People’s Television, Inc. is a full service creative production studio based in New York City and Washington, DC. We create video content and campaigns for organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to grassroots non-profits, as well as award-winning feature films and documentaries, which have been recognized by the world’s best film festivals and broadcasters. Drawing from our independent filmmaker spirit, we help our clients engage their audience and elevate their brand through the power of story.
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People’s Television is a full-service creative studio based in New York City and Washington, DC. We create video content and digital campaigns for organizations ranging from fortune 100 companies to grassroots non-profits, as well as award-winning feature films and documentaries. Our work has won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and broadcast around the world on networks including PBS, Nat Geo, and Al Jazeera.
A week ago, we shared Candace's journey of love, loss and recovery working with Rising for Justice formerly known as DC Law Students in Court. Now, we're bringing you behind the scenes with us into her home, a space that has brought her both tremendous joy and deep sorrow over the years. Shooting with Candace reminds us how documentary storytelling is, at its core, about listening to people and becoming a part of their spaces.
"...when I was a teacher, I saw how girls of color just don't think that math is for them. I want to shatter those barriers."
Check out the latest installment of our Science Sandbox Stories of Impact series for Simons Foundation! STEM From Dance empowers girls of color to integrate their passion for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) into their passion for dance, and harness knowledge to fuel confidence and creativity. We all wanted to get up and move after this shoot!
There are few aspects of our work more gratifying than illustrating how our partners mold their identities around helping others and taking a stand against social injustice. Check out this story of how Rising for Justice formerly known as DC Law Students in Court empowered one woman after tragedy struck and grief took over her life.
On occasion, our office transforms into a film set. 🎬
Had a blast shooting this weekend with Sunrise Movement, an organization to stop climate change through political action led by an army of wicked smart, passionate and determined young people. Though we were by far the oldest people on set, we were honored to be a part of their creative process! 🌞🌱 #climateaction #activism #youthled #sunrise #environment #film #setlife #BTS
Nature #BTS is the best BTS! Sit back and relax for this soothing inside look into our recent autumnal upstate shoot with CADE Farms.
Director/DP/Editor: Gabe Elder
Producer: Lizzy Coplin
AC/Gaffer: Phoenixx Flix
PA/BTS footage: Mason Rice
BTS Editor: Zsofia Krone
When art imitates life: #TBT to this lively animated anthem we made for Voxy, an online English-teaching company that offers dynamic and personalized instruction to each of its students! #animation #illustration #motiongraphics #digitalart #design
Editing game strong! 💪 Our post team is hard at work cutting docs, anthems and everything in between on this #timelinetuesday ✂️🎥
Is there anything better than delicious, locally sourced food? This October, we were lucky enough to film amongst the gorgeous fall colors of upstate New York for a project with CADE Farms (Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship) which brings friends, families and communities closer together by giving grants to local, independently-run farms.
#sustainableagriculture #organic #local #farmlife #setlife
A little Friday #BTS from our most recent shoot at the Brooklyn District Attorney's office in downtown Brooklyn. Brownie points for whoever can identify that picturesque bridge in the background first!
#brooklyn #skyscraper #picturesque #setlife
#TBT: Last summer, we had the privilege of traveling to Chennai in eastern India and meeting Shanmuga Priya, a full-time mom and entrepreneur who transformed her saree business from just twenty sarees to selling hundreds a day using WhatsApp Business. It's always such an honor to capture the incredible talent and creativity of our subjects!
Like humans, microorganisms live everywhere in Manhattan, but they’re completely invisible to the naked eye. For this funky installment of our Science Sandbox series for Simons Foundation, we followed Sally Waring, a microbiologist at the Museum of Natural History who collects water samples all over the city and documents the wondrous lives of free-living microbes on her Instagram, Pondlife. Her discovery? We have more in common with these invisible city-dwellers than you’d think!
Ever wonder how we brought Nestlé’s gruesome Plastic Monster to life for our most recent Greenpeace spot?
In People’s Television’s first ever behind-the-scenes special, we show the storyboards, special effects and most importantly, SLIME, that helped us to illustrate the frightening consequences of single-use plastic.
Enjoy!
Today is #GivingTuesday, an international day of giving that falls on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving each year. In its honor, we encourage you to check out and share this fundraiser created by our very own Ryder Haske for Goya Primary School in the rural Koboko district of Uganda. Many of Goya Primary School's pupils are subsistence farmers who cannot afford expensive tuition fees, so in order to keep schooling affordable, Goya is forced to spend less on infrastructure and sanitation. Most notably, they do not have running water on the property.
With this fundraiser, we hope to bring new bathrooms with clean running water to Goya Primary School in order to prevent the spread of illness, the current leading cause of school absences. We believe good sanitation will make a lasting impact on the health, happiness and wellbeing of Goya's students and their beloved school, for years and years to come.
Ryder Haske Goya Primary School During a work trip to Uganda, my colleague Erin Collett and I had a chance to visit Goya Primary School in the Koboko distric
For many of us, food is a symbol of love, comfort and celebration. But for everyone in the world, it is a necessity for growth, health and wellbeing. This Thanksgiving, we're thankful for partners like Capital Area Food Bank who understand how food insecurity can impact families and individuals, and are working hard to end hunger by bringing employment, health and housing to the DC community.
We first met Ady Barkan in the beginning of 2018, intending to make a series of political ads. Little did we know that a year and a half later, we'd be wrapping a documentary about him and welcoming his daughter, Willow, into the world with him and his family.
This message from Ady is for Willow and for everyone uncertain about our country's future. We are eternally grateful to be a part of Ady's story, and the fight for our planet and our people.
#medicareforall #adybarkan #elizabethwarren
#TBT to one of our most adventurous shoots to date: immersing ourselves in the rainforests of Borneo, the largest island in Asia, with The Nature Conservancy. Using microphones strapped securely to trees, TNC’s scientists recorded the sounds of the wildlife inhabiting the rainforest in order to measure its biodiversity and health.
This acoustic technology also revealed how the harvesting of palm oil, the most commonly produced vegetable oil in the world, has lead to deforestation, threatening some of Borneo’s most beloved native species like the orangutan. Thankfully, TNC has been able to use its rainforest recordings to develop lower-impact harvesting methods, helping to sustain the beautiful habitat on which Borneo’s people and wildlife rely.
In 2016, the Bornean #Orangutan became "critically endangered".
We followed The Nature Conservancy scientists who are using innovative acoustic technology to ensure that what's left of the orangutans' habitat is protected.
Colleen Rose is one of many military caregivers who juggles two jobs: providing 24-hour care to her husband, who was severely injured during deployment, and working full-time as an occupational therapist. She's passionate about both jobs, but they each require physical and emotional labor that leave her tired at the end of the day.
We partnered with Elizabeth Dole Foundation to illustrate how their Hidden Heroes campaign empowers Colleen and others in their roles as military caregivers, instead of pushing them into the shadows. By connecting them to one another, EDF creates an infinite network of support and appreciation for the invaluable work they do every day.
Tonight from 7-9PM at UC Santa Barbara's Pollock Theater, our founder Nicholas Bruckman is thrilled to be joining Be A Hero's Liz Jaff and Ady Barkan himself for a screening of Uncovered: Health Care Conversations with Ady Barkan, featuring intimate conversations with presidential candidates including Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Q&A moderated by Rachael King, Ady's wife and associate English professor at UCSB, to follow!
Tickets are free, so we hope to see you there!
Uncovered: Health Care Conversations with Ady Barkan Tuesday, October 29, 2019 / 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Pollock Theater Screening Format: high-resolution Quicktime (60 Minutes) With Ady Barkan (activist), Liz Jaff (series creator), and Nick Bruckman (director) Home / Events / Uncovered: Health Ca...
