NOVO FILMS
Founder


“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is - it’s to imagine what is possible.”
                   - Bell Hooks

NOVO is a collaborative environmental and social issue film production studio. We are an incubator for art and technology that inspirits human connection in imaginative ways. We build creative solutions to some of the world’s seemingly insurmountable challenges and create collaborative films with communities for distribution locally and around the world. We pair social science research with visionary creative to achieve behavior change at scale.

NOVO’s achievements include: seven culturally-responsive trauma-informed interventions in central Africa and India reacing over 20M people; An Emmy nomination; Film premieres at SXSW, Venice Bienale and Tribeca Film Festival; Coalition advocacy success that resulted in the United Nations recognizing the violence in Myanmar as genocide; Secured Congressional funding for SNAP benefits; proposition to Aspen City Council to pass a Rights of Nature Resolution granting the river legal rights and personhood; over 40 short award-winning documentary films; over 200 filmmakers trained in central Africa in behavior change media; four published reports on mental health of child soldiers, China’s environmental impact in Guinea and community-based peaceful defection models. Clients include The Nature Conservancy, The Freedom Fund, International Justice Mission, the United Nations, UNICEF, Skoll Foundation, Search for Common Ground and more.

COLLABORATIVE FILMMAKING
FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS
TRAUMA-INFORMED
TRANSFORMATIONAL HEALING