Projects
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children is a 5-part documentary series for HBO, produced in partnership with John Legend and Get Lifted Films, and Roc Nation. The series turns its lens on one of the most notorious serial killing sprees in America’s history– the murders of 30 African American children and young adults that wreaked havoc on the city of Atlanta four decades ago. Through a wealth of never-before-seen archival footage and original interviews with family members, law enforcement, journalists, historians, and attorneys on both sides of the case, the series investigates what actually happened to these young victims and raises important questions about the guilt of the primary suspect Wayne Williams. As the series explores the complex racial and political history of the city of Atlanta, we follow the current Mayor and the Chief of Police, as they embark on the trailblazing effort to reopen and reinvestigate these crimes, and then dig deep with the surviving family members in their continued quest for justice.
Early each morning Nicholas Kristof would board the No. 6 bus and ride through the hills and valleys of Yamhill, Oregon to get to his local public school. With him were some of his closest childhood friends and neighbors, people he had known all his life. But today, nearly a quarter of the kids who rode that bus with him have died. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn return to Nick’s hometown to find out what really happened?
They quickly find themselves at the heart of a much bigger story about those who fall through the cracks of America, destroyed by poverty, addiction, suicide and homelessness. In this boots-on-the-ground, intensely personal journey across our country, they find inequality is killing millions of American every year. These “deaths of despair” prompt the crucial question—how do we recover as a country and lift ourselves from systemic poverty and the brutal policies that have persisted for decades in one of the richest countries on earth. What Nick and Sheryl ultimately discover is that the American Dream of self-reliance is a false narrative, and for most, the concept of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, is impossible to achieve.
As we head into one of the most consequential elections in our history – this searing and personal story reveals that despite this grim reality, human kindness and potential, when harnessed, can change the future.
Los Comandos is a powerful story of young people fighting and fleeing harrowing violence in El Salvador. It’s an urgent, verite driven film that brings viewers into the center of El Salvador’s epidemic of Gang Violence from the perspective of young people facing the greatest threat. The film was shortlisted for best documentary short for the 91st Academy Awards, and nominated for an International Documentary Association Award for best documentary short. The film won best documentary short at The Austin Film festival and has screened on PBS via World Channel and in festivals across the US.
At a tiny refugee shelter in Tapachula, Mexico we meet Nelly and her daughter Joseline, who like millions of others, are fleeing extreme gang violence in Central America.
SKY AND GROUND tells the story of the family’s journey to Germany. Starting out on foot from the Idomeni refugee camp near Thessaloniki, Greece, we followed the Nabi family for 3 months as they make their way through the Balkans into Hungary, Austria and eventually Berlin.
We the Voters is a groundbreaking social impact and web campaign.
A Groundbreaking 8 hour series for CNN, produced in partnership with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “Soundtracks: Songs That Made History” uses iconic songs as a lens to examine key moments and critical stories in not only our nation's evolution, but our collective history.
Soundbreaking is an eight-part documentary series that traces the history of music recording, featuring over one hundred original interviews with some of the most celebrated recording artists, producers, and music innovators of our time.
A Path Appears follows intrepid reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and actor/advocates Malin Akerman, Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Ashley Judd, Blake Lively, Eva Longoria, and Alfre Woodard as they uncover the harshest forms of gender-based oppression and human rights violations, as well as the effective solutions being implemented to combat them.
Empowering young men and women to challenge and break through societal norms that lead to gender-based violence.
A four-hour television series for PBS and international broadcast inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s best-selling book, Half the Sky tells the stories women and girls around the world who are living under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable—and fighting bravely to change them.
An Impossible Choice, produced by Show of Force, as part of a multi-platform initiative on the global refugee crisis being called Humanity on the Move, highlights a Congo rescue mission in which humanitarians Sasha Chanoff and Sheikha Ali faced an impossible choice.