MISSION
POWER OF YOU
Your voice. Your story. Your life.
Our mission is to help people share their stories.
Over the last 20 years,
we have partnered with Adobe, National Geographic Society,
85 US Embassies, Princeton University, University of Southern California and CalArts,
to host hundreds of free workshops across 60 countries.
Through our signature programs dedicated to video literacy, radio broadcasting,
music improvisation and digital rehab,
we train the leaders of tomorrow to build a better world.
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Let's make an impact together.
SIGNATURE PROGRAMS
We train thousands of students around the world and reach millions of listeners each year. Students can learn through our online course material, virtual classrooms
or in person training. We can assemble teams and manage government grants and sub awards for up to $1 million.
VIDEO
RADIO
MUSIC
REHAB
.D I G I T A L
R E H A B
CENTER
Media literacy
Podcast-to-Radio
Improvisation
Analog leadership
.OMA: HOW DO WE DO IT?
Video literacy means being able to film and edit a professional looking video with a beginning, middle and end, and being able to speak about videos in a professional way. In our workshops we equip the next generation of leaders and storytellers to become "One Minute Ambassadors" who build a better world by promoting video literacy in their schools and communities.
PODCAST:
LIMITLESS AFRICA
From entrepreneurship to women’s empowerment, from building peaceful societies to the rising popularity of the Basketball Africa League, Claude Grunitzky’s Limitless Africa podcast addresses issues that matter to Africa’s young people. The OMA team helps administer the Limitless Africa grant and radio partnerships for 25 million people on the African continent and in the African diaspora.
WHAT MAKES IDEAS MOVE?
.SEENFIRE founder Christoph A. Geiseler worked closely with USC Annenberg Professor and Public Diplomacy expert Nicolas Cull, PhD to design a curriculum to help diplomats understand the power of short videos. Cull speaks about the way that stories can impact public opinion. How do we work with credible messengers?
CASE STUDY:
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
.SEENFIRE worked with the National Geographic Society to assemble a team of scriptwriters, actors and explorers to film and edit 120 one minute videos about photography, public speaking, social media and writing for impact. Our goal is to help scientists make better videos about their work in the field, and our collaboration won several awards for online educational video.
PODCAST:
CHASING THE LIGHT
8 months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a .SEENFIRE storytelling workshop takes place in partnership with America House in Kyiv. Joined by guests Professor Nick Cull, from the USC Center of Public Diplomacy, and Ed Bice, CEO of Meedan, follow along and meet the students as they learn the skills they need to capture their experiences in a one minute documentary-style format.
BROADCAST:
BUILD A BETTER WORLD
.SEENFIRE trained 1000 storytellers in Iraq through its One Minute Academy to film and edit professional one minute videos. The program culminated with a One Minute Contest whereby the participants made videos to celebrate women’s entrepreneurship in Iraq. We broadcast the 10 best student videos on the US Embassy Iraq’s Facebook page.
BUILD A BETTER WORLD
12 years, 60 countries, hundreds of workshops
STATS AND FIGURES
Our goal is to provide the best video training on the planet,
for $1 per person, anywhere.
NEWS:
FILMING THE COUP
One Minute Academy and IWPR's "story-telling project originally intended to train ordinary people to produce short films is now also generating powerful videos to alert the outside world and their fellow citizens to the country’s plight. It has provided a rare means of communication and genuine documentation amid the political and disinformation crisis."
BROADCAST:
STOP THE SPREAD
.SEENFIRE trained 1000 storytellers in Pakistan to film and edit professional one minute videos through its One Minute Academy. The program culminated with a One Minute Contest whereby the participants made videos stop the spread of Covid Disinformation. We broadcast the 10 best student videos on the US Embassy Pakistan Facebook page.
CASE STUDY:
CLARITY MEDIA GROUP
The Clarity Media Group is a team of award-winning journalists who have dedicated their careers to the art of communication. The OMA team produced one minute promotional videos, a branding package and an online learning strategy to help the company boost sales and reach a global audience.
AWARDS
Horizon Interactive Gold Award (2019)
Communicator Award of Excellence for Training (2020)
Communicator Distinction Award for Educational Video (2020)
for one minute instructional videos about photography
written, directed, filmed and edited by OMA
for the National Geographic Society Sciencetelling™ Bootcamp.
“Hands down, this training was one of the most relevant and effective uses of my professional development time, to date, at Adobe."
Jim Babbage
Senior Solutions Consultant, Adobe Systems Incorporated