Umbrella Media LLC

UMBRELLA brings to life brand stories and emerging cultural narratives. Our team’s combination of vast experience and infinite curiosity offers our clients a better way to express their brands by integrating world-class creative solutions and full production capabilities. Umbrella exists for the stories we tell, and for the thrill of finding the most inspiring ways to express them to your audience. ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS is an American television news, documentary and entertainment director, producer and writer who works with This Is Umbrella. He directed most notably Music by Prudence that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), about a 21-year-old Zimbabwean singer-songwriter Prudence Mabhena, who was born severely disabled and has struggled to overcome poverty and discrimination. All other seven members of Prudence's band "Liyana" are also disabled. Roger Ross Williams is the first African American director to win an Academy Award in his category of Documentary Shorts, and the first ever African American director to win an Academy Award for directing and producing a film, short or feature. He is a member of a Gullah family from South Carolina, and has lived and worked in New York City for the past twenty-five years. He started working in 1985 and has worked for ABC News, NBC News, MSNBC, BBC, CNN and PBS. He has produced shows for ABC, CBS, Comedy Central, Food Network, Sundance Channel, TLC, VH1 and Michael Moore’s Emmy Award winning series TV Nation. He has directed prime-time reality (for ABC and CBS) and produced a documentary series for Discovery Networks and a lifestyle series: Sheila Bridges Designer Living, for Scripps Networks. PLUTO POSTS a creative content place. A collection of artists… motion designers, web designers, editors, CG artists, sound men, developers, musicians, painters… and dog lovers. Pluto integrates content with an array of mediums including broadcast, web, mobile and experiential for some of the largest, and smallest, companies in the world. All of this goodness can be found spread between two beautiful offices in Birmingham + Detroit. SURREAL is located in the fabled Crossroads of the World, a landmark that continues to uphold the traditions of old Hollywood. In New York, we are located in the renowned Tribeca Film Center, a premier facility featuring a 70-seat screening room, conference center and production offices. In Paris we are located in the historic Île Saint-Louis. Our corporate work includes productions for and featuring CEO’s of major corporations i.e. BMW, Porsche, Volvo, BET, Avon and Pallotta TeamWorks. Jennifer Brunetti President Umbrella Media/productions http://thisisumbrella.com/ 1619 Broadway, the Brill Building room 614 New York, NY 10019 Umbrella - co film productions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri6gw3yJnno - http://surreel.com/?page_id=17 Umbrella website: http://thisisumbrella.com/ Roger Ross Williams represented by Umbrella: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ross_Williams Umbrella co productions include: Music by Prudence http://www.musicbyprudence.com/mbp/, God Loves Uganda http://www.godlovesuganda.com/ Pluto Post http://www.hellopluto.com/ Dave Hausen, Surreel/Umbrella http://surreel.com/

Mission: Umbrella exists for the stories we tell, and for the thrill of finding the most inspiring ways to express them to your audience.