PhotoSynthesis Productions

About Us

award winning film and video

company profile

PhotoSynthesis Productions has been making award winning films and videos for 30 years.
PSP was founded in 1980 and has been making award-winning films and videos in downtown Ithaca ever since. PSP offers complete video and DVD production services including acquisition in high definition digital video, animation, editing, motion graphics and DVD authoring.

We work for world-class clients worldwide, including the National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, Cornell University and many others. We also produce our own work with a special focus on science education and social justice.  In the last five years alone we have won almost 50 awards at film, video and interactive media competitions.

the staff


Deborah C. Hoard - President

Deborah has been a producer, writer, and researcher at PSP for 20 years, and President since 2003.  Her work is focused on education and social justice and is widely recognized for its honesty, accuracy and technical excellence. Her awards include a Silver Hugo, seven CINE Golden Eagles and eight Telly Awards.

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Garth Avery – Editor / Visual Effects Artist

A recent Ithaca College grad, Garth loves everything about movies – writing them, making them, watching them, talking about them, and watching them again.

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David Kossack – Editor / Videographer

A long time Ithacan, David graduated in 2004 from Ithaca College's Park School of Communications with a degree in Cinema Production. While at IC he wrote, directed and produced a number of short films including Robot Dreams and Good Housekeeping.

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Kai Keane – Visual Effects Artist / Assistant Editor

Kai has been playing with visual effects for fun for years, and started working with PSP in his Junior Year of High School. Now he's moving on to college. Lucky for PSP, Kai's only going up the hill to Cornell.

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Manuela Amzallag – Assistant Editor

Beginning her video career as a fashion / prop stylist and editor on still photo shoots in New York City, Manuela escaped the big city to join the PhotoSynthesis crew here in Ithaca.

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