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About Us
Greener Media is an award winning multimedia production company based in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about our team.
You are an expert at what you do. You make the world better. While you have an amazing story, sometimes you need a little help realizing the best way to tell it. Together, we will take your message and mission to the next level.
Sometimes our clients have a precise vision of what they want and need. For those times, you can rely on us to be your muscle.
But in our perfect world, we want to grow together. We know how to take a vague idea or unfocused mission, and nurture it, and turn it into something that carries weight.
A lot of the work we do has an environmental message, and we have also made a commitment to take steps to lessen the footprint of our production process.
Behind the scenes of Common Ground.
Behind the scenes of Rogosin Institute Good Health Initiative.
Ronnie Brewer with fan behind the scenes of Rogosin PSA's.
Behind the scenes of Greenpeace Australia.
Behind the scenes of "Fresh Brew."
Flying over Wasgamuwa during filming of Common Ground.
Behind the scenes of "Fresh Brew."
Behind the scenes of SSBX's BEST Program
Behind the scenes of Common Ground
Dean Baker shows us around his ranch.
Screening of Breathe Easy at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Services
We are driven by the idea that good storytelling can become a powerful tool to educate and inspire action. As a full service multimedia production company some of our offerings include:
- commercials
- public service announcements
- fundraising videos
- documentaries
- webisodes
- idea generation
- scripting
- animation
- editing
- interactive & web
Our Work
Good Health Initiative
Client: Rogosin Institute
Type: PSA
DP: Jon Chen
Music: Dave Yim
Type: PSA
DP: Jon Chen
Music: Dave Yim
The Rogosin Institute is an independent not-for-profit treatment and research center that has been providing care to patients for fifty two years. Affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, The Rogosin Institute provides care for patients with kidney disease, including dialysis and transplantation, lipid disorders/high cholesterol, and hypertension. The Institute is spearheading research programs for cancer and diabetes.
We worked with the Rogosin Institute to develop a series of PSA's for broadcast TV and radio that highlight the importance of good nutrition and exercise. The PSA's featured professional basketball players Ronnie Brewer of the Chicago Bulls and Kris Humphries of the New Jersey Nets.
We worked with the Rogosin Institute to develop a series of PSA's for broadcast TV and radio that highlight the importance of good nutrition and exercise. The PSA's featured professional basketball players Ronnie Brewer of the Chicago Bulls and Kris Humphries of the New Jersey Nets.
Common Ground
Type: Documentary
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Garrett Zablocki
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Garrett Zablocki
Animals that have been symbolically embedded into our cultures for centuries are now disappearing at alarming rates. The importance of these animals in our lives is often overlooked, but animals are truly symbols that not only inspire us, but are essential for a healthy future. Animals are religious deities and majestic icons. They have provided companionship, carried us on their shoulders, and plowed our fields. Few are as awe-inspiring as the elephant.
For thousands of years, across Asia, humans and elephants have lived side by side in a relatively peaceful coexistence. That relationship is now being threatened due to increasing human populations and loss of elephant habitats. Elephants and humans are being forced to compete for resources, a problem that has been defined as Human-Elephant-Conflict. This predicament poses a serious threat to the elephant's continued existence. While this is a widespread concern all across Asia and Africa, it is nowhere more apparent than in the small island of Sri Lanka. What lies beneath the often-destructive consequences of human elephant conflict is a common story that both man and animal shares. That story is about family and survival.
For thousands of years, across Asia, humans and elephants have lived side by side in a relatively peaceful coexistence. That relationship is now being threatened due to increasing human populations and loss of elephant habitats. Elephants and humans are being forced to compete for resources, a problem that has been defined as Human-Elephant-Conflict. This predicament poses a serious threat to the elephant's continued existence. While this is a widespread concern all across Asia and Africa, it is nowhere more apparent than in the small island of Sri Lanka. What lies beneath the often-destructive consequences of human elephant conflict is a common story that both man and animal shares. That story is about family and survival.
Plate to Planet
Client: Farm Sanctuary
Type: Web
DP: Jon Chen
Music: Garrett Zablocki
Type: Web
DP: Jon Chen
Music: Garrett Zablocki
Plate to Planet is a campaign about the environmental impacts of our food choices. The campaign centers around a 4.5 minute short film voiced by Jason Schwartzman, who takes us through a day-in-the-life of an American dad who starts questioning our current food system.
