A Different Breed · 3× 2026 Daytime Emmy® Nominee See the nominations →

We have the story
surrounded.

Premium documentary series and brand entertainment
for the world's largest platforms.

2026 Daytime Emmy® Nominee

A Different Breed

Nominated for 3 Daytime Emmy® Awards

  • Outstanding Lifestyle Program InkBlot Narratives · Purina Films
  • Outstanding Directing Erik Becker · Aaron Bowden
  • Outstanding Editing Bryn Vytlacil · Erik Becker · Kara Ferrari
A Different Breed Amazon Prime Video
ORIGINAL NONFICTION

The difference between truth and fiction
is that fiction
has to make sense.

Everyone experiences the world from exactly one point of view. That's the only one they ever get. What documentary does, real documentary, is borrow the tools of cinema to arrange those individual truths into something larger. A tapestry of perspectives that, when cut together the right way, forms a true story that plays like a movie.

Platforms

  • Amazon Prime Video
  • Discovery+
  • Peacock
  • Paramount
  • WB Discovery
  • BET+
  • HGTV
  • A&E
  • YouTube
  • HBO Max
  • 01 Docuseries 2025

    A Different Breed

    Amazon Prime Video

    3× 2026 Daytime Emmy® Nominee

    A landmark content-to-commerce series following elite canine competitors, and the people who love them.

  • 02 Music Documentary 2022

    The Murder Inc Story

    BET+

    The rise and fall of hip-hop's most notorious label, told from the inside.

  • 03 True Crime Documentary 2021

    Who Killed the Lyon Sisters?

    Discovery+

    A 50-year cold case. Two girls, gone. A documentary that finally delivered answers.

  • 04 Docuseries 2018

    Hangin' With Los Henrys

    YouTube

    Inside the extravagant world of a Mexican-American dynasty that broke the internet.

  • 05 Docuseries 2017

    Salvage City

    Discovery

    For one crew, Baltimore's urban wasteland is a goldmine.

  • 06 Docuseries 2020

    Listed Sisters

    HGTV

    Two sisters flipping homes and redefining what it means to build something together.

The most powerful way to get someone to believe something is true is to convince them they came to that conclusion on their own.

When a brand comes to us, we bring the same craft we bring to everything else. We don't make ads. We make stories people actually want to watch. Stories where the brand belief is self-evident, never stated out loud. Ads interrupt. Entertainment invites. People skip one and seek out the other, share it, come back for more. That is how a brand earns something advertising never could.

25+ Years in Production
100s Hours of Television
8 Major Platforms
INKBLOT ORIGINALS

What we've made.

Subculture / Sports Documentary · Series
2026 Daytime Emmy® Nominee Three Nominations
  • Outstanding Lifestyle Program InkBlot Narratives · Purina Films
  • Outstanding Directing Erik Becker · Aaron Bowden
  • Outstanding Editing Bryn Vytlacil · Erik Becker · Kara Ferrari

A Different Breed

Amazon Prime Video

Purina asked whether its Incredible Dog Challenge could become a television series. InkBlot developed and produced nine episodes, collaborating with WPP on distribution to Prime Video and Peacock. The series earned three national Daytime Emmy nominations, and Purina commissioned a second season.

Read the case study → Watch on Prime Video →
Music Documentary · Series

The Murder Inc Story

BET+

The rise, fall, and redemption of hip-hop's most notorious label, told by the people who lived it.

Watch on BET+ →
True Crime · Feature Doc

Who Killed the Lyon Sisters?

Discovery+

A 50-year cold case. A documentary that finally delivered answers.

Docuseries

Hangin' With Los Henrys

YouTube

Inside the extravagant world of a wealthy Mexican-American family. The internet went wild.

Brand Entertainment · Series

AWS DeepRacer TV

Amazon Prime Video

A global machine learning competition turned into a 7-episode docuseries spanning five continents.

Watch on Prime Video →
SHOWS WE PRODUCED

Executive produced and edited by us.

Docuseries

Carvers

Syfy

Four of the world's best competitive carvers battle it out in the ultimate carving showdown.

