BUSINESS
Wallowa County Chieftain
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Rawls brings own version of Hollywood to Enterprise
BIZZ
BUZZ
By Bill Bradshaw
Paper Street
Enterprise
produces mostly
live events
E
NTERPRISE —
Hollywood in Enter-
prise? Well, not
quite, but some of Grady
Rawls’ work with Paper
Street Enterprise might
rival it.
Snugly tucked in a base-
ment studio under Sugar
Time Bakery along North
River Street, Rawls has
computers, cameras and
lenses of all types and
pretty much anything he
needs to create an audio/
video production.
“We can take anything
on now, but I cut my teeth
on doing wedding cinema
from 2008 to 2012 and that
is a dynamic, live event,
so we specialize in live
events,” Rawls said. “For
half the year, I’m fi lming
hunting television. These
are guys who have shows
or have once-in-a-life-
time hunts and they want
to have it fi lmed. Growing
up here, I spent time in the
mountains and now I get
to — for the past 13 years
— I get to follow people
in the woods doing hunts
and then producing fi lms
on that.”
Mostly a one-man oper-
ation, Rawls occasionally
contracts with freelancers
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Grady Rawls, owner of Paper Street Enterprise, edits one of the weddings he shot recently Thursday, April 22, 2021, in his studio
in Enterprise.
and farms out some of his
editing work online to peo-
ple around the world.
“I have a web of peo-
ple we farm work out to.
I can’t do all this on my
own,” he said. “I can shoot
it way faster than I can
edit it, so we have people
around the world who are
helping do this.”
He’s also planning
some expansion. He hopes
to move his current stu-
dio to a location on Main
Street, but he also is con-
sidering expansion beyond
Enterprise.
“Here we are in Enter-
prise, Oregon. I think I’ll
have a Paper Street Boise,
a Paper Street McCall, a
Paper Street wherever,” he
said.
Rawls said the name of
his video company comes
— not surprisingly — from
a movie.
“Paper Street Enter-
prise got its name from
the movie, ‘Fight Club,’
and those boys went down
on Paper Street and had
a company called Paper
Street Soap Co.,” he said.
“How ‘Fight Club’ sat with
me is, you’ve got a guy
who says he became part
of the system and … he
doesn’t have any happiness
but he’s going about all this
stuff . He meets this coun-
terpart who ends up being
himself, if you’ve seen the
fl ick, but … he releases
his mind; he gets to not
worry about the world and
starts to worry about living
and happiness. … I don’t
agree with what those boys
were up to, but it’s just the
underlying details of it.”
While his company
has branched out, one of
Rawls’ specialties remains
wedding videos.
“We still rely on wed-
dings — I’ve shot over 100
weddings in my life and
we do photo and video,”
he said. “We specialize in
what we call a same-day
edit and that is where the
fi lm is shown at the recep-
tion. … It’s a very niche
thing, but it’s something
where we get to show off
our talent under super
stress to blow everybody
away about 10 o’clock at
their reception. It’s pretty
cool.”
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He also does much com-
mercial work, shooting
advertisements for small
businesses. His sister,
Tosca Rawls, works at the
Wallowa Valley Center for
Wellness, providing him
an “in” there. Paper Street
Enterprise has become the
prime fi lmmaker and media
company for the center. He
also does work for other
businesses.
“We do most anything,
like if you go to the Minam
store, or you go to Wallowa
Valley Center for Wellness
or Winding Waters River
Expeditions up in Joseph
on the river, it’s people like
that I create videos for of
everyday life and making it
cool,” he said.
But it’s the creative
aspect of the business that
fi res Rawls up.
“It’s a place where not
only artists but anybody
can come and bounce ideas
and it will have, eventu-
ally, open work stations,
plus places you can rent, a
real interactive situation,”
he said. “I have my own
offi ce, but you can come
to me and say, ‘Hey, what
do you think about this
idea?’ Because that’s who
I am. I’m a creative. I cre-
ate ideas and then we try to
push them.”
To view some of Rawls’
work, go online to paper-
streetenterprise.com. He
can be contacted at 541-
908-2375 or by email at
rawls@gmail.com.
———
Bill Bradshaw is a
reporter for the Wallowa
County Chieftain. Have a
business tip? Contact him
at 541-398-5503 or bbrad-
shaw@wallowa.com.
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