Lighting the gasoline trail on the set of Stuck in the Desert

A BMX rider in the air above a San Diego skatepark, from Raye Sundaze — Summertime

A drummer under red and blue stage light at the Black Star Polo Bene-Fest

A lone figure at a late-night bus stop, from the short film DEFICIT

Two robbers back to back with revolvers, from Stuck in the Desert

May 2026 · San Diego Music Awards — Best Music Video, "Stuck in the Desert" →

We make art with the people building San Diego's music scene.

Music videos are our specialty — the same crew also handles documentaries and short films, live event coverage, corporate livestreaming, and photography, based in San Diego and ready to travel for the right scene.

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Stuck in the Desert

San Diego Music Awards Winner✦Label-Ready Productions✦San Diego, California✦

Who We Are

San Diego video production, in service of the scene.

JWMedia started out shooting documentaries and multi-camera live coverage of indie shows around San Diego. Music videos became the specialty from there — including a San Diego Music Award for Best Music Video in May 2026 with The Gravities' "Stuck in the Desert." The same crew still covers live events, documentaries and short films, corporate livestreaming, and photography for artists, venues, and brands across the city.

We produce short films today, with feature-length work on the horizon. Whatever the format, one team carries the project from first concept to final delivery.

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Best Music Video

2026 San Diego Music Awards

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San Diego

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MUSIC VIDEO

The Gravities — Stuck in the Desert

A cinematic, high-octane music video for The Gravities: when a bank robbery gets botched, the band has no choice but to destroy the money, or risk being killed. JWMedia's first official music video — the first time Jacob Willett wrote and directed a music video, made while he was still a film student at SDSU, with cinematography by Austin Harris, whose camera and aerial-unit credits include Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Black Panther, and Baby Driver. Winner, Best Music Video at the San Diego Music Awards in May 2026.

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SHORT FILM | QUEER ANTI-ROMANCE

Our Place

Jacob Willett's first SDSU project, made in his first semester of SDSU's film program. He pitched and developed the idea, then brought in writers Amanda Harper and Wren Jordan before directing. A devious romance emerges in the midst of a tragic breakup — a queer anti-romance starring Jordan Davenport, Angel Huerta, and Lucien Escarguel, inspired by John Waters and Divine's "Female Trouble." Winner, Best Original Song at the San Diego Short Film Festival's Q3 showcase. Scored with a fully custom-composed piece for live brass, organ, piano, and clarinet — the lead actress came into the studio to record vocals over it.

MUSIC VIDEO

The Resinators — Edge Sheeran

A high-energy official music video for The Resinators — formed in Oregon in 2015, relocated to San Diego in 2018 — written and directed by the band, shot by Jacob Willett and Jacob Clement.

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COMEDY SHORT FILM

Hang-Ups

Everybody has their hang ups. Anticipating a date at his overly messy apartment, a man frantically cleans and rearranges everything in sight — and unravels when his date doesn't show by 7:00, in a montage cut entirely to John Waters and Divine's "Female Trouble." A companion piece to DEFICIT, shot the same scrappy way: Willett writing, directing, and starring, Zendejas as DP, editor, and colorist, all on a budget under $200 — together, the two shorts are what got Jacob into SDSU's film production program.

MUSIC VIDEO

Raye Sundaze — Summertime

A summer music video for Raye Sundaze, shot on the same San Diego streets where he battled addiction before getting clean — from the barbershop to the waterfront, the song he wrote about coming out the other side.

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SHORT FILM | SURREAL COMEDY

DEFICIT

Late-night bus-stop surrealism: while waiting for the last bus of the night, an eccentric, socially awkward server tries to make conversation with the mysterious suited man beside him — and things get increasingly bizarre in this deadpan surreal comedy, set to a custom-composed score performed by real session musicians. Written, directed, and starring Jacob Willett on a budget under $200, with Gabe Zendejas behind the camera as DP, editor, and colorist. DEFICIT and its companion short, Hang-Ups, are the two student films that got Jacob into SDSU's film production program.

SHORT FILM | SURREAL COMEDY

86'd

A fine-dining chef cashes in on his bad luck — a silent, surreal comedy about ambition and consequence, directed by Jacob Willett and starring musicians Riston Diggs as the chef and Primo Dirty as the thief. Told without dialogue and scored entirely with Riston Diggs' own music from his EP "People of The World," alternating between the lyrical and instrumental versions of "Nothing to Prove," "Soldier," and "Signs of Time." Shot one week before "Stuck in the Desert."

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