About
A photo and video agency working for your results.
Hupopiazo is a team of varied profiles and different talents: filming, photography, drone, editing, strategy, client relations. An unusual, dynamic DNA, shaped by entrepreneurship, retail, the stage and community life. Creative, attentive, and disruptive when it counts. We are the photo and video agency of Cotovio Industries Sàrl, in Lausanne: we shoot at your place, in Switzerland and abroad, and deliver fast. Working in image and sound since 2008, when our first studio, PKH Production, opened in Corsier-sur-Vevey.
Images that hold up
Multi-camera shooting, photography, drone, separately recorded sound. A dark room, a building site, a concert stage: we know how to make beautiful images without effects to hide behind.
People who run businesses
We know a video is an investment that has to pay off, and that a deadline given is a deadline met. Training: Swiss federal diploma in communication (CREA Geneva), Digital Strategist certificate, SAWI marketing and sales.
People who listen
Experience managing a retail store, under pressure and with targets. We listen to your needs, advise you, and put the people in front of the camera at ease.
Not just a nice video
A beautiful video that moves no one only flatters the ego.
Before we film, we look for what will move the people you want to reach: what holds them back, what reassures them, what makes them want it. Then we tell your story for them, not just for you.
- An emotion that makes people remember you rather than someone else.
- The right arguments, at the right time, in your customers' words.
- A clear next step: call, book, come by, apply.
We know what makes people act and what to bring into the light. The image is beautiful, but it works for your goal.
Track record
What we have already shot
A few projects, by type of client. Most of them are on the Work page.
Businesses
- Locom Immo · real-estate spot with drone, Gland
- Garage AMC · company film, Collombey
- La Griffe de Daisy · scalp micropigmentation spot
- Treebox · multi-activity gym, sport and dance
- Art-thérapie · company film premiered at Pathé cinema, Lausanne
- controleOIBT.com · ad spots
Events
- Impact Hub Lausanne · opening at Beaulieu, interviews
- Crazy Hope & Holy Nation · concert aftermovie with Kunginho, Rhemaboy and Noah Mungongo, Esther House, Geneva
- Esdras · concert in Lausanne
- Fight District Lausanne · classes streamed live during Covid, so the club kept in touch with its members
- AIMG evenings · photo coverage
Churches
- Darlène and Lucas Banovic, Amour + Puissance · conferences in Troyes and Annecy, seminar in Besançon
- Impact Centre Chrétien (ICC) · worship sessions filmed for the Impact Conférence TV channel in Paris
- Unité 21 · Lausanne
- IMC (International Mission Church) seminar in Stockholm streamed live, dubbed in French for an audience in French-speaking Switzerland: light kit, control room set up on site, interpreter on site
- Gospel Center · Annecy and Lausanne, Gosp’Elles and Barak conferences with Sandra and Julien Dubi, Matthieu Zopfmann and Éric Péchin
- Apostle Rodolfo Rojas, founder of IMC (International Mission Church) · seminars filmed in Lausanne, at Uptown Geneva and at the IMC church in Bern
- Collectif Mouvement · recap film for Empire BM
Associations and training
- AIMG (association) · events in Geneva (speaker Jérémie Bader) and Gap
- Rhema · international Bible school: reels cut from the teaching for their Instagram
- Mwasiyalelo association · field report, Yverdon
Tourism and travel
- Kinshasa, drone footage
- A campsite on the Atlantic coast, France
- Paris, Stockholm
Artists and reportage
- Sylvie Capela · music video « Digne »
- Victor Serpa Martins · Paris vlog, delivered in 48 h
- Pregnancy and maternity photos
At your place, outdoors, or in the mini studio
We don't do much studio work. Most of our images are shot in your premises, on your sites, in your venues or outdoors: that is where your business looks like itself. For interviews, portraits and products, we have a mini studio in Lausanne, backdrop and lighting included.
We edit in-house, with today's tools. That is what lets us promise 48 h on the Express offer without cutting corners.
What we shoot with
Cinema cameras, sensors built for low light, separately recorded sound and a drone. What matters to you: beautiful images, even in a dark room, with no effects to hide behind.
Why this name
“Because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she will not wear me out by her continual coming.”Luke 18:5 · the Greek verb rendered as “wear me out” is hupopiazo
The judge gives in neither to justice nor to pity. He gives in because she keeps coming back. We chose this word because communication works exactly like that: the best image doesn't win, the one that comes back most often does. Our job is to give you what you need to come back.
Mission, vision, values
What we tell ourselves
Mission
Give businesses, organisers and communities images they can publish tomorrow, at a price they know in advance.
Vision
Every good business gets seen as much as it deserves. Not only the big ones, not only those with an agency.
« Jamais dans la tendance, toujours dans la bonne direction. »
Scred Connexion, French rap. Our nod to them, and the way we work: never on trend, always in the right direction.
A prospect forgets what they saw once. We help you publish often, not once a year.
A promised deadline is a deadline kept. We would rather say no than deliver late.
At your place, at your pace, in your words. No agency jargon.
We listen first, then we dare. When stepping outside the frame is what gets you seen, we step outside it.
Shall we meet?
A 15-minute call is enough to know whether we can help.