This just in: Our short film, Azúcar, has been selected for screening in Barcelona and São Paulo at the Barcelona Human Rights Festival and Human Rights Festival Brazil. Congratulations to all who supported and worked so hard on this.
2022 was an interesting year for us. We began to see the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. Many clients returned after a hiatus, and the volume of projects and new opportunities started to feel like normal again. We also welcomed a new team member, Jane, who helped us fulfill our goal of building a cohesive and interdependent creative culture. Together with Jen, Songyi, and Sam, I truly feel like we’re firing on all cylinders now. And special thanks to Jody Snider for helping us develop new clients and opportunities.
I have so much gratitude for this team, and it gives me great joy to work with folks who generously support one another. We may not have all the answers all the time, but together we challenge ourselves to learn now to make better and more impactful media. And we have so much fun doing it!
I think all of that shines through in these selected projects from 2022. I am so deeply grateful to our clients, who trusted us to create these wonderful things on their behalf. We are so honored to have earned that trust.
I hope you enjoy taking a look at our work from the year that was.
Kim Hui, Holly Hillman, Rosi Amador, Brian Amador, Alisa Amador, Zia Amador, Jeff Russell, Liz Breen, Kyle Arrington, Nati Brondani, Aya Fukuda, Hannah O’Neal, Kaleb-Wolf De Melo Torres, Christoph Gelfand, Ana Hill, Ethan Barnowski, Jake Williams, Robb Moreira, Kendra Hoffman, Renee Kurilla, Joy Arcolano.
Planet Nutshell was founded to help people of all ages understand a complicated world, and since 2008, educational media has been the backbone of our portfolio. Here are some highlights from our history of creating purpose-driven media that enlightens and entertains:
We built an immersive, multimedia virtual reality tour of the entire Boston Children’s Museum, complete with a treasure hunt and a pair of animated characters who guide visitors through the experience. The tour is also full ADA accessible. Launch the tour.
We pitched this series to our friends at KET and they loved the concept: An entire town where nobody does anything but art! It was a great opportunity to educate middle-schoolers and up about forms of art and creative expression over a 9-episode run.
A couple of years after the release of Artsville, we teamed up with KET again on an arts education series targeted at younger viewers. The first episode of this 6-episode series helps early learners establish an understanding of what it means to be creative, and how creativity is foundational to the human experience.
Produced in collaboration with the MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab, Yana & Egbert introduces elementary-aged kids to elements of scientific reasoning. The first of six episodes looks at the difference between rare and common causes of events.
We worked with our friends at WNET to adapt an interview with Gloria Steinem into this deeply insightful animated story about the feminist legacy of Marilyn Monroe.
We again teamed up with WNET to produce a short series on physics concepts for elementary schoolers. This one on Centripetal Force has just shy of a million views.
We worked with the education team at WGBH to work on a set of shorts that centered Latinx kids discovering scientific principles.
We worked with Rockland Trust Bank’s very own Ms. Money — a zany, accident-prone, and very enthusiastic teacher — to introduce financial literacy basics to kids in kindergarten through 5th grade.
Want to see more of our work, or talk about an impactful education project you’re working on? Get in touch.
