the festival.” Matt Patches / THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, VANITY FAIR: “grows from Amelie-ish treasure hunt into one of Kurosawa’s Dreams.