Feel the history and the expansiveness of the sanctuary.
Wide frames that keep the sanctuary in the picture. Height, arches, and empty pews behind the subject. Scale does the work that a voiceover would.
Available light shaped through the windows. Warm highlights, deep shadows, nothing flattened. Stained glass carries the color.
Still Your Grandma's Movement is still and wide. Vote Is Sacred is closer and faster, faces forward, cut on the shared script.
Visual direction for the interviews and the campaign.
Still Fighting for the Same Dream, Not Deferred and Not Forgotten
Elders and firsthand witnesses answer one question in their own words: did the civil rights movement end, or was it carried without pause by the people who marched, raised children, worked, taught, and fought through every decade since the 1940s?
Several of these voices sit outside Atlanta, which is why the shoot travels.
Open to anyone else with firsthand experience of the era.
Lynae Vanee: Atlanta based, audience in the millions. Bringing her into production gives her a stake in the work and generates publicity.
The historic church, restored to its 1960s appearance. Sits within Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park, which adds an NPS film permit and location fees.
The current worship space. Church scheduling only, no federal permit. Large, modern, bright.
Homes, churches, and offices outside Atlanta, so the list is not limited by geography.
The ballot box is not a machine. It is a room full of people you know.
A voting film for the midterms built on trust rather than fear. Every participant reads the same script. In the edit we take a few lines from each person and stitch them together, so the full message is spoken by many voices as one.
The Big 7.
Diverse leaders, lay and clergy.
Voices with existing reach.
Optional fourth group.
Common, Vic Mensa, and others who have spoken publicly on this have been raised as a goal for these groups.
A Southern pick would build on the current momentum around not overlooking the South.
Civil rights symbolism and a strong network of pastors.
Movement history and Black church leadership on voting rights.
Faith-based organizing and a deep activist history.
Growing Black population and strong church networks.
Major Black electorate and a perennial battleground.
Large Black faith community and national political weight.
Key voting city with influential Black churches.
A poster series to carry the campaign beyond video, in print and digital.
The original movement leaders as a commemorative portrait series. Each woman named and credited, treated with the weight of a historical print. Works as a set on a wall and as individual posts.
Classic one sheet treatment. Dramatic light, name above the title, a credit block at the bottom. The people who run our elections given the billing usually reserved for leads.
Large format for sanctuaries, lobbies, and events. Sized for standard framing.
Square and vertical versions for social, plus screen sizes for in house displays.
Stills captured during both shoots, so the posters cost no additional shoot days.
National Baptist Convention, COGIC Holy Convocation, AME district meetings, Hampton Ministers' Conference.
Chapter meeting screenings across the campaign markets.
Morehouse, Spelman, and Clark Atlanta. Howard in the DMV, Harris-Stowe in St. Louis. Pair with same day registration.
County election offices and Power the Polls can carry the film on their own channels to recruit poll workers.
Urban One reaches every campaign market. Gospel and urban AC formats plus the syndicated morning shows.
Black church, civic, and history podcasts.
Tablet loops and QR posters, coordinated through existing outreach programs in each market.
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights and The King Center in Atlanta. NMAAHC in the DMV.
Atlanta Film Festival, BlackStar, AFI Docs, Urbanworld, Pan African. Some festivals require an online premiere hold.
Auburn Avenue Research Library, Emory's Rose Library, or the Library of Congress folklife collection.
A QR code on a church fan, cheap at volume. Pew back cards do the same job.
Word In Black, NNPA, and the market papers. Stills and transcript excerpts work as a photo essay they can run whole.
Television is a distinct scope with its own budget. We would build it out with you once you know what is available.
Shoot days are windows until Faith Out Loud and the church set them.
Names and cities. The travel plan and the number of shoot days follow from it.
Church archives, photographs, footage, bulletins, or records from the movement years.
Heritage or Horizon Sanctuary for the Atlanta anchor, and dates in August.
Atlanta, the DMV, and St. Louis are set. Birmingham, Memphis, or Jackson would lean the series South.