Oystercat Productions was launched with the goal of bridging our passions for hospitality, social advocacy, photography, filmmaking, and documentary-style content marketing — in addition to building community in our new home.
We’d love the opportunity to help you tell your story.
Lani Chan
After graduating from UC Davis, Lani moved to Copenhagen, where she found herself barely surviving kitchen stages under Michelin-starred chefs and eventually learning enough Danish to work on the opening team of a very cool craft beer bar. Upon her return to San Francisco, she worked as a bartender and cocktail server for two years before moving to New York for graduate school.
In 2016, she wrote and produced a short film about women sommeliers which went on to screen at several film festivals, including the Sonoma International Film Festival. She then joined the New York-based video storytelling powerhouse NowThis, where she worked for three and a half years. During that time, she produced and edited hundreds of newsy short videos on topics ranging from firefighter mental health and climate justice to solar-powered #vanlife and an actual squirrel census in Central Park.