History

Established in 1989 by award-winning director and producer Andrea Kalin, the non-profit company specializes in creating socially-conscious media used to raise public awareness in America and throughout the world. The company has produced over a dozen films, most notably the three critically acclaimed feature length documentaries Partners of the Heart, Prince Among Slaves, and The Pact, which all aired on PBS.

Partners of the Heart, narrated by Morgan Freeman, aired on PBS’s American Experience in February 2003 and was rebroadcast in March 2005. Partners went on to win the Erik Barnouw Award for Best History Documentary in 2004 and was later turned into the Golden Globe-winning HBO film Something The Lord Made starring Mos Def, who also narrated Prince Among Slaves.

Films

• The Pact
• Prince Among Slaves
• Partners of the Heart
• Talking Through Walls
• Allah Made Me Funny
• Asia’s Water Crisis: The Struggle Within Each Drop
• Battered Lives, Broken Trust: When Men Abuse Women
• Too Brief a Child: Voices of Married Adolescents
• Breaking the Poverty Cycle: Investing in Early Childhood
• Bridges: Southeast Asians’ American Journey
• Wired for Change: Information Technology for Development in the Americas
• A Voice of Her Own: Women and Economic Change in Asia
• From rage to Recovery: Society’s Search for Peace
• World Bank HUNGER Public Service Announcement