The Team
Patti Hobfoll
Head of Production
As Head of Production and co-founder of Trail Nine Media, Patti has cultivated relationships with agency partners, expertly orchestrating the translation of their vision from page to production. Examples include work for Click it Utah’s Hispanic campaign, and Valley ENT physician group. Patti also produced the filming of San Francisco’s 2021 Day of the Dead Festival of Altars and subsequent live stream, working closely with the festival organizers to capture the joy, reverence, and culture of the beloved festival. Another favorite credit includes documentary production for a Walk 2 Honor, a 4 month walk by West Point alum and veteran Greg Washington to raise awareness for PTSD and veteran suicide.
Before co-founding Trail Nine Media, Patti served as Head of Production for Philadelphia-based production company Main Gate Media House, spearheading meaningful content projects and leveraging top cinematographers, directors, and producers. She managed projects for large pharmaceutical corporations such as The Medicines Company and Teva, universities such as West Point USMA, as well as government agencies such as The United States Forest Service.
Working for the Medicines Company, Patti worked as the co-producer to collaboratively bring 19 finished videos to the client, distributing them across 5 global markets. She was involved in the project from concept development through final delivery; a long term project that spanned over 6 months. Patti oversaw, and many times coordinated wardrobe, set design and construction, logistics, and casting.
Todd Hickey
Creative Director
Todd is a director, producer, cinematographer, writer and creative director with more than 20 years experience in narrative, commercial and documentary projects and is the co-founder of Trail Nine Media.
Recent cinematography work includes the documentary Kid 90 (STX/Hulu), directed by Soleil Moon Frye, which won the Best Documentary Made for Streaming, at the 2021 Hollywood Critics Awards. Todd also shot the narrative feature Everything In the End filmed on location in Iceland, which has been in over 40 film festivals, won Best Feature Film Awards at several festivals, and garnered Todd two awards for Best Cinematography.
Previous feature narrative cinematography work includes the feature film, After Sex and lensing the award winning documentaries Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme and Sonny Boy. Todd made his feature-length directing debut with the documentary, Takedowns and Falls, which in 2012 was a top-rated sports documentary on Netflix. He also penned the story for the film Seeking Justice, directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Nicolas Cage, January Jones and Guy Pearce.
After several years of Director/DP work includes web campaigns for Adidas and Pepsi, a short documentary for Obey Inc, with Shepard Fairey, a music video for Snoop Dogg, Todd moved in to creative director work at Main Gate Media House where he conceived, wrote and directed many projects for The Medicines Company, Teva, promo work for the Army/Navy Games with West Point & Nike (2016-18), and animated videos for the National Forest Service.
From documentaries to scripted projects, Todd is highly regarded for his flair in connecting authentically with subjects and actors. Todd is an intuitive, professional artisan with the rare ability to balance the need for big picture vision with technical details required to execute quality productions.
Todd is the creative director at Trail Nine Media and is pitching a documentary series he adapted from the book Dissent, History of an American Idea.