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Film Director: William Prince through production company Millk Media.
Executive Creative Director: James Maxwell
In this moving short film “Break Through and Be Heard,” parents and children find themselves physically isolated inside clear, transparent bubbles while navigating the challenges of being a pre teen in todays’ world. Using a vivid visual metaphor, the film captures the emotional distance and silent frustration of families unable to bridge the gap and truly communicate, delivering a poignant reminder of the importance of reaching through the barrier to listen, connect, and support one another.
Laura Crawford
Mama Bamboo: Protecting Their World for Tomorrow is a purpose-driven brand film that challenges one of the most accepted yet overlooked environmental realities of modern parenting.
Using striking visual metaphor and emotional storytelling, the film confronts the contradiction between the care we give our newborn children and the legacy of waste we create in their name. A baby welcomed into the world with love is gradually surrounded by symbols of our dependence on oil-based plastics, exposing both the potential harm to our babies’ skin and health and the hidden environmental cost of disposable nappies and wipes.
As the accumulation of waste becomes impossible to ignore, the narrative shifts from discomfort to hope.
Mama Bamboo’s mission is to reimagine baby care through the development of natural, compostable solutions that work in harmony with skin health and nature. Combining advocacy, education, and optimism, the film invites audiences to consider not only how we protect babies today, but the kind of world we leave for them tomorrow.
Through powerful symbolism and a clear environmental message, the film transforms a commonplace consumer product into a conversation about responsibility, innovation, and the future of the planet’s youngest generation.
Vivek Jaiswal
Set across the length and breadth of India, Building India From Its Roots is a cinematic journey through the unseen side of rural India – the one that rarely makes the headlines. The film traces ten years of the HCLTech Grant, an initiative that has empowered communities through education, healthcare, and environmental innovation.
From a health worker in Nagaland ensuring safe births, to fishermen in Kerala restoring life to the ocean, to children in Kashmir learning peace, each story captures resilience, collaboration, and the quiet revolution unfolding in India’s villages.
Through real people, authentic locations, and a soundscape woven with regional music, the film celebrates a decade of grassroots transformation and the belief that true nation-building begins at the roots.
Dylan Mulick
Arne Duncan, former Secretary of Education to President Obama, has deep roots in Chicago where he started Chicago CRED – a nonprofit reducing gun violence in the city. In 1984, Arne’s friend Benji Wilson, a high school basketball phenom that ESPN touted as the next Michael Jordan, was shot and killed outside his high school. The anguish never left Arne and upon leaving the Obama administration, he knew he had to do something.
Nicholas Mihm
The lightning rod of the NoDAPL movement at Standing Rock was the catalyst for SAGE, a native owned company whose goal is to create energy independence and generational wealth for the Lakota and eventually to all native tribes.
Max Mörtl
Celebrating while protecting the environment – how does it work? “ghörig feschta” encourages sustainable event planning in Vorarlberg. An animated overview for everyone who loves events and wants to keep the future in mind.
Oliver Couch
In an era defined by artificial intelligence and interplanetary ambition, almost half of humanity is left behind without the most basic of human needs: a safe toilet. A Place of One’s Own exposes the devastating reality of a world where 3.4 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation. Spanning Kenya, Rwanda, India, Bangladesh, and the United States, the film moves beyond staggering statistics to understand the deeply intimate implications of this silent crisis that comes with a tremendous health and economic toll. Rather than lingering on despair, it asks a vital question: how do we reclaim dignity? By following the stories of families, entrepreneurs, masons, and the organisations working alongside them, the film reveals how frugal innovation and market-based solutions can harness human agency to solve a monumental challenge. Ultimately, it is a powerful exploration of sustainability, resilience, and how a place of one’s own can change the world.