Selected work · The Vortex
Work built to look finished, move clearly, and hold up under real client pressure.
The Vortex has led production, post, aerial, and visual systems work across commercial, healthcare, golf, sports, documentary, and institutional projects. The work is different by industry. The operating standard is the same.
Featured · Vortex client work
Direct Vortex engagements. Produced, directed, and delivered end to end.
The Ben Hotel x Porter Yachts
Produced · Directed · Shot
The Ben Hotel hired The Vortex to produce a promotional campaign for its partnership with Porter Yachts. D.J. Amerson produced, directed, and shot the campaign alongside production partner Paul Piasecki of Fuse Mediaworks, capturing the relationship between the hotel, the waterfront, and the lifestyle around the collaboration.
Place of Hope 101
Produced · Directed · Client since 2023
A documentary-style overview film created to explain the full scope of Place of Hope's mission, programs, and impact. The Vortex has worked with Place of Hope since 2023.
Alabama School of Cyber Technology & Engineering
Active multiphase engagement
Phase 1 of a multiphase virtual-campus tour designed to help prospective students and families understand the school, its facilities, and its educational environment. An active, multiphase Vortex engagement.
Smith, Ball, Báez & Prather
Produced · The Vortex's first client
The Vortex's first client. The Vortex has produced approximately 50 commercials for the firm, with more in production.
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The work is different by industry. The operating standard is the same.
Commercial / Brand
Brand films, campaign spots, and promotional series.
Start a project →Healthcare / Institutional
Campaign series and institutional storytelling for health and education.
Start a project →Golf & Sports
Award films, course communications, and sports media.
Explore →Documentary / Story
Long-form and documentary-style films that explain a mission.
Start a project →Aerial Cinematography
Cinematic aerial imagery, plus mapping, documentation, and decision support.
Explore →Production Leadership
Senior production leadership embedded across a team's projects.
Explore →Aerial cinematography
Aerial work can be beautiful and useful.
The Vortex is hired for cinematic aerial imagery when the assignment needs scale, movement, and polish. On other jobs, that same aerial discipline becomes documentation, mapping, and decision support. Same FAA Part 107 license. Different jobs.
Selected directing work
Campaigns D.J. Amerson directed.
Directing work that is part of D.J. Amerson's career, not a Vortex client engagement.
Healthcare / Campaign Series
Jupiter Medical Center
D.J. Amerson has directed Jupiter Medical Center content for approximately a decade, beginning during his tenure with KO-MAR Productions. In 2025, he returned to direct the medical center's latest campaign, connecting the quality of care inside the facility with the character of the Jupiter community it serves.
Healthcare / Campaign Series
Jupiter Medical Center — Supporting Spots
Supporting spots from the 2025 Jupiter Medical Center campaign series directed by D.J. Amerson.
Additional Vortex engagements
More Vortex client work.
Direct Vortex engagements where the work itself stays private. Named here for reference; no footage shown.
Vortex Engagement · Name-Only
KKR / Charles Schwab
KKR hired The Vortex to produce the Charles Schwab portion of a larger video project, following a referral from Schwab's team based on prior work with D.J. Amerson.
Vortex Engagement · Name-Only
Fazio Golf Course Design
Ongoing membership, course-update, and planning communications produced for Fazio Golf Course Design.
Selected professional credits
D.J. Amerson's professional history.
Career work produced through KO-MAR Productions, partner companies, and loan-out arrangements. These are personal directing and producing credits, not Vortex client engagements.
Streaming / Episodic · Loan-Out
Netflix's POLO
D.J. Amerson served as Supervising Producer on the first season of Netflix's POLO through a Vortex loan-out arrangement with Boardwalk Pictures, the production company behind the series.
Automotive / Brand Film · KO-MAR
BMW: The Ultimate Journey
Produced and directed by D.J. Amerson around the launch of the BMW iX during the opening of the 2021 Ryder Cup, completed while he was Executive Producer at KO-MAR Productions.
Corporate / Campaign · KO-MAR
Carrier: We Are the Next Generation
During his tenure with KO-MAR Productions, D.J. Amerson produced and directed multiple projects for Carrier over approximately 12 years, including the We Are the Next Generation campaign and corporate recruiting content.
Golf / Award Film · KO-MAR
PGA of America: Merchandiser of the Year
A short documentary-style award film produced, directed, shot, and edited by D.J. Amerson during a KO-MAR Productions engagement, filmed at Sweetens Cove outside Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Directing · KO-MAR
Tiger Woods / TaylorMade
Directed the Tiger Woods MusclePharm campaign and TaylorMade's "Speed Is the Universal Language" campaign featuring Tiger Woods; one of three directors on Tiger Woods: My Game, Season Two; produced and edited The Tiger Vault for Golf Digest and GOLFTV.
Producing · KO-MAR
Range Rover / CNN Films
During his tenure with KO-MAR Productions, D.J. Amerson produced From Jupiter with Love, a Range Rover project created through CNN Films.
Directing · KO-MAR
Rolex
Directed a Rolex photo shoot and video promotion featuring Coco Gauff and Serena Williams.
Brand Credit · KO-MAR
AstraZeneca
Directing and production work for AstraZeneca during his tenure with KO-MAR Productions.
Broadcast / Sports
ESPN / ABC
Freelance sports-news reporting through contract work with ABC, including coverage of the NFL team now known as the Washington Commanders, the Washington Capitals, and the Miami Heat, including LeBron James's 2010 arrival in Miami.
Selected directing work and professional credits represent D.J. Amerson's individual career work and are not Vortex client engagements.
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