A companion microsite was created which provides video interviews with experts from the Sierra Club, WorldWatch, Food & Water Watch, and Brighter Green in addition to other information about the environmental impacts of factory farming and some helpful tips on how to cut out meat. Visitors to the microsite also have the opportunity to make a pledge to eat meat free.
A companion microsite was created which provides video interviews with experts from the Sierra Club, WorldWatch, Food & Water Watch, and Brighter Green in addition to other information about the environmental impacts of factory farming and some helpful tips on how to cut out meat. Visitors to the microsite also have the opportunity to make a pledge to eat meat free.
BEST Program
Client: SSBx
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: American Dollar
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: American Dollar
The Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training (BEST) program is one of the nation's first and most successful green-collar job training & placement systems. Students graduate with several certifications, job readiness preparation, and a powerful environmental justice perspective on all of the important work they are qualified to do. Nearly all of the students were on some form of public assistance, and about half have prison records. This 14-16-week program is free to qualified applicants. The Sustainable South Bronx work with their graduates to help them find the right job, and track their progress for 3 years in case they need help finding their place in this growing and rewarding job market. Now in its 5th year of operation, over 80% are employed and 15% have gone on to higher education.
NYRP Transforms NYC
Client: New York Restoration Project
Type: Fundraising
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Dan Teicher
Type: Fundraising
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Dan Teicher
NYRP serves more than 1,000 community gardeners through our work in 52 community gardens citywide. Our community gardeners embody originality, soul, and cultural diversity, much like the city of New York itself. In addition, NYRP is partnered with New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation for MillionTreesNYC, an ambitious initiative with the goal of planting and caring for one million new trees by 2017. Through integrated education and community programming, NYRP works to ensure that all New Yorkers feel a connection to and ownership over their green spaces as they become stewards of their urban environment.
Fab Lab
Client: SSBx
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Math the Band
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Math the Band
An insider look at the Sustainable South Bronx's FabLab, a science and techology program born out of a partnership with MIT and funded by The MacArthur Foundation. Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) is a community organization dedicated to Environmental Justice solutions through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by community needs.
"Greener Media has been an amazing resource in crafting pieces that highlight our work that truly capture the story of our organization and the individuals we serve. We couldn't be more pleased with how they've worked with our team in creating these videos!"
Miquela Craytor, Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx
"Greener Media has been an amazing resource in crafting pieces that highlight our work that truly capture the story of our organization and the individuals we serve. We couldn't be more pleased with how they've worked with our team in creating these videos!"
Miquela Craytor, Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx
Meet the BALLE Fellows
Client: BALLE
Type: PSA
Music: Dan Teicher
Type: PSA
Music: Dan Teicher
The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, or BALLE, is North America's fastest growing network of socially responsible businesses, comprised of over 80 community networks in 30 U.S. states and Canadian provinces representing over 22,000 independent business members across the U.S. and Canada.
CSV Roundtable
Client: FSG Impact
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Popular Beat Combo
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Popular Beat Combo
FSG is a nonprofit consulting firm specializing in strategy, evaluation, and research, founded in 2000 as Foundation Strategy Group and celebrating a decade of global social impact.
Today, FSG works across sectors in every region of the globe — partnering with foundations, corporations, nonprofits, and governments to develop more effective solutions to the world’s most challenging issues. FSG brings together leaders that are hungry to exchange information, to elevate learning and to create collective impact for shared priorities in social change.
Today, FSG works across sectors in every region of the globe — partnering with foundations, corporations, nonprofits, and governments to develop more effective solutions to the world’s most challenging issues. FSG brings together leaders that are hungry to exchange information, to elevate learning and to create collective impact for shared priorities in social change.
21st Century Check
Client: Zipmark
Type: Promos
DP: Bernard Hunt
Music: Matt Abeysekera
Type: Promos
DP: Bernard Hunt
Music: Matt Abeysekera
The New York-based startup company leverages the existing check processing network to allow users to avoid credit card fees while also eliminating the risk of bounced checks. Zipmark is your digital checkbook. You can send and receive money quickly, securely and simply. There’s no container holding your money 'in the cloud' that you need to make withdrawals from in order to access your money. Make payments via your mobile device, over the web, or even pay invoices mailed to you. Payments made with Zipmark display as digitals check in your bank account, because that's what they are. Zipmark brought us on to produce three spots for the launch of its developer program and API.
