Times Square Advertisement (2024)

Lead the creation and edited together an ad for the Rainforest Alliance that was shown in Times Square throughout the month of December, 2024.

Client: Rainforest Alliance

World Rainforest Day (2024)

Produced/Wrote/Edited for Rainforest Alliance’s ‘World Rainforest Day’ about why rainforests are essential, no matter where you live.

Client: Rainforest Alliance

‘Did You Know’ Series (2024)

Produced/Wrote/Edited a series for Rainforest Alliance providing facts about sustainable practices that can benefit the rainforest. Aim was to be light, informative and inspiring.

Client: Rainforest Alliance

She escaped deadly floods in Pakistan while pregnant (2023)

Nine months pregnant. Surrounded by floodwater. No way to get out. This is not a scene from a movie. It’s the distressing memory of 22-year-old Noor of the devastating floods that engulfed Pakistan last year. See how UNICEF supported vulnerable families like hers during and after the crisis.

For: UNICEF

Young reporter investigates the impact of polluted lake on residents (2023)

For UN Water Conference: The residents living near the polluted Lake Kivu in DR Congo have no other option but to consume the contaminated water. Liesse, a youth reporter for Radio Okapi, finds out the impact of polluted water on families.

For: UNICEF

1981 to 2022 - Access to clean water in Viet Nam (2023)

For UN Water Conference: Using archival footage from the 1980s alongside footage from this year, we compare and contrast how far Viet Nam’s water crisis has come and how much further is left to go.

For: UNICEF

Young people have a message for world leaders (2022)

For COP27: We asked young climate advocates how climate change has impacted their lives. This is what they answered, and their message for world leaders at #COP27.

For: UNICEF

Changing with the climate: Madagascar's youth take climate action (2022)

For COP27: No matter where you look, young people are taking #ClimateAction and helping communities impacted by climate change. See how Aristide from Madagascar is providing clean water to his community through an innovative and ‘kool’ project. #COP27, video production by Alan Thompson.

For: UNICEF

Changing with the climate: Djibouti’s youth speak up (2022)

Water in her country is drying up, much like large swaths of the Horn of Africa and Sahel. In our new series on water and the climate crisis, 19-year-old Chahad from Djibouti shares the impact climate change is having in her country, video production by Alan Thompson.

For: UNICEF

How love shapes a child’s life by Laura Mucha (2022)

All it takes is one person to sow the seed of love to make a child feel safe and supported. Poem by Laura Mucha, video production by Alan Thompson.

For: UNICEF

Congo: School for Daniella (2022)

Shot on location in Goma DRC, the story of Daniella whose home and school was destroyed in the volcano eruption of Mt. Nyiragongo in May 2021.

For: UNICEF

Congo: Water for Ester (2022)

Shot on location in Kiziba DRC, the story of Ester and her quest to have clean water in her community.

For: UNICEF

Congo: Blukwa’s Escape (2022)

Shot on location in the Rhoe Camps of the DRC, the story of young Blukwa escaping a rebel attack and reuniting with his family.

For: UNICEF

WW2 Museum — Henry Kissinger (2021)

A brief documentary that leads to the WW2 Museum’s award to Henry Kissinger for his lifetime of service, particularly during WW2. Produced for Feral Films/DB Productions for the National WW2 Museum.

For: The National WW2 Museum — Feral Films/DB Productions

IT ALL COMES BACK TO ADOBE (2020)

Following Sandro Canovas, an adobodero in West Texas as he attempts to continue adobe-style building traditions and fight imposing taxes against the material.

For: Independent.

THE FIGHT FOR STATEN ISLAND (2020)

Rep. Max Rose is fighting to be re-elected to represent Staten Island and South Brooklyn by constituents who feel demonized by his own party.

For: NBC Universal/Quibi

PAINT AND A PAINTBRUSH FOR AUSTIN’S HOMELESS (2020)

Honoree at the 2020 Webby’s

Building a community can play an important role in supporting individuals experiencing homelessness. Since 1990, Art from the Streets has been doing exactly that in Austin, Texas.

