Unbound tells the powerful story of a community coming together to uplift those most impacted by severe mental illness through art. 

1500 people created a striking 80-foot long sculpture at one of California’s largest psychiatric facilities, the Department of State Hospitals-Napa. Never before had an artwork of this magnitude been created inside a secure facility in partnership with the outside community. 

Over 500 patients, 200 hospital staff and 800 community volunteers built a sculpture of collective liberation of hundreds of winged hearts flying free from a cage and together forged an innovative new model of participatory public art.

Emerging from one woman’s personal quest to heal from her family’s journey with schizophrenia, the Unbound project was conceived and offered as an antidote to the despair and isolation often associated with mental illness.

Unbound offers an inspiring example of personal and collective healing through art and serves as a powerful reminder of the boundless potential of the human spirit, showing what is possible when we open our hearts, lift each other up, and embrace the transformative power of art.

Visions of Hope is a healing art program created by Life On Art culminating in an exhibition of over 100 unique winged hearts created by incarcerated women and men inside California prisons. 

Over a period of many weeks a team of volunteers visited the prisons and gave each person a papier-mâché, ‘winged heart’ and provided inspiration and art supplies. The incarcerated men and women then took their own journey to decorate and adorn the hearts with their thoughts, emotions and color choices to create their own Heart Story. Sometimes they were inspired to write music, poems or journal. 

Once all the artwork was completed, documentary filmmaker Vince Beeton from Humans Being Media and stills photographer Lisa Baird captured the essence of the emotional and often healing journeys of their personal Heart Stories. 
Then the Life On Art team carefully took the artwork and installed over 200 original pieces in a multimedia exhibition at the Marin County Civic Center. 
When you download the free app called Bloomberg Connects, you can access a content-rich documentary film series interviewing the artists and revealing their individual Heart Stories, photographs and bios.

Napa County of Education hired us to create a series of films over the course of a year with a grant they received. The goals of these films are to offer online teacher training modules for literacy. Project participants watch the videos in conjunction with their other course materials. These films inspire teachers to adopt these literacy practices in their classroom by viewing the modules and working with on-site coaches. These films were shot throughout California and were designed to have a long shelf life.

The bespoke opening animation sequence and branded motion graphics elevate the brand identity, and every film is produced with closed captioning.

NASRC is a nonprofit boldly pushing for urgent action to make a positive impact on climate change. As an industry-facing nonprofit, they created the “Naturally Cool” brand to garner public support and educate people about the use of natural vs synthetic refrigerants as the #1 solution to help curtail climate change.

We pitched the idea of a brand mascot, a 2-dimensional animation of an affable polar bear. The polar bear disseminates the information and calls viewers to action, delivering ‘friendly’ but potent messages across social media and web platforms in order to affect radical change.

This 60 second animation was the first introduction to the brand mascot, who is now being used for future campaigns.

For optimal brand recognition, we teamed up with AdTaxi, suggesting a search and social media campaign to be launched concurrently, identifying strategic audiences (core, custom, lookalike, geo-graphic) nationwide. This would be targeted across multiple channels, using a quantum algorithm to track high intent audiences on their preferred platforms.

Robert became homeless. As a paranoid schizophrenic, the system was stacked against him. His life was a day to day survival until 30 years later when he was surrounded by the care and support he needed. Coordinated Entry is a collective in Marin County that has formed to end Chronic Homelessness and help people like Robert move from basic survival to having physical, emotional and mental support, employment, and a place to call home.

This 60 second commercial launches Homeward Bound's new product as a separate brand as a social enterprise in order to empower previously homeless people. This commercial had a quick turnaround: from script concept to shooting took 48 hours, then it was shot in one filming day.

This film was created for Vivalon’s Healthy Aging Campus capital campaign. It was presented at a high-stake investor meeting to help current and potential donors visualize the project and create an emotional response. This documentary has been repurposed several times, including for City of San Rafael Planning, and will also be used as a public-facing campaign.

The film addresses three key issues that need urgent attention in order for us to provide a future that is safe, vibrant and affordable for the older adults in our community: Affordable housing, isolation & loneliness, and access to medical and supportive services.

It also highlights the potent collaboration between Vivalon and Eden Housing for this important and life-changing venture that supports the older adults in our community.

Vivalon commissioned us to create 3 mini docs to inspire viewers to connect emotionally to the older adults and people with disabilities in our community, so that they can be celebrated and honored. By portraying three different personalities with three distinctly separate circumstances and needs, we can reveal the three brand services that this incredible nonprofit provides: social connection, transportation and nutrition.

We provided six unique deliverables including a 150 second version to drive awareness and prompt donations during their Q4 fundraising campaign. This four minute version serves as a promo for their brand services.

Vivalon’s CarePool program improves the quality of life of older adults in Marin by helping them get to medical appointments, go grocery shopping, or attend social events. CarePool’s success depends on community support, so we conceived and created a series of animations to explain the need and encourage people to get involved, outlining how easy and rewarding it is to volunteer for CarePool. The animations were used in TV commercial spots, and were the key assets to a social media campaign launched to drive new volunteer signups.

