Clear Films worked with founder of both the Global Giving Circle and The Global Cocoa project, Shana Dressler, as she developed the foundations and their missions.
We provided documentation of events as well as interviews, archival work and post production services. The Global Cocoa Project (GCP) is a high-impact poverty alleviation project focused on significantly improving the lives of cocoa farmers worldwide through the supply of equipment and basic needs. The secondary goal is to educate Americans about the realities of the cocoa industry and leverage the power of knowledgeable, concerned consumers to help make cocoa growing a profitable and sustainable occupation for farmers.

The Global Cocoa Project’s first initiative is called 21 Villages. It will support 1,000 cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire by supplying them with the basic tools necessary to improve the quality of their cocoa production.

Clear Films documented the closing orientation of the 2011 Southern Education Leadership Summer Program. This summer 9 students were awarded grants from the Walmart Foundation to be placed in non-profits based in the rural south. Clear Films produced a series of interviews, highlighting these specific interns, as well as key personel, advisors, and alumni. These videos will be featured online and presented to funders so that they may fully realize the importance of the program and the positive effects it has had on youth in the Southern United States.

Drink Well Do Good was an international food, music, and art tour building advocacy and awareness on behalf of the Foundation. The campaign was a grassroots effort with audiences representing a wide range of ethnicities, gender, and age. The tour established an international network of support from NGO’s, media, entertainers, and activists that spanned 12 cities over the course of 6 weeks. It was documented by Clear Films, with the intent of using the content to create a platform for an annual tour of cultural exhibitions, and television series-each benefiting charities throughout the US and Africa.

A multi-media platform project to celebrate NYC water through free information, inspired music and the power of Natural Ass! Pedal Power NYC is an organization dedicated to capturing and re-purposing human power with bicycles. Clear Films has documented and created short media pieces as Pedal Power NYC has developed a live human-powered stage system that directly harnesses energy without sacrificing professional sound quality.