Really Useful Media

08/27/2025

🚀 Bon voyage to Lourdes on her last day with the team 😭

Over the last 3+ years as a video producer, Lourdes has captured beautiful B roll, shaped powerful stories in the edit, and brought so much heart to her work. We’ll miss her creativity and collaboration, but we’re excited to see where her journey takes her. 💜

➡️ Follow along as she brings her impact media talents to a volunteer stay project with U.S. - El Salvador Sister Cities:

08/21/2025

Our clients always push us to think bigger.

With Client Insights, we’re sharing their ideas and perspectives that shape how we approach video together, beginning with Chris L. Jenkins from the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy.

08/11/2025

Boost your event’s impact with video! Learn how in our latest newsletter at the link in stories.

If this sparks ideas for how to repurpose your own event footage or raises new questions, we’d love to hear them. Leave a comment and let us know what kinds of tips, behind-the-scenes insights, or client stories you’d like us to share next.

05/07/2025

FWGBD empowers healthcare providers with education!

To make sensitive medical topics relatable and human, we focused on what would resonate with FWGBD’s audience—how their work shapes not just medical outcomes, but also impacts patients’ goals, relationships, and overall quality of life.

03/24/2025

Celebrating 80 years of Pippi with , right on time for 🌍

Filmed in the beautiful and historic Swedish Residence, we heard stories from authors and lifelong Pippi fans on how her story inspired generations of readers across the globe towards curiosity, kindness, and courage.

02/11/2025

Thank you for trusting our team to bring your mission to life through video. 🏡

Enterprise Community Partners exists to make a good home possible for the millions of families without one. We are proud to shed light on their world-changing work to increase housing supply, advance racial equity, and foster resilience and upward mobility through affordable housing.

Swipe right for some behind the scenes action of our partnership. From capturing stories in rural and tribal communities to celebrating the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge innovations at the —video makes Enterprise’s impact real and actionable for audiences everywhere.

01/29/2025

The principles that guide our work are more than words—they shape everything we do.

We know how important it is to be clear about what matters, and that’s why we’re proud to share the core values our team brings to every project.

01/21/2025

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12/23/2024

A look behind the scenes of our talented team doing the work to tell our clients' stories in 2024. We couldn’t do it without you—thank you for all your creative collaboration! For more about how our work made a difference in 2024, check out usefulmedia.net/2024

Starting today, our team is offline for our annual recharge break. Wishing all our clients, partners, and collaborators a restful end to the year and can't wait to be back in action with you when we reopen on January 2, 2025!

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12/18/2024

📽️🌃🌟As the year draws to a close, we’re reflecting on the impact of the videos we’ve created with our clients. We know there is much more work to be done in 2025, and look forward to another year of collaboration for the good of people and planet. 🌎

12/10/2024

What a joy to work with to produce this video celebrating what it means to be on Team Book. To mark 75 years of the National Book Awards, we crafted a narrative that weaves together favorite -- and prescient -- moments from the archives, new interviews with honored authors, and so many beloved books.

Special thanks to our crew:
Director & Editor: Dan Winckler
Executive Producer & Story Editor: Emily Kornblut
Sound Operator: Joshua Simon of Spinach Pie Productions
Hair & Makeup: Nicolae Rita
Mississippi interviews: Charles Day
Post-production Audio: Chris Burke

11/26/2024

We had so much fun creating this video to help the New York Hall of Science celebrate its 60th anniversary at this year's gala, diving into incredible archival footage of the 1964 World’s Fair and matching it with new footage we filmed at the museum. By showcasing the roots of this iconic New York institution, we highlighted how NYSCI is building on its rich history to nurture all STEM learners today, and for generations to come.