Archipelago Films Information

Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated directors Susan Todd and Andrew Young have been making cutting-edge, character-based films for the past three decades. They founded Archipelago Films in 1991 and their mission remains to inform, inspire, and ignite through high-quality, visual storytelling. With a well-established track record of producing, directing, editing, and filming dozens of documentary and fiction films, television, wildlife and natural history, museum installations, corporate, and commercial projects, Archipelago Films is now expanding its scope to include the Giant Screen format. Backyard Wilderness, their first Giant Screen film, is currently in production and is being produced under their 501(c) 3 organization, Arise Media, which was created to produce quality, thought-provoking media about some of the most pressing social and environmental issues of our time. Pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology, Backyard Wilderness combines cutting-edge natural history techniques to tell the story of the plants and animals that live around a typical suburban home, with a dramatic story about a human family that has everything it needs except a sense of connection to the world around it. Archipelago Films brings it all: extreme professionalism; an uber high level of creativity, technical chops, and insatiable curiosity; the ability to find compelling subject matter; and tell engaging, impactful stories. Whether directing a 24-person crew on a fiction shoot, or brainstorming with corporate clients about their media needs, they bring razor sharp editorial judgement, award-winning production values, and the ability to translate big picture concepts into compelling visual stories with universal appeal.