pho·to·ge·net·ic·mo·tion \ˌfō-tō-jə-ˈne-tik-ˌmō-shən\ n
[photo, the frame light leaves behind + genetic, what one frame passes to the next + motion, what the eye makes of the difference] (2026)1 : the practice of giving a still image a life of its own, one frame
inheriting from the last2 : the belief that the simplest true thing is the one worth bringing
to life
[photo, the frame light leaves behind + genetic, what one frame passes to the next + motion, what the eye makes of the difference] (2026)1 : the practice of giving a still image a life of its own, one frame
inheriting from the last2 : the belief that the simplest true thing is the one worth bringing
to life
someone is holding a photograph, a single moment already over by the time it was taken, and left alone it will never move.then they give it something of their own, and the photograph begins to answer, repeating itself with the smallest change each time until there are twenty-four for every second it will ever be alive.the light passes through them, and it opens its eyes, and what began inside one person stands forty feet tall in a dark room, in front of people who have never met them.this is photogeneticmotion.
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isis a. wells / production
isis leads production at pgm, coordinating and line producing across the slate through saltlight pictures, her own company and a producing partner of ours. a south carolina–born, atlanta-based producer and director often called a "production swiss army knife," she has contributed to features for bet and lifetime and produced campaigns for mcdonald's, doordash, and dove — work that's reached over 25 million views. she develops and directs her own projects alongside pgm's.
ryan henry knight / creative
ryan leads creative at pgm, building the slate alongside onyou. a filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer from alexandria, virginia, he writes, shoots, edits, and colors much of his own work, and has directed campaigns for nike, red bull, google, and adidas. his films have screened at the oscar-qualifying austin and bronzelens film festivals and the bafta-qualifying aesthetica, and his screenplays have won the golden script competition and the new york international screenplay awards. his short uija was selected by sofia coppola for a $10,000 award at decentralized pictures, financing the first snow, which he co-directs with onyou. he is developing the features metrom and loverboy.
téa rahman / business & legal
téa has been with pgm since its inception, running business and legal affairs and keeping everything behind the work in order. her interests span law, politics, philosophy, and storytelling — driven by a desire to understand people and ideas, and to explore how stories shape the way we see the world. filmmaking has become another lens for that exploration, running parallel to her path toward the law.
onyou hong / development
onyou leads development and creative at pgm, is a filmmaker, educator, and co-founder. he fell in love with celluloid after shooting on super 16mm, worked at national geographic society in washington, dc, and spent years across independent productions and documentaries in every department from camera to sound. when injuries pulled him away from camera work, he spent over a decade as a high school counselor, finding that same love of narrative and human truth in education. he joined forces with ryan to create pgm pictures at the start of 2026. their motivation? the joy of making films, the freedom to put their vision and imagination on screen, and a shared belief that cinema matters.