C&I Reach — Non-Profit

Film is not content.
Film is change.

C&I Reach harnesses the power of film and media to amplify the organizations, movements, and issues shaping our world while building the next generation of storytellers from communities that have been shut out of the arts.

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Why Film

Social media is noise.
Film is signal.

We live in an era of infinite content and declining impact. Posts disappear. Feeds move on. But a powerful film stays with you. It pulls you into someone else’s life, makes you feel what they feel, and changes how you see the world.

Film has always been the medium that shifts culture, moves people to act, and creates change that lasts. That is why we chose it.

A great documentary, a powerful short, a well-told story on screen can do what a thousand posts cannot: change how someone sees the world and what they are willing to do about it. Film is not just the most powerful art form in the world. It is the most human one.

What We Do

Every production is
also a classroom.

C&I Reach partners with organizations fighting for real change and builds narrative films around their work. Not commercials. Not content. Films, with the full weight of cinematic storytelling behind them. Each project carries a social element and an accompanying documentary so that the cause lives beyond the screen.

And while we are on set making these films, we are building something else. Every production becomes a training ground, bringing youth and first-time crew members onto active sets for real, hands-on experience in an industry that has historically kept its doors closed. The film is the mission. The set is the classroom.

We work with the organizations on the front lines of the issues that matter most.

Flutemaker Ministries

Providing families and children in Nicaragua a life beyond necessity through humanitarian work that teaches craftsmanship, agriculture and life skills.

Jedidiah Learning Steps

Education through schooling provides the children of Zambia the freedom to dream big and the opportunity to write their own story.

Rice Bowls

Covering 100% of the food costs so caretakers at loving children's homes can focus on providing a supportive homebase built around encouragement and learning.

C&I Reach exists to shed light on these people, these issues, these organizations to help raise awareness, raise funds, and change the way people think.

Current Productions

Three films. Three causes.
In production now.

Feature Film · 2027

The American

After saving a woman in Nicaragua, a travel journalist discovers his true calling as a vigilante who fights international corruption and human trafficking while struggling to maintain his relationship with the woman he saved and reconcile with his emotionally distant father.

Written & Directed by Joshua Otis Miller
Starring Eric Aragon · Brigitte Kali Canales

In Production

Feature Film · 2027

CharliMay

Charli is a jaded, complacent and apathetic ex-photographer at the Los Angeles Herald when his entire world is disrupted when he meets May, who unknowingly breathes life back into him. A story about the power of photography and the arts as the only true voice capable of shaping culture.

Written & Directed by Joshua Otis Miller

In Pre Production

Documentary · 2027

Fund Black Tech

Music, fashion, sports, advertising have all evolved and flourished by embracing diversity. Except tech. This documentary puts that reality on screen and demands the industry reckon with it.

Directed by Joshua Otis Miller
Starring Tunde Ogunlana · Fritz Desir · Felicia Hatcher · Derick Pearson · John Amaechi · Brenda Freeman · Kevin L. Jackson · Lauren deLisa Coleman · Ben Jealous · Bridget Jones

In Post Production

Why Donate

One gift. Real careers built.
Real change on screen forever.

Most nonprofits ask you to fund a cause. When you donate to C&I Reach, you fund a cause and the film that will make the world care about it. Your contribution goes directly onto a set, into a camera, and onto a screen where it has the power to reach millions of people who would never have found that cause any other way.

Every dollar donated puts someone on a film set who has never been there before. A young person from a community where the arts were cut from the school budget. Someone who has the talent and the drive but never had the door opened for them. Your support opens that door and pays for the experience, mentorship, and real professional credit that launches careers in one of the most powerful industries in the world.

Legislation moves slowly. Social media moves fast but rarely moves people. Film moves culture. It always has.

When you donate to C&I