Tell your story. Change the World.

 Stories are tools that help us create a better world.

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Not On This Land was commissioned by Mertz Gilmore Foundation and won a Grand Jury award for best environmental film at the Richmond International Film Festival.

 

Films, Strategy, Narrative Change.

We live in times when the effects of extractive capitalism are putting everything we care about at risk. Fortunately, in every community around the world, visionary people are coming together not only to stop the harm, but to find new ways of creating social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.

My life’s work is to tell the stories of people and organizations building this better world. I’m passionate about helping foundations, grassroots groups, and other mission-driven organizations achieve their goals.

I work with brilliant cinematographers, editors, designers, and writers to challenge the prevailing narrative that drives the pursuit of short-term, individual gain at the cost of endangering future generations.

We do this by telling stories that center new heroes, people like the farmers in Appalachia who refused to allow a dangerous pipeline to be built; Alaska Native people defending the rivers they have relied on for thousands of years; working people organizing for collective ownership; and people in philanthropy shifting power to frontline communities working for climate justice.

We need these new stories so we can inspire others to see the collective power we hold to build a more just and resilient world. And we need them to remind ourselves that each of us has the capacity to help create this world we want to see.

My colleagues and I provide a full range of communications services, including brand development, communications strategy, in-house comms support, website development, film and video production, and content of all kinds, including funding proposals, pitch decks, and books.

What is the world you are trying to build? What is the story that can help you get there? Please let me know if we can help you tell it.

 

Selected work

In 2020 we produced a short film for the Chorus Foundation about how Alaskans are confronting the effects of climate change.

Organizers in Richmond are building political and economic power to create a just transition to a low-carbon future.

Solidaridad’s landscape work in Central America is about co-designing solutions that provide multiple benefits.

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