Design museum
Brown Planet Productions worked with Murmur Ring and the design museum to profile chicago’s first cultural historian: tim Samuelson.
Apple
HOMETOWN SERIES - DAY 17 OF 32
Brown Planet Productions founder Carlos Javier Ortiz was comissioned by Apple to create a short video for their #ShotoniPhone campaign.
A Thousand Midnights
A Short Documentary
From 1915 to 1970, six million African Americans relocated from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West fleeing racial terror and pursuing economic opportunity for their families. Contemplative and experimental, A Thousand Midnights chronicles the manifestation of the economic and social histories of Black Americans who came to the north during the Great Migration
Detours Series: BBC World Service + Sundance Institute
Brown Planet Productions collaborated with BBC World Service and Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute to document the story of Imran Mohammad, a Rohingya refugee, who was detained indefinitely on Manus Island.
A Thousand Midnights
The New Yorker
Brown Planet Productions founder Carlos Javier Ortiz collaborated with Tina K. Sacks, PhD, a professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, to produce a portrait of the Great Migration during its centennial anniversary.
How Long Will I Cry
Steppenwolf Theatre
Brown Planet Productions founder Carlos Javier Ortiz was asked by DePaul University's creative writing department to use an image from his book “We All We Got” as the cover for their own “How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence”.
Thirty Below - Cold Water Swimmers
Coming Soon
Square
BLACK OWNED - FILM SERIES
Brown Planet Productions founder Carlos Javier Ortiz collaborated with production company Even/Odd to photograph for Square’s “Black-Owned” video spotlight.
Lakeya’s Journeys
Brown Planet Productions collaborated with The Institute for Healthcare Delivery Design to capture the inspiring health journeys of two Chicago residents. Our first film, centers around Lakeya, a suburban Chicagoan learning to live with diabetes.
Monica: A Short Documentary
Brown Planet Productions collaborated with The Institute for Healthcare Delivery Design to capture the inspiring health journeys of two Chicago residents. Our second film, centers around Monica, a Chicago resident who has overcome drug addiction.
The Case for Reparations
The Atlantic
Brown Planet Productions founder Carlos Javier Ortiz was assigned by The Atlantic to photograph for Ta-Nehisi Coates' critically acclaimed article “The Case for Reparations”.
Cellmates
The Marshall Project
Brown Planet Productions founder Carlos Javier Ortiz was assigned by The Marshall Project to photograph for Tony Marlan’s Cellmates, a story written in collaboration with Amazon Original Stories and a part of a larger collection of stories about Criminal justice in Chicago.
When Art Is an Act of Protest
Topic Magazine: Federal Project No.2, Re-examining America
Brown Planet Productions founder Carlos Javier Ortiz’s photography was showcased in Topic Magazine’s series Federal Project No.2: Re-examining America.
Inside The Life of a Violence Interrupter
Obama Foundation
Brown Planet Productions collaborated with the Obama Foundation in documenting pastor Tracey Lee’s day to day life as a violence interrupter and supermom.
Violin Vigils Honor the Memory of Elijah McClain
New York Times
Brown Planet Productions collaborated with The New York Times to document a violin vigil for Elijah McClain, a 23 old black man who was killed by police in Aurora, Colorado in 2019.
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Life After Death in Chicago
[LENS] The New York Times
New York Times writer, David Gonzalez, spotlighted the work of Brown Planet Productions founder, Carlos Javier Ortiz in a 2013 interview for [LENS].
Show Don’t Tell
The New Yorker
Brown Planet Productions founder, Carlos Javier Ortiz, photography was used by writer Curtis Sittenfeld’s short story Show Don’t Tell which was published in The New Yorker’s June 5 & 12 2017 Issue.
Recast
Coming Soon
Jerricka Boone
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