Make the mission
impossible to ignore.
Griffith Media produces impact stories, fundraising films, and event coverage for nonprofits and foundations: emotionally authentic storytelling that respects participants and stewards budgets.
Mission work has different math
Participant care.
Dignity-first interviewing, informed consent, and story approval: the people in the film stay in control of their story.
Board & stakeholder review cycles.
Approval loops with boards, program staff, and communications are planned into the timeline, not fought against.
Budget stewardship.
One shoot becomes the gala film, social cutdowns, donor emails, and recruitment assets: every production day has to earn its keep.
Outcomes that matter.
Dollars raised, volunteers recruited, awareness moved: the edit serves the campaign goal, not the showreel.
The gala hero film is never the whole engagement.
We plan the cutdowns, social versions, email embeds, and next-year assets from the same production day, so the story keeps working long after the ballroom empties.
A nine million dollar promise, told one city at a time.
When the T.D. Jakes Foundation and Wells Fargo put nine million dollars into community development across America, the grants were only half the story. We took a camera to the recipients: a museum in New York, a bike giveaway on Atlanta’s historic Westside, a youth center in South LA. Fifteen organizations, one film language, a 16:9 master and a 9:16 cut for every one.
15 organizations · 30 finished cuts · one national initiative
Read the case study →
South LA, inside SoLa’s I CAN center.
Hero films that put a face to the mission.
For the Global Mission Summit we produce the hero films that carry the people behind the work and the conference openers that set the room in motion. Big-screen storytelling built for a live audience, then cut down to keep working long after the lights come up.
The Promise, built to be felt in the room.
Dallas College Foundation asked for films that make donors lean in. For the Promise fundraising campaign we build the pieces that carry the ask: student stories that land, and a big LED wall centerpiece that turns a fundraising night into a moment people talk about on the way out.
See the work →Stories that move
people to act.
“Great company, great team, quick turnaround on projects. Very professional!”
“What stood out to us was the time they took to really listen to our vision and what we were trying to accomplish. They were able to take that and frame it in a way that was better than what we imagined.”
FAQ
- What does a fundraising film cost?
- It depends on scope, but our budget-stewardship approach is the real answer: we plan one production day to yield the gala film plus the cutdowns, social versions, and donor-email assets around it, so the cost divides across the whole campaign. We'll scope a real number in one call.
- Can you film our beneficiaries respectfully?
- That's the methodology, not an add-on: dignity-first interviewing, informed consent, and story approval for participants before anything publishes. People are treated as partners in telling their story, not subjects of it.
- Can we reuse footage across campaigns?
- Yes: you own what we make for you, and we plan the deliverable ecosystem so this year's production keeps feeding next year's appeals, recruitment, and reporting.
- Do you offer nonprofit pricing?
- Yes, and it is built into how we work. Every engagement is scoped to your organization and the campaign in front of it, so you pay for what actually moves the mission. We scope to the mission and stretch a nonprofit budget hard: one shoot planned to feed a whole season of appeals, recruitment, and reporting. Bring the number you are working with to the call and we will show you what it can do.
Give the mission the film
it deserves.
Tell us about the campaign, the audience, and the ask. A producer will reply within one business day.