We are Dream a Dream
A video that comprehensively explains the work of Dream a Dream and its impact around India. Dream a Dream empowers young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and flourish in a fast changing world, using a creative life skills approach.
Producer, Cinematographer, Editor - CK Vijayakumar
AC, Second Camera, Sound, Asst. Producer - Zulfiya Hamzaki
Change the Script 2020
We created this film for Dream a Dream, a Bangalore-based NGO. Every year it organizes Change the Script (CTS). CTS is a gathering of the leading minds in education from around the world. The aim is to brainstorm ideas to help the young people in India to deal with chaotic present and the dynamic future.
Cinematographer: CK Vijayakumar
Editor: CK Vijayakumar
AC + 2nd Camera: Andrew Weller
Producer: CK Vijayakumar
INVEST IN YOUR INDIA — RangDe.in
We created this film for RangDe, a Bangalore-based company and lending platform that enables people to invest in entrepreneurs from low-income communities and accelerate financial inclusion in India. For this film, we traveled through Karnataka, Assam and Rajasthan, meeting weavers, embroiderers, flower sellers, tailors, and restaurant owners.
The film was made for the company’s website re-launch.
Cinematographers: CK Vijayakumar
Editor: CK Vijayakumar
Producers: Archana Kiran, Ramya Nagaraje, Praveen Rajive, Chandni Sawlani
DREAM A DREAM
Change the Script 2019
We’re working with our client Dream a Dream for the second time this year to create a film for their annual event, Change the Script.
In anticipation of the event, we created four one-minute short films about four young people who have benefited from Dream a Dream’s programs and are becoming key players in the organization.
The event is aimed at building a supportive community of leaders from all over the world to serve Dream a Dream’s mission of empowering young people from vulnerable backgrounds. The event aims to scale the impact from 100,000 to 160,000 young people growing up in adversity in India.
Director, Cinematographer, Editor: CK Vijayakumar
Producers: Prasanna H., and Shashank Jayaprasad
Rebirth in Bihar
Our producer worked with Blue Chalk Media and Blue State Digital to create a film for Blue State’s client, CARE International, that tells the story of the nonprofit’s success in improving the maternal health of women and babies in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states.
The goal was to produce a visually stunning film that would illustrate key elements of the innovative program while suggesting to future funders and public health leaders that the solutions pioneered in Bihar are reproducible in other regions of India and the developing world.
Blue Chalk spent 10 days in Bihar, capturing the work of the government departments, nurses, frontline health workers and medical officers who have come together to redefine maternal health outcomes for thousands of mothers and babies throughout the state over the past decade.
Director and Editor: Jesse Crowell
Creative Director: Rob Finch
Producer: Matthew Slutsky
Cinematographer: Jason Greene
Animations: Joy Nelson
TIME INDIA 100
We worked as producers with Blue Chalk Media, and TIME’s The Foundry to create films for the Indian Ministry of Tourism, that bring to light the diverse range of experiences one can have in India.
All the films were released on "The India 100," a Time.com microsite that recommends the top 100 destinations to visit in India. https://theindia100.com/
Creative Director: Rob Finch
Executive Producer: Sam Morgan
Producer and Assistant Camera: CK Vijayakumar
Cinematographers: Megan Eleanor Clark and Jamie Francis
Editors: Megan Eleanor Clark and Jesse Crowell