Our Story
From the set of Snowscape (2015), our first digital short as Pacheco Projects & Productions.
The Worlds We Built
Family is a complicated thing. For better or worse, it is your origin, and sets the stage for the rest of your life.
Loryn and Raphael Pacheco grew up as siblings in San Diego. Their relationship was full of imagination, with their households and neighborhoods becoming sets for increasingly elaborate games of make-believe. In the worlds they built, they were heroes and adventurers, exploring the vast expanse of space or delving into the lairs of nefarious villains. These stories were perilous, but joyful.
They were also an escape.
As the years rolled by and the layers of innocence peeled away, art grew ever more into an escape. Writing, music, illustration, games, video; these all became anchors as the undeniable reality of their troubled domestic life set in. Before either of them reached maturity, their family had been scattered in disparate directions. Poverty, deportation, addiction, greed, abuse, and generational traumas all came to a head as they came of age. Gone were the worlds of adventure. The stage had been set for a world of grey.
Metamorphosis
Lebanon was a quaint, blink-and-you-miss-it town in Dutch country, and a whole different beast from SoCal. Raph had never even seen snowfall before being buried under several feet of it in one of the region’s harsh winter storms.
Several years and thousands of miles had passed, but here in this small Pennsylvania town, Loryn and Raph at last reunited as young adults, in search of a fresh start and a new direction. So in March of 2015, they joined forces to do together what they had always loved: creating. Their journeys led them to different creative skills, but together they possessed everything needed to produce online video and live stream content. With the digital short Snowscape, a new endeavor dubbed Pacheco Projects & Productions (now P3 Collective) was born.
These years were a time of reformation. They lived, ate, and worked together, refining their collaboration and narrative craft while facing the darkness of their past. It was an era of healing, growing, and learning. The siblings’ creativity matured with them. Mere escapism evolved into darker, more challenging tales that processed the pain they’d seen and experienced. Funded by blue collar jobs, the Pacheco siblings expanded the scope of their team and production capabilities, working with all manner of actors, artists, musicians, and filmmakers from around the globe. In 2017 the P3 team produced the epic fantasy web series The Edeneth Chronicle, and followed that from 2017-2020 with the actual play horror web show Resident Roleplay. Then in 2022 launched their first audio-only production with the Hypercube Podcast.
But this period of growth culminated in perhaps their greatest accomplishments: finding love. In 2024, the Pacheco siblings once again parted ways, but this time to live with their partners in separate corners of the globe.
New Horizons
The windswept plains of Oklahoma were a new kind of peril and beauty. Ditto with the sun bleached coasts of Australia. Ditto with their industries and cultures. Ditto with marriage itself. Each presented both challenge and joy; they would take some getting used to. But after everything the Pachecos had been through, perhaps another fresh start was in order.
The Pacheco siblings created P3 with several equal goals. First, to tell the kinds of stories they love. Second, to build something together that they can be proud of, detached from their traumatic past, which can itself alleviate suffering and leave the world a better place. And lastly, to found a creative haven for themselves and others.
To this day, we are still here. Doing just that. Both locally and remotely. Within our borders and across oceans. With words and performance. With picture and sound. Telling stories, by any medium necessary.