Meet the founders.
Content Dept. is Dre Castillo and Tess Taggart, working out of Oakland Park, Florida. We plan it, film it, cut it, publish it and manage it, so the companies and artists we work with get a real content department without the payroll.
Dre Castillo
Founder · Direction, filming, editingEight years in multimedia production, from personal headshots to multimillion dollar event coverage. Dre directs the day, shoots it and cuts it: video, photo and drone.
Tess Taggart
Founder · Content, Meta ads, clientsTess runs everything facing out: the clients, the marketing and how the work reaches people. She also runs Content Dept.’s own accounts.
Where we’ve been.
Dre Castillo
- Multimedia ProducerValuetainment
Filmed Vault 2025: Tony Robbins, Martha Stewart and David Falk with Patrick Bet-David, in front of ten thousand people.
- Videographer, Editor and ProducerViewpoint by Dennis Quaid and Empowered by Meg Ryan
One of four primary videographers, interviewing governors, CEOs, athletes and celebrities across the country and abroad.
- Videographer and EditorKala Marketing Group
Launch media for car dealerships: catalogs, commercials and testimonials.
- BA in Multimedia StudiesFlorida Atlantic University, 2022
FAA Part 107 certified drone pilot.
Tess Taggart
- Director of ContentMore than five companies
All media production for products and marketing campaigns.
- Content direction and Meta adsContent Dept.
Sets the direction, runs the ads and manages the client month.
- Animation and designContent Dept.
Product loops, logo moments and graphics that move.
- Graduated in filmFlorida State University
Certified by Meta to run Meta ads.
- Black Violin
- Tony Robbins
- Patrick Bet-David
- Paris Fashion Week 2024
- Miami Swim Week 2023
- MICAM Milan Fashion Week
- Warped Tour 2025
- Rene Mejia Design
- Celsius
- Synopsys
- ALYK
- Just CBD
- Melo
- Cloud Cola
Selected work.
Follow along.
The two of us, the shoots and the finished work, as @bycontentdept on every platform.
A studio and professional gear.
A calm set in Oakland Park for headshots, product and creative work. Professional gear for everything on location: offices, sites and stages, out to about four hours by road and further by air.
Let's make something.
Tell us about the company or the artist and what is coming up. Reach out the way that is easiest for you. We read every message.