The Studio
SCHAAF finishes brand films, commercials and documentaries for production companies and brands in the US, the UK and Europe. For select projects, it produces them too.
Alan Schaaf
Founder
I started editing when I was six, making gameplay videos in Windows Movie Maker. They were quite terrible, but I was completely hooked.
I grew up in Buenos Aires and spent a lot of my teenage years making videos for my own YouTube channel. Then, in 2020, someone came across one of them and asked if I could edit a video for them. I said yes. That became my first client.
One client turned into a few, and somehow, a year later, I was working with people all over the world.
Over time, I figured out what I actually enjoyed making: documentaries and brand films. I've always loved taking something real, finding the story hidden inside it, and turning it into something people genuinely want to watch.
In 2024, I moved to Spain and decided to make the whole thing official. What started with a kid messing around in Movie Maker is now SCHAAF, a small studio based in Madrid.
I still lead every project myself and watch every cut before it goes out. So if you work with SCHAAF, there's a good chance you'll be talking to me.
And when I'm not editing, I'm probably reading a good book, playing a video game, or building some little app I absolutely did not need to build.
