See the whole picture.
Connect ideas, references and possibilities. Find the thread that gives a project its direction.
Independent production & creative direction
A wider point of view.Sunny Mountain
Pictures.
The Lab / Our projectsOriginal stories. Distinctive worlds.
Step inside the work.
The Lab.
Our work,
taking shape.
Explore our projects, from films and original series to decks, trailers and the worlds behind the stories.
Explore our projects
In the Lab / 001Original series
Featured project
WEIGHT.
Everyone is carrying something.
01 / Our approachInstinct, with intention.
Visual
Synthesizers.
Creative instinct meets
strategic clarity.
A mix of big-picture thinking, hands-on technical fluency and deep human intuition. We move fluidly from concept to execution, guided by lateral thinking, visual clarity and an understanding of what makes people respond.
Know how to make it.
Bring creative thinking into practice, with the technical fluency to carry an idea through to execution.
Understand the feeling.
Read the emotional cues. Find the detail that turns something seen into something felt.
02 / Narrative thinkingAtmosphere. Pacing. Emotional truth.
The question behind the work.
What’s the story?
How do we make
people feel it?
Storytelling shapes every part of the creative process, from brand narratives to cinematic moments.
It lives in atmosphere, pacing and emotional truth — the rhythm that pulls people in and makes them care.
From the first instinct to the final frame.Explore the Lab ↗
03 / The peopleTwo perspectives. One shared instinct.
Good stories
start with people.
Sunny Mountain Pictures is led by
Danni Sonnenberg & Jaime Barnatan.
01 / DanniProducer & founder
Danni Sonnenberg
A producer’s perspective.
A storyteller’s curiosity.
Danni’s path spans development, production and creative writing, from an internship on Wedding Crashers to Co-Head of Development at Gibraltar International and work at Wall Street Films.
A graduate of UCLA Extension’s production program with an MFA in Creative Writing from Drexel, his credits include The Hitman’s Brother, Keeping It Real and the pilot Default Mode.
Filmography ↗
02 / JaimeProducer, filmmaker & creative director / Founder
Jaime Barnatan
Big-picture thinking.
Hands-on by nature.
Jaime’s work spans New York, Los Angeles and Madrid, bringing together filmmaking, branding, production and visual storytelling. He has founded creative and production companies, worked with the Wu-Tang brand and served as Head of Content at Havas Media in New York.
He studied at Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His practice explores emerging tools through a lasting interest in atmosphere, pacing and emotional truth.
Connect with Jaime ↗04 / Start a conversationSunny Mountain Pictures
Have a story
in mind?
Let’s talk. ↗sunnymountainpics@gmail.com
Creative instinct meets strategic clarity.
