“The Trial” is a powerful reminder of the alarming regression in reproductive rights, as abortion bans across the U.S., driven by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, have undone decades of progress and put women in danger—even at the cost of lives. We recreated what seems like a Salem Witch trial, only to reveal that every word was scripted entirely from real quotes by today’s anti-abortion politicians and the reproductive justice leaders fighting back.

Website: thetrial.co
Director: Gandja Monteiro
Production: Taking Over
Client: All* In Action Fund

‘47’ is an animated short film we made for Café Joyeux, a global chain of coffee shops that employs people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The story follows ‘Robert,’ a boy with Down syndrome on a personal odyssey. Guided by his mother’s love, symbolized by a yellow scarf that turns into a sail, he journeys down a river fraught with rejection, exclusion, and bullies; until the age of 47, when he finally reaches safe harbor at Café Joyeux and discovers a world that embraces his extraordinary abilities.

Cannes Lions :: (2) Silver, (2) Bronze
London International Awards :: (1) Grand, (7) Gold, (3) Silver, (1) Bronze
Clio Health ::  (1) Grand, (6) Gold, (5) Silver, (2) Bronze

Production partners: Zombie Studio, Canja Audio Culture
Client: Café Joyeux

“The Bridge” is an animated short film inspired by a true story about a man who is struggling with his mental health, and, in parallel, a story about a dog abandoned by his family and left on the streets of NYC. As these two characters experience lives filled with rejection, we see their paths cross and a quiet bond begin to grow. The film explores how this connection ultimately saves both of their lives.

Cannes :: (1) Silver, (1) Bronze
D&AD :: (2) Wood, (2) Graphite
The One Show :: (4) Gold, (1) Silver, (1) Bronze
LIA :: (1) Grand, (4) Gold, (1) Silver
ADC Awards :: (5) Gold, (2) Silver
Clio ::  (2) Gold, (1) Silver, (2) Bronze
Clio Health ::  (1) Grand, (4) Gold, (3 )Silver, (1) Bronze
Clio Music ::  (1) Silver

Production: LightFarm
Music: Jamute
Client: PAWS NY

Thirst is a short film about sexual equality that outsmarts social media censorship using metaphors that cannot be flagged or hidden by algorithms. For too long, women have been denied the right to access and enjoy their own sexual freedom. Our film follows a woman on a journey of self-exploration as she seeks what previously felt out of reach: pleasure. The film itself follows the rhythm of the sensation of pleasure and the building of a climax, but without using words or images that would trigger social media censorship biased against women’s sexual health. This is a film made to make you feel.

LIA:: (1) Silver
The One Show:: (1) Bronze Pencil
Clio ::  (3) Bronze
Clio Health ::  (3) Silver, (2) Bronze
Clio Music ::  (1) Bronze

Production: The Youth
Music & Sound Design: Jamute
Client: podHER

Skindeep is a hand-painted short that brings race-based trauma to the surface, inspiring people of color and allies to recognize, address and engage in healing. In collaboration with Empowher_NY, the goal of this film was to drive awareness for, and provide resources to educate therapists on the best practices for treating race-based traumatic stress. The creative content worked in conjunction with a podcast series featuring Dr. Robert Carter, a leading expert in the therapeutic field of race-based traumatic stress. This film has been highly awarded, achieving a gold Lion, and many craft/direction awards across multiple festivals.

Cannes Lions :: (1) Gold
London International Awards :: (2) Gold, (3) Silver, (2) Bronze
Clio Health ::  (3) Silver, (1) Bronze

Production: The Youth
Client: EmpowHer NY

When the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, we responded by creating “The Congregation,” a belief system using the First Amendment’s religious liberty protections to defend reproductive rights. To solidify its legitimacy, we wrote our own Book of Beliefs, a 72-page hardcover featuring protest posters, a map of abortion providers, and indestructible pages symbolizing resilience. The design evokes religious iconography while staying inclusive, using sacred architecture-inspired graphics. “The Congregation” aims to create a safe space for advocacy, with assets and a song, “The Choice,” uniting people under shared values.

Cannes Lions :: (1) Gold
The One Show :: (2) Silver, (1) Bronze
Clio Health :: (2) Gold, (2) Silver

Sleeplessness has risen dramatically since the start of the pandemic with people lying in bed, scrolling through their feeds, and unable to shut off their brains. This habit of doomscrolling is so deeply ingrained that it is impossible to break. Instead of fighting the habit, we asked ourselves if it could be turned into a solution. The realization? Scrolling isn’t the problem — it’s the content you scroll through that is the problem. So we invented and launched Scrollaby, the digital lullaby hidden within your social feed that is scientifically designed to get you off of your social feed and falling asleep.

Scrollaby, features 1,000+ randomized tiles of scrollable sleep content. The content features many sleep-science–proven sleep therapies, including heart-rate variability breathing techniques, psychoacoustic music, quietly narrated sleep stories, ASMR sleep sounds, and looping visuals that the user can stare into as they scroll. The UI is designed to feel familiar and mimic common social platforms.

This consumer launch campaign is designed to show that when patients aren’t suffering from a migraine attack, even the smallest moments feel epic.

We needed to develop a campaign that would cut through the clutter at launch and differentiate from the competition. The “Possible” campaign disrupts the current migraine management status quo to show how Emgality makes the impossible, migraine headache freedom, now possible.

Production/CGI: LightFarm

Despite being home to world-class restaurants, New York City public schools serve some of the worst food. Thousands of families depend on school lunches, leaving many students with no other options. To raise awareness about this issue and push for change, we hacked Yelp by creating a profile for "The Caton Cafe," modeled after a notoriously bad NYC public school cafeteria. The page, featuring the same name, address, and menu, received hundreds of reviews criticizing unhealthy food options. As Yelp removed reviews using their algorithm, we amplified our efforts, launching a website with the same menu and a petition urging the city to make school lunches healthier.

Clio Health :: (1) Bronze

Every prescription pain medication comes with warnings. But these warnings are not enough to halt the opioid epidemic ravaging millions of Americans.

This print campaign shows the journey from prescription pain medication to full-blown addiction through the reinterpretation of drug warning label language and imagery. 

By communicating the real warnings people are never given—the ones that may have been able to warn against the true devastation of addiction—we can help remove the blame placed on so many individuals.

While most physicians consider migraine a painful neurological condition, they may not be aware of the true impact that it has on their patients’ lives; framing many moments, big and small, with debilitating pain and symptoms.

We needed a way to get physicians to recognize this gap in communication and ask the right questions to have a more revealing conversation with their patients about migraine.

CGI: Carioca Studio

This ad for the International Women’s Health Coalition brings awareness to the 15 million girls married as children each year, who are denied their rights to health, education, and opportunity, and robbed of their childhood.

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Photographer: Ale Burset

This short documentary style film features the story of Sylvia. After overcoming addiction and accepting her HIV diagnosis, she uses her personal experiences to educate and empower other women living with HIV.

Director: Cynthia Wade