We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Joseph Klos a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Joseph , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Naming anything – including a business – is so hard. Right? What’s the story behind how you came up with the name of your brand?
It’s funny how we came to our name as me and my wife, who is also co-owner of our business, went through a few different names before deciding on what was in front of us. Taking our last name and adding Productions to the end. Plus, my mother may have suggested it…..
Joseph , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I have always had a weird obsession when it came to movies and TV. I would watch countless behind the scenes clips and read all about random facts about what I had just watched. That obsession slowly turned into me wanting to act at first. Then life happened. I got married. Had a daughter and quietly slid that obsession to the back burner to focus on other things. It wasn’t until when covid hit and a friend from high school reached out to me about a tv pilot he wrote that really got the juices flowing. Once they started, it went from writing my own pilot to a full season. I then took what I wrote and turned to my wife one night and said we should create our own production company and film the pilot the way that I wanted to. She at first looked at me like I was crazy but, like the supportive wife she is, agreed to it and we began the whole process of getting our actors and crew together. A few years later we now have our show “Refresh” streaming on Amazon Prime and couldn’t be more excited.
We want our fans and followers to see the hard work that our wonderful actors put into this show and what separates us from other production companies is we’re there for our actors and willing to make everyone feel comfortable to be on set and have a fun time.
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
Social media is such a tricky thing to conquer and perfect! Even doing a simple Google search gives you different results on what days and times to post to reach out to more people. The advice I would give is to start out small. Reach out to friends and family. And have your friends tell their friends. Also, don’t be nervous about joining local actor groups on Facebook. A lot of actors and actresses are constantly looking for work and will start following your social media. And finally, patience. Don’t be discouraged if the followers don’t come right away. Sometimes it takes time and that is perfectly normal and okay.
How’d you meet your business partner?
I am very fortunate enough that my co-founder/business partner is also my partner in my personal life. I know a lot of the younger audience out there will find this crazy but, we met through the dating app Tinder! We always get a bunch of different responses when we tell that story. But, we have been together for almost ten years now with two beautiful daughters and I couldn’t be more happier.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @klosproductllc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/klosproductuons2020?mibextid=ZbWKwL
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@klosproductions3994?si=3G3dVkAePz2_2jGh
- Other: Our tv show IG @refreshtvshow
Image Credits
Francesca Lolli Sanchez Jess Callahan