We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Nick + Lexie Trivundza. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Nick + Lexie below.
Nick + Lexie, thank you so much for taking the time to share your lessons learned with us and we’re sure your wisdom will help many. So, one question that comes up often and that we’re hoping you can shed some light on is keeping creativity alive over long stretches – how do you keep your creativity alive?
What a fun question! We keep creativity alive by traveling, being engaged with different stories and doing things we think are impossible. We love considering the impossible. There’s something so amazing about doing the impossible.
First, we keep creativity alive through travel. We explore, we adventure, we see new sights and sounds. It sparks creativity to look at the world in a totally new way. We’ll go to Mexico and go down rivers wondering – can we film here, what stories would we tell, what characters come to life? We go to Iceland and think the same way. And it all feeds that creative spark. It’s definitely something you need to keep feeding but once you find those things that get you excited and feed that creativity, there’s magic to it.
Another way we keep creativity alive is by doing impossible things.
At the start of every year, we make a list of the impossible things we want for the year. These are things we really want to do but don’t know how to do them. They can be for our company, a direction we want to take our lives, or a personal impossible thing we’d like to do. That list goes at the top of our to-do list and we stare at it every day. We let these impossible things percolate inside our heads and think of ways to accomplish them. Over the next 12 months, most of those things that seemed impossible at the start of the year, ended up not being so impossible after all. We slowly chip away at them. And a funny thing happens. Usually 9 times out of 10 we accomplish all those things we thought were impossible. It’s a great feeling! Walt Disney once said “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” It’s something we really have taken to heart!
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
We’re Nick + Lexie and we own Adventure Company, a creative studio that produces and directs films, shorts films, series and commercial advertising.
We love adventure and filmmaking!
Our films have screened at Film Festivals around the world which has been incredible! Our more recent series, BackSpace gained 100K views in the first 24 hours and has gone on to be viewed over 1 million times in over a 100 different countries. We were both surprised and excited that there’s so many fans out there! Our previous projects include our feature film Danger! Danger! which made its World Premiere at the Pasadena International Film Festival, with an international release in 2022. This was our second feature film following our debut award-winning film, The West and the Ruthless, which premiered at AIFF with a global release by Sony Pictures. On the commercial side, we’ve worked with some great brands and clients such as Apple, The Academy Awards, Visa, Google, Mattel, Harper Collins, and Adobe to name a few.
For the future, we’re working on a few things including a Series 2 of Tales of Black Manor, completing our sci-fi series of BackSpace and have our next feature film on the horizon. We’re pretty excited!
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Oh, we love this question! 3 qualities that have impacted us are curiosity, adventure and fucking persistence!
We think curiosity is super important. It’s important when you’re early in your journey and it’s even more important after you’ve been doing it awhile. It allows you to evolve, not become stagnate and feeds creativity and the soul!
Adventure does a lot of the same things and obviously, we are huge fans of Adventure, even naming our company that. It’s at the core of who we are and what we want out of life. Whether that’s exploring adventurous places in real life or on-screen.
The last quality and one of the most important ones for us is fucking persistence. Being creative, owning a business, and making films and commercials require a ton of persistence. It’s a constant thing that is needed. I truly believe persistence is what separates out the greats. It’s getting up and doing things over and over, again and again even when you don’t want to. But it’s also not giving up when everyone tells you to! We started our company in 2009 back during the Great Recession. Everyone told us we were crazy, to wait until later or why are you going to do that?! But we had a vision and we persisted. We worked hard and focused on our goals. We knew what we wanted and we did it. Fast forward to 2023 and we are in our 14th year of business. There’s been ups and there’s been downs but we kept at it. We did what we said we were going to do and we worked at it constantly.
Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?
We’re filmmakers but we don’t have people wanting to throw millions of dollars our way. So our challenge has always been how do you make low-budget indie films look like studio films with super high budgets. We want to make the most impossible stories in our minds look photo-real! We don’t want money to be an excuse that holds us back. So we are working on it. We found out the programs and tools LucasFilm and other big studios are using and we’re learning them. We’ve learned how to wear multiple hats in production as well. I know it seems impossible but again it’s at the top of our list and I am pretty confident we’ll figure it out 🙂
Contact Info:
- Website: www.adventurecompany.org
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adventurecompanyllc/
- Youtube: BackSpace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi_lChXKs0c
- Other: Films: https://adventurecompany.org/films News: https://adventurecompany.org/news
Image Credits
Adventure Company LLC
