Fat Chance Media

Real stories to move
your audience.

Documentary-style video for healthcare, education, and mission-driven organizations. Trusted by St. Louis institutions for 10+ years to tell stories that get at who they are.

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2026St. Louis, MO

We make your job easier.

Fat Chance Media works directly with marketing professionals in healthcare, higher education, businesses, and nonprofits to create beautiful, effective video content with high ROI.

We handle the entire video production process for you, creating valuable commercial video while remaining flexible and easy to work with—and our clients come back again and again.

We help you solve the specific marketing problem you're facing, while approaching your audience with honesty and sincerity. Our work genuinely moves viewers, because your work is genuinely important. Let us help you show it.

"Hands down, one of the best creative storytellers and external vendors I've worked with in my career. Dan’s ability to understand the strategic needs of a project with little direction and manage every detail from concept to completion with thought and precision make him an incredibly valuable partner whose powerful storytelling delivers results."

Christopher Polley, former Director of Marketing & CommunicationsRichard A. Chaifetz School of Business, Saint Louis University

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Clients who come back again and again—that's a good sign.

We're here to make the process easy on you, from strategy to shoot day, interviewing to editing. Owner Dan Warner has run Fat Chance Media since 2015, and has worked with and within marketing departments to find a process that works for you and gets great results.

From short event highlight videos to complex, multi-departmental commercial projects with dozens of deliverables, we can handle it all. And our client list tells that story.

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  • Creative Development

    Develop your video strategy. Define your audience and clarify what you need to tell them. Maximize ROI from your video project to get valuable content that's effective in the long term. We're here to help.

  • Pre-Production

    Fat Chance Media is a small company, which means you work directly with the owner to plan out your commercial, corporate video, branded documentary, or promotional film. Streamlined communication, simpler process, less work on your end.

  • Video Production

    Beautiful, documentary-style video production that will move your audience. We use small crews, shoot on location, and help reveal the beauty in what you do.

  • Video editing

    Our documentary-style approach creates authentic, meaningful films that get at who you really are. Real people, real interviews—let us help tell your story.

  • Post-Production

    Color grading, sound design, and motion graphics to make your video or film professional, compelling, and true to you.

  • Photography

    Additional photography to get you all of the content that you need for your site or campaign, done efficiently to get the most from your budget .

"The videos were great for recruiting and definitely helped, and I appreciated how easy he was to work with."

Jamie Sutherell, MD, Vice Chair of EducationSSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine

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