UPRISE is an idea production company that moves people to engage more deeply with themselves and the world by any medium necessary. These include film, television, documentary, interactive online video, theater, stunts, and mediums we are still in the process of inventing. “Ads for Ideas” is our first initiative. We are directing short compelling narrative that sell an idea versus [...]
This groundbreaking play will offer an in-depth look at the world as seen through the eyes of women and girls from various cultures and countries. The play will highlight the struggles females face and the dedication and determination shown by the United Nations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) field workers whose efforts go widely unnoticed. The audience will be taken [...]
24 Peaces is an artist’s journey to inspire people to create peace through exploring its meaning with twenty-four peacemakers from around the world. With the purpose of igniting our own individual ability to create peace, the artist GENE (Gene Jimenez) is conducting a series of twenty-four conversations with both preeminent peacemakers and a cross section of “every-day people” from [...]
Poverty, world hunger, pollution, unsustainable resources, and warfare. Most people would be hard-pressed to believe that such issues could be eliminated within the next 50 years. But what if we could achieve such things within 30 years? Or even – 10 years. Symosphere is a project designed to help people realistically and systematically achieve global-scale changes within time-frames previously thought [...]
Culture Collective inspires creative collaborations between educators, youth, artists, and local communities. The project uses new media to recognize the rich textures and customs of Native American cultures like the Hopi, Lakota, Cherokee as a means of celebration and transformation for communities. We present the videos in a social-networking site for educators, activists, students, angel investors, and film-makers that focuses [...]
The mim’delo Project is a multidisciplinary event combined with an educational platform aiming to engage the world’s youth in a participatory creative process to promote social change. With effective outreach and multi-platform distribution, the documentary can produce a snowball effect with young people of the world, joining them with the youth of Mindelo through performing arts, music and audiovisual storytelling. [...]
Former CNN journalist Charles Tsai is using online multimedia to inspire and educate youth to become effective changemakers and social entrepreneurs. Through his new website, Social Creatives, Charles is creating and curating the best tools, programs and resources that help youth learn the best practices of social innovation. One program he’s scaling globally this year is a video-based competition called [...]
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