reelblue, llc, is a media production company that specializes in stories about global health and the environment. We serve as both a think tank and studio, from concept to distribution, for individuals, non-profit organizations and corporations who want to communicate their ideas and knowledge through mass media, including film, television, print and the internet. Using our backgrounds in environmental science, public health, journalism and filmmaking, our work is unique, educational and entertaining.

about us

 

Sachi Cunningham, M.J.

Cunningham - producer, director, journalist and shooter - has worked for The Discovery Channel, FRONTLINE and FRONTLINE/World on stories in Afghanistan, India, China, Japan, Dubai, Puerto Rico, Nepal, and Cambodia. Her work has received numerous awards, including a Webby Award, Student Academy Award and a Student Emmy. Cunningham has a M.J. from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and a B.A. in history from Brown University. Her thesis film Samurai Surfers has screened at festivals around the world from Byron Bay to San Francisco. The trailer for her directorial debut Crutch was selected as a You Tube and Yahoo "Top of the 9" featured video and was broadcast on Good Morning America. The feature length version of Crutch is currently in post-production and was funded by grants from the Tylenol Corporation and the Film Arts Foundation. Prior to studying documentary film, Cunningham worked as an assistant to Academy Award winning director, producer and writer Barry Levinson and actress Demi Moore. Cunningham is also an avid surf photographer, whose work has been showcased in the State of the Beach report for the Surfrider Foundation as well as in Surfer's Path, Surfer Magazine, Surfing, and Surf Life for Women. She currently works as a video journalist with the Los Angeles Times.

Jennifer Galvin, Sc.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Galvin - scientist, filmmaker, educator and writer - uses her background in public health and environmental science to inform her work as a filmmaker. Galvin has a Sc.D. in environmental health from the Harvard School of Public Health, a M.P.H. in environmental epidemiology from Yale University, and a B.S. in aquatic biology from Brown University. Galvin is a published author, recently contributing to the book Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Seas. She has consulted on several media projects, including the World of Water film series at the New England Aquarium and with the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School to create two award winning films, Once Upon A Tide and Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans. Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans gained recognition worldwide, screening at international festivals and conferences, winning several awards, and showing in Patagonia retail stores. Galvin was selected to the American Film Institute's (AFI) 2004 Catalyst Workshop for science storytelling and screenwriting, and to the 2006 Pan Caribbean Project for Environmental Film and Wildlife Documentaries Residency held at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (EICTV), Cuba. Her work in Cuba resulted in Caguayo, which has screened from the US to Spain. In late 2006 she published We, Sea, a book about the ocean's impact on the lives of Bahamian children, as told through their own photographs and in their own words. The book's companion documentary film Free Swim is currently in production. In late 2007 reelblue began shooting Eating the Ocean in French Polynesia, a film about the risks and benefits of eating seafood and the impacts of a changing global diet. Galvin is also a Trustee and Selection Committee Member of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation.