Television.
Live event and broadcast direction — World Poker Tour to FanDuel TV. The discipline is content engineering: production systems built so a sport, a show, or a network finds the audience it deserves.
Story is where our day begins.
Boonie Dog Studios · Est. 2025 · Los Angeles → Guam
Strategy.
Editorial counsel for production companies and rights-holders navigating the AI moment, the format question, and the audience problem. Vendor due diligence, format development, and the rare honest read on whether a tool earns its keep.
Stories.
Original work — memoir, fiction, short film, and worlds built for play. Inafa'maolek is the operating principle: to make good for each other, to restore harmony. It's the standard the work is weighed against.
Director's Note
I direct live television. I write. I build the things the work needs.
Decades behind the scenes in Hollywood have taught me that the audience problem is almost always a production problem in disguise — that what looks like declining viewership is usually a signal that the show on screen has stopped matching the way people watch. Our studio exists to do something about that.
Boonie Dog is the village mutt of Guam — mixed-breed, scrappy, alert, the survivor that watches before it moves. The studio is named for a character in a short film I wrote in 2024. The dog stays. The film waits.
— Frank Ishizaki