Competition · Series

Wrench Against the Machine

Esquire Network

Old-school mechanics versus high-tech diagnostics. A battle for the soul of the garage.

Competition · Series

The Next Great Burger

Esquire Network

The search for America's next great burger and the obsessive craftspeople behind them.

Lifestyle · Series

Listed Sisters

HGTV

Two sisters transforming homes and redefining what it means to build something together.

Docuseries

Salvage City

Discovery

For Sam Coffey and his crew, Baltimore's urban wasteland is a goldmine ripe for plunder.

Travel · Series

Weekend Fix

Esquire Network

Experts hit the road to rescue weekend warriors from their most stubborn home improvement disasters.

WHAT WE DO

Two tracks.
One standard.

InkBlot Narratives is an Emmy-nominated unscripted TV production company based in St. Louis, Missouri. Not a video production shop that does a little bit of everything. Not commercials. Real television, and brand-backed entertainment people actually want to watch.

Original
Entertainment

Documentary films and nonfiction series for the world's biggest streaming platforms. We develop, produce, and deliver, from the first pitch to the final deliverable.

  • Amazon Prime Video
  • Discovery+
  • Peacock
  • Paramount
  • Warner Bros. Discovery
  • BET
  • HGTV

Brand
Storytelling

Entertainment that works because it was never built around messaging. We make things people want to watch. The brand belief is self-evident, never stated out loud.

  • Nestle Purina
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Johnson & Johnson
Blueprint for Content-to-Commerce See how we developed and produced A Different Breed for Purina →
THE STUDIO

St. Louis isn't
a compromise.
It's a cheat code.

A full brick-and-mortar production facility in the middle of the country, built to run at the level of any coastal shop, within striking distance of every US location and without the overhead. Editors might remote in from LA, New York, Chicago, Atlanta... our talent pool is the entire world. Our crews come from everywhere the story does. We're not based in one city. We're based in all of them.

  • 01

    In-House Post Production

    10 dedicated editing suites with shared high-speed storage and real-time remote access. In-house staff who know the shows and the workflows. No waiting on outside vendors. No version control nightmares. The whole team is in the same system.

  • 02

    Real-Time Remote Access

    Our infrastructure lets the best editors in the country work from anywhere as if they're sitting in the room. Geography doesn't limit who we hire. The talent pool is the whole planet.

  • 03

    Dedicated Production Staff

    Producers, AEs, editors, post supervisors, and creative producers on staff. A core team that knows how we work, what we expect, and what it takes to deliver. No rebuilding from zero on every show.

  • 04

    A Rolodex Built Over Decades

    When a project calls for it, we reach into a network of some of the most talented freelance producers, directors, and crew in the business. The right people for the right show, every time.

TRUSTED BY

Platforms

  • Amazon Prime Video
  • Peacock
  • Warner Bros. Discovery
  • A&E
  • HGTV
  • Syfy
  • BET+

Brand Partners

  • Purina
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Brado
GET IN TOUCH

Have a story?
Let's talk.

You have a story

Exclusive access, a remarkable character, an untold truth. Bring it to us. We know how to develop it into something a platform can't pass on.

You want to collaborate

Filmmakers and directors who care about craft and want a production partner who'll fight for the work. Let's figure out if we're the right fit.

You're a brand

Not an ad. A show. Built by people who've done it for Amazon, AWS, and Purina, who know how to make something audiences actually want to watch.

Erik Becker
Erik Becker Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Director, Editor & Executive Producer New Business · Development · Press erik@inkblotnarratives.com
Aaron Bowden
Aaron Bowden Co-Founder, Director & Executive Producer Production aaron@inkblotnarratives.com
Kaylee Kuhlmann
Kaylee Kuhlmann Coordinating Producer General Inquiry kaylee@inkblotnarratives.com
Kara Paar
Kara Paar Coordinating Post Producer, Digital Asset Manager kara@inkblotnarratives.com
Bohr
Bohr Production Researcher bohr@inkblotnarratives.com
Heisenberg
Heisenberg Development Producer heisenberg@inkblotnarratives.com
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