For: NationSwell

GOVERNMENT ALONE WON’T SAVE THE REDWOODS — IT’S TAKING A VILLAGE TO RAISE THIS FOREST (2019)

The redwood trees on the Northern California coast are the tallest trees in the world and some of the oldest to still be standing — aged anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand years old. But not that long ago, the redwoods were once in grave danger. Before 1850, there were 2.2 million acres of redwood old-growth forests. Today, only 5% of the original old-growth remains, due mainly to heavy logging in the area. And redwoods are essential in combating climate change in America — an acre of redwood trees absorbs enough carbon dioxide as the equivalent of driving a car 8,000,000 miles. 

Enter Save The Redwoods League, a nonprofit that has been working since 1915 to protect and restore redwood forests, and connect people with their peace and beauty so these wonders of the natural world flourish. By teaming with the National Park Service and California State parks, “Redwoods Rising” was born out of this collaboration to help restore the scars left by years of logging in the redwoods and accelerate the pace of redwood forest recovery within the parks to help protect the area’s remaining old-growth groves, and usher in a healthy, new generation of redwoods.

For: NationSwell.

THE MISSION CONTINUES (2019)

After being discharged from the military, most veterans don’t have a sense of place or family to come back to or compare to what they had while they were deployed. Enter The Mission Continues which rallies those veterans around community projects across the country and gives them the continued sense of purpose.

For: Microsoft/NationSwell

ADOBE HOUSES OF LA JUNTA DE LOS RÍOS (2019)

Considered one of the earliest building materials known to man, adobe is a mixture of dirt, water and straw first used by natives of the American Southwest. Today, adobe homes remain popular thanks to their ability to regulate climate during blistering summers and cold winters. But in an area of West Texas along the Mexican border, the cost of adobe is skyrocketing.

At the center of the controversy are newcomers to Marfa, Texas — a desert outpost turned arts mecca. As the town continues to gentrify, the wealthy residents moving here have given adobe a new cachet, in the process driving up the cost of the once-affordable material. And in a county where the average median income is just above $29,000, the adobe homes now on the market are going for upward of $1 million. That has forced locals to abandon adobe in favor of cheaper building options like concrete.

For: NationSwell.

THIS GROUP IS DOCUMENTING TEXAS’ ANCIENT MURALS BEFORE THEY’RE WIPED OUT BY CLIMATE CHANGE (2019)

In Texas’ Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center has been documenting some of the oldest narrative mural paintings in North America. Shumla is racing against time to document these murals, as local rivers that surround them are rising at an alarming rate, due to the changing climate, and are slowly degrading the original artwork. Because of their location and condition, Shumla hopes that these murals, some of them 4,000 years old, might one day be displayed as 3D models or with the help of VR, in museums around the country, to raise awareness about their degradation. 

For: NationSwell.

Denver Pays Homeless Residents to Help Clean Up the City (2019)

For the last two years, Denver has offered day jobs to people living on the street — and it’s helping them get off of it.

For: NationSwell.

AMERICA RESURGENT: GRAND RAPIDS (2019)

In the late 19th century, Grand Rapids, Michigan took advantage of the seemingly boundless supply of lumber in its lush, surrounding forests. Its economy boomed. The city became the furniture capital of the world, and its people thrived for decades. Then the great depression struck. The city’s economy suffered. Its residents left in throngs. Where once there was an American city whose name was synonymous with economic boom, there was now bust. This is the story of Grand Rapids through the better part of the 20th century, but it isn’t the story of Grand Rapids today. As its leaders brainstormed new ways to restore and surpass the city’s former glory, they came up with one idea: ArtPrize.

For: NationSwell.

AMERICA RESURGENT: DENVER (2019)

Although Denver most recently made a name for itself by embracing legal marijuana, its support of the aerospace engineering industry — the second largest of any state in the country — has helped it thrive despite rising housing costs. Episode 2 of a 5-part series looking at cities in America embracing change and surging as a result.

For: NationSwell.

BUTTERFLIES WITHOUT BORDERS (2018)

Following Monika Maeckle, founder of the Monarch and Pollinator Festival in San Antonio, as she advocates for monarch butterflies in Texas on their journey back to Mexico — making a pivotal stop in Mission, TX, where a section of Trump’s border wall threatens their natural habitat.

