Who We Are
Ollie Productions is an award winning husband and wife team that operates in the Greater Philadelphia Area, offering a full service production team equipt to capture your story. Founded in 2016, Karl and Steph bring years of experience in the film, production and wedding industries.
Clients from all backgrounds have described the Ollie Productions team as friendly, hardworking, creative, and most importantly fun. Booking with Ollie Productions ensures the priority is on you, from understanding and getting to know your needs, working with your timeline, and creating a vision that is truly your own. The team doesn’t stop until your expectations have been exceeded.
Karl Leisch
Hello! Karl here! I am a lover of all things visual media. For as long as I can remember, I had a camera in my hand and a desire to create. During my college years, I worked on the admissions marketing team, filming and creating content for athletics, commercials for various departments on campus. When I wasn’t playing soccer or running track, I was working part-time at a production house in the area writing scripts, arranging shoots and operating cameras.
After graduating, I started working in the film industry before spending 3 years as a video production manager at one of Philly's top PR firms. While there, I traveled the city and country, working with a variety of clients and businesses.
Running and operating Ollie Productions is now what I do full time. My wife (Steph) and I started this company in 2016 as a side hustle because of our passion to capture other peoples’ stories. Most days you will find me on a set, capturing an event, or in the office editing. You might also see me ripping down the Wissahickon trail on my mountain bike, watching the Flyers from the top row at Wells Fargo, or wandering Main street Manayunk for the perfect beer/ coffee (depending on the time of day). Let’s chat!
Steph Hogan
Hi, I’m Steph! I’m a lover of house plants, philly sports and all things photo and video! My journey in this industry started out as a kid with a camera(My first camera ever was a polaroid i-zone. Look it up if you don’t know what I’m talking about.)
After graduating college I quickly found a need to satisfy my love of creating and art. Together Karl and I created Ollie Productions. What started out as a side project, quickly became my passion. I live for the moments where I can capture true genuine emotion.
Filming couples' best days, capturing a businesses vision or telling a story through my lense is what keeps me going every day. On days where I am not capturing the love between two people, telling your stories, or crushing office work, you can find me teaching math to the future of America, running up and down the hills of Roxborough, or trying to convince Karl to road bike instead of mountain bike.
Ghost
Meet Ghostesbuns! Ghost is our house/ office rabbit. She is our in house manager of snacks (her favorite is strawberries), interior designer(you can find her rearranging her play area at any given moment), and team building extraordinaire(try to catch her by yourself, not a chance). Like us, Ghost too loves all things Philly, she is named after a Flyer. You can catch her napping on the job, giving out orders for lunch time, and charming everyone she meets with her floppy ears.