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ORIGINALS
STORIES MATTER TO US
We’re doing all this so we can tell stories. Stories that bring people together, that make them care, that make them think or laugh or cry. That help them more fully see other humans.
So while we love helping producers and studios to tell their stories, we’re constantly developing stories of our own to tell. Often they start as journalistic projects (magazines, books) or audio productions (podcasts, story-driven albums), and then become TV or film properties.
Here are a few of our recent originals:
FLUFF PIECE
Fluff Piece is a gorgeously-designed, educational children's series—made up of playful, 22-minute episodes—wherein a news reporter and her animated dog sidekick investigate stories in order to help kids think critically about the information they receive in the world and on their screens.
TRAILER
RESIGNATION
A comedy about a generation that’s rethinking its relationship with work. The series follows a diverse group of productivity-drug-addled freelancers navigating what it means to freelance in the post-pandemic gig economy, tackling problems in their personal and professional life. From immigration issues, to being your own boss, to shooting your own sex tape; it covers real topics that hit home for anyone who has ever worked for an app.
LIBERATION
First an article series on the longform tech-driven story platform Narratively (part of our Collective of awesome HUMANS), then an audio series and premium TV series-in-progress, this is the story of the CIA’s original fake news network, and how its rollout in the 1950s in Guatemala led to today’s immigration crisis and foreshadowed the playbook that autocrats would use in the social media era.
ONE YEAR
One Year is a concept album of a dozen individual poems coming together to create a single gripping story. Of a man who’s convinced that suicide is his only option, and decides to give himself One Year to find a reason why life is worth living. This is a candid portrayal of the inner monologue of a person battling suicidal thoughts of depression.