Tribal Nations films. In their own voices.

How we think about it

Research first, then listen.

We make public health, education and civic films with the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, which represents 21 tribal nations. The lesson has been the same every time: do the research first, then let community members tell their own stories.

Clients include Inter Tribal Council of Arizona

Here's the short version:

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   Who we work with

   We work with tribal governments, councils and tribal health programs.

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   How we help

   We do the research first, then film leaders and community members telling their own stories, on location.

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   What we make

   We make public health, education, civic and cultural films.

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   Where it plays

   The films play at community events, in clinics, on tribal media and across social.

Many communities have good reason to doubt messages from outside, so our research looks for that history before we plan anything. That way the film speaks to it instead of around it. Leaders, elders, mothers and young voters speak for themselves, with no outside narrator. We film where people live and work, and we ask before we point a camera at anything. Here's some of the work we've made together:

Case studies

How a few projects went.

We wrote up a few projects from start to finish, with the research behind them and the numbers around them:

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  Education

  ITCA WIC: Welcome to WIC

  A welcome film, a series of short guides and Dear Mom, so tribal families trust WIC enough to enroll and know what to do once they have.

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  Awareness

  ITCA TEC: Vaccine education

  Tribal health leaders explain vaccines to their own communities, in their own words.