We’re incredibly proud to announce that our very own editor Kent Bassett’s long-awaited feature doc, This Might Hurt, will be premiering tomorrow at the 2019 Austin Film Festival!
This Might Hurt follows three chronic pain patients who enter a four-week ‘mind-body medicine’ program run
by a man named Dr. Howard Schubiner who claims that their pain isn’t caused by anything physically wrong with their bodies, but from neural pathways in their brain.
Check out the trailer below, and for those present at the film festival, give it a watch!
This Might Hurt is A documentary film about the mind-body cure for chronic pain
"The process of making a documentary is kind of like this grand adventure. You end up being put in situations that you would have never imagined and meeting people that you would have never imagined meeting.”
In the latest installment of our People's Television podcast, our Boston-bred, NY-based senior producer Amanda Roddy walks us through her journey from being a film-loving English major to a seasoned producer making a documentary about one of the most powerful activists in America.
Side tangents include: why airplanes make us cry & sharing an RV with men. Check it out!
Amanda Roddy discusses her role as producer on People's Television's next feature documentary film about political activist Ady Barkan.
It was great working with Kamala Harris on our latest episode of Uncovered with Ady Barkan.
We're proud to have produced this powerful and personal conversation on health care.
Health care touches us. It's there when our children are born and it’s there the day we die. It touches our worst days, but also our best. That makes health care personal.
Today, Kamala Harris on what makes health care personal for her.
For 8 years strong, we've crafted stories that push for social justice and environmental sustainability. We've shown how new technology bridges divides and creates opportunity around the world. We've championed campaigns from healthcare reform to gender equality.
To all of our partners and collaborators: we are so grateful to you for helping us build a production company that strives to make the world a better place through the power of storytelling.
Thank you for helping us become one of the 5000 most successful companies in America!
People's Television: Number 3157 on the 2019 Inc. 5000
Episode 2 of "Uncovered" is here!
In this episode, Ady and Senator Bernie Sanders talk about fatherhood, Bernie's own experience of losing a loved one at a young age, and how that loss evolved into a passion for health care justice.
A decade ago, many considered Medicare for All politically impossible, but now it's the bloodline of political discourse. Watch Bernie Sanders open up about this progress and his family's health care experiences with Ady Barkan, who is battling ALS
Our new series with Ady Barkan premieres today on NowThis!
Check out the launch episode featuring Senator Cory Booker:
'I'm not sure I'll ever get to interview you again, so I'm just going to speak my mind. This topic is life and death for me.' — Watch this intensely personal health care conversation between Ady Barkan, who is dying of ALS, and presidential candidate Cory Booker
We're excited to share our teaser for our new digital series "Uncovered", in partnership with NowThis and Be A Hero.
In this unprecedented format, activist and father Ady Barkan will use his eye-gaze technology to host powerful, intimate conversations with each of the major presidential candidates on health care:
‘Everything is at stake.’
Health care activist @AdyBarkan will face the top 2020 candidates in a series of exclusive interviews with NowThis. Join us for the first episodes next week
Strong #flashdance vibes during our most recent NY shoot featuring STEM From Dance, a non-profit that tackles diversity in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) field by empowering girls of color to learn it through dance and movement. And man, these girls can move! 💃
#STEM #womeninSTEM #dance #girlpower
Episode 3 is here!
In the latest installment of our podcast, People's Television's DC-based creative producer Neil Solomon talks about his own creative process and the importance of creative proposals, pre-production and visual reference. We also learn about Neil's background in filmmaking and how his upbringing in South Africa influenced his career in film production.
Show People's TV Podcast, Ep Episode 3: Creative Producing with Neil Solomon - Aug 1, 2019
Exciting update: Our podcast is now available on iTunes!
In Episode 2, almost a year after summer road-tripping with Ady across the country, our co-founders Nick and Ryder discuss Ady's journey to becoming a prolific political activist and some of the unique challenges posed during production.
