innovative storytelling

docutribe develops collaborations that educate and entertain through innovative new media campaigns, storytelling and filmmaking, while generating on-the-ground civic engagement and social change.

docutribe is creating a media ecosystem—an interactive and curated online media archive—involving shared and diverse communities. We will help bring about face-to-face introductions thereby enhancing resiliency, shared intelligence, and the support of innovation within these communities. By sharing new perspectives, individuals and communities alike can reclaim a loss or an untapped empowered sense of identity.

CHOKE

Told through the eyes of three Black activists, CHOKE is a short film on the intersection of racial and climate justice, mainly set in May 2020 surrounding the murder of George Floyd, featuring three activists who believe "without racial justice there is no climate justice."

The Story of Place: Empowering Communities through Filmmaking

Story of Place uses filmmaking to empower local communities and their leadership to ignite community transformation.

Agnes Irwin 4th graders ask: How Can We Make the World a Better Place?

docutribe™ is currently partnered with the Agnes Irwin School, an independent school based in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

Prosper Mama Africa (PMA)

To work in partnership and in support of a community seeking to transform is a journey. One must empower a community at the local level by building leadership, autonomy, and knowledge. For the community and its partners to learn how to go from a subsistence lifestyle to a progressive and fulfilling one is a longer journey. Not only does every step count, it greatly contributes to the incremental progress of the community members.

Building Back Better: Educational Transformation in Puerto Rico

Imagine what would happen if students had the knowledge, and skills to meet the greatest challenges of their time? How would it transform them and their families? How would they change school? 

Please join our community in supporting the students to use film to help transform their education, to expand their network of mentors and collaborative partners island wide, and to bring to life their innovative solutions for the challenges their communities face.

Youth Connected 

We are particularly passionate about supporting and developing partnerships with youth. The most important part of this partnership is that the voices of the youth are heard and their aspirations are activated. So how do we do this?

Initiative for Learning via the Video Essay

A Pedagogical Approach to Using Film and Video as a Tool for Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis
This is an initiative to develop a novel pedagogic approach to using documentary filmmaking in a public policy and management class at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Arts of Media Communication

While Cecily Tyler was a visiting professor at the Global Leadership University, M.B.A. program in Ulanbaataar, Mongolia she developed and taught a 7-week course called, “Arts of Media Communication.”

docutribe®: The Bee Project at
American Dream

What’s all the buzz? We are soon to bee located on the rooftop of American Dream in East Rutherford NJ bringing the honey bee ecosystem to life. Family, shop owners, and socially responsible patrons can cultivate, watch and support the sweet honey of life, flower gardens, film and live education.