Community-Based Stories & Education
You’re a team of educators, community-creators, or making good-ers, ready to bring your work to the people who need it most. We’re a compassionate, education-minded team of creatives—experts in filmmaking, illustration, writing, and programming—who use deep listening and gentle boundary-pushing to create the images, videos, words, and websites that connect people. We’d love to collaborate.
Take a look at a few of our projects:
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An interactive app, developed with Phoenix House CA to support K-12 graders through the pandemic with self-care and creativity.
Our New Normal
Teens with cancer, at a time in their lives when it’s most important to be surrounded with a community of peers, often find themselves isolated and alone as they fight for their lives. Our New Normal is a video, virtual, and book resource for these teens to share their stories and read about others who have received a diagnosis or confronted treatment. We directed and edited a documentary—as well as dozens of shorter clips—comprised of 65+ interviews with teen cancer survivors across North America. We also served as developmental editor for the hardcover book featuring the stories of these teens. The book is now being distributed widely to newly-diagnosed teens across the country.
Stay Home & Read
The Ethiopian National Archives and Libraries Agency (NALA) and Los Angeles/Addis Ababa-based Tsehai Publishers partnered on the Stay Home & Read Campaign, a project to increase literacy rates across Ethiopia, to get kids everywhere excited about reading, and to have Ethiopians around the world learning about their own history. We joined the team to create an online content strategy, to enlist the endorsement of celebrities with connection to Ethiopia, and to develop a powerful, shareable website and proposal.
Reach Out Recovery
Reach Out Recovery is a resource for families experiencing the mental health and addiction recovery process. We’ve created a virtual interview series, animations, and graphics to support their educational books for young children and adults. With the goals of increasing their online readership, their book sales, and the impact they have on families in recovery, we’ve worked with them to create a content strategy for both their online and hard copy assets.
Elias’ Hope
In 1994, Elias Wondimu was exiled from his home country of Ethiopia. For the next several decades, he collected and published Ethiopia’s history in a time when that history could not be preserved in-country. He sat down with Ethiopians across political and ethnic lines to hear their stories, and he highlighted the successes of Ethiopians around the globe. In 2018, Elias was finally granted the chance to step on Ethiopian soil once again. We were there to follow his journey home.
