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, Sc.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Galvin - scientist, filmmaker, educator and entrepreneur - uses her background in public health and environmental science to inform her work as a filmmaker. Galvin holds a Sc.D. in environmental health from the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program at 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. She is a published author, recently contributing to the book Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Seas (2008, Elsevier), and 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, narrated by Linda Hunt, and Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans, narrated by Meryl Streep. 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 includes: Elwha Unplugged (in production); Eating the Ocean (in production); Free Swim (2009); La Transition (2009); Once Upon A Tide (2008); We, Sea:  Photographs and Words from the Children of South Eleuthera (2007) [companion book to the award winning film Free Swim]; Caguayo (2006); Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans (2005). Galvin is also Director of Programs, Trustee and Selection Committee Member of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation and on the boards of the San Francisco Green Film Festival and Swim to Empower.

Sachi Cunningham, M.J.

Cunningham - producer, director, journalist and shooter - is a staff video journalist at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to working at the Times, Cunningham produced, shot and edited Emmy Award winning international news documentaries for broadcast and the web, reporting throughout Asia, the Middle East and Latin America for outlets including PBS FRONTLINE, FRONTLINE/World, 60 Minutes, Al Jazeera, Current TV, and the Discovery Channel.  Her documentary for FRONTLINE/World investigating the sex trade in Dubai won a 2008 Webby Award and was nominated for an online Emmy.  In 2007 she field produced and shot for the FRONTLINE special series News Wars reported by Pulitzer/Emmy winner Lowell Bergman, which has received a Writers Guild Award and the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism.  Working with Oscar nominated Director/Producer/Cinematographer Jon Else and Director/Producer/Editor Debbie Hoffman, her Master's thesis film Samurai Surfers followed the story of a group of Puerto Rican surfers that stopped the Army Corps of Engineers from illegally dumping dredge on their reef.  Cunningham's work has received recognition from the National Press Photographers Association, the Online News Association, Student Emmys, Student Academy Awards, Cine Golden Eagle Awards, two "Good News Awards" from the Sacramento Chapter of Women in TV and Radio, and two 1st place awards in new media from the South Asian Journalists Association.  She received a Master in Journalism (M.J.) in documentary production from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in history from Brown University.  Prior to journalism school, she worked for Academy Award Winning Director/Producer/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.