Two disciplines.
One story.

Elliott has spent two decades in Nebraska politics as a strategist and communicator. He has served as a congressional press secretary, advised campaigns from city council to the U.S. Senate, and founded Red Rider Strategies, a campaign strategy and public affairs firm in Lincoln. In 2026 he led a statewide campaign that won its primary by more than ten points over a two-term incumbent.

At CAELUM he starts by listening. He works out what a campaign needs to say, then finds the human story that says it, so the film still matters after election night.

Jonathon comes to political film from feature work. He was a producer on Chariot (Saban Films, 2022), starring John Malkovich, Thomas Mann and Rosa Salazar. He helped finance Gia Coppola’s Mainstream, starring Andrew Garfield, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and the western Hell on the Border with Ron Perlman and Frank Grillo. He is now developing The Lords of Acid, a nine-part limited series based on true events, alongside feature scripts of his own.

At CAELUM he directs: performance, framing, light and sound. Each campaign film gets the same discipline a feature set demands.