Farm to Fork
Client: Grow NYC
Type: Fundraising
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Dan Teicher
Type: Fundraising
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Dan Teicher
GrowNYC, a hands-on non-profit which improves New York City’s quality of life through environmental programs, hired us to produce this educational video. It's goals are to promote & raise awareness around their wholesale market program and engage stakeholders in investing in a new food distribution hub plan.
Mission, Values, Way
Client: Shiseido
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Matt Abeysekera
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Matt Abeysekera
Shiseido, the 5th largest world wide cosmetics, fragrances, and skincare company, hired us to create this internal video to support their Mission Values Way (MVW) initiative to engage their employees across North America and announce the launch of a new volunteer program in honor of their 140th Anniversary.
A Cleaner Future
Client: In-House
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: American Dollar
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: American Dollar
On April 20, 2010 two days before earth day, in just a few chaotic moments life in the gulf was forever changed. We teamed up with a Mark and Phil to create A Cleaner Future, an online platform inspired by the gulf oil spill to promote renewable energy. We created this PSA for the launch of the website. A microsite was created for Instant Oil Spill, where users could create a virtual oil spill on any website to raise awareness about renewables and drive traffic back to A Cleaner Future. Within one month Instantoilspill.com generated half a million page views, and was picked up by a range of notable news sources like Huffington Post, Mashable, Adage, Treehugger, MoveOn.org, and Non-profit Quarterly.
NYRP Community Gardens
Client: New York Restoration Project
Type: Promos
DP: Phil Buccellato, Adele Pham
Music: Dave Yim
Type: Promos
DP: Phil Buccellato, Adele Pham
Music: Dave Yim
New York Restoration Project (NYRP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to reclaiming and restoring New York City parks, community gardens and open space. In partnership with the City of New York, NYRP is also leading MillionTreesNYC – an initiative to plant and care for one million new trees throughout New York City’s five boroughs by 2017. We were brought on to produce a series of spotlights about their programs and events.
Beauty of Giving 2010
Client: Cancer and Careers
Type: Fundraising
DP: Christine Ng
Music: Dave Yim
Type: Fundraising
DP: Christine Ng
Music: Dave Yim
Cancer and Careers brought us on for a second year to help tell their story. This year we used a combination of studio interviews and animation to bring a cancer survivor's story to life and help educate people about Cancer and Careers. Cancer and Careers is committed to changing the face of cancer in the workplace by providing a comprehensive website, free publications, and a series of support groups and educational seminars for employees with cancer.
Instant Oil Spill
Type: Web
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: American Dollar
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: American Dollar
On April 20, 2010 two days before earth day, in just a few chaotic moments life in the gulf was forever changed. We teamed up with a Mark and Phil to create A Cleaner Future, an online platform inspired by the gulf oil spill to promote renewable energy. We created this PSA for the launch of the website. A microsite was created for Instant Oil Spill, where users could create a virtual oil spill on any website to raise awareness about renewables and drive traffic back to A Cleaner Future. Within one month Instantoilspill.com generated half a million page views, and was picked up by a range of notable news sources like Huffington Post, Mashable, Adage, Treehugger, MoveOn.org, and Non-profit Quarterly.
I Think We're Alone Now
Type: Documentary
DP: Phil Buccellato
DP: Phil Buccellato
Produced in association with Awesome + Modest
Directed by Sean Donnelly
Every celebrity deals with his or her share of obsessed fans. "I Think We're Alone Now" is a documentary that focuses on two individuals, Jeff and Kelly, who claim to be in love with the 80's pop singer Tiffany. Jeff Turner, a 50-year-old man from Santa Cruz, California has attended Tiffany concerts since 1988. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, he never had a girlfriend. Jeff spends his days hanging out on the streets of Santa Cruz, striking up conversations with anyone who has a moment to spare. Kelly McCormick is a 35-year-old intersex person from Denver, Colorado, who claims to have been friends with Tiffany as a teenager. She credits Tiffany as the shining star who has motivated her to do everything in her life. Both Jeff and Kelly have been labeled stalkers by the media and other Tiffany fans. This film takes you inside the lonely lives these two characters, revealing the source of their clinging obsessions. This age-old story of unrequited love takes a comedic and emotional trip through themes of desperation, isolation, and hope, in the end showing that having something, or someone, to believe in can be more powerful than anything reality has to offer.
Visit the official website.
Now available on DVD and on Netflix!
US fans can purchase here. seedofsound.com
Buy PAL DVD through Amazon.
