Programs
How the work gets done
Three programs, plus the narrative and scripted works that carry the same educational purpose to a wider audience.
Program 01
Documentary Education Program
We produce documentary work that brings humanitarian crises, conflict, and reconciliation to the public. Every film is built on documented events and firsthand accounts gathered in the field, and every film is released free to the public.
Our Burma field report is the current example. A team of military veterans went in, gathered interviews and firsthand accounts from people living through the conflict, and brought back a record of what they saw.
Program 02
Veteran Storyteller Program
We teach the craft directly. Camera rigging, lens choice, lighting, sound, slate use, location scouting, shot selection, screenwriting, story development, and photographic fundamentals, taught in structured sessions, one to one and in small groups, and then applied on real productions alongside experienced crew. We are expanding the written course material and building an instructional video series.
Training is open to all. Recruitment focuses on veterans, because for them this work repurposes the skills, discipline, and firsthand experience gained in military service into a new vocation in public education, giving those who served a continued mission after the uniform.
Program 03
Nonprofit Partner Program
We collaborate with other nonprofits, educational institutions, and community organizations, producing story work they could not produce alone and helping them reach the public with it.
Partners bring the access and the subject knowledge. We bring the crew, the training, and the distribution. The finished work belongs to the public.
Case study
MX4
MX4 are doing work worth seeing. They had photographs and footage from their own work, and we offered to help turn it into something they could publish more quickly.
We were glad to help with the edit. It stayed theirs from start to finish. The material, the story, and the final say all remained with them, and the piece went out under their name on their own channels.
Getting the word out on work like theirs is the point. There are organizations everywhere doing purposeful work, and sometimes the most useful thing on offer is a second pair of hands at the edit.
We take on partner production when an organization has something worth showing and needs help getting it over the finish line. The partner keeps ownership of the material and keeps editorial control of the result.
Elevating humanity is not something any one organization does on its own. If an edit is what stands between good work and the people who ought to see it, we would rather be useful than precious about whose name is on it.
Also
Narrative and scripted works
Alongside documentary, we produce narrative and scripted work grounded in documented events, firsthand veteran accounts, and the documented realities common to veterans and conflict-affected communities.
Characters and storylines may be composites drawn from those realities, selected for educational impact and released with discussion and resource materials. This is educational storytelling, not clinical treatment, and we do not present it as therapy.
Double Edged, a narrative feature on post-traumatic stress written and directed by Tony Rakshith, is the current example. We did not produce it. We advised through pre-production, provided equipment, the location, and in-house training for a few of the crew and cast, and veterans from Peacemaker Coalition gave their advisement throughout. See it on the stories page.
Want to be part of it?
Crew, subject, partner, or backer. There is a way in for most people who care about this work.