How do you make people fall in love with a place they've never been?
Panamarama
nature.science.culture
Change
how you
see the world.
We turn complex ideas into meaningful,
memorable, thought-provoking films,
immersives and interactive experiences
for museums, broadcast and the web.
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Our belief
We believe stories are one of the most powerful ways we have to change how people see the world.
The best stories don't simply inform. They spark curiosity. They invite us to look closer, ask questions, and discover connections we hadn't seen before.
When people discover something for themselves, they begin to care. And when they care, they're far more likely to protect the people, places, and ideas that matter.
That's the work we aspire to.
A creative principle
The experience is in service of the story.
Never the other way around.
Technology, media, immersion and interaction are tools. We choose the form that allows the story to be felt most deeply—not the form that happens to be the newest.
Selected work
Stories we've
had the privilege
to tell.
We begin with the question behind the story—and find the form that serves it best.
Films, interactives and immersive experiences for people curious about the world.
How do you help people see themselves in the story of a changing planet?
EXTINCTION
How do you turn a complicated idea into something a child can't stop looking at?
ORIGIN OF LIFE
How do you tell the story of something everyone thinks they already know?
Entertainment Nation
How do you inspire people to protect the planet?
Age Of Humans
How do you make people care about the forests that surround us?
America's Forests with Chuck Leavell
How do different cultures interpret the stars?
LIGHTS OUT
How do you tell a people's history through the relationship they have with the natural world?
People of the Seal
How do you make a remote place feel close enough to care about?
Expedition: Greenland Glacier
How do you bring the scale and mystery of the ocean into a museum?
Sant Ocean Hall
How do you reveal the hidden connections of an everyday object?
Cellphone: Unseen Connections
How do you tell the story of movement that has shaped all of us?
Global Migration
ABOUT US
42°N Media was founded in 2000 by Kate Raisz. Kate is an award-winning media producer, director, and writer with more than thirty years of experience making films,websites, interactives, and immersive experiences. Kate works closely with museum designers, curators, educators and more to think through the most powerful way to use media. She collaborates with talented cinematographers, editors, motion designers, composers and software developers from across the country. Kate has filmed on every continent but Antarctica and in locations from jungle to skyscraper.
Current ResumeEvery important project begins with a question.
What's
the story
you want told?
Tell us what you're trying to say, what you're trying to change, or what you wish people understood. We'll start there.
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