Best Micro Short Film · Winner
The Indie Gathering International Film Festival · 2025
Independent production company · Tri-State
Every frame should earn its place.
Rough Cut Media creates cinematic narrative films, documentaries, and focused brand stories for people with something real to say.
Based near Huntington, West Virginia · Serving the Tri-State
Featured workReel in progress
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Explore selected projects below.
Selected work
Directing · Cinematography · EditingDirecting✦Cinematography✦Documentary✦Commercial✦Story
Recognition
Work that lands.
Independent films recognized at The Indie Gathering International Film Festival.
Festival Winner
The Indie Gathering International Film Festival · 2026
What we make
Cinematic craft.
Built around the story.
The format changes. The standard does not: understand the idea, find the honest image, and make every cut count.
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Commercial
Focused brand films and promotional videos that give local businesses something worth stopping for.
Brand stories · Promos · Social & web02
Documentary
Human-first nonfiction built around honest interviews, lived experience, and images that carry weight.
Interviews · Field production · Short docs03
Narrative
Story-driven filmmaking for original shorts, features, and collaborators who want a distinctive point of view.
Directing · Cinematography · ProductionSelected work
Story comes first.
Rough Cut Media grows from independent filmmaking—work made with intention, resourcefulness, and respect for the audience.
View Alex McComas on IMDbNarrative short
The Coffee Shop
Psychological short
Echoes of a Blank Page
Documentary
America’s Condition
Featured debut short
The Coffee Shop
A festival-recognized independent narrative short, made with a stripped-back crew and a focus on the moment inside the frame.
Directed · Director of Photography · Edited by Alex McComas
Featured narrative work
Echoes of a
Blank Page
Selected stills from an original psychological short about a writer confronting the life he cannot put on the page.
In post-production · 2026
Local business introduction
A cinematic first step.
A focused promotional film for a Tri-State business that wants to look as good online as it does in person.
$150introductory package
- 01 Up to a 90-minute shoot
- 02 One location
- 03 One 30-second, 16:9 finished video
- 04 Editing, licensed music, and color
- 05 One revision and web-ready delivery
The process
Clear from idea to delivery.
Find the story
We talk through the audience, purpose, and one idea the viewer should remember.
Build the frame
The shoot is planned around the strongest images—not a pile of footage without direction.
Make the cut
The final film is edited, colored, and prepared for the place your audience will see it.
Behind the camera
Directed with a point of view.
Rough Cut Media is an independent West Virginia production company led by filmmaker Alex McComas. Alex works across directing, cinematography, narrative film, documentary, and commercial production—with the belief that memorable work starts by paying attention to what is true.
Alex McComas Owner · Director
IMDb profileBook Alex
Let’s make something worth watching.
Need a director, DP, or a story-driven film for your business? Send Alex the idea, timeline, and what you want the audience to feel.
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