The studio
A Los Angeles picture house
with forty-nine years of light.
Our story
Two friends, one 16 mm camera, and a garage on Sunset.
Oriel Finch Gallery opened in 1977, when cinematographer Oriel Marsh and producer Ada Finch began shooting wedding films and surf shorts from a rented garage. Reputation spread quickly: the duo delivered images with a cinematic finish on a home-movie budget.
Today the gallery runs as a full-service studio with six branches, a rental floor of current cinema cameras, and a resident crew of directors, operators, editors and colourists. The pledge is unchanged — sincere stories, beautifully lit, handed over on schedule.
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What we believe
Three rules on every call sheet
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Story before gear
Kit can be hired; judgement cannot. Each commission opens with a treatment, references and a clear reason the film deserves to exist.
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Respect the light
The sun keeps its own schedule. We build shoot days around the sky, the setting and the faces in front of the lens.
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Finish like a gallery
Every frame is cut, graded and archived as though it will hang on a wall — because our prints frequently do.
Let's shape your story
together.
Describe the film you have in mind and we will bring the crew, the cameras and forty-nine years of practice.