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Climate Change in Wainwright, Alaska

Date	March 2011
Client	Cornell University and the Iñupiat people of Wainwright, AK
Brief	Whaling is a way of life for the Iñupiat people of Wainwright, Alaska. This video follows community leader John Hopson, Jr. to explore why whaling is central to their livelihoods and how climate change might threaten the future of their culture.

Neotropical Grassland Conservancy

Date	July 2011
Client	Neotropical Grassland Conservancy
Brief	We produced this video for the Neotropical Grassland Conservancy, an organization that provides funding to kickstart the careers of environmental scientists in Latin America. The video is designed as a fundraising tool to support the NGC’s philanthropic efforts.

Conservation in Yunnan, China

Date	January 2009
Client	ICRAF, China
Brief	This video highlights an ecoagriculture project in North-West Yunnan, China. The project was commissioned by Ecoagriculture Partners and Cornell University. It features new innovations in agriculture that are being implemented to regenerate forest cover in the area.

Biomimicry: Copying Our Way To Conservation

Date	Sept 2011
Client	ConservationBridge.org
Brief	Nature holds the answers to many of the technological problems we face. Here we explore how mimicking nature to invent, build, and design products can help us create a healthier planet.

CrossingBoundaries.org

Date	July 2011
Client	CrossingBoundaries.org
Brief	Following graduate students as they conduct their fieldwork can be a great way to expose young people to careers in the environmental sciences. This video follows PhD Candidate Anna Savage as she collects samples to complete her research on frogs infected with a deadly fungus.

Strengthening Climate Resilience Program

Date	March 2010
Client	Department for International Development, United Kingdom
Brief	This video uses motion graphics and 3D effects applied to photographs to highlight the work of Strengthening Climate Resilience, a program funded by the UK’s Department for International Development.

AgricultureBridge.org

Date	March 2008
Client	AgricultureBridge.org
Brief	This video was created using After Effects, a motion graphics software program. Its purpose was to help raise funds for AgricultureBridge by describing the vision for the project. The video was successful in helping win a USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant.

Faces of Ping Zang

Date	January 2009
Client	ICRAF China
Brief	This video was produced for ICRAF China as a means to convey the spirit of the people in one of their project areas in North-West Yunnan, China.

Africa Adapt Intro Video (French)

Date	January 2009
Client	Institute for Development Studies
Brief	This web-based video was created to generate awareness of the Africa Adapt platform and its network of partners. Africa Adapt is a continent-wide network dedicated to sharing knowledge about climate change adaptation.

Fencing Flamingos

Date	May 2008
Client	Cornell University
Brief	Highlighting the work of Cornell University Ph.D. Candidate Marita Davison, this video was created to expose high school students to careers in ecology and to motivate them to enter the field. The video won awards from both the Ecological Society of America and The Scientist magazine

Marketing Local Food in California

Date	January 2010
Client	University of California, Berkeley
Brief	The local food movement is becoming increasingly important. This video provides a look at the innovative ways that local foods are being marketed in the Capay Valley of California.

What is Sustainable Development?

Date	August 2005
Client	Government of Canada — Ministry of the Environment
Brief	This motion graphics piece was distributed to policy makers across the government to help them understand what sustainable development is and the strategies they can implement to limit the environmental impacts of their development plans.

Human-Wildlife Conflict in Bhutan

Date	August 2007
Client	Royal Government of Bhutan — Department of Agriculture
Brief	The goal of this video was to show how human-wildlife conflict plays out in Bhutan and what the government is doing to resolve issues.

Conservation in Nairobi, National Park

Date	August 2007
Client	School for Field Studies
Brief	This video was produced for the School for Field Studies and their Nairobi National Park program. It focuses on the major threats to the park and the programs that are in place to mitigate them.

KENVO

Date	August 2007
Client	KENVO & Ecoagriculture Partners
Brief	This video was created in partnership with KENVO, a community based conservation organization based in Kenya, and Ecoagriculture Partners. Its goal was to highlight the issues that KENVO was facing and the projects they have undertaken to resolve them.

Visualize a better world

Video has become one of the most effective and cost-effective methods for fundraising and communicating complex issues. Just a decade ago, video was not only expensive to produce but also difficult to distribute.

With the mass adoption of Internet-based video distribution platforms along with the decreased cost of high-quality video production equipment, video can now be used by organizations to get their message out.

It also allows organizations to effectively tailor their messages to decision makers, to explain complex projects to collaborators, and to raise interest from potential donors.

Our experience producing videos and distributing them on-line ensures our clients that their messages are captured and that their fundraising efforts are more effective.