From unseen to undeniable.

Arete (ah-RET-ay). The old Greek word for excellence, the kind a craft reaches when nobody lets it be average. We named the company after the standard so we'd have to keep it.

Arete Media is a video production house with fifteen years behind the camera and a bias for work that pays for itself. Brand films, documentaries, and monthly content systems for businesses, founders, and venues, each one shaped around the job it has to do: sell the service, land the hire, hold the room. Some shops chase a look. We chase the result, and the look comes with it.

Trusted by
The Walt Disney Company Edgefactory Ducati Orlando University of Central Florida Themed Entertainment Association Citrus Club H.B. Fuller Downtown Orlando Partnership Rider Market
Ernesto Matos, Arete Media
Ernesto "Nes" Matos

The filmmaker behind Arete Media. Fifteen years in production, from narrative film sets to Disney projects through Edgefactory, and before any of it, YouTube University, class of 2011. He dreams in color and turns what a partner imagines into something you can press play on. The person on your call is the person on your shoot.

15 years in production Telly Award winner FAA Part 107 drone pilot Bilingual, English & Spanish

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