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Big Mouth produces advocacy videos for organizations in order to raise awareness about social issues. Big Mouth's staff produces hard-hitting, informative videos (both long and short format) that help viewers gain a deeper understanding about the pressing problems of today. Using techniques that are both engaging and content-driven, Big Mouth has found ways to use video to shed light on important situations that are frequently left out of the mainstream media. Our clients have found our videos useful for membership drives, fundraising efforts, anniversary events, and national conventions.

Directed by Angela Tucker
A 14 minute video on how to avoid being a victim of predatory lending. The film also addresses ACORN's efforts to stop predatory lending in poor and minority neighborhoods where better loans are not readily available, and where loss of equity and foreclosure can devastate already fragile communities.

Directed by Elizabeth Mandel
A short educational video for Jewish Women International that raises consciousness among youth about establishing healthy relationships and explores the religious and cultural messages and pressures that shape the identities of Jewish youth today. The film enlightens audiences to the realities of dating violence and other unhealthy gender-based pressures on teens and opens up a space for dialogue and action.

Directed by Maggie Bowman

A 10-minute campaign video for the New York Hotel Trades Council (HTC) explaining to non-union hotel workers the importance of the upcoming citywide contract campaign. Using stories from workers who went through the process of unionizing themselves, the video encourages non-union workers to join with the HTC to fight for a better contract in 2006.

Directed by Leslie Weiner

15 30-second spots for national broadcast in 2003, these spots were commissioned by the NIMH to raise awareness about the problem of clinical depression among men. Shot in a documentary-style format, using real survivors of depression, rather than actors, the campaign marks a new departure for public health awareness initiatives in the federal government.

Directed by Katy Chevigny

A 17-minute video celebrating the 30th anniversary of ACORN, a nationwide community organization that advocates on behalf of low and moderate income people.

Directed by Katy Chevigny

A 9-minute video for the Youth Law Center focusing on the disproportionate treatment of minority youth in the juvenile justice system. The video featured the first-hand experiences of young people in Washington DC, Baltimore and the Bronx to raise awareness about the conditions in juvenile detention centers.

Directed by Katy Chevigny

A 9-minute video for the New York-based Fortune Society designed to encourage employers to consider hiring ex-offenders.

Educational videos for the Vera Institute of Justice's Appearance Assistance Program assisted recently arrived immigrants to understand their rights under the law and offered them assistance in choosing a lawyer. Big Mouth Productions directed, edited and took full responsibility for the development of the videos. We delivered both English and Spanish language versions of the tapes. They are now being used nation-wide as a key part of the Appearance Assistance Program.

Directed by Katy Chevigny

A Public Service Announcement for the American Bar Association about 1997 changes in child welfare laws.

Directed by Katy Chevigny

A 15-minute promotional video for the New Party, a U.S.-based progressive grassroots political organization (now the Working Families Party).

Directed by Florence Fradelizi (France) and Eliza Starr Byard (U.S.).

A documentary short featuring gay and lesbian parents in France, the U.S., and Holland. The film premiered at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Festival in 1998 and has since been shown at numerous gay and lesbian festivals through the U.S. and Europe.

A 10-minute video for Earthweb.com, profiling the unique challenges of the information technology professional - shown at conventions and events to increase membership.

Utilized a two-camera shoot to document the Internet company About.com's first annual company conference in Las Vegas.

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