Two instincts, one standard.

Patrick Garney and Justin Coloma didn’t meet in a pitch meeting. They met in an edit bay, shaping a story frame by frame, building Nickelodeon’s Emmy-winning Nick News together.

Patrick’s the producer type: Emmy-nominated, co-creator of National Geographic Wild and Disney+’s The Incredible Dr. Pol, the guy who was instrumental in bringing Nick News back for this award-winning run. Give him a business objective and he’ll hand you back a production plan built to tell the story right. He is the ultimate hybrid producer, with time spent in just about every corner of the media landscape.

Justin’s the craftsman: an Emmy-winning director and editor whose résumé would later include Keke Palmer’s Glam Through the Ages (NAACP Image Award nod, Emmy nomination). He can find the human moment hiding inside any format — reality, style, thirty seconds, three hours, doesn’t matter.

Somewhere in that Nick News edit bay, they realized something: their two “different” skill sets were actually the same job. Substance isn’t something you sprinkle on after the final cut — it is baked in from the first pitch.

That realization became a discipline. That discipline became Artifact Productions.

Years later — after each of them had gone off and built things independently across scripted, unscripted, branded, and digital work — they came back together to build a company around the thing they had already proven works.