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Purple States
people powered professionally produced media

Productions

Take America To College

  • Stars five 'nontraditional' students, all struggling to complete college
  • Selected from 200 responses to an online casting call
  • Combines self-filmed backstories with professional footage from Washington, where the students gather to tell policymakers what it really takes to finish college in America.
Watch more on USAToday.com →

World Without Walls

  • Candid footage from a regular person in every UN member nation
  • On the aspects of life addressed by the UN Millennium Development Goals.
  • Cameras and questions move from one acquaintance to another across the globe
  • Partners include the UN Millennium Campaign and BBC World News

50 / 50 / 50

  • Fifty bloggers from across the political and economic spectrum
  • A cross-country story about how the economic crisis was affecting ordinary people
  • Shown as individual segments and composites
Watch more on PurpleStates.com →

2008 Elections

  • Five very different citizens bring their personal experiences to their front-line coverage of the campaign
  • America in microcosm — on a journey to figure out what they think about the issues and the candidates.
Watch primary season NYTimes.com → Watch election season on WashingtonPost.com →

Future Projects

Projects in development include:

  • 2010 midterm elections
  • A sequel to Take America to College
  • On the ground: disaster relief
  • Drama: trying to forge a band from different genres rooted in different communities

Media Partners

USA Today New York Times
Washington Post