Company History

Backseat Conceptions began in the Summer of 2002 when a group of young film and promotions professionals toured nationally on the Vans Warped Tour. The crew members recognized in each other a diligent work ethic, similar goals and the fact that they were each uniquely achieved for their age. In the following months, the company was temporarily located in Brooklyn NY before relocating to Philadelphia where they have remained since that time.

Backseat Conceptions started out as a production and promotions company with a major focus on live promotions, but as the years have past Backseat has expanded to cover all types of multi-media production and post-production. As a production company Backseat has created or has been a partner on 15 feature films, several TV Pilots as well as countless shorts, music, viral and industrial videos.

While Philadelphia is not a very busy film & video production city, Backseat has been able to telecommute and work with productions all over the world. In addition to maintaining and developing our company and personal skills, Backseat is committed to bringing more feature film work to Philadelphia and developing local film crews.

Keeping in the tradition of the Backseat crew's history with live event production and promotion, one of the companies many in-house projects is the Backseat Film Festival, a touring rock and roll film festival now in it’s 6th successful year. Besides promoting all kinds of cinema, the festival helps the company stay in constant contact with a roster of developing filmmakers from all over the world. A good number of these filmmakers have come to work with Backseat on a regular basis. The Backseat partners are also opening an independent movie theater in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia called the 941 Theater this summer to further promote cinema, live theater and the projected arts.

Some notable Backseat campaigns include the Warped Tour slasher flick series produced by Backseat, "Punk Rock Holocaust", which garnered major national press attention for the company, spawned two sequels and was featured in a retrospective at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Spring 2007. Backseat was also a major content provider in the Bikini Bandits web campaign for Gyro International which continues to generate well over 4 million views on iFilm and has appeared on Spike TV and MTV2 amongst many other media outlets.

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Main Producer/Directors

Doug Sakmann
Special Effects and SPFX Makeup, Marketing and Promotions, Booking and Sponsorships

Nick Esposito
Production Coordinator, VTR/Video & Film Playback, After Effects and Motion Graphics

Zafer Ülkücü
Production Manager, Key Grip, Gaffer