InterChange Media

03/17/2021

We are wishing you all well. We have survived and thrived but also lost loved ones during the pandemic. We are grateful to our clients who have continued to come back to us, as well as refer us to other clients. During the pandemic, we were able to create nonprofit videos related to the environment, education, race equity, food insecurity, refugee rights, domestic violence, labor trafficking and sex trafficking, LGBT rights, legal heroes, legal aid assistance, unemployment benefits, dairy farm worker rights, and the list goes on. We’ve also been working with a local artist on a music video, with City agencies in King County and with our construction clients on projects at the new Seatac International Arrivals Facility (nice facility!), the light rail in Shoreline and other roadway projects along I-5. We were also able to meet and film Lem Howell, a local civil rights hero and Doug Baldwin, former Seahawks wide receiver, which was pretty cool. Here are some photos from this past year. Many blessings to all and looking forward to seeing you in person again soon!!!

01/22/2021

Ending Solitary Confinement for Youth in King County

Ending Solitary Confinement for Youth...created by InterChange Media for the Legal Foundation of WA in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30HUA4-Qk-U&feature=emb_title

04/28/2020

We love working with ZENO Math!

A BIG thank you to our incredible collaborators, partners, and sponsors who helped ensure that our virtual Make a Move 4 Math fundraising campaign was a success. Together, these individuals and businesses helped fuel Zeno’s efforts to continue to serve 2800+ kids and families during this crisis.

Thank you to: Synchronicity Events, Revel Rouser Events, InterChange Media, Hazel Wong, Branwyn Flinders, Chloe Collyer Photography, Washington Hall, Golas Kitchen, Boeing Company, Microsoft, Amazon.com, First Republic Bank, and Bristlecone Advisors.

09/25/2019

The Nature Conservancy in WA

Here is a recent video InterChange Media created for The Nature Conservancy in WA. Jenny Ting and Michele Gomes loved spending time in an 800 - 1000 year old forest!

Washington’s coastal rainforest is a rare treasure, providing habitat for iconic species alongside culture, jobs and identity for coastal communities.

The vital lessons we have learned at Ellsworth Creek on the Southwest Washington coast inform our conservation efforts across the Pacific Northwest: http://bit.ly/WA-forests

08/15/2019

Jenny Ting and I getting ready to interview one of over 30 GSBA scholars during their Leadership Immersion weekend at IslandWood. We love meeting the new scholars every year and getting the chance to tell some of their powerful stories.

08/08/2019

It was fun conducting an interview in the Mariners dugout for one of the recipients of the 2019 APEX Awards. Fred Rivera, executive vice president and general counsel for the Seattle Mariners, is receiving the Sally P. Savage Leadership in Philanthropy Award. It is one of eleven awards the Washington State Bar is giving out this year.

"Did you know that eviction is the leading cause of homelessness?" Fred found out and he and his team at the Mariners did something about it! Find out here:
https://www.lookoutlanding.com/2019/1/29/18144108/the-seattle-mariners-choose-eviction-prevention-preferred-method-battle-homelessness-in-king-county

06/28/2019

Jenny Ting and I recently had the opportunity to work with the Harriette Bryant and Vicki Collins, the Founders of OurGEMS. our-gems.org

Their work is having a life saving impact on the young students who participate in their group mentoring programs in Kitsap County. We feel fortunate and grateful to have had an opportunity to recently produce a video about the values they are promoting.

02/26/2019

Our company, InterChange Media Art Productions, received the Greater Seattle Business Association's 2018 Green/Sustainable Business of the Year Award.

In 2010, Jenny Ting approached Michele Gomes with an idea to launch a video production company. Working fulltime at her corporate job, Michele was wary about investing so much time into the project.

“I thought, if it’s not meaningful, it’s not worth it,” said Michele. “I’m not going to waste my time and my life working for anyone else or any other thing if it’s not meaningful and if it’s not helping other people.”

With those guiding principles locked into place, Jenny and Michele then set out on building GSBA’s 2018 Green/Sustainable Business of the Year, a video production company built around highlighting critical environmental and social issues. But first, they had to come up with a name for their company.

“Jenny used to be a transportation engineer. She is the only person I know when driving down a highway and passing exits, instead of saying, ‘Let’s get off at this exit,’ she’ll say, ‘Let’s get off at this interchange,’” said Michele. “I thought, ‘That has an interesting ring to it. That has a lot of energy, I like the sound of that. Well, let’s merge our paths.’ She was an engineer, and I had worked in the arts industry, so we called it InterChange Media Art Productions.”

Over the past eight years, Jenny and Michele’s work has seen them travel across the country providing pre-production, production, and post-production editing services for everything from the National Geographic Channel, or the Liberian Medical Association USA, to the City of Tacoma, or the Pacific Science Center.

“Our clients range from everyone from the nonprofit world, to television shows, to those in the legal field, and in construction as well,” said Jenny. “We’ve worked with the Brainerd Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, the Washington State Bar Association, the Legal Foundation of Washington, and the Greater Seattle Business Association. Our videos have helped raise over $4 million (for nonprofits) since 2011.”

While Michele and Jenny’s involvement with GSBA dates back to InterChange’s first year in business, they’ve worked closely with the GSBA Scholarship Fund for the last five years, telling the stories of our scholars through feature videos.

“Just the other day we were walking down Broadway and we ran into one of the scholars,” said Michele. “We’re grateful to be able to witness the generosity in the community. It’s a model organization and we’re really very happy to be a part of it.”

Through GSBA, InterChange became members of the NGLCC which has connected them with several of their largest clients.

“Because the mission of our company is to focus on life-sustaining values, we have focused on working with organizations who are trying to do good,” said Jenny. “There’s a lot of divisiveness right now in the world we live in and in our country. But because of the work we’ve done, we realize there are people in our communities and country who are doing the best they can. They see a problem, and they bring their communities together and solve the problems of today. So we actually have a lot of hope for the future that things will get better.”

An overarching theme across InterChange’s body of work is their focus on environmental topics and sustainability. Aside from their creative endeavors, Jenny and Michele’s offices are located in the Bullitt Center on Madison St., the greenest commercial building in the world.

“We do what we can on our part to be as carbon-free as possible. We work with conservation organizations which focus on conserving land or endangered species… Coming from the east coast originally, moving to the Pacific Northwest was so amazing to see that ‘sustainability’ is an everyday word here,” said Michele. “In other places where we’ve travelled for film festivals and such, it’s not really the case. It’s very exciting that there’s so much initiative that’s being taken here.”

Join us in honoring InterChange Media Art Productions during Justice for All: 38th Annual Business & Humanitarian Awards Dinner on Thursday, February 21 at Seattle Marriott Waterfront: https://zurl.co/FYCf

12/31/2018

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all! 2018 was an amazing year for us. We’d like to thank some of our clients these past few months: the Nature Conservancy, University of Washington, Clark Construction Group, Brainerd Foundation, Legal Foundation of Washington, GSBA, OurGEMS and other nonprofits in Washington State who we work with on an ongoing basis. We continued to travel around the country with our Saving Sea Turtles film. Here we are at a screening this past December in New Orleans at the Audubon of the Americas. Wishing you all the best as we head into 2019!

09/26/2018

It’s been an exciting past 2 months capturing footage around the State! We’ve been working on creating about 30 videos for the Bullitt Foundation, Dean Standish Perkins & Associates with Seattle University, the Legal Foundation of Washington, the Olympic College Foundation, Platinum Group with Sound Transit and the Washington State Department of Transportation, Tabor 100, the Washington State Bar Association, the Washington State Bar Foundation and Zeno. We also have an exciting partnership coming up with Microsoft and the Greater Seattle Business Association - more soon! Here’s a photo from a Bullitt Foundation event awarding Nicola Smith as the 2018 Bullitt Environmental Fellow.

07/20/2018

Creative Exchange Lab at Pacific Science Center. Virtual Reality experience - Tree! Check it out now until August 9!

05/29/2018

2018 Second Year GSBA Scholars

5 videos we created for the Greater Seattle Business Association about their scholarship recipients were shown to a crowd of 550 people. Here is one of the videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a7unWk0Ip8

2018 Second Year GSBA Scholars

05/24/2018

Ballard Food Bank

Jenny Ting and I had a wonderful time creating a video for the Ballard Food Bank. Such an inspiring organization!

Take a virtual tour of the work that goes on behind our big blue walls! You'll learn about our many great programs, hear from some of our volunteers, and see our mission in action. Thanks to InterChange Media for helping us share our story! #neighborshelpingneighbors

03/21/2018

Make a Move for Math 2018

Here is one of two videos we created for Zeno, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire early learners and elementary school aged children to love math with fun and engaging activities. They raised over $180,000 at their Make a Move for Math event this year!

Math is more than numbers. When a child has the opportunity to build their confidence and skills in math from an early age, their possibilities are infinite!

02/23/2018

Today a couple of videos we created for the Legal Foundation of Washington were shown in front of 900 attendees at the 2018 Goldmark Awards Luncheon. Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Jorge Baron of the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project and their teams were honored for fighting for justice on behalf of immigrants and their families.

12/14/2017

SPECTRA 2018: New Year's Eve Party Under The Arches

If you are in Seattle and looking for a fabulous place to hang out at on New Years Eve, check out this video we created for the Pacific Science Center. Great views of the Space Needle's fireworks show!

09/05/2017

Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Sea Turtle Race to Salvation

Excited to share that our documentary film, Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction" will be screening at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science on Wednesday, September 6 at 7 PM. Details below...

