Our Studio
Though we're lucky our work takes us all around the world, our studio is headquartered in South Bend, Indiana on the second floor of a hundred-year-old Art Deco building we call THE ART HOUSE.
upcoming films and Series...
"There is a little man in Peru, a man without any power, who lives with the poor and who wrote a book. Ten years later, the movement it started is considered a danger by the greatest power on earth.” - Henri Nouwen
"There is a little man in Peru, a man without any power, who lives with the poor and who wrote a book. Ten years later, the movement it started is considered a danger by the greatest power on earth.” - Henri Nouwen
Lima, Peru
"People with intellectual disabilities live in the shadows of a persistent view–present in all cultures–that they are the undesirables. This is one of our world’s significant injustices. It is one we can change."
195 Countries
Gustavo
Feature DOC
Exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of one of South America's most revered spiritual masters, Gustavo Gutiérrez.
Life Immeasurable
Docu-series
Our flagship series with an ambitious, 50-year goal: one filmic portrait of a person with an intellectual disability in every country in the world. This new cartography of humanity began with the 2015 L'Arche docu-series As I Am and has now expanded.
Interviews can be as short as 30 minutes or as long as 10 hours. We just want to preserve as many stories as possible so they can reach your future generations.
By Request
Last words
Non-Public Series
There's a proverb: "When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground." Last Words seeks to honor and preserve the stories of our loved ones before it's too late. Each episode is dedicated to the family and not meant for public consumption.
BIO
Founder | CEO
Michael Joseph McDonald is a writer, filmmaker, and disability activist. Before filmmaking, he worked as a ghostwriter in Kenya, publishing four nonfiction books on issues of social justice. He’s best known for the animated film Freebird which qualified for the 94th Academy Awards and his documentary 6,000 Waiting which was screened in the White House and helped lead to the creation of Georgia Senate Bill 208. From 2015-2018, he traveled the world, co-directing films with people with intellectual disabilities on six continents and co-developing a more inclusive method of filmmaking called "adaptive filmmaking."
