What makes a great story? For legendary filmmaker Ken Burns, the answer is both complicated and personal. In this short documentary about the craft of storytelling, he explains his lifelong mission to wake the dead. Recently featured on The Atlantic.

It is crucial that students have equal access to a quality education. We worked with The GE Foundation to create a video that highlights its commitment to school systems across the nation.

The positive things we do every day matter. Redglass created a series of 13 short documentaries for the National MS Society profiling people with MS who seek to improve their lives.  We’ve featured two of their stories.

Women around the world still suffer from discrimination and violence. This must change. We worked with UN Women and former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet to create this identity video to showcase the organization’s mission and achievements over their first two years.

A short film series about that moment when you emerge from the Paris subway and find yourself in a new and sometimes unexpected world. This series has been shown all over the world and was recently featured in a full page write-up in the The Atlantic. The Sub City series explores the wonder in the humble experience of exiting the subway through dreamy slow motion and elegant steadicam cinematography. – The Atlantic

A short film series about that moment when you emerge from the New York subway and find yourself in a new and sometimes unexpected world. This series has been shown all over the world and featured in the Gothamist, New York Magazine, and The Daily Beast among others.  “Sub City is set to lovely, soothing music and is so beautifully shot that it almost makes you excited about your commute home.”   The Huffington Post

Catholic school meets downtown fashion in this video lookbook for Thom Dolan‘s smart and sexy 2012 fall line.

Two New Yorkers feel a tremendous responsibility when they receive hundreds of letters addressed to Santa Claus. The piece was featured on the front page of The New York Times on Christmas Eve, 2010 and has since received millions of hits.  Official Selection: Silverdocs Film Festival. Music by Ryan Sayward Whittier.  Recently optioned for a Major Motion Picture.

The potential of design is widely acknowledged, but scaling it throughout an organization is still an enormous challenge. We created this short video for Smart Design that explores the idea of “Design at Scale” and promotes the DMI Design/Management’s upcoming fall conference.

Imagine that you could suggest an improvement to anything in your neighborhood. This short spot is a public promotion directed, shot and edited by Redglass Pictures and conceived and produced by Local Projects to promote a unique crowd-sourcing platform that allows individuals to post their own suggestions online for city leadership response. Music by Michael Hearst.

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Michael Feinstein sings a tribute to Irving Berlin, Ken Burns interprets the great Emma Lazarus poem, Ruth Bader Ginsburg remembers Louis Brandeis, and JJ Abrams talks about his hero, Steven Spielberg.  Redglass Pictures directed, shot and story-edited these eighteen large-scale films that explore the impact of great American Jews through the words of modern day visionaries. Produced by Local Projects. Music by Ryan Sayward Whittier.

We worked with Mercer Global to create a series of animated shorts for their Inside Employers’ Minds campaign. Art Direction by Jennifer McClory and Animation by Elliot Cowan.

Imagine if you could have built a hybrid car or a wind turbine in high school. Simon Hauger co-founded an experimental school that gives students the tools to solve real world sustainability problems.  We created this piece for PopTech’s 2011 techonology and innovation conference.

It just takes a few small steps to reduce our carbon footprint. We collaborated with Smart Design  to create a piece that brings attention to what we can all do to make the planet a healthier place for the next generation.  Please contact us for the password.

Don’t let great connections slip away. We worked with the folks at Friendthem to create a snappy commercial that shows the real world impact of their new mobile phone application.  Visual effects by Trace VFX. Music by Matt Abeysekera

It’s not easy being twenty-something in today’s job market.  We worked with Mercer on their ‘Inside Employees Minds Campaign’ to tell the stories of a number of young people from all over the world who are attempting to navigate and redefine the workplace. Music by Ryan Sayward Whittier.

Sometimes stories make a bigger impact when they break out of traditional formats. We collaborated with Local Projects to create media sculptures that blended unusual environments with compelling storytelling about healthcare innovations.

Meet a New York woman who would do anything for her dogs.  This short profile for Newsweek explores the lengths to which one animal lover goes to pamper her pets.

Filmed backstage at The Bell House in Brooklyn, each conversation begins with the question: “what have you been thinking about on the road in the wee hours of the morning?” What ensues is a free-flowing dialogue inter-cut with improvised music inspired by the topic at hand.

Every year, young mothers from all over the country leave their children behind and set out to the country’s heartland to compete for the title of Mother of the Year. This award-winning feature documentary is a Co-Production with Phares & Balises, Arte France, RTBF Belgium, Television Suisse Romande, YLE Finland, SBS Australia.  VPRO Holland, SVT Sweden. Music by Michael Hearst.

What does it mean to care about other people? Caring World is an experiential video installation created with Local Projects for the Beijing Olympics. The films consist of interviews with people from all over the world, including unprecedented interviews from survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Justin Fatica is not for everyone. When he steps up to the altar, the unordained Catholic minister uses a mix of professional wrestling, hip hop and scripture to bring Jesus to thousands of teenage worshippers.  Filmed over a year and a half, this documentary, directed by David Holbrooke, follows this often unorthodox and always charismatic preacher. It aired on HBO and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.