Upstream USA "Let's Upstream It"

Upstream USA believes contraceptive care is important to a person’s long-term health and wellbeing. Yet many patients lack access to their preferred birth control. Watch below to learn how addressing unintended pregnancy starts where most patients receive their care: in a primary care setting. Visit Upstream.org/Access to learn more.

Ruben DeLuna Creative provided motion graphics for this collaboration with Executive Creative Producer/Writer Erica Priggen Wright and Director Adrian Rojas Elliot.

California YIMBY "Workers Build California"

In our latest video from California YIMBY, we demonstrate the urgent need to make it legal to build more multi-family homes in California cities. When we say "yes" to more homes in our communities, we create good paying jobs for the construction workers we need to end our housing shortage and affordability crisis – and make California affordable and equitable for everyone. Learn more at cayimby.org

Understanding Our History of Patriarchy: Translations Celebration

Translation and cultural adaptations of the Girl Child & Her Long Walk to Freedom explainer video, "Understanding Our History of Patriarchy" help support gender equality in communities around the world. We are excited to share that it has been translated into six languages with three more on the way - you can check out a sample below. Learn more and watch the full video in one of the six published languages here,

Last Chance Alliance: How Oil Drilling Fuels California Wildfires

We worked with Last Chance Alliance on their initiative to get California Governor Gavin Newsom to stop issuing drilling permits in California. Every year California wildfires get bigger and more intense. The cause? Climate change which is made worse by drilling for fossil fuels. Check out our informative video below and get involved at FuelingTheFlames.org

Teacher2Teacher: What happens when students don’t believe in their own potential?

We worked with MissionWired and Teacher2Teacher to show how a "math mindset" can be fostered in any student with enough practice and support. This fun animation imagines what would happen if students always gave up on their first try, and how learning math also teaches persistence.

IPEN: Exposing Problems from Toxic Chemicals in Plastics

IPEN is a global network of NGOs working to protect people and the planet from harmful chemicals. In this 2.5 minute video we created with them, we raise awareness around dangerous chemicals in plastics like BPA, PFAS, and others linked to cancer, infertility and other serious conditions.

The video premiered at the BRS COP meetings in Geneva in June 2022, and also provide solutions, including recommendations that should be included in a global Plastics Treaty.

Check out the video below and click here to learn more about IPEN’s Toxic Plastics campaign.

National Nurses United: Home All Alone

We worked with National Nurses United to stand up against a growing number of hospitals that claim they can give you hospital-level care from home. In fact, patients are being abandoned “Home All Alone” without access to the life-saving, personal care and expertise provided by nurses. Check out the video below, and spread the word to help nurses protect patients from these dangerous programs.

MidPen Housing: How Do we Accelerate Housing?

We teamed up with MidPen Housing on an explainer video that dives into their work providing affordable housing to Californians in need. Check it out below and learn more here:

”Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom and the CA State Legislature invested $1.75B in the California Housing Accelerator. Learn why these investments work, how additional investments are vital to confronting the state's housing and homelessness crisis, and what we can do to help create more housing for those who need it most.”

Transparent Investing: The Honest Investing Ad You'll Never See

Our second collaboration with Director Louis Fox, supports author Patrick Geddes’ new book “Transparent Investing”. Check out this animated spoof of investment ads, and learn more at PatrickGeddes.co

What if investment firms advertising active management were required to include full disclosure of the historically low success rate of active versus indexing? If the same rules from pharmaceutical advertising applied to active stock pickers, here's what a fully honest ad might sound like.

Transparent Investing: The Investment Advisor of Oz

We worked with Director Louis Fox and author Patrick Geddes to support the launch of his new book “Transparent Investing”. Check out the animated spoof of The Wizard of Oz below, and learn more at PatrickGeddes.co

“When investment advisors try to counsel investors and keep them from their worst behavioral biases, then they can add genuine value. However, when advisors try to pretend that they’re wizards who can see into the future by picking active managers who will beat the market, then they become, as the Scarecrow would say, humbugs.”

The Meatrix: Resurrections

In honor of the newest “Matrix” movie, we revisit the parody that rocked the internet back in 2003 (featuring the voice of original Meatrix co-creator, Louis Fox)! Check out The Meatrix: Resurrections to learn how the dangers of factory farms are even more urgent today. Learn more and take action at TheMeatrix.com

*Features work from the original Meatrix, created by Free Range Studios

ACE Our Climate Our Future SHORTS: Indigenous Solutions with Alexis Raeana

Season Two of Our Climate Our Future SHORTS concludes with “Indigenous Solutions with Alexis Raeana"! Join ACE teammate, Alexis Raeana Jones, as she takes (not quite) 73 questions on Indigenous solutions to the climate emergency. From the #LandBack movement to seventh-generation stewardship, Native principles and knowledge offer a range of vital solutions to the climate crisis.

Check it out below and get involved at ACESpace.org

California YIMBY: Housing Policy is Climate Policy

California’s housing shortage is making climate change worse, while making the state less affordable, less inclusive, and less sustainable. As driving distances get longer, so too does climate pollution from our cars -- leaving us stuck in a vicious cycle of ever-worsening pollution, rising risk of wildfire, and more homes burning.

Learn more in our latest collaboration with California YIMBY, and get involved at CAYimby.org