Cinereach

12/27/2024

We take what we’ve learned and we dream big about what stories we can bring to life. The thing about being an incubator is it takes time for ideas to, well, incubate, and 2024 was when we really hit the ground running with exciting projects of our own. These are some of the questions that have guided us to what we’re working on now, and where we’re looking in the near future. We aren’t even at the point of a teaser trailer yet, but let’s just say the competition’s on, the spotlight has gone rogue, and the aliens aren’t what they seem…

12/26/2024

We connect with creatives and share what we’ve discovered, working towards a more impactful ecosystem together. There are a lot of big questions about where our industry goes from here, and we never want to isolate ourselves, keeping our ideas behind closed doors. From Los Angeles to NYC, Seattle to Austin, Cannes to Sundance, getting out into the community with you all is what energizes our work! We have a lot waiting in the wings for how we can continue showing up for storytellers, and can’t wait to share more in the new year.

12/25/2024

We support and collaborate with creatives who believe in the power of storytelling. Every year, it is an honor to watch Cinereach-supported projects connect with their audiences, and we couldn’t be prouder of the acclaim received by these latest releases!

12/24/2024

We want to inspire and be inspired. We learned a lot about film over our first 17 years, but as good stories lead us to new mediums it’s been a thrill to connect with all kinds of storytellers. We’ve been particularly interested in the exciting world of gaming, and thanks to our partnership with Anima Interactive, our two Game Jams gave us a lot of insights into how gamers think about story. We challenged teams to quickly create a prototype interpreting our research on justice and climate narratives, and loved sharing those games with people at SXSW and the Hollywood Climate Summit! Congratulations again to our two winners, Pip Pepper Park Planner and Maybe We Saved the World.

12/23/2024

We research how stories can have the biggest impact on shifting culture. This year, we set our sights on storytelling about the climate crisis, exploring how we can reach broader audiences and uplift untold perspectives. We began digging into making media for young people. We incubated projects that applied last year’s research on shifting portrayals of civic leaders on screen. And we got a little meta with it while understanding how to best share our findings with the creative community. We’re bridging the gap between the research process and the creative process and looking forward to seeing where our curiosity takes us next year!

07/10/2024

For our Just Play Game Jams, we equip video game developers with a toolkit of takeaways we’ve learned from our research into how to make media that bridges the gap between impact storytelling and popular entertainment. Our latest Jam focused on narratives about the climate crisis, bolstered by insights we found in partnership with Good Energy. We weren’t only thinking of video games, though — we’d love to see how storytellers working in any medium would be inspired by our findings! This is just a peek into what you can dig into, so check out the full toolkit here: https://bit.ly/3W0rGGT

05/09/2024

Congratulations to Cinereach-supported Reality for their Peabody Awards win in the entertainment category!

This film, starring Sydney Sweeney and directed by Tina Satter, is based on the FBI interrogation transcript of U.S. Air Force veteran Reality Winner, who leaked an intelligence report about...

04/29/2024

Ready to jam for a better climate future? 🌱

Welcome to Just Play: A Game Jam for Climate Futures, produced by Cinereach in collaboration with Anima Interactive and powered by Dreamspace.

Create a video game that explores climate themes through gameplay and story!

🌊The jam starts NOW🌿

Submissions open until May 17, 2024.

PRIZE - $10,000 USD

Finalists will be showcased at the Hollywood Climate Summit 2024.

ITCH.IO - https://itch.io/jam/just-play-jam-climate
WEBSITE - https://www.justplayjam.com/
SUBMIT - https://animainteractive.typeform.com/submit

There is only one submission Typeform this time - you will submit it once you are ready to submit your game to the jam.

Please be sure to join the jam and submit the jam on itch.io too!

Jam theme - Just Play: A Game Jam for Climate Futures

To explore more of the theme, check out our toolkit: https://www.justplayjam.com/toolkit

04/25/2024

Congratulations to the team behind Cinereach-supported Reality for their 2024 Peabody Awards nomination!

https://www.indiewire.com/awards/results/peabody-award-nominations-2024-1234977715/

04/18/2024

Exciting news! Cinereach-supported NEW WAVE is headed to !

