Your Path to Our Health

Your Path to Our Health
Could a more nuanced understanding of the role of culture seed new strategies to reduce stubborn health disparities?

Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows
For red/blue lovers, politics gets personal. A self-filmed glimpse of love across the political divide aired with WSJ Live reporting.

Our Next President's American Dream

Our Next President's American Dream
Looking beyond the election. Will the concerns of Trump voters be addressed? by President Trump? by future leaders of the Democratic party? Airing on Politico Magazine.

Learn to Earn?

Learn to Earn?
Are technical education programs making a difference in the lives of people seeking a vocation with a future? Four personal stories complement New York Times reporting.

A House Divided?

A House Divided?
Are we as polarized as pundits and politicians say we are? 30 percent of married households are made up of voters who share a life but not a political identity. A portrait of their red/blue union — and ours.

Degrees of Difficulty

Degrees of Difficulty
Most college students don’t fit the traditional image. A waitressing single mom, a sales assistant, a policeman, and two veterans film their college stories and take them to Washington. A USA TODAY video feature.

Linking Learning to Life

Linking Learning to Life
Linked Learning integrates rigorous academics with real-life career pathways. What does it mean in the lives of Ruben, Amy, Zaci, and Brandon?

Election '08

Election '08
Five citizens follow the campaign and try to make sense of what they hear from politicians who still dominate the political landscape. The series aired with Washington Post coverage of the election.

Primaries '08

Primaries '08
Five ordinary Americans on the campaign trail challenge politicians and each other. A multi-part series of op-ed videos complemented New York Times election coverage.

Yuri's Story

Yuri's Story
Open Society Foundations asked Purple States to help a grantee organization tell its story. The video was used to advance human rights in Ukraine, including the rights of transgender individuals.

Stas's Story

Stas's Story
Purple States producers travelled to Moldova to teach a family how to film their story for a media campaign about young people who are returning to their families from state-run institutions.

Five Years Left

Five Years Left
Vignettes that capture the circumstances of life in ten countries. What is at stake when world leaders deliver on or fail to keep their commitment to meeting the Millennium Development Goals?

World Without Walls

World Without Walls
A grand experiment in global self-filming: 192 regular people in 192 countries turn a camera on their own lives.

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