| Founded | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Fenton Williams |
| Headquarters | Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Services | Production Design & Touring Video |
| Website | FilamentProd.com |
Filament Productions is a Production Design & Touring Video company based in Charlottesville, Virginia since 2005, and founded by Fenton Williams, who was the first road manager for the Dave Matthews Band. During the early 1990s Fenton Williams quickly realized he wasn't the best road manager and found his passion in designing sets and lighting at the DMB concerts. Filament Productions has grown alongside of the Dave Matthews Band over the past 20 years providing the band with professional Video Production, Lighting, and Set Design.[1][2]
Today, Filament Productions is widely respected as one of the top Production Design & Touring Video companies in the industry due to its success with the Dave Matthews Band, which has been the third highest grossing touring band in the world and the highest attended and grossing touring band in the past decade in North America.[3] Filament's list of clients now includes Tim McGraw, Zac Brown Band, and Luke Bryan.
In 2009, Filament Productions donated a 3,000-square-foot (280 m2) retail space on the historic Downtown Mall to the Virginia Film Festival and also provided personnel to cut the official trailer that played before every film. On June 22, 2010, Filament partnered with Nashville Rising, a benefit concert for Food Relief Victims in middle Tennessee headed by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. Filament Productions donated Production Design and Touring Video for the event which helped raise over 2 million dollars[4] Over 19 different artists performed including Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, LeAnn Rimes, Luke Bryan, Michael W. Smith, Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, Toby Keith, Martina McBride, Amy Grant, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blake Shelton, Julie Roberts, and ZZ Top.
Filament was also proud to partner with Restore The Gulf's "Be The One" campaign for which Filament donated a production team to film Dave Matthews for his portion of the video.[5] For the 2010 Virginia Film Festival Filament Productions produced the official trailer for the Virginia Film Festival that played before every film. Also Filament produced the official commercial for the 2010 Virginia Film Festival.
During the 2010 Dave Matthews Band Fall Tour, Filament's President, Fenton Williams personally led a group of students on a Production Tour with the help of the rest of the DMB Crew.