For: NationSwell.

AID AT THE BORDER: EPISODE II (2018)

For nearly 20 years, a group of humanitarian volunteers has been joining forces with Border Patrol agents to prevent migrants from dying in the brutal Arizona desert.

For: NationSwell.

SERVING VICTIMS ON THE REZ (2018)

Domestic violence is on the rise on The Fort Berthold Reservation, putting the tribe’s victim-services organization more in demand than ever. Following the stories of the Three Affiliated Tribes Victim Services team as they work with tribespeople on domestic issues, while simultaneously following Officer Larvie and Matthew Lone Bear as they attempt to crack the case of the missing indigenous woman Olivia Lone Bear.

*Since publication and because of this video, Bureau of Indian Affairs looked more in depth at the Lone Bear case and provided more assistance to the family, which it hadn’t before, and the body of Olivia Lone Bear was eventually found.

For: NationSwell.

EVERY MURDER IS REAL (2018)

Each year, states deny thousands of dollars by alleging that their relative had a hand in their own death. But in Philadelphia, one organization is pushing back.

For: NationSwell.

RECOVERY CAPITAL: BORN INTO REHAB (2018)

In the first installment of Recovery Capital: A Series of Solutions From West Virginia’s Opioid Epidemic, meet the compassionate caregivers taking care of drug-exposed babies now — and for years to come.

For: NationSwell.

WORKERS OF THE CHINAMPAS (2017)

The earthquake in Mexico destroyed many of the floating gardens where crops and flowers are grown, but the chinampa farmers in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City are not about to give up. They share their woes with quiet grace, the history of farming here tracing back 30 years for some. As they point out where the worst damage occurred, their will to see these gardens flourish once again is unbroken.

For: Tzu Chi.

NEW BEGINNINGS IN SANTA ANA (2017)

After the floods in the Manabí Province of Ecuador destroyed many small towns, residents of Santa Ana were seeing their city return back to normal.

For: Tzu Chi.

REVISITING ODAI (2017)

When we first met the Alaameri family in January of 2016, they had just arrived from Iraq, and were undergoing orientation for their new lives in Detroit. Now, in February 2017, as a special follow-up edition of our series, “The Resettled,” we’ve reunited with Odai Alaameri and his family. Just as he had pledged in the very first episode of our series, he has worked diligently to provide happiness for his family.

For: Tzu Chi.

THE FORGOTTEN - EP. 2: DREAMS BORN FROM LOSS (2016)

Episode 2 of a 5-part series filmed in Sierra Leone.

He never celebrated a birthday so he doesn’t even know his age, and then Ebola stole his mother. Saidu Musa is a child wise beyond his years, and deeply saddened by what he’s seen, but this only made his altruistic dreams stronger. Saidu's story shows the dreams of those people often considered forgotten in Sierra Leone, and after a chance encounter with our documentary crew, his wish of tending to the sick will come true.

For: Tzu Chi.

HONDURAS AT HEART (2016)

Most villages in the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras, rely on fishing but inclement weather often inhibits it making life here extremely difficult. On top of which, villages such as Guapinol are still struggling to recover from the massive floods that devastated many coastal communities in 2016. Tzu Chi’s Work-For-Food program is making a tangible difference, helping relieve hunger and clear the debris left by the floods.

For: Tzu Chi.

COCHEROS (2016)

To scrape by, they scavenge the land for recyclables and trees to cut for firewood to sell. It’s a tough life in this community of cocheros (wood collectors) in Choluteca, Honduras, where prospects were meager and conditions are harsh.

For: Tzu Chi.

STUNG BY CLIMATE (2015)

Their parents bought the beekeeping business in 1968: But for the Hiatt brothers who now manage 17,000 beehives in California, Washington, and North and South Dakota, things are not like before. People never even had to look at their hives decades ago. Today, you have to maintain bees all winter just to keep them alive. Something changed in the environment, and bees are dying prematurely.

For: Tzu Chi.

ALWAYS UP: SASHA DIGIULIAN’S STORY (2014)

Following one of climbings premiere athletes from her NYC apartment to the gym to competitions to TED talks, we get in the mind of what makes a true competitor.

For: RedBull.