Henning Makell shares his insightful observations on what he learned about storytelling and listening after 25 years of living in Africa, “. . . a truer nomination for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people’s […]
We just heard from social innovator Mike Lin of Fenix International that the micro-documentary we produced with them has been selected as a finalist in the McKinsey Social Innovation Video Contest. We’re thrilled that McKinsey has recognized the important work that Fenix International is doing by bringing electricity to the 1.6 billion people who today struggle to live […]
Dear Friends, We just got back from the energizing experience of attending the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City. We were invited to film on Tuesday and Wednesday, we edited overnight and the resulting micro-documentary was shown on the huge screens of the closing plenary on Thursday afternoon. As you will see in the microdoc, the […]
In the old Indian story of the blind men and the elephant, a picture of the truth emerges though a collection of perspectives. In the same way, a series of microdocs can be assembled together to help us have a fuller experience of the impact of your organization. This month, through the series of the Downtown […]
“The work we produced with Micro-Documentaries has been an amazingly effective marketing tool for our organization, both as individual pieces and a series. We’ve used our microdocs with great success to introduce presentations, showing the audience what we do in under two minutes, instead of our usual 15 minute explanation. That gives us more time […]