About Us

Our Story

Motionpost started in 2007, when Ed and Jeff put more than a decade each of freelance production work into one shop. Two independent operators became something bigger than either could build alone.

The job is simple to describe and hard to do well: take a client's message and turn it into a story worth watching. That's what Moving Your Message means: not just a tagline, but the reason the company exists.

Motionpost works best with clients who care about story as much as they care about production value. Partners, not vendors.

The Founders

Ed Pickart

Producer / Production Manager / Director / Editor

Ed is a producer, director, and editor who's been turning raw footage into finished stories since the 1990s: first in medical and health video, then in network sports and children's programming, and since 2007 at Motionpost, the company he co-founded with Jeff.

His credits: Series Lead Editor on Preps: Chicago Hoops for FOX. Series Lead Editor and Post Supervisor on Jack's Big Music Show for Noggin, and on Fields of Glory, Hardwood Heavens, and Nike Training Camp for MOJO. Producer and Editor on the PBS documentary D-Day Warriors: The Charles Shay Story. Editor and Post Supervisor on the independent documentary Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football, which went on to win prizes at multiple festivals - plus a handful of Telly Awards along the way.

He's worked with the American Medical Association, Adobe, Accenture, ESPN, CBS Sports, and the Chicago History Museum, among others.

What he brings to a project: communication and storytelling, and the ability to take an organization's messaging goals and turn them into video that actually lands.

Off the clock, Ed is a diehard tabletop game master. He's always looking for an independent short or documentary to work on.

Jeff Evenson

Producer / Showcaller / Editor / Live Event Tech

Jeff is a producer and show caller who's built live events and broadcast television for corporations and networks since leaving Arthur Andersen in 1995: first as a shooter and event tech, then in post-production once he taught himself the gear, and since 2007 at Motion Post, the company he co-founded with Ed.

His editing credits include The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Jerry Springer Show, Kurtis Productions' Cold Case Files, and ESPN's Sunday Night Hockey and Monday Night Countdown. On the corporate and nonprofit side, he's produced Special Olympics' Plane Pull and Polar Plunge events and edited Sara Lee's Conversations with Leaders series.

More recently his focus has shifted to live events: Show Caller for the American College of Surgeons and Underwriters Laboratories, Streaming Engineer for Stryker's annual kickoff meeting, and LED Wall Creative Director for Molex's global management meeting, where he directed a team of artists building real-time visuals for the room. He's worked Lollapalooza's Host Stage for the past three years and served as Producer/Creative Director for Georgetown University's Master of Finance program, managing a team of ten editors. Add CBS Sports Network, Hulu Live at Lollapalooza, and segment editing for Adobe MAX and Summit to the list - plus a few Telly Awards along the way.

What he brings to a project: patience, and the ability to take a mountain of footage or information and find the one story worth telling inside it.

Off the clock, he plays ice hockey several nights a week, looks after his dogs, and travels for fun.

Selected Clients