Directed by Sean Donnelly
Every celebrity deals with his or her share of obsessed fans. "I Think We're Alone Now" is a documentary that focuses on two individuals, Jeff and Kelly, who claim to be in love with the 80's pop singer Tiffany. Jeff Turner, a 50-year-old man from Santa Cruz, California has attended Tiffany concerts since 1988. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, he never had a girlfriend. Jeff spends his days hanging out on the streets of Santa Cruz, striking up conversations with anyone who has a moment to spare. Kelly McCormick is a 35-year-old intersex person from Denver, Colorado, who claims to have been friends with Tiffany as a teenager. She credits Tiffany as the shining star who has motivated her to do everything in her life. Both Jeff and Kelly have been labeled stalkers by the media and other Tiffany fans. This film takes you inside the lonely lives these two characters, revealing the source of their clinging obsessions. This age-old story of unrequited love takes a comedic and emotional trip through themes of desperation, isolation, and hope, in the end showing that having something, or someone, to believe in can be more powerful than anything reality has to offer.
Visit the official website.
Now available on DVD and on Netflix!
US fans can purchase here. seedofsound.com
Buy PAL DVD through Amazon.
Good Health Initiative
Client: Rogosin Institute
Type: PSA
DP: Jon Chen
Music: Dave Yim
Type: PSA
DP: Jon Chen
Music: Dave Yim
The Rogosin Institute is an independent not-for-profit treatment and research center that has been providing care to patients for fifty two years. Affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, The Rogosin Institute provides care for patients with kidney disease, including dialysis and transplantation, lipid disorders/high cholesterol, and hypertension. The Institute is spearheading research programs for cancer and diabetes.
We worked with the Rogosin Institute to develop a series of PSA's for broadcast TV and radio that highlight the importance of good nutrition and exercise. The PSA's featured professional basketball players Ronnie Brewer of the Chicago Bulls and Kris Humphries of the New Jersey Nets.
We worked with the Rogosin Institute to develop a series of PSA's for broadcast TV and radio that highlight the importance of good nutrition and exercise. The PSA's featured professional basketball players Ronnie Brewer of the Chicago Bulls and Kris Humphries of the New Jersey Nets.
Beauty of Caring
Client: Shiseido
Type: Promos
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Dave Yim
Type: Promos
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Dave Yim
Shiseido, along with Cancer and Careers, and SELF magazine teamed up to put on The Beauty of Caring events in NY, Boston, and DC. The events were designed for cancer survivors, offering career coaching sessions, wellness tips and excercises, and makeovers by Shiseido.
Breakfast of Champions
Client: New York Cares
Type: Fundraising
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Dave Yim
Type: Fundraising
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Dave Yim
New York Cares brought us on to tell the unique stories of a volunteer, staff member, and disadvantaged New Yorker to show how they bridge the gap, bringing together 48,000 volunteers annually to assist over 400,000 New Yorkers in need. New York Cares was founded by a group of friends who wanted to take action against the serious social issues that faced our city in the late 1980s. Finding few options to help, they created their own organization to address the problems from the ground up. New York Cares is now the city's leading volunteer organization, bringing vital volunteer support to thousands of nonprofit agencies, public schools, and other deserving organizations. Today's volunteers share our founders' vision that we all have a role to play in making our city a better place. This video screened at their annual Breakfast of Champions Event, and has been posted on their Youtube page.
Ice Box Blues
Type: Documentary
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Popular Beat Combo
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Popular Beat Combo
A short documentary directed by Jesse Ash. Major crises don't usually come from broken appliances, but when my mom's fridge died, a seemingly small event lead us to some big questions about energy consumption. While most of our lives are spent consuming, perhaps we need to take a moment to think about product design and where our leftovers go in order to help shape a more sustainable future. "Icebox" opened for Hitchcock's "To Catch A Thief" at the Brooklyn Bridge Park "Movies with A View" series in 2009, and also screened at the Rubin Museum of Art.
Dirty Banks Campaign
Client: Greenpeace Australia
Type: PSA
DP: Jon Chen
Music: Jeff Widner
Type: PSA
DP: Jon Chen
Music: Jeff Widner
Greenpeace Australia Pacific brought us on for their Dirty Banks Campaign to create a PSA, artwork, and interactive elements. The Objective: The big four banks in Australia are doing the dirty on their customers and the environment. They're financing the polluting coal industry - and they're using your money to do it. It's time the big banks came clean on their investments, and started using your money to invest in a clean energy future, instead of the polluting power of the past.
