Short documentaries about the person your community already loves and nobody has filmed yet.
The Blessed Corner · 2:37 · Watch this first. Everything below is just explanation.
Midland ISD posted it — 1,300+ reactions, 184 shares. Fannin Elementary posted it separately and drew 181 more. Chick-fil-A Midland shared it too. Nobody coordinated any of that. The Odessa American ran a feature.
Banner, table, logo on a program. Gone by Tuesday.
Defend the line. Do more with less. Again.
Same money. Something still working after the event is over.
Most people don’t want to commission a campaign from someone they’ve never worked with. Fair.
One day on location. One short film about one person. Five finished photographs. Delivered three weeks after the shoot. Applies in full toward the $25,000 campaign.
Travel billed at $0.55 per mile.
The documentary. The day the community shows up, filmed as it happens, cut into a second short you can send the same week. And a printed book of what that person built, for them to keep.
Twelve months. $20,500 after a test run.
Multi-city, broadcast length, full distribution.
From $100,000
Two premieres. Each one has a date and an audience.
There’s one more film in this. We don’t describe it here, and we don’t describe it to you either. You’ll see it at the second premiere.
One call, fifteen minutes, around month eight. You give me a date and a name. No committee, no planning sessions, no approval rounds. I show up and film what happens.
You already know who. Everyone does.
The part nobody pays for and everything depends on.
Their corner, their shift, their people.
Then other people share it, which is the whole point.
Seven years at UT Permian Basin, most recently as digital officer. Work for the Education Partnership of the Permian Basin and nonprofits across West Texas. I made institutional media from the inside, which means I know who has to defend it and what it has to survive.
Tell me about them. Fifteen minutes.
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