Productions
Sesame Workshop
The Power of Play is a series of four caregiver films that inspire and encourage caregivers to play with their children to promote joy and brain development. Each episode consists of Muppet segments, where Elmo and Louie play a game and model the child-caregiver dynamic. The Muppet content is then paired with a live action montage of real kids and caregivers around the world engaging in the same game! The series features families in South Africa, Bangladesh, Jordan and Colombia. The games include Market Day (pretend play), Create a Kite (constructive play), Obstacle Course (physical play) and Follow the Leader (game with rules). This series is currently in post-production. It will be dubbed and shared globally in Fall 2023.
Sesame Workshop
Watch, Play, Learn is a set of 140 five-minute animated episodes designed for global distribution for children ages 3-8. Funded by a $100 million grant from the LEGO Foundation, Watch, Play, Learn explores 38 different topics pertaining to social-emotional learning, math, health & safety and science. The series features classic Sesame Street characters, like Elmo, Cookie Monster, Zoe and Grover, as well as new characters like Ameera, and international characters such as Basma, Jad and Ma'zooza. Research has found that learning through play offers a positive outlet for anxiety, reduces stress, and promotes resilience, enabling children (especially those in crisis settings) to overcome adversity and build the foundational skills to succeed in life. Watch, Play, Learn has been dubbed into 25 languages and counting and has already reached 35 million children around the world.
Sesame Workshop
Playtime with Noor & Aziz is a series of 140 episodes consisting of 36 repeated Muppet segments starring Rohingya twin Muppets, Noor and Aziz, and 140 original Watch, Play, Learn animations dubbed into Rohingya. These segments come together to create 140 10-minute episodes where Noor & Aziz explore topics relating to social-emotional learning, math, health & safety and science. This series is distributed via direct services in Humanitarian Play Labs in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. It is also available on YouTube for diaspora communities. Rohingya is a verbal language only - there is no written element. Playtime with Noor & Aziz not only provides early learning education to refugee children whose education was interrupted by conflict in Myanmar, but it preserves the Rohingya language through spoken word. Playtime with Noor & Aziz won the 2023 Anthem Award for Special Projects.
Sesame Workshop
Identity Stories highlights Ukrainian culture and heritage through food, music, dance, clothing and writing. Produced in collaboration with ESSE House in Ukraine, this set of unscripted, live-action films has received global recognition and a 9 minute highlight on PBS. Along with dubbing all 140 Watch, Play, Learn episodes into Ukrainian, this new set of content provides a sense of belonging to Ukrainian children whose early childhood learning routine has been disrupted by the Russian invasion.
Blue Sky Studios / The Walt Disney Company
Spies in Disguise is a family-friendly 3D animated feature film created by Blue Sky Studios. When the world's best spy, Lance Sterling (Will Smith), gets turned into a pigeon, he relies on the help of his nerdy tech officer, Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) to save the world. Directed by Nick Bruno & Troy Quane.
Blue Sky Studios / The Walt Disney Company
Based on the 2015 graphic novel by ND Stevenson, Nimona is an animated feature film directed by Nick Bruno & Troy Quane. When the great knight Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed) is framed for a crime he didn't commit, he find himself proving his innocence with the help of a shapeshifter named Nimona (Chloë Grace Moretz), who volunteers to be Boldheart's sidekick. Nimona has received critical acclaim for it's bold animation style and commitment to celebrating LGBTQA+ narratives in the family media sector.
TBS
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is a late night talk show and news satire show, hosted by former The Daily Show correspondent, Samantha Bee. It won an Emmy Award in 2017 for Outstanding Writing of a Variety Special, and numerous nominations.