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Marie Marx Strohm is a native of the state of Washington. She
attended Gonzaga University and graduated with honors from Seattle
University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She began her diverse
media career as a radio talk show producer for Phoenix radio station
KFYI in 1985. She enjoyed great success as a morning drive radio
personality and news director for 100,000 watt KOOL FM, Phoenix.
Marie found television to be an exciting and challenging natural
next step. She became a host for the national cable home shopping
television show, "Caravan of Values," which catapulted
her to the Phoenix NBC affiliate, KPNX. In addition to producing
news and feature stories for the NBC affiliate, she was a popular
on air restaurant critic and feature reporter for its daily afternoon
show, "Arizona Today."
Marie with environmentalist Julia
Butterfly Hill
at Telluride Mountain Film Festival |
Her success at Quorum led her to Motorola, which made Marie an offer
she couldn't refuse. Marie was responsible for writing, producing
and directing a wide variety of technical video projects for many
of the company's divisions worldwide. Producing network quality,
highly articulate and message driven corporate videos for high profile
clients, including the CIA, NSA, FBI and all branches of the military,
on modest budgets were part of her day-to-day responsibilities.
Her many credits include writing, producing and directing an exciting
video for Motorola's Satellite Communications where she documented
the progress of the Iridium program for an audience composed of
members of Iridium's worldwide Board of Directors.
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Marie Strohm on location at
Buckingham Palace for Thunderbird |
After three years of on air reporting and producing television stories,
Marie became the Director of Public Relations for the Phoenix Symphony.
Over the next three years, she wrote, produced and directed a variety
of radio and television marketing campaigns for one of the largest
arts organizations in the Southwest. She made numerous public appearances
and worked with the executive officers of most of the major corporations
located in Phoenix. She also negotiated rates and electronic media
buys, supervised radio, TV and print interviews for such well known
musicians as Doc Severinsen, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenburg and Placido
Domingo.
In 1993, Marie was recruited by
Quorum International's nationally televised weekly show. She not
only wrote, produced and hosted the show, she also directed it!
The intense production schedule, which took her and her crew to
locations throughout the United States as well as Hong Kong and
China, proved to be an invaluable experience in learning all aspects
of corporate television and video production.
Marie directs rocker Alice Cooper
for Airpark Chrysler Jeep commercial |
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Marie goes over lines with Paradise Earth co-host Char Mandarich
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After
years of working with a vast array of clients on various sized budgets
for projects as diverse as corporate television commercials and marketing
videos to documentaries and live show presentations, in 1995, Marie
launched Hummingbird Productions, a full service video production
company. The hallmark of Hummingbird over the past eight successful
years has been to be "relentlessly on time and on budget."
Hummingbird has earned a national reputation by providing a diverse
client base with the highest network quality production available,
anywhere in the world. She has accomplished all this by producing
the best product at the best price. Her business is based exclusively
on repeat business, referrals from existing clients, network leads
and other production companies. With the exception of this website,
she has never had to advertise her services.
For
nearly a decade, Marie's considerable talents have continued to garner
her Scottsdale based company a wide range of national and international
clients, and countless awards for video production quality and script
writing including Silver and Gold Telly Award winning commercials.
In addition she has won many awards for her corporate and non-profit
videos including the prestigious 20th Anniversary Classic Gold Telly
for her video "U.S. West Partnership"; a Media Communications
Association International Award for her video "Arizona Alzheimer's
Research Center" and the Gold Special Jury Award for her film,
"Great BearRainforest" exhibited at WorldFest Houston and
the Telluride Mountain Film Festival.
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In addition to her busy career writing, producing and directing, Marie
is a leader in nonprofit fundraising in the Phoenix community. She
has served on the Board of Directors of Girls Ranch, Inc. of Arizona
for six years, including a year as president. Marie fully understands
the value of "giving back." Her steadfast commitment to
helping others in need has motivated her to create dozens of compelling
public service announcements, marketing and fundraising campaign videos
for non-profit organizations in Arizona and throughout the country.
"Producing the highest quality available at the best price for
my clients is my mission," explains Marie. "Whether working
with business clients or non-profit organizations, I can help deliver
the client's message in a way that is original, creative, clear and
concise always with the goal of motivating the viewer to take the
action that the client wants them to take."
Whether you're looking for a high impact, message driven corporate
video; a unique, creative and effective fundraising and/or marketing
tool; an attention grabbing commercial; an entertaining, highly original
music video; or a documentary with the power and passion to move people
to action, Marie and her team of sophisticated, highly trained and
talented professionals are ready to tackle your next video project.
Network quality, competitive rates and fantastic results for our clients
is the only way we fly!
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Great Bear Rainforest co-producers
Michael Marx and Marie Marx Strohm |
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© 2006 Hummingbird Productions
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