Before starting DoF Media, Barton Bishoff worked as a photojournalist in broadcast news and in public relations for a Silicon Valley search engine. Both jobs offered an opportunity to tell human stories. In news, often those stories were about individuals transforming their lives. In the technology industry, stories were often about a company improving people’s lives through products that brought joy and usefulness.

DoF Media believes stories can be trans-formative. Visual storytelling can move people to be more curious, better informed and can motivate them to make a decision or see a product differently. You just have to reach them. By combining experiences in journalism with the know-how of corporate communications, DoF Media can paint a picture of your story that is unique and credible.

DoF Media is a San Francisco based video production company that loves telling stories through memorable images.

DoF Media specializes in producing communications videos for technology companies. DoF videos consistently get high marks especially from engineering departments who continually express gratitude at the no-nonsense approach used. Clients include Microsoft, LinkedIn, Amazon, Yahoo!, SF AIDS Foundation, Alibaba, and Twitter.

Barton Bishoff
Owner / Founder

Barton Bishoff is a San Francisco-based filmmaker and musician.

In 2010, he founded DoF Media LLC in San Francisco, a company which produces documentary films.  

Most recently, DoF Media is partnering with KTF Films to produce Theory of Obscurity, a music documentary that premiered in 2015 at South by Southwest/SXSW in Austin, Texas. DoF also worked with KTF Films on the film Batkid Begins, which is in theaters now. 

Barton began his career in broadcast journalism in Rockford, Illinois as a photojournalist, later working for KLAS (CBS) in Las Vegas and WDJT (CBS) in Milwaukee.  At KNTV (NBC) in San Francisco, Barton produced and shot special feature stories and directed Tech Now!, a syndicated news magazine show about Silicon Valley. A 5-year stint at Yahoo! Inc. followed where Barton produced video content and worked with broadcast outlets, facilitating stories about the company.

Bishoff's career in broadcast journalism has been recognized with 9 Emmy Awards, 18 Emmy nominations, over 20 Associated Press Awards, RTNDA awards, and the Edward R. Murrow award for Best Documentary as the director of "Close to Home," a film about 9/11.

As a guitarist and pianist, Barton has performed and recorded with such artists as Tiny Little Blackouts, Miles Nielsen, Harlan Jefferson, The Snaggs, Kelly Steward, Erik Applegate, The Famous, The Moonlight Jazz Orchestra, Jeremy Buck and the Bang, The Gomows, and Bun E. Carlos and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick. 

Shawnecee Schneider
Producer

Set sail with Orion's crew as they voyage to the heart of the Pacific Northwest’s newly named inland waterway. Glide over and dive under this vibrant ecosystem on this month-long sailing journey. This expedition to learn about the historical, political and ecological factors that went into the recognition of our newest inland sea creates a sense of place highlighting some of the most iconic species and seascapes of the Salish Sea ecosystem. The Unknown Sea a Voyage on the Salish explores the natural and cultural history of the area through interviews of people deeply involved with the Salish Sea. Now in the international spotlight this dynamic place which contains the new San Juan Islands National Monument, proposed coal and tar sands export terminals, and the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales, Captain Kevin Campion and his film team know that now is the time to show the Salish Sea to the world.