From Montana to Connecticut, from Colorado Springs to Chicago, the affordable housing crisis has mobilized working class tenants to reshape the political landscape of their cities to prioritize the wellbeing of their renting neighbors. Tenant unions from all across the country converged in Kansas City Missouri in a shared effort strengthen a political movement that seeks to ensure everyone in the United States has access to safe and truly affordable housing.
While the 2021 surge of Omicron was often described as mild, the number of hospitalizations still packed beds and spread an already exhausted workforce thin. This excerpt of the Kansas City PBS episode of Flatland In Focus examined how our response to the pandemic could have been made more sustainable for healthcare workers and what supports they needed to stay in the profession.
Multi-instrumentalist R&B singer Jass has enlisted a crew of incredible Kansas City jazz musicians for a special live session at All Keyed Up. This session was filmed as a recent installment of Flew The Coop Sessions, a non-profit live music series produced by True To Form Media.
Charlie Parker, also known as Bird, is a legendary jazz musician who has influenced many of today's genres and helped develop the style known as bebop. Bebop is a sub-genre of jazz that is recognized as being difficult to dance to, but Bird said he didn't care if people danced to his music, because he was an artist. This episode of the PBS Digital Studios series, Sound Field, explores the origins of Bird’s legendary influence.
With Covid-19 forcing the doors of the Kansas City Ballet closed, the broadcast series New Moves allowed dancers and choreographers to share new work in one of a kind spaces in Kansas City. We were invited to direct a choreographed performance by Price Suddarth amongst the poppy field of the iconic World War One museum.
This ad campaign was created to highlight Gallagher’s integrated weighing and EID system as the best option for managing animal agriculture tracking. With rancher testimonials in the field, we were able to illustrate how this advanced system works together to make animal management and handling tasks easier and faster.
“6 STREETS” chronicles the creation of six street murals, honoring the Black Lives Matter movement in neighborhoods across Kansas City. This excerpt from the documentary special highlights the community organizations that made the project possible and celebrates the art activists whose creative interpretations of this profound moment in history, are now commemorated on the streets of Kansas City.
The Giving Grove is a nationwide non-profit with the mission of providing healthy calories, strenghtening community and improving the urban environment through a nationwide network of sustainable little orchards. This campaign video helps tell the story of Kansas City’s orchards and how they’ve impacted the children growing alongside them.
KCMO is home to a insane hardcore scene, and Missouri Executive Order 44 is no exception. Blending genres of grindcore and power violence this project calls back to the infamous executive order of 1838 that allowed for the state sanctioned massacre of Mormons in the state. Donning bicycle helmets, button ups, slacks and pantyhose masks, the band channels their vengeful spirits.
Kansas City country crew Lauren Lovelle and The Midnight Spliffs perform at Cap Gun Studios. This live session is one of the lates from Flew The Coop Sessions, a non-profit music video series featuring artists of all kinds from all over.
Shortly after The Supreme Court overturned Roe Vs. Wade, Kansas became the first state to bring the question of a right to an abortion to the voters. The ballot measure which came to be known as The Value Them Both Amendment, became a national flashpoint in part due to it's deceptive language.
This excerpt from the PBS documentary television show, Flatland In Focus, explains what comes of a Yes or No vote on this issue.
One tree at a time, The Heartland Tree Alliance bring arborsits and volunteers together to increase the urban tree canopy of Kansas City, Missouri. As part of a PBS series on climate education, this project sheds light on the carbon sequestration potential of trees and their impact against the urban heat island effect worsened by climate change.
In cities across the US, heavily polluted industrial zones are often established adjacent to communities of color and low-income residents. As a part of the PBS documentary series, Flatland in Focus, residents living in Wyandotte County, KS neighborhood advocate for clean air.
BlaqOut KC is a healthcare non-profit providing healthcare and safe spaces for the Black LGBTQIA+ community in Kansas City. In 2024, BlaqOut launced its Give A F_ck fundraising campaign amidst a nationwide increase in anti-LGBT legislation with this promotion.
The Block is a limited run series on Kansas City PBS that features 4 restaurants that share a block in a unique neighborhood of Kansas City. This episode focused on the West 39th Street corridor and this excerpt features the vegan coffee and bake goods store, Mud Pie.
Inspired by Richard Rothstein’s ‘The Color of Law,’ this film focuses on Kansas City’s Highway 71 project and reveals how the city’s urban renewal efforts displaced 10,000 families. This excerpt from Land of Opportunity: The Road of Resistance explores the impact of real estate and federal policies on urban communities.
Who benefits most from this emerging industry and are those harmed most by the damaging policies of the war on drugs getting a fair cut? The legalization of medical marijuana in Missouri has resulted in $30 million in sales in June of 2022 alone.
Land of Opportunity is a historical documentary special that looks at the racist history of housing segregation in Kansas City, MO and how the black residents of the Santa Fe Place neighborhood fought to integrate and in turn, change the housing landscape of the United States.
Land of Opportunity aired on Kansas City PBS and won an NATAS Midwest Regional Emmy in 2020 for Best Historical Documentary.
From Montana to Connecticut, from Colorado Springs to Chicago, the affordable housing crisis has mobilized working class tenants to reshape the political landscape of their cities to prioritize the wellbeing of their renting neighbors. Tenant unions from all across the country converged in Kansas City Missouri in a shared effort strengthen a political movement that seeks to ensure everyone in the United States has access to safe and truly affordable housing.