Told Video

19/05/2025

Grateful to be helping out on a new documentary with outstanding local folks, as part of a project about local food systems & the effect of erratic weather patterns…more details soon!
In the meantime, more farm filming = more fun 🤩🌱🌱 this one with

29/04/2025

We LOVED meeting the individuals who are putting on this fabulous show - the trailer is out now for Whole Children and Milestones theater production! :)

24/04/2025

Making the "trailer" for this new musical has been an amazing introduction to Whole Children and Milestones, both programs full of inspiring stories, participants, and staff!

31/03/2025

Looking for a relaxed environment to ask questions about Chamber membership and meet our team? Look no further than our New Member Coffee Connects, sponsored by UMassFive College Credit Union!

We host this event on the first Wednesday of every month, meaning our next one is THIS Wednesday, April 2nd! We hope you can join us☕

Shout out to our new members from Told Video, Anytime Fitness, and Mindful Painting LLC., and our Ambassador Rob from the Amherst Business Improvement District, for joining us last month!

21/03/2025

“For so many small-scale farmers, a little bit of money goes a long way.” -Susan Mitchell, Cloverleigh Farm

Another very well-spoken farmer who found a big impact from the AAmerican Farmland Trustmicrogrants program, now a part of the Brighter Future Fund. 🍅
This excerpt about Cloverleigh Farm was part of a 6-farm extravaganza we produced a few years ago for AFT!

📹 In a similar way, a small video can make a huge impact: it’s a quick, simple way to thank your donors, kick off a fundraising campaign, or show at private meetings with potential donors, saving you time and energy.

Anyway… 🥕 Support your local food growers! 🥕 Support your local farm organizations! Call your reps to explain why cutting funding and grants to local agriculture hurts us all! 🥕 We need them.

17/03/2025

Excerpt from a six-farm marathon we filmed back in 2020 for the American Farmland Trust 's Farmer Microgrants program, which has now grown to a nationwide program providing small grants to 253 farmers!

(now under the Brighter Future Fund, if you’d like to check it out!)
This one features Wild Harmony Farm and their young family, which has grown so much since then!
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It was a bit bittersweet to watch these and trim them today for posts, knowing the massive cuts to grants and federal funding for our local farms right now. And also incredibly healing & hopeful to see the beauty these people have created on their land.

➡️Private investors, please step up and help these grants and many more funding sources continue, to help these amazingly hard-working people. 🙏🙏
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We hope to drop more of these on Thursdays - feel free to follow along for some dopamine-building viewing. 😌 🌾🌱🥕



Thanks to Ezra Distler for gorgeous aerials and macro-cinematography in all of these!

11/03/2025

“Y” haven’t we shared the video we made last summer for Franklin County's YMCA 's Camp Apex? Maybe it was because we were awaiting camp sign-up season! Or maybe we all need some gurgling brooks and deep green hues to get us through the gray March weather. 🍃
Either way, enjoy this excerpt! and stay tuned for short reels that they will be using for promotion of the upcoming camp sign-up season. 🍉🩱🌳
When we make a video together, many videos are born: an anchor video, as well as several social media reels, and the cleaned, raw footage, upon request - to make as many posts on your own as you can handle! 🎉🥳

27/02/2025

Video to the rescue? 🏹
It’s been startling to see the federal changes already affecting our daily work (here’s a view from the edit seat.)
Many agencies and farm orgs we work with have already been affected by federal funding cuts.
We’ve had three clients in the last few weeks pivot our projects toward making content to use for private fundraising, instead of our original goals.
Or, they’ve expanded the scope to create an additional video for private funders.
Private funding cannot possibly fill the gap that is left from federal grants being pulled from farms and nonprofit agencies in our region, but if our videos can help pull in more dollars to help them, that makes our work feel a bit more worth it, in these crazy times.
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11/02/2025

Radical collaboration, 💥 letting students be heard, 🔥 re-imagining curriculums, 🌎 honoring indigenous & other underrepresented voices, 💡shining light on educational programs for incarcerated youth, offering crucial professional development for educators…and about a dozen other amazing reasons to celebrate the ✨Collaborative for Educational Services✨

Here’s an excerpt of the longer video we made to celebrate their 50th anniversary!

10/02/2025

Congrats to Collaborative for Educational Services on their 50th year, which we helped celebrate with this new anniversary video! 📽️ 🥂

Interviewing over twenty employees and learning so much about their services, we were astounded at the amount of crucial work they do in our region. Thank you CES!

The Collaborative for Educational Services is a Massachusetts non-profit educational services agency committed to reaching and educating learners of all ages...

01/02/2025

Visit us at the winter conference today! 🌾Fun sights seen so far - good people & great atmosphere for 🌱growth and change 🌱!

30/01/2025

to making this film for NH schools: it combined some of the top three most-fun things to film! 🍅farming, kids, and pizza 🍕
This is a few excerpts from the original video. Hope it makes you hungry!