Encounter new ideas, cutting-edge science, and captivating individuals during lectures and events at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

08/29/2017

Our film, Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction, will be airing on Seattle's public television station KCTS 9 TOMORROW at 7 PM!
The Boston Globe calls the film "engaging and inspiring", it is currently screening daily at the New England Aquarium's IMAX Theater in Boston, and the American Conservation Film Festival has awarded it the "Green Spark Award", so be sure to watch! Visit savingseaturtlesmovie.com to learn more.

We're proud to announce that GSBA member InterChange Media's film, Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction, will be airing on Seattle's public television station KCTS 9 TOMORROW at 7 PM!

The Boston Globe calls the film "engaging and inspiring", it is currently screening daily at the New England Aquarium's IMAX Theater in Boston, and the American Conservation Film Festival has awarded it the "Green Spark Award", so be sure to watch! Visit savingseaturtlesmovie.com to learn more.

07/12/2017

Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction

Here is a positive review of our movie "Saving Sea Turtles" in the Boston Globe! You can catch the movie this summer on American Airlines flights (70-minute feature length version), the New England Aquarium's Simons IMAX Theater in Boston (45-minute version), and possibly on your local PBS station (57-minute version). The film also won an award at the American Conservation Film Festival and will be playing there in October. We've made so many versions of the film but at least it's getting out there!

Here is a positive review of our film "Saving Sea Turtles" in the Boston Globe. They called it "engaging and inspiring"! A short 45-minute version of the film will be playing at the New England Aquarium's Simons IMAX Theater in Boston this summer through September! The film talks about the impacts of climate change in the 70-minute feature length version of the film.

03/28/2017

Home

Check out the website for our recently released documentary Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction

A documentary film about rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing cold-stunned endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles back into the wild, to increase their population and ensure that sea turtles remain in our oceans for millions of more years.

01/03/2017

སྙིང་གཏམ་ : “The heart's tale”

Here is a very short film that Jenny and I worked on that is Directed by our dear friend Tenzin MP. It was completed in December of 2017...

The first work of its kind, Nïngtam (སྙིང་གཏམ་) is a reflection on being Tibetan and LGBT. Styled as a visual poem, it sends a message of cultural pride, generational…

09/29/2016

We will be showing 12 videos tonight for the Washington State Bar Association and Foundation's Apex Awards! Here is a photo of the Spokane County Courthouse. Retired Judge Kathleen O'Connor will be one of the awardees after 36 years of service, having served as the first female commissioner and judge in Spokane. Congratulations to Judge O'Connor and all others receiving awards!

07/13/2016

NRDC

This is wonderful...

"The world has realized that serious efforts are needed to reduce carbon emissions to mitigate the effects of global climate change." #ActOnClimate

05/25/2016

Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction

Our documentary about the world's most critically endangered sea turtle, the Kemp's Ridley is coming along. We are heading into Phase 2 of editing the rough cut. Still a few months away but getting closer to finishing it and being able to share with everyone.

Documentary about a Cape Cod mass sea turtle stranding crisis exposes the plight of the world's most critically endangered sea turtle, the Kemp's Ridley.

05/19/2016

Ravenna Locksmith

Here is the video we created for Ravenna Locksmith. Howard Nevitt has been serving the Puget Sound area for 28 years, since 1988. We've used his services twice now - one for business and one for home. It turns out there are quite a few locksmiths who try to scam people. They actually make your locks worse so you have to pay more. Just be aware out there :).

Ravenna Locksmith in Seattle, Washington, has been serving the Puget Sound area for 28 years, since 1988, offering a wide range of quality products at afford...

05/18/2016

We attended a special screening of IMAX's A Beautiful Planet last night at the Pacific Science Center. We met director Toni Myers and cinematographer James Neihouse. Here are a few photos, including one with Michele speaking to Dr. Kjell Lindgren, one of the astronauts who also filmed at the International Space Station. The Pacific Science Center is having a Spring Sale through May 27. Go check it out!

05/18/2016

Bringing Science To Life - Pacific Science Center

Here is the video we created for the Pacific Science Center's Annual Foundations of Science Breakfast. They raised over $300,000 at the event, surpassing their goal! Ryan Lewis of Macklemore referenced the video twice at the event. We're also creating shorter videos for the Pacific Science Center to use on social media. The Science Center and the kids were wonderful and inspiring to work with, and we had a lot of fun on the project!

We invite you to join us as we bring science, technology, engineering and math to students across Washington state. Learn more: https://www.pacificsciencecen...

04/13/2016

In addition to working on our sea turtle documentary for the past few months, we’ve also been working on projects for the Pacific Science Center, the Oregon Judges Charitable Foundation, Young Women Empowered, Lance Randall & the Nu-Jazz Playas, Ravenna Locksmith, and the Greater Seattle Business Association.