🌟 NEW WAVE is headed to ! 🌟

We are ecstatic to share that NEW WAVE will have its World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in the documentary competition section!

Our team has been toiling over NEW WAVE for almost six years. It has been no small feat and we’re so excited to celebrate with all of you. It has been such an incredible experience discovering all the ways that this music and community has shaped our lives. THANK YOU for everything— sharing family photos + memories, growing this community, supporting us every step of the way— you’re the reason we dance.🕺🏻🎶👩‍🎤

ABOUT THE FILM: Mile-high hair. Synthesized sounds. Teenage rebellion. Filmmaker Elizabeth Ai was on a mission to excavate an untold story of rebellious punks in the chaotic world of 80s Vietnamese new wave until she rediscovers a buried past.

SAVE THE DATE: for our World Premiere on Saturday, June 8th at 5:30PM. Individual tickets go on sale on Tuesday, April 30th at tribecafilm.com/festival.

Stay tuned for more news re: screening details, upcoming events, + more!

04/15/2024

Thrilled to share that Cinereach-supported Locust by KEFF will premiere in competition at Cannes Critics’ Week!

"As the 2019 Hong Kong protests erupt across the strait, Zhong-Han, a silent twenty-nothing in Taiwan, leads a double life – working at a family restaurant by day, and running with a group of local gangsters by night. But when the ownership of the restaurant changes hands, it sets off an unexpected chain reaction that forces Zhong-Han to witness and confront the corrupt power games of his country."

Learn more at cinereach.org/films/locust.

04/10/2024

Follow our story at cinereach.org.

04/10/2024

Formats we work in may vary, but our purpose is constant: harness the power of story to inspire greater curiosity, agency, and empathy. As a not for profit organization, we’re excited to expand our portfolio to include more media, such as graphic novels, gaming, events, and others, in order to engage even more audiences. Learn more at cinereach.org.

04/03/2024

At Cinereach, we believe in the power of story to change the world. Learn more about our expanded mission as story incubator and production company weaving narrative change and popular entertainment across film, TV, video games, graphic novels, social platforms and more!

https://deadline.com/2024/04/cinereach-pivots-to-media-incubator-under-new-ceo-jennifer-strachan-1235874490/

04/03/2024

After almost two decades of funding and creating award-winning, inspiring films, Cinereach is expanding its work across media to co-create projects that reimagine what story can do. Learn more at cinereach.org.

03/20/2024

After the wrap-up of SXSW this past weekend, we're taking a moment to look back at Just Play, our global game jam on a mission to challenge video game developers to explore themes of justice in creative ways to open minds and inspire new perspectives. We hosted an award ceremony, a booth at the SXSW’s Creative Industries Expo and participated in a panel on Narrative Change in Entertainment.

Want to learn more? Join our newsletter at connect.cinereach.org/a/newsletter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72l1onIAB0Q

Just Play: A Game Jam for Justice, an official SXSW 2024 games event co-created by Cinereach and Anima Interactive.Including an Awards Ceremony, a guest-spea...

12/27/2023

Need an example of story’s power to change the world? 2023 marked the 40th anniversary of THE DAY AFTER, a TV movie that not only shifted the way the world thought about nuclear war but may have even helped prevent one.

https://youtu.be/UgdPBUEgKXA?si=8kGdl9hpQeg2mwM7

The Hollywood Reporter recently looked back at this landmark television event: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/how-the-day-after-saved-the-world-1235711200/

A rare promo for what was (and probably still is) the most famous TV movie of all time, The Day After. Ernie Anderson laying it on heavy with the voiceover....

12/21/2023

"A growing body of research, meanwhile, is dispelling the notion that climate storytelling is not box office, or can’t deliver ratings... The University of York study found there is audience demand for climate content that spans genres and interest is heightened when projects intersect with overlapping social issues. Focused on UK viewers, it noted the interest was for local stories and content that shows solutions."

Storytellers have a vital role to play in the conversation around climate, and new research points to audience demand for these narratives. This is one of the topics we're focusing on now, with more to share in the coming year.

EXCLUSIVE: While the headlines around the COP28 climate change conference focused on the protracted negotiations around the final agreement, Deadline can reveal how BAFTA and albert set up on the g…