reelblue, llc, is a media production company that specializes in stories about global health and the environment that seek to inspire social innovation and communicate the connections between people and the natural world. 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

 

Jennifer Galvin, ScD, MPH

Dr. Galvin - filmmaker, scientist and entrepreneur - uses her background in global health and environmental science to inform multimedia storytelling. From print to documentary and fiction film, her work has been internationally recognized for connecting art and science and inspiring social transformation. Galvin was selected to the American Film Institute's 2004 Catalyst Workshop for science storytelling and screenwriting, and to the 2006 Pan Caribbean Project for Environmental Film and Wildlife Documentaries Residency held at EICTV, Cuba. She is a founding member of the field now known as Ocean and Human Health and is a published author, recently contributing to the book Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Seas. Galvin has consulted on several educational 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, narrated by Linda Hunt, and Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans, narrated by Meryl Streep. Her award-winning feature documentary Free Swim earned a top NYSCA grant and has screened around the globe to reduce youth drowning, promote diversity in ocean-related sports, and ignite community coastal conservation.  Some of her work includes: Heading North (in development); Elwha Unplugged (in production); Chores (2011); Eating The Ocean (2010); Contact Zone (2010); Free Swim (2009); La Transition (2009); Once Upon A Tide (2008); We, Sea:  Photographs and Words from the Children of South Eleuthera (2007); Caguayo (2006); Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans (2005). Galvin is also Director of Programs/Trustee of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation; a member of New York Women in Film & Television, the Pleiades Network, and the ICAIC Muestra Itinerante de Cine del Caribe/Caribbean Travelling Film Showcase; and on the boards of the San Francisco Green Film Festival and Swim to Empower. She holds a Doctor of Science (ScD) in environmental health from the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program at the Harvard School of Public Health, a Master of Public Health (MPH) in environmental epidemiology from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in aquatic biology from Brown University.

Sachi Cunningham, MJ

Sachi Cunningham is an Emmy and Webby award-winning journalist and filmmaker. In 2008 she was recruited to join the first video team at the Los Angeles Times, where she covered stories from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the historic El Nino big wave season of 2010. While at the Times, she also fostered co-productions with Current TV, the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED’s California Report. Prior to the Times Cunningham worked on the staff of PBS’ FRONTLINE and FRONTLINE/World, where she produced the shows’ first multimedia online video report from the India-Pakistan “line of control.” She was also instrumental in the launch, programming and branding of FRONTLINE's online video and photo series “Rough Cuts” and “Flash Point,” which included stories about social entrepreneurs funded through a partnership with the Skoll Foundation. Cunningham developed her interest in media as a student at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. She worked in film production and development for a decade in Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo assisting and managing staffs for talents that included Barry Levinson and Demi Moore. While shooting behind the scenes footage for Levinson used for the DVD of the film Bandits, she realized her interests laid in non-fiction storytelling. She soon found her first story, CRUTCH, a feature length documentary about a dancer with a debilitating hip disability. The video sketch for CRUTCH found Internet fame when it was selected as the top featured video on the home page of You Tube the day it was sold to Google. However, in producing the short, Cunningham realized that she didn't quite yet have the chops for a feature documentary. She subsequently attended the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, studying under Jon Else and Bob Calo. Her reporting has since taken her around the globe, including Afghanistan during its first presidential election and the United Arab Emirates to investigate the sex trade in Dubai. In the water, she has swum with (and filmed) both Michael Phelps and a cage of full of 350 pound blue fin tuna. When not crafting documentary stories, Cunningham can be found with her husband bobbing in the Pacific, eyes trained on the horizon, waiting to paddle into her next wave.