Beto "Mooncricket" Lopez

A dream to make films since 7 years old and that dream never ends.

A photographer and videographer since his mid-teens, Beto discovered his love of the art form with his 35mm Spiderman camera at the age of five. In the early 90s at 16, started filming short films with actor friends & documenting the life of hip-hop in his community. By 18 Beto saved for a prosumer camera special events and weddings: his career was born. Having attended Delta College and the Art Academy for motion picture studies and photography, Beto was already working on his own documentary, a project which took him all around the United States and later to international destinations. His innovative style soon got the attention of Sony USA Corporation who promptly hired him as their content producer for numerous video projects. In 2008, Beto joined the team at David Perry and Associates, Inc, working on such projects as “BatKid”, the running of the Olympic Torch, George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art, Kilroy, SuperBowl 50 and producing many iconic aerial images of San Francisco City Hall, currently to this day. From 2009-2013. Beto created videos and photography for Ford Motors: traveling the country in one of their prototype cars. Winning second place in a national competition, Beto’s work has been featured in a number of Ford commercials and advertisements including magazines in your supermarket & bookstores. His drone work has been featured online and by CBS-5 TV several times over the years. As one of his clients says: “he could fly a drone through the eye of a needle.” Quite simply, he is the best in business, and completely FAA certified and trained. Working with Stephon Marbury currently since 2006 filming in many locations including many trips to China creating content and social media marketing videos for Marbury's brand. 6 months living in China and 3 years back and forth has help created the start of the documentary film “A Kid From Coney Island” on Netflix and Amazon Prime. Other documentary work on PBS, CNN and many more. To this very day Beto works as a DP on other peoples films including his own two project docs that has taken him around the world filming.