Look us up on Apple Podcasts and stay tuned for our next episode!
If you ever wondered what the voices behind our cameras sound like, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 1: In the summer of 2018, our co-founders Nicholas Bruckman and Ryder Haske sat down in an RV to chat about People’s Television’s biggest project to date: road-tripping across the country while filming a documentary about Ady Barkan, an activist diagnosed with ALS when he was just 32 with a mission to save America’s health care.
Stay tuned for our next episode, recorded almost an entire year later!
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In our first ever podcast People's TV Founder talks with Ryder Haske about Ady Barkan. Ady Barkan is a 34 year old Californian who was diagnosed with ALS and given 2-4 years to live. He famously confronted Jeff Flake for his support of a tax bill ...
"My vision of the future for the lives of trans youth is safety. Safety, comfort, and just feeling secure with who you are."
June is Pride Month! 🌈We're celebrating by sharing our work with Breakthrough U.S., a human rights organization that helps people like Cash to provide a voice to trans, queer and nonbinary folks around the world, reminding us all that each person has the basic human right to be and love themself.
Happy Pride to all! 🏳️🌈
Our partnership with Greenpeace USA continues to be rewarding! Thank you Telly Awards for awarding our satirical commercial that imagines a toxic dystopian future caused by the rollback of clean car standards. If you haven't seen it, check it out below!
You've heard of Arlington National Cemetery, but how about Cypress Hills National Cemetery?
As Memorial Day approaches, we're sharing this video we made with American National Military Cemeteries, which commemorate the lives of those who have fought and connect them back to their loved ones by providing places of quiet reflection all across the country.
You've heard of Arlington National Cemetery, but how about Cypress Hills National Cemetery?
As Memorial Day approaches, we're sharing this video we made with American National Military Cemeteries, which commemorate the lives of those who have fought and connect them back to their loved ones by providing places of quiet reflection all across the country.
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A week ago, we shared Candace's journey of love, loss and recovery working with Rising for Justice formerly known as DC Law Students in Court. Now, we're bringing you behind the scenes with us into her home, a space that has brought her both tremendous joy and deep sorrow over the years. Shooting with Candace reminds us how documentary storytelling is, at its core, about listening to people and becoming a part of their spaces.
"...when I was a teacher, I saw how girls of color just don't think that math is for them. I want to shatter those barriers." Check out the latest installment of our Science Sandbox Stories of Impact series for Simons Foundation! STEM From Dance empowers girls of color to integrate their passion for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) into their passion for dance, and harness knowledge to fuel confidence and creativity. We all wanted to get up and move after this shoot!
There are few aspects of our work more gratifying than illustrating how our partners mold their identities around helping others and taking a stand against social injustice. Check out this story of how Rising for Justice formerly known as DC Law Students in Court empowered one woman after tragedy struck and grief took over her life.
Nature #BTS is the best BTS! Sit back and relax for this soothing inside look into our recent autumnal upstate shoot with CADE Farms. Director/DP/Editor: Gabe Elder Producer: Lizzy Coplin AC/Gaffer: Phoenixx Flix PA/BTS footage: Mason Rice BTS Editor: Zsofia Krone
When art imitates life: #TBT to this lively animated anthem we made for Voxy, an online English-teaching company that offers dynamic and personalized instruction to each of its students! #animation #illustration #motiongraphics #digitalart #design
Is there anything better than delicious, locally sourced food? This October, we were lucky enough to film amongst the gorgeous fall colors of upstate New York for a project with CADE Farms (Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship) which brings friends, families and communities closer together by giving grants to local, independently-run farms. #sustainableagriculture #organic #local #farmlife #setlife
#TBT: Last summer, we had the privilege of traveling to Chennai in eastern India and meeting Shanmuga Priya, a full-time mom and entrepreneur who transformed her saree business from just twenty sarees to selling hundreds a day using WhatsApp Business. It's always such an honor to capture the incredible talent and creativity of our subjects!
