A two-camera brand film with Patrice Banks, founder of Girls Auto Clinic. Filmed in Philadelphia with The Female Quotient for its Breaking the Mold series.
A founder story as real as the shop it was set in, with the engineer who built the repair experience she could never find.
Girls Auto Clinic is a full-service repair center in the Philadelphia area, staffed by women mechanics, that opened in 2017 after Patrice spent years teaching herself the trade. The film sits inside Breaking the Mold, The Female Quotient's series on women who built something the industry said could not exist. Presented by American Express and Delta, the brief was simple to say and harder to do. Let Patrice talk, capture the space, and show what the place feels like when you walk through the door.
Capture a working repair shop without staging it into something it is not.
A real garage is loud, tight, and full of hardware, which fights clean audio and controlled light. We needed the bay to read cinematic while still reading true. Patrice has told her story on TIME, NPR, Good Morning America, and PBS, so the bar was a version that felt like her and not a spokesperson. The last piece was length. The cut had to hold attention without flattening a story that deserves room to breathe.
We filmed on location, two cameras, and let Patrice carry a six-minute film.
Full lighting and audio made the shop feel real instead of staged. Patrice sat in her element, tools on the wall behind her, cars in the bay, the kind of frame where the background tells half the story before anyone says a word. We captured b-roll through the shop, the signage, the team, and the small details that separate this place from every other repair center you have driven past. In post, we cut to The Female Quotient brand standards with subtitles, lower thirds, and a branded end card, then built five vertical cuts so the story travels across social.
