About
Christal Frost
Owner/Creative Consultant
Jordan Anderson
Owner/Producer
Pancake Boy Productions is a Traverse City-based video production and content strategy company helping Northern Michigan organizations tell stories people actually want to watch.
We partner with nonprofits, businesses, public agencies, and community-minded brands to create video, social content, podcasts, and campaigns that make a clear connection with the people they need to reach. From a single high-impact film to an ongoing content relationship, our work is built around thoughtful strategy, strong storytelling, and a production process that feels collaborative rather than complicated.
Our projects range from documentary films and mission-driven fundraising videos to brand stories, commercials, social campaigns, event coverage, interviews, and original local media. We also produce Compass Local’s Currently and The Conversation, creating a platform for the people, ideas, and issues shaping Northern Michigan.
At the center of it all is a simple belief: good video should do more than look polished. It should help people understand, care, remember, and take the next step.
PBP brings big-picture creative thinking and hands-on production to every project, with the care and responsiveness of a local partner. Pancake Boy Productions: We Stack Up!
So, why Pancake Boy?
We get that a media company named Pancake Boy Productions seems...unusual.
See, back in the day, "Pancake Boy" was the nickname given to co-owner Jordan Anderson by the staff of his favorite all-night diner, a shorthand for the server to yell back to the kitchen when he'd walk in so the cook could have a shortstack ready in no time.
One could draw a few parallels between this story and today's Pancake Boy Productions. After all, it was Jordan's first experience with really good customer service.
A young Pancake Boy at The Clock,
formerly near the State Park in Traverse City
Sure, breakfast food and social media & TV ready videos & written content are different, but the approach Jordan and his partner and wife, Christal Frost, take to serving their clients is no different: get to know them, understand what they're looking for, anticipate their needs and over-deliver in a way that really sticks with you.
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