Elsewhere is a cinematic documentary series — a family traveling across twenty-six places, asking how history, art, people, tragedy, and triumph shape a place, and why anyone leaves the life they know to find something elsewhere. The first episode, on China, was shot in May and is being cut now. Vietnam is next.
It begins with alignment. You have objectives of your own. Some we can serve, and some we can't — and Elsewhere has a vision that will not be right for everyone. So a partnership starts with a discovery conversation, where together we find out whether the fit is real: we learn what your organization needs, you learn how we work, and each of us decides, without pressure, whether there is genuine alignment.
Then it is shaped around you. From that conversation, a partnership is built to serve your aims — drawing on the association, access, film assets, and cultural collaboration the work produces. What we are looking for is not an advertiser, but a partner: someone who understands that work like this earns an audience slowly, by quality, and lasts far longer than anything bought.
Field production across the remaining places. Local research, access, and production support. Cinematography and sound. Post-production, music, and editorial development. And the readiness to carry the work to audiences through streaming, broadcast and public television, and the web.
The Circle is where you can learn more about partnering with Elsewhere. To request access, click below and tell us briefly who you are and what you're hoping to achieve.