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CULTURAL PARTNERS

CREATING STORYTELLING SYSTEMS

We help mission-driven organizations tell stories that move people to act

We work with nonprofits, foundations, and purpose-driven brands that need to be understood, not just seen. The relationship is closer to a shared infrastructure than a vendor arrangement. We embed your mission inside the same frameworks we use to build our own films:

 

The Signature Media Ecosystem

The Garden Cycle

The Trust Framework

 

We are not an agency. We will not hand you a deck of “content pillars.” We will ask you what questions your audience is already asking, and we will build a story ecosystem that answers them.

HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

STRATEGIC STORYTELLING

STRATEGIC STORYTELLING

We map your campaign or initiative through the Garden Cycle — spring, summer, fall, winter — so your story lives in seasons, not in sprints.

MEDIA PRODUCTION

MEDIA PRODUCTION

We direct, produce, and manage the work the same way we manage our own features: with a small, experienced team and a story-first hierarchy.

WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOPS

Tailored sessions for your marketing and program teams on how mission-driven organizations build audiences that last. We build your company's storytelling structure around our practices.

Proof of Concept

Concrete River (in production)

A feature film about a homeless father in Los Angeles who sees music as prismatic light, struggling to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Produced with fiscal sponsorship from MASC (Multiracial Association of Southern California).

 

Budget raised independently. Directed by Maris Lidaka.

 

This is not a side project. It is the reason we know how to build a story ecosystem from nothing — how to raise capital without a studio, how to build trust with an audience before the film is finished, and how to treat a story as a living garden rather than a depreciating asset.

 

What we do this for a film, we can do it for your mission.

Cultural Partners

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Work We've Made Together

GABRIELA

Sponsored by Netflix and made in collaboration with the LA Latino Film Festival. This short film explores the experience of an undocumented woman trapped in the upper class South. As she struggles to find her sense of self.

ELEVATE

A short documentary focusing on topics of reentry, causes and solutions to crime and recidivism. Made in collaboration with FHC, PACE Indiana and Blue House.

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Sponsored by Walmart and made as part of the mitú Filmmaker’s Program. This short narrative film asks the question:  what would you change if you could go back in time?

We are proud to work alongside organizations building a more honest, multicultural and human future.

The Two Questions

Before we take on a partnership, we ask the same two questions we ask of every project we build:

 

How can I help? — What do you actually need, beneath the brief?

What is required? — What is the uncomfortable, necessary thing that will make this work?

 

If we are the right people to help you do what is required, we will know within one conversation.

If this sounds your organization's mission, we'd love to hear about it.