Founded in New York in 1999 by filmmaker-producer Ramin Fathie, Viceroy Films is a film, television, documentary, and media production company built around the belief that visual storytelling can serve a wide range of creative, cultural, commercial, and institutional goals. From its earliest years, the company offered clients a full array of production and post-production services, including field producing, cinematography, crews, logistics, permits, insurance, editing, sound, graphics, and production management. Over time, Viceroy expanded beyond traditional production into executive producing, distribution strategy, digital marketing, campaign development, and creative consulting.
The company’s foundation is rooted in documentary and historical work. Viceroy served as a company of record for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Archive of American Television Project, helping produce extensive interviews with major figures in television history, including Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Mary Tyler Moore, Sidney Lumet, Don Hewitt, Ted Turner, David Brinkley, and Dan Rather. Prior to founding Viceroy, Fathie worked as a cinematographer for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, photographing more than 500 Holocaust survivor interviews in the New York region. That background gave Viceroy a lasting respect for testimony, memory, and the responsibility of capturing human stories with care.
Viceroy’s television and production-service work has included projects for Discovery Channel, HGTV, A&E Biography, PBS, CBS, WNET, CBC, MTV, USA Films, VH1, Canal+, and numerous corporate, nonprofit, fashion, medical, and cultural clients. The company provided production services for History Channel programming under Academy Award winner James Moll and worked with Academy Award winner June Beallor on documentary work connected to the Democratic National Convention. Its broader client history includes network television, branded films, nonprofit profiles, EPKs, fashion coverage, corporate communications, and documentary field production.
As a film company, Viceroy has supported independent work as producer, co-producer, executive producer, associate producer, or production partner. Its credits and associations include Ted Ciesielski’s My Empire, selected for the Tribeca Film Festival; Sarah Singh’s award-winning documentary The Sky Below; Jonny Zwick’s whale-trade documentary Breach; The Shepherd; Deserters; Finger Food; Wind Riders; Bowling Blind; Cutout; Plum Town; Visions of Mustang; and Violenta. These films have traveled through a broad festival and awards landscape, including Tribeca, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner, PBS Short Film Festival, Short of the Week, FilmQuest, and numerous international showcases. Recognition reflected in Viceroy’s materials includes The Shepherd winning Best Film at the Austrian Film Festival and Best Script at the Scandinavian International Film Festival; Deserters appearing in BAFTA- and Oscar-qualifying festival contexts and approximately 30 international festivals; Finger Food earning wins and selections across London, Greenwich, Santa Fe, Sunderland, Bolton, Annapolis, Crystal Palace, and FilmQuest; Bowling Blind receiving Best Short at the Different From What Film Festival; and Visions of Mustang screening at mountain, Buddhist, and Asia-focused festivals.
Today, Viceroy Films operates as both a production company and a creative partner: experienced enough to manage complex logistics, nimble enough to serve independent filmmakers, and story-focused enough to help clients shape material from concept through completion, distribution, and audience outreach. Its work reflects Ramin Fathie’s background in anthropology, cinematography, documentary, and producing — a combination that gives the company both technical range and a deep interest in the people, histories, conflicts, and ideas that make stories worth telling.