The Media Factory produced this innovative educational soap opera “Grand Café,” for C.E.O Women. This 18-part series is designed to teach low-income immigrant women how to start their own businesses. This series imparts language and entrepreneurial training through the stories of four immigrant women and their adventures, challenges and triumphs in starting their own businesses [...]

Show to teach women language and business skills needed to start a business in the United States
C.E.O Women Featured on ABC TV
The Media Factory produced The Grand Café, an educational telenovela for the Oakland-based nonprofit Creating Economic Opportunities for Women (C.E.O. Women). The series is designed to teach immigrant and refugee women in the [...]

The program is designed to teach English in a comedic and entertaining way and was broadcast in Latin America and in the US in 2008. Pictured here is main actors, Lilian Askew (left) Gabriel Grilli (middle) and director, Niall McKay (right).