OVERLAY is the ever-evolving story of Christian O'Keefe and Michael Priestley.

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Christian first developed an interest in filmmaking in middle school when he discovered his parents' old digital camcorder and a copy of Windows Movie Maker on the family computer. Those early skate videos and attempts at storytelling eventually blossomed into a career.

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Michael is a SoCal native and pop culture sponge. When not working on a production, you will find him quoting The Simpsons, listening to Born to Run, online shopping for action figures, or explaining that the blood in professional wrestling is real.

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By chance, we were assigned as semester-long partners in our college editing class. We met that day, not knowing that years of friendship and creative collaborations would follow.

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As a duo, we are fascinated by intimate human stories and their magical moments. We explore these stories with an energetic and restless style, transcending at times from grounded realism to dream-like fantasies.​​