Envision your organization widening your reach, motivating more people to open their hearts—and checkbooks—to support your cause or purchase your product. Whatever type of organization you represent and whatever its goals are, we can help you achieve epic results through the power of story. Stories that:
—Raise awareness and funds for Nonprofits, like our video that helped homeless vets like Jack
get shelter and rescued Erika’s children from abuse.
—Make profits for Corporations, leading Walmart executives to call our work a Ïgame changer.Ó
—Foster change for Education institutions, like our documentary that spurred California to allocate $1 billion to build badly needed new classrooms, which are helping Julio and Keisha have a brighter future.
—Inspire action for Government agencies, like our videos that shattered gender stereotypes in the construction workforce and allowed Jennifer to grab the bull by the horns and operate a crane used to help build a 265-foot wind turbine. We accomplish all this—and much more—not through displaying soulless facts with visual trickery and voiceovers, but through dramatic documentary storytelling. Stories that make your audiences feel the importance of your mission and move their hearts, minds, feet and wallets in your intended direction.
“Finding the stories in a complex social and political issue with lots of facts isn’t easy. In Invisible Kids, Art Simon was able to harvest those stories because he knows how to honor and till the landscape of human emotion.”
Dr. Justine Lewis
UCLA Anderson School of Management
How did we help raise a billion dollars for education? The Billion-Dollar Video
California faced a crisis in K-12 education. Schools were so overcrowded that the state’s future was at risk—and so were many children. More than 50 percent of kids were giving up and dropping out. Although dire, the statistics and reports failed to inspire action. The Art Simon Solution
Fortunately, the nonprofit Advancement Project hired Art Simon Productions. Our documentary, Invisible Kids, showed the need for action by portraying teachers’ struggles and students’ despair in five emotion-wrenching minutes. The video moved California legislators to approve a bond measure that resulted in $1 billion in state funding for construction of 100 new classrooms, alleviating the pressure and giving at-risk kids chances to achieve their educational potential.
“Congrats on the film. It works really well at demystifying and humanizing a complex issue. It’s no surprise that they loved it in Sacramento. And congrats to everyone on the inclusion of the $1 billion set aside for overcrowded schools!”
Richard Raya
Senior Associate
PolicyLink
“I [showed] the video around the Capitol to rave reviews. You’re wonderful. Many, many thanks for the brilliant work you’ve done this year to benefit kids in overcrowded schools.”
Stephen R. English
Co-Director
Advancement Project