Beauty of Giving 2009
Client: Cancer and Careers
Type: Fundraising
Music: Dave Yim
Type: Fundraising
Music: Dave Yim
Cancer and Careers brought us on to help tell their story. This year we used a combination of studio interviews and animation to bring a cancer survivor's story to life and help educate people about Cancer and Careers. Cancer and Careers is committed to changing the face of cancer in the workplace by providing a comprehensive website, free publications, and a series of support groups and educational seminars for employees with cancer.
Fashion Week with Davines
Client: Davines
Type: Promos
DP: Jesse Ash
Music: Popular Beat Combo
Type: Promos
DP: Jesse Ash
Music: Popular Beat Combo
Davines hired us to cover a few of their events during 2010 NYC Fashion Week. Davines was founded in 1982 in Parma Italy. Davines shampoo, Davines conditioner and Davines styling products are scientifically engineered with all natural ingredients making it environmently friendly and great for your hair. Davines uses only renewable energy sources in their laboratories.
High Low
Type: Documentary
DP: Phil Buccellato
DP: Phil Buccellato
In a thirsty world, Las Vegas, the adult-entertainment haven, sits at the crossroads of developers, vacationers, ranchers, Native Americans, and conservationists in the middle of the water-deprived American southwest, but how long can Las Vegas keep its fountains flowing and lawns lush before Lake Mead runs dry?
Magical Cure
Type: PSA
Music: Dave Yim
Music: Dave Yim
2009 Webby Award Winner for Best Public Service and Activism Online Video. Based on a true story, the animated short "Magical Cure" tells from a child's perspective the profound impact of losing family members to cancer and the hope for a cure someday soon. Winner of the Stand Up 2 Cancer film challenge. Some of the judges included: - Laura Ziskin, producer (Spider-Man, As Good As It Gets, Pretty Woman), Lauren Shuler Donner, producer (X-Men, Secret Life of Bees, Semi Pro) Greg Mottola, producer (Superbad, Arrested Development) and Julie Taymor, director (Across the Universe, Frida, Titus).
Calvin & Sweetpea
Type: Documentary
DP: Phil Buccellato
DP: Phil Buccellato
Directed by Jon Fletcher.
Welcome to Blacksburg, a small southwestern Virginia town nestled between the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Appalachian Trail, and home to the 54-year marriage of Calvin and Helen Perdue. Three years have passed since Helen was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. As Calvin witnesses her continuing debilitation, the Perdue children, Michael and Peggy, must struggle with their mother's deterioration and whether their father's treatment of their mother in the final years of her life absolves him from the previous fifty. Winner of Best Documentary at 2007 Boston Film Festival.
Visit the official website.
Welcome to Blacksburg, a small southwestern Virginia town nestled between the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Appalachian Trail, and home to the 54-year marriage of Calvin and Helen Perdue. Three years have passed since Helen was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. As Calvin witnesses her continuing debilitation, the Perdue children, Michael and Peggy, must struggle with their mother's deterioration and whether their father's treatment of their mother in the final years of her life absolves him from the previous fifty. Winner of Best Documentary at 2007 Boston Film Festival.
Visit the official website.
Beauty of Giving 2011
Client: Cancer and Careers
Type: Fundraising
DP: Arianna LaPenne
Music: Garrett Zablocki
Type: Fundraising
DP: Arianna LaPenne
Music: Garrett Zablocki
Cancer and Careers brought us on for a second year to help tell their story. This year we used a combination of studio interviews and animation to bring a cancer survivor's story to life and help educate people about Cancer and Careers. Cancer and Careers is committed to changing the face of cancer in the workplace by providing a comprehensive website, free publications, and a series of support groups and educational seminars for employees with cancer.
Breathe Easy
Client: SSBx
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Popular Beat Combo
Type: PSA
DP: Phil Buccellato
Music: Popular Beat Combo
A short story about the pollution problem in the South Bronx, told by 7 year old Jaeleen McMillan and her 13 year old brother, Justin McMillan. We also learn about a few things everyone can do to reduce our dependency on oil. Breathe Easy screened at the Rubin Museum of Art as part of Wales Week's Green 15 Event. It also screened Power Shift 2009, and has been licensed to PBS for use in part of a new educational series for kids to launch in 2011.
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