williams headquarters charlottesville virginia services production design & touring video website filamentprod.com filament productions is a production design and touring video company based in charlottesville virginia usa since 2005 . it was founded by fenton williams who was the first road manager for the dave matthews band dmb . during the early 1990s williams realized he was not the best road manager and found his passion in designing sets and lighting at the dmb concerts . filament productions has since grown alongside the dave matthews band providing the band with video production lighting and set design . 1 2 as of 2010 filament productions is one of the top production design and touring video companies in the industry because of its success with the dave matthews band which has been the third highest grossing touring band in the world and one of the highest attended touring bands in north america . 3 filament s list of clients now includes tim mcgraw zac brown band and luke bryan . philanthropy edit in 2009 filament productions donated a 3 000 square foot 280 m2 retail space on the downtown mall in charlottesville virginia to the virginia film festival and also provided personnel to record the official trailer that played before every film . on june 22 2010 filament partnered with nashville rising a benefit concert for food relief victims in middle tennessee headed by faith hill and tim mcgraw . filament donated production design and touring video for the event which helped raise over 2 million . 4 over 19 different artists performed including miley cyrus billy ray cyrus carrie underwood blake shelton jason aldean leann rimes luke bryan michael w. smith miranda lambert taylor swift toby keith martina mcbride amy grant lynyrd skynyrd blake shelton julie roberts and zz top . filament also partnered restore the gulf s be the one campaign for which filament donated a production team to film dave matthews for his portion of the video . 5 for the 2010 virginia film festival filament produced the official trailer that played before every film as well as the official commercial for the 2010 festival . references edit hot seat light master dmb did it for fenton the hook newspaper . retrieved 6 july 2010 . claiborne vickie 2007 12 07 fenton williams plsn projection lights and staging news . retrieved 7 july 2010 . dave matthews expanding film company hollywood reporter . retrieved 9 july 2010 . nashville rising pollstar restore the gulf official website external links edit filament productions filament productions official twitter retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title filament productions & oldid 655997618 categories film production companies of the united statescompanies based in virginia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 april 2015 at 17 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view