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Rubin Whitmore II believes in the pursuit of happiness.

Rubin has been invited to lecture on music videos, filmmaking and society at universities from Clark Atlanta University to North Carolina Central University, from his alma mater the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh to Savannah College of Art & Design. He is a veteran filmmaker with close to one hundred film projects, ranging from documentaries to music videos. Rubin has amassed over fifteen gold, platinum and multi-platinum plaques for producing and directing music videos. He was recently nominated for the Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation funded 2008 Media Arts Fellowship program through the Renew Media organization.

Rubin was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a self-acknowledged public school kid. An original music video teenager, who by the age of 13 had created a bunch of video shorts in various genres from suspense to westerns and sci-fi. Rubin is pursuing his master’s in Media Studies at The New School University in New York. He received his bachelor’s in Radio/TV/Film from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where he was nominated outstanding young alumni and was part of the team that won a student academy award during his undergraduate years. While at UW-O he created their first music video television show, the second longest running television program on Titan TV at fifteen years. He is developing his first feature film and is in production on several documentaries slated for public television and video release.

Rubin believes in artistic freedom and shuns imposed censorship yet believes that media holds significant influence over the minds of many and hopes to encourage people to utilize media more responsibly. Active in the community he regularly works with, at risk youth and the future mediamakers of tomorrow. He was selected as an Urban Education Fellow in Milwaukee, which has led him to teaching Media Literacy courses on a high school level at The Hope School in Milwaukee. He fearlessly tackles the impact media has on society especially music videos and the urban youth.

If you ask him what he does for a living he often says, raising his daughter.

420 Teaser Trailer v1 from Rubin Whitmore II on Vimeo.

Director Rubin Whitmore II has created a film to touch the heart and soul of those who don’t understand why people use marijuana and the stories behind the persons.

Our studio can work with just about any form of recorded media. Once we have your music, we work with the artist on a level depending on your budget to shoot live performances outside or inside the studio and/or work from a storyboard.

Price is always important, but it’s worth nothing if the quality is not there. Our innovative and creative staff know how to work with artists to highlight their unique personality in order to showcase it to the world! Ground Hawg Distribution is attracting musicians and performers from major cities all over the Midwest to capitalize on this attention to detail.

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Not only do we produce music videos but we also create short films, media kits, Press Kits, artist Interviews, and Documentaries.

This video shows just a few different types of projects we’ve done with some regional and national artists .

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