A short film for The Minneapolis Foundation's Fund for Safe Communities

The Fund for Safe Communities is a grantmaking initiative The Minneapolis Foundation launched in 2018 to support youth-led violence prevention and healing. Its advisory group is eight young leaders who have been personally affected by gun violence, and the Foundation wanted a short film that let them speak for themselves.

Working as Tiny Window Pictures, Lindsey Seavert led the interviews and shaped the story; I handled camera, lighting and the edit. The brief we gave ourselves was simple and hard: get out of the way. No narrator, no stock music swelling at the right moment, just the leaders describing what they have lived and what they are building.

This is documentary-style storytelling for a nonprofit, the kind of work where trust matters more than gear. If your organization has people with something to say and you want it said in their voice, this is the model.