Like humans, microorganisms live everywhere in Manhattan, but they’re completely invisible to the naked eye. For this funky installment of our Science Sandbox series for Simons Foundation, we followed Sally Waring, a microbiologist at the Museum of Natural History who collects water samples all over the city and documents the wondrous lives of free-living microbes on her Instagram, Pondlife. Her discovery? We have more in common with these invisible city-dwellers than you’d think!
Ever wonder how we brought Nestlé’s gruesome Plastic Monster to life for our most recent Greenpeace spot? In People’s Television’s first ever behind-the-scenes special, we show the storyboards, special effects and most importantly, SLIME, that helped us to illustrate the frightening consequences of single-use plastic. Enjoy!
For many of us, food is a symbol of love, comfort and celebration. But for everyone in the world, it is a necessity for growth, health and wellbeing. This Thanksgiving, we're thankful for partners like Capital Area Food Bank who understand how food insecurity can impact families and individuals, and are working hard to end hunger by bringing employment, health and housing to the DC community.
We first met Ady Barkan in the beginning of 2018, intending to make a series of political ads. Little did we know that a year and a half later, we'd be wrapping a documentary about him and welcoming his daughter, Willow, into the world with him and his family. This message from Ady is for Willow and for everyone uncertain about our country's future. We are eternally grateful to be a part of Ady's story, and the fight for our planet and our people. #medicareforall #adybarkan #elizabethwarren
Colleen Rose is one of many military caregivers who juggles two jobs: providing 24-hour care to her husband, who was severely injured during deployment, and working full-time as an occupational therapist. She's passionate about both jobs, but they each require physical and emotional labor that leave her tired at the end of the day. We partnered with Elizabeth Dole Foundation to illustrate how their Hidden Heroes campaign empowers Colleen and others in their roles as military caregivers, instead of pushing them into the shadows. By connecting them to one another, EDF creates an infinite network of support and appreciation for the invaluable work they do every day.
"My vision of the future for the lives of trans youth is safety. Safety, comfort, and just feeling secure with who you are." June is Pride Month! 🌈We're celebrating by sharing our work with Breakthrough U.S., a human rights organization that helps people like Cash to provide a voice to trans, queer and nonbinary folks around the world, reminding us all that each person has the basic human right to be and love themself. Happy Pride to all! 🏳️🌈
Our partnership with Greenpeace USA continues to be rewarding! Thank you Telly Awards for awarding our satirical commercial that imagines a toxic dystopian future caused by the rollback of clean car standards. If you haven't seen it, check it out below!
You've heard of Arlington National Cemetery, but how about Cypress Hills National Cemetery? As Memorial Day approaches, we're sharing this video we made with American National Military Cemeteries, which commemorate the lives of those who have fought and connect them back to their loved ones by providing places of quiet reflection all across the country.
"I used to think depression was weakness. But reaching out was the bravest thing I've done." May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and so we partnered with Quartet to show how mental health is intrinsically linked to physical health, and how reaching out for help improves both, while reducing the stigma surrounding mental health. #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthisphysicalhealth #mentalhealthmatters
From rural Uganda to the halls of Congress, we filled the past 18 months with projects that have informed and inspired millions of people across the country and around the world. We're grateful to our partners who trust us to tell their important stories and we're so proud of everyone on the People's TV team who made all of these productions successful.
"We know the pain and silence, we will not allow our daughters to know it." As a part of our ongoing partnership with WhatsApp, we worked with our local Indian production team to produce this film about We Speak Out, an organization made by and for survivors of FGM (female genital mutilation) to raise their voices to end the practice in India. Using WhatsApp, We Speak Out creates a safe space to unite and empower its members, many of whom had never publicly shared their stories of FGM before joining this community of women with shared experiences. To learn more about We Speak Out and their incredible work, check out their website at https://www.speakoutnow.org/.
