Create What Moves You
Turn your creativity into bookable content services and experiences.
What is Film Trips?
Film Trips is a marketplace where videographers and photographers offer content services and experiences that individuals, organizations, and communities can book directly.
Whether you're capturing a moment or designing an experience, your work becomes something people can discover, trust, and pay for.
A better way to get discovered based on what you create
On most platforms, clients search for a person. On Film Trips, they discover you through the content services and experiences you offer. This means your Film Trip listings do the work for you helping the right clients find you faster, with clearer expectations.
The old way
I need a photographer
Can you create this?
What’s your rate?
Where are you located?
The new way
This service will tell our story better
This experience fits our community
This works for our budget
This creator is nearby
How it works
Create your listing, connect with clients, and get paid for your content services and experiences.
1. Create Your Listings
Create a listing for your content service or experience with clear pricing, deliverables, and examples.
Make it easy for clients to understand what you offer and how to book you.
2. Connect & Get Booked
Clients discover your work, reach out, and align on the details.
Message directly on the platform, send custom quotes, and confirm bookings with confidence.
3. Document & Get Paid
Show up to capture the moment or lead the experience and document it.
Payment is handled through the platform and released after delivery.
Earn 75% commission from each confirmed booking.
Two ways to build on Film Trips
As a photographer or videographer, you can offer your work in two ways, based on how you like to create and work with clients.
Start with the format that fits your style.
1. Content Services
Capture moments for personal moments, events, brands, and communities
Show up as the photographer or videographer. Capture what naturally unfolds, from events to brand content.
Perfect for:
Event coverage
Brand shoots
Corporate content
Social media content sessions
2. Content Experiences
Host and document group experiences built around your creativity
Lead a guided experience and capture it in your style.
Create something people participate in a group setting.
Perfect for:
Workshops or guided sessions
Community gatherings
Creative activations
Location-based experiences
Turn your creativity into bookable services and experiences
Clients aren’t just booking creators, they’re booking outcomes. Here are a few ways you can package your work:
Choose your content creation tool
Decide how you want to document your content services or experiences:
Mobile Phone: Perfect for authentic, social-first clips and candid moments.
Professional Camera: Ideal for high-quality portraits and cinematic visuals.
Both: Combine tools for a dynamic mix of content.
Your tools shape the flow of your listings and the type of content you’ll create and share with your client.
Define what type of content you’ll provide
Your content deliverables help set clear expectations and influence the content service or experience you offer and what a client receives. You decide what’s included.
Short-Form Video Clips:Curated social-ready video clips that capture the vibe and energy of the film trip experience.
Highlight Video Reels:One or more polished reels showcasing the Film Trip experience.
Long-Form Video:A vlog-style, show-style, podcast, or documentary-style video experience.
Photos:Edited candid or posed photos that document the Film Trip in your own creative style.
There’s plenty of content delivery platforms you can use such as Pic-Time, Frame.io, Pixieset, and more, for a more professional touch.
The Film Trips platform offers
When you join the Film Trips Creator Network, you get:
A Professional Listing Platform: Create a public profile for your content services and experiences, define your pricing and deliverables, and be discoverable by people looking to activate your talents.
Messaging, Quotes & Secure Payments: Receive inquiries, send custom proposals, negotiate scope, and process payments, all within the platform. Funds are securely held until your booking is fulfilled and content is delivered.
Built-In Trust & Visibility: Verified creator profiles, clear deliverables, and client reviews that help you build credibility over time.
Meet the Founder
"I have an event coming up, do you know a good photographer or videographer I can book?"
I've spent 10 years as a creative professional hearing that question from event organizers. They're busy managing logistics and most creatives don't know how to get in front of the right decision-makers. The discovery problem has always existed, but the infrastructure to solve it hasn't. So I decided to build it.
Film Trips is a marketplace ecosystem that gives you direct access to find, connect, and book local creative professionals, while giving talented photographers, videographers, and creatives, like my wife Zebrina, the visibility they deserve. The future of content creation is changing and we’re collectively paving the way.
Imani "Lenz" Lee, MBA
OUR VALUES
Connection
People first, always. We make it easier for creators and communities to connect through meaningful work and shared moments.
Inclusivity
Film Trips is for everyone. Every background, perspective, and story deserves to be seen and represented.
Creativity
Creativity is everywhere. We create opportunities for it to be expressed, captured, and valued.
Care
We approach every experience and project with intention, creating environments that feel organized, respectful, and easy to navigate.
Presence
We value real moments. Our platform is designed to support authentic, in-the-moment creation that values human connection.
Professionalism
We set a standard for clarity and trust, from transparent listings to reliable delivery, so creators and clients can move forward with confidence.
FAQs
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A Film Trip is a content service or experience offered by a professional photographer or videographer.
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Photographers, videographers, podcasters, content creators, educators, fitness instructors, artists — anyone who can host a meaningful experience and document it.
If you can bring people together and capture it well, you can list.
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You can host Film Trips using whatever tools you’re comfortable with — from DSLRs to mirrorless cameras to mobile devices. What matters most is your creative eye, energy, and ability to lead an experience that feels authentic.
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Yes.
You define:
The experience
The price
What’s included
Your content turnaround time
Film Trips provides the platform. You control your offering.
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When someone is interested in your listing:
They message you through the platform
You send a quote
You align on scope, pricing, and deliverables
Once confirmed, payment is securely held in escrow until the experience is completed and content is delivered.
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Yes.
All messaging happens directly between you and the client through the Film Trips platform.
You can clarify expectations, adjust pricing, and align before confirming the booking. -
After the experience is complete and content is delivered, payment is released to you.
Creators receive 75% of each booking.
Payouts are processed securely through our payment partner.
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As many as you’d like.
You can create multiple listings based on different formats, price points, or audiences — workshops, dinners, walks, brand activations, and more.
Each listing is its own offer. You control what you publish.
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No. You lead and manage your experience.
Film Trips provides the platform for listings, messaging, quotes, and secure payments — but you host, document, and deliver your content independently.
You stay in control of your format, pricing, and creative direction.