Video, photo, and brand storytelling for organizations that serve their community.

Your work changes lives. Let’s make sure people see it.

We help nonprofits, schools, public agencies, and mission-driven businesses across California tell their story, so funders, families, and partners finally see it.

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Great work that no one sees can't help your community.

Most mission-driven organizations don’t have a quality problem. They have a visibility problem, and it shows up every funding cycle.

Everyone deserves to be seen. That includes you.

Your story is scattered

A website that undersells you. Social media that goes quiet for months. A pitch that changes every time someone tells it. Funders and partners can't back what they can't understand.

It wears you out

You didn't start this to become a marketer. But every board meeting, grant, and community event asks you to explain your work again, from scratch.

It isn't fair

Organizations that pour themselves into their communities deserve to be seen. The loudest voice shouldn't win. The truest one should.

We know what it’s like to be overlooked.

We've spent years in the rooms that rarely get the spotlight: community meetings, youth programs, and organizations doing real work without a platform to show it. We've watched good people go unseen because no one helped them tell their story. That's why we started KLTRD MEDIA.

We help you find the story only you can tell, plan how to share it, and film documentary-style video and photos that make people stop, feel, and act.

Trusted by mission-driven leaders across California: San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and their Families (DCYF) · San Francisco Beacon Initiative · Improve Your Tomorrow · San Joaquin A+ · José M. Hernández Reaching for the Stars Foundation · Family Resource Center · Rise East · Blaze Consulting Group · and more! Meet the founders.

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Three steps from unseen to unmistakable.

Here’s exactly what working with us looks like.

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Free, 30 minutes. A real conversation about your mission, your audience, and where your story isn't landing. You'll leave with clarity, whether we work together or not.

Build your Story Blueprint

2

We map your message, voice, and look into one clear playbook. Then every grant, pitch, post, and video says the same true thing.

Grow with a Storytelling Partnership

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We become your ongoing storytelling team, making videos, photos, and campaigns month after month, so your visibility builds instead of starting over.

What we make for you.

Every service has one job: help the right people see you, trust you, and act.

Strategy & Messaging

Clear messaging, campaign plans, and brand playbooks that turn "we do a lot of things" into a story your community repeats for you.

Brand Identity

A look, voice, and brand system built from who you really are, so you look as credible as the work you already do.

Video & Photo

Documentary-style impact films, campaign videos, video series, event coverage, and photography that help people feel your mission. Public agency? Ask us about on-call and master services agreements.

Featured projects

We supported San Joaquin A+ with a full rebrand and a documentary about their journey and their impact on students.

We shot, edited, produced, and directed a short film that amplifies the voices of our apprentices, celebrates their daily work, and shares their stories with the world. The message is simple yet powerful: the individuals who consistently show up to assist young people in shaping their futures also have a future worth building.

We supported the Ruth Williams Opera House with creative direction, Photography, Video and design for the first cohort of Art is Resistance: Preserving the Past, Creating the Future!

Imagine your story working for you.

Without a clear story

Strong programs lose ground to organizations with clearer stories. It doesn't have to be that way.

Become unmistakable

Funders who understand you before the meeting starts · One story, told the same way on every channel · A library of films and photos that keeps working long after the shoot · A storytelling partner who knows your mission as well as you do. From your community's best-kept secret to the organization everyone knows.

WHY WE DO THIS

YOUR STORY IS YOUR SUPERPOWER.

Most mission-driven organizations do powerful work that nobody sees. At KLTRD MEDIA, we believe everyone deserves to have their voice heard and their story told the way they envision it. We help nonprofits, schools, public agencies, startups and founders across California clarify their message and create video, content, and campaigns that bring in funding, partners, and community support. Because communities doing real work deserve to be seen.