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ARISE MEDIA


Inspirational. Educational. Impactful.

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ARISE MEDIA


Inspirational. Educational. Impactful.

 

We are at a critical stage in Earth's history known as the Anthropocene, in which human-caused changes to our planet have created overwhelming concern for all life. To communicate the need to restore the Earth’s balance, we believe you first have to create an understanding of our natural environment and how we interact with it.

 
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Mission


The mission of Arise Media is to produce films that inspire a new appreciation for our own interconnected role in nature and foster stewardship of biodiversity and planetary health for all.

Mission


The mission of Arise Media is to produce films that inspire a new appreciation for our own interconnected role in nature and foster stewardship of biodiversity and planetary health for all.

 With a three-decade track record of award-winning media behind us, our team has in the pipeline plans to develop, produce and distribute a variety of engaging and impactful stories that have the potential to reach large audiences, and will bring to light inspiring new ways to confront environmental challenges.

Our upcoming films…


Our upcoming films…


 
 

While technology and medicine have dramatically improved life expectancy and brought remarkable convenience, control, and connectivity to our lives, anxiety, depression, and loneliness are all on the rise. Machine learning and AI beg us to reimagine the future, yet climate change and the loss of biodiversity threaten the very notion of one. It’s a familiar paradox, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Humans, like all life on Earth, evolved in nature over millennia. Only in the last blink of our history have we become a species primarily of city-dwellers, spending 90% of our time indoors. Are we losing something that is fundamental to our humanity? Is it time to put the “nature” back into Human Nature?

HARDWIRED 4 NATURE is a feature documentary about ordinary people who overcome extraordinary challenges by reconnecting with nature —and the surprising science that makes this transformation possible. Their remarkable stories, and the discoveries of scientists from around the globe, demonstrate nature’s profound importance to our brains, bodies, and spiritual well-being —revealing that we are literally hardwired for the natural world we came from.

Character-based and international in scope, HARDWIRED 4 NATURE follows individuals who are battling crisis —a Mexican banker ravaged by cancer, an American child drowning in screen addiction, a Japanese executive on the brink of suicide, an African American woman struggling with the trauma of racism, and an Amazonian shaman facing the destruction of his forest homeland— five shattered lives made whole by the healing power of nature.

From our susceptibility to heart disease and the cost of our healthcare to the success of our children in school —and even our propensity for aggression or creativity— scientists are learning that the absence of nature adversely affects us in profound ways. Until now, the mechanisms behind this phenomenon have been elusive and hard to measure, but with the advent of portable brain scanners and other monitoring devices scientists can now see how our bodies respond to different environments in real-time, and the implications are staggering. As we urbanize, access to nature’s benefits is rapidly becoming a privilege, making the intersectionality of racial and environmental justice one of the defining issues of our time.

Featuring mind-blowing science, awe-inspiring fMRI brain imagery, and a cinematic style replete with stunning natural beauty and immersive soundscapes that transport the audience on an experiential journey, HARDWIRED 4 NATURE challenges us to rethink our relationship to the natural world, and in so doing, rekindle our innate desire to care for what we love.

We are currently seeking donations, corporate sponsorship and partnerships to complete the production of Hardwired 4 Nature and to finance its educational impact campaign. For more donation information, contact Susan Todd at susan@archipelagofilms.com