A creative studio advocating for positive change
Wherever your vision leads, we provide a complete project pipeline covering all aspects of production. Our specialists will guide you with our decades of combined experience across fine arts, entertainment, advertising, technology, civic engagement, and charitable nonprofits.
We are multi-lingual and have produced campaigns in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Korean, Armenian and Arabic, reaching elusive, traditionally overlooked audiences. We charge a fraction of what any other production company or ad firm would, because we are activists who devote our talents to innovative causes willing to tackle complex issues with memorable messaging.
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For Health Care for All - California, this video inoculates the audience against medical-industrial complex propaganda which falsely asserts that Americans can count on the healthcare they get through their jobs. Single-payer healthcare means you have great lifelong health care not tied to a job. Directed by Hector Ceballos, Written by Clifford J. Tasner, Produced by Clifford J. Tasner and Ricky de Laveaga, Cinematography by Vincent Toto, Edited by Ricky de Laveaga, Music by Clifford J. Tasner
In 2016, the California Nurses Association hired Clifford J. Tasner to write and produce a series of Schoolhouse-Rock-style animated videos explaining about a Medicare-For-All healthcare bill that they were supporting. Music & Lyrics by Clifford J. Tasner, Animation by by Aoife Balfe
“Unidos” is our Spanish-language anthem for the movement to elect Bernie Sanders President. Produced and Scored by Clifford J. Tasner
The mountain of discarded, single-use plastic items we leave behind comes back to life as zombie trash to haunt our dreams and inspire us to adopt more sustainable, reusable solutions. Created for Californians Against Waste. Music & Lyrics by Clifford J. Tasner, Animation by Cole Montminy
Multilingual ad for the Yes on 21 grassroots coalition supporting Proposition 21, the November 2020 California ballot measure that would have put limits on unfair, sky-high rent increases. Written and Produced by Clifford J. Tasner, Music by Clifford J. Tasner
by Cliff Tasner
3 min read
There has been a strong nativist streak in the United States for much of our history. In the mid-1800s, the Know-Nothing Party was created to stoke fears of the Irish Catholics who had fled famine to come here. And a couple of decades later, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to protect America from the growing “yellow peril.”
by Ricky de Laveaga
1 min read
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