The Media Factory recently produced the video content for the Bill Nye Climate Lab. The Lab is an interactive web game that is designed to teach young people how they can help slow climate change.
The Bass Player has been nominated for an Irish Film and Television Academy Award
“Masterfully Told.” – The Irish Times “Outstanding film.” – Sunday World “Heartwarming.” – The Sun
“The Bass Player: A Song for Dad was the critics’ choice in the Irish Times, The Irish Sunday Independent, The Sunday Business Post and The Sun.
Without a Net Trailer
“Without a Net” follows the plight of Sofia, a young African mother who struggles to save her baby from the deadly disease, malaria. Beautifully filmed, this intimate portrait brings us on a journey to a remote tribal village in Tanzania. Here, local medical personal work tirelessly to educate the community, as well [...]
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 [...]
Media Factory’s Marissa Aroy and Niall McKay garnered an Emmy award for their documentary, “Sikhs in America,” in the category of Best Historic/Cultural Program. The 26-minute PBS documentary profiling the Sikh community in the United States will air nationwide in May as part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and will be broadcast on [...]
The Delano Manongs tells the unknown history of a group of Filipino farmworkers in Delano, California who toiled under the yoke of racism for decades, then rose up in their twilight years to fight for fair wages and ethical work conditions. The Manongs (A Manong is a Filipino term of respect for an [...]
The Media Factory produced a short video for the Purple Silk Music Foundation, an Oakland-based nonprofit that provides music education program for inner-city youth. This video shows the extraordinary work Purple Silk does in creating the Oakland Chinese children’s orchestra and youth chorus.
The History of Chinese Opera in Bay Area
The History of Chinese Opera in [...]
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).