Rita is fiercely independent. She lost use of her left arm after a stroke and is alone for most of the week. So when the volunteers from Vivalon arrive three times a week to bring her meals and provide connection, it is deeply nourishing on many levels.

“Donate Now” 1 minute promo

Meet Evelyn and her daughter Brandina. Evelyn was able to return to school because of the support of The Sonder Project. This is one of several mini documentaries of people who have benefitted from this wonderful organization.

Documenting and celebrating the Lifehouse annual fundraiser auction event, which featured 53 of the great chefs and wineries of the region, was attended by almost 500 people, and raised about $730,000, enabling Lifehouse to continue doing the important work they do for our developmentally disabled community and their families.

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8-minute awareness campaign to answer the question “What is a 21st Century Library and how can it exist in San Rafael today?”

30 second clip for Instagram in 1080 square format

SRPLF 15-second re-edit

6-second re-edit for YouTube in 16.9 format

IONS believes that the power of our intention and the strength of our actions actually conjure up new possibilities and allow us to step into a new future.

Originally, all the scenes were conceived and filmed for a 9-minute futuristic documentary which screened at their international conference in 2017. The footage was repurposed to create 6 new films to provoke engagement on their Facebook page. This was the first film leading into their end-of-year fundraising campaign. The film concept was to visualize a future in which noetic practices are commonplace in the fields of business, education, health and healing.

With a cast of 23 actors from all over the Bay Area and a crew of only 6, all the scenes were shot in one day.

This film creates a connection with the viewer on their personal noetic journey, and recognizes the potency of interconnection and the need for transformation.

Presented at the IONS International conference in 2019 at their benefit dinner, the film serves as inspiration to donate generously to this remarkable nonprofit.

We were commissioned to create a series of “Summer of Science” films, the objective of which was to engage people on social media to take part in noetic conversations and share their own noetic experiences.

Standing on the shoulders of giants, the Institute of Noetic Sciences is unlocking the scientific understanding of intuition, inspiration, and transformation. This production from concept to delivery was 3 weeks and was their centerpiece for the end of year fundraising campaign in 2017. A simultaneous Facebook campaign was launched with still imagery and quotes which we animated using a parallax effect for Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Henry David Thoreau.

The brand objective is to initiate a dialogue around the relationship of consciousness with ourselves and our world, including psi phenomenon. Examples like intuition and precognition illustrate that this is a normal and in fact intelligent conversation that is an important area to explore for the sake of the planet and its people, one that highlights and anchors our interdependence and interconnectedness. By engaging in this dialogue, people can feel their personal responsibility for continuing to spread a message of connectivity.

IONS continues to lead this research so as to give people greater access to a shared consciousness from which wisdom, creativity, compassion, empathy and passion emerge to make the world a better place.

This is module one of four episodes of an educational series we filmed and produced for IONS about conscious aging.

St. Joseph Health is a healthcare provider that was transitioning through massive growth at the time this film was commissioned. The film was created to reveal the collaborative partnerships and programs that are offered by the unique department called Community Benefit. Authentic verbal content is beautifully told by the staff who are out there making a difference in the lives of the people they serve.

A version in Spanish was created as well. We overdubbed one key executive interview and used interviewees who were bilingual.

This international yoga brand created by "The Woodstock Guru“ has been instrumental in bringing yoga to the West and creating the foundations for the modern yoga movement worldwide.

This film distills the essential teachings of Swami Satchidananda with moving image and animation inspired by the art of Peter Max. It illustrates how this classical form of yoga began, and uncovers the depth of the lineage and the seminal structure that this yoga brand has pioneered.

Words speak louder when united with pictures. This is potent personal testimony. In marketing, this sort of promo can easily fall flat with traditional interview techniques for eliciting information.

For this Integral Yoga Institute teacher training online promo, we recorded audio interviews only, so that the film could be driven instead by engaging b-roll, all shot in a single day at the yoga studio. The power of the words during interviews with past students, teacher trainers, and people who take the classes, carries the message home.

This film was created to leverage the impact and necessity of this inaugural conference so that it can be replicated for a global audience. It serves to promote this conference as one part of the brand offerings from the Gender Leadership Group. Creating and inspiring culture change within corporate infrastructure, the Gender Leadership Group brings a much needed conversation into action with an impressive list of attendees: CISCO, DIGITAL MEDIA, EBAY, ERNST AND YOUNG, GENENTECH, HANSON BRIDGETT, GOOGLE, HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE, KAISER PERMANENTE, LEAN IN, LEE HECHT HARRISON, MICROSOFT, MORGAN STANLEY, PWC, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC, SCHWAB, STUBHUB, TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, UBER, UN WOMEN, VM WARE, VISA.

The salient interviews we filmed during the conference were also used as content for their social media and email communications throughout the year.