Our campaign with Greenpeace USA imagines a world in which Ford protects its passengers...from the toxic environment of the future made possible by their lobbying against fuel standards. #greenpeace #green #environmentallyconscious #nonprofit #environmentaljustice #satire
Wouldn't it be great if everyone could have a nice meal on Thanksgiving? We collaborated with the Capital Area Food Bank to make this video that celebrates food and reminds us that not everyone has access to the healthy food we all need. The Capital Area Food Bank helps 540,000 people each year get access to good, healthy food.
We collaborated with Equal Justice Works to produce this video about one of their fellows, Alexis Piazza. Alexis is working to help improve outcomes for children who experince homelessness in California. We've been telling the stories of Equal Justice Work's fellows for five years and every year we continue to be inspired by their work!
Excited to see the announcement that Katie Hill won her seat in Congress representing CA-25 today! See our latest political ad for her featuring Ady Barkan's family:
One week ahead of the election, our ads with Ady Barkan are playing on TV and digital in over 100 crucial swing districts. We're excited to now share the launch film for Ady's #LeagueofHeroes campaign. Please watch, share, and vote.
We are one month into the incredible #SummerOfHeroes tour. We couldn't be more proud of the work we've done with the amazing Be A Hero team, traveling over 6000 miles to share Ady Barkan's vision for what our country could be. Watch our sizzle recap of the first few weeks:
Our film of the unstoppable Ady Barkan delivering a powerful speech against family separation at the #familiesbelongtogether rally in LA. The first stop in our coast-to-coast #summerofheroes tour with Ady and the Be A Hero team. Follow our #activism #filmmaking #roadtrip here and on: IG (@peoples.tv) twitter (@peoplesTV)
We're excited to announce that the People's Television team is going on the road starting this weekend as the media partner of the Be A Hero campaign! We'll be traveling in a mobile production RV from California to Maine, putting out daily stories and a longer film of Ady Barkan's movement to galvanize Americans to vote blue in the midterms and build a better country together. Watch our launch video and follow the journey:
#CharacterDriven: Meet Our Wild Abandon, a couple of runaways traveling the world and documenting their adventures in our spot for Instagram for Business.
The city of Peachtree Corners, GA has implemented an intriguing new technology to generate 3D city maps. We worked with Microsoft in Government to highlight this smart city of the future.
Happy #EarthDay! We love working with The Nature Conservancy and documenting how they strive to protect nature and preserve life. Watch our piece on their work with the sustainable diving fishermen of Peru:
Congrats to our friends at Dropbox on their IPO today! Here's one of our favorite videos we made together featuring the Sundance Film Festival.
#CharacterDriven: Meet Cynthia Cornelius. Our latest short doc for Equal Justice Works, tells the story of how she became a lawyer at 54 to help people with prior convictions move forward with their lives. #CriminalJusticeReform
What makes #schools & #teachers successful? Great to work alongside XQ America to capture these changemakers in education.
We created this brand anthem for Voxy, showcasing their platform that's changing the way the world learns English.
Tiny Museums. Big Dreams. Check out our teaser for MICRO, part of the ongoing series we're producing for the Simons Foundation Science Sandbox.
Women across the country marched in support of immigrant workers and families, and against the border wall. Very proud of our partnership with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, who advocate for these women by bringing their stories to light, and this handcrafted anthem we created to support them.
Our DP took up surfing in Norway where we shot a recent spot for Workplace by Facebook #TBT
#CharacterDriven: Meet Wilson Tang When his uncle retired he inherited Nom Wah Tea Parlor. He shares his passion for food in our latest spot for Instagram for Business!
Like many children of entrepreneurs, Denys wasn't exactly thrilled by the idea of continuing his father's business. However, when the market turned and its profits declined, Denys used his marketing smarts and Facebook Business to revive the operation.
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