Documentary Film Series
Client: Save the Children
Date: 2021-Present
Role: Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Editor, Motion Graphics
This is one of the most meaningful projects I’ve ever had the pleasure of taking part in. During the pandemic, long time clients Save the Children approached me about reinventing country visits, where donors go on set for a number of days to see the work happening in the field. We immediately arrived on the idea of doing verite, POV-style short documentaries about individual countries. We hired local film crews to conduct interviews with Save Stafferes, Partners, and Participants, as well as filiming content highlighting the food, scenery, and culture of the country we’re visiting. The films are premiered to groups of donors over Zoom, then the donors go into small breakout rooms to meet with the actual subjects of the documentary. The first doc, set in South Sudan, was so successful that we subsequently made six more (and counting!) in Appalachia, Colombia, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Mississippi, and Cambodia, with a new one about emergency response in Pakistan coming in January 2024. Learn more at Journeys with Us.
with: Cat Davis, Andrew Hildebrand, Linda Strawberry, Sarah McLoughlin, Cinematographers and Videographers from around the world