Founded in 2020 by Brooklyn-based filmmaker and screenwriter, Demetrios Cokinos, Stellabelle is a production company created to showcase his own original works, along with works by his creative partners. Cokinos brings a decade of experience to the venture: he’s worked on seminal TV projects like 30 Rock, Master of None, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Dickinson and Invasion.

Stellabelle’s first short film Lightning’s Echo (2021) is a magical realism story about a grief-stricken man who finds a way to capture lighting in a jar. It was an official 2022 selection in Boston’s SciFi Fest, a 2021 semi-finalist at The Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival and Platinum Remi Award Winner for Best Short Film (Dramatic) at The 55th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.

FAY was engaged to design Stellabelle’s visual identity, animated assets and other collateral items. The result—at once fresh and nostalgic—is symbol-forward, integrating common literary marks like the asterisk and em dash to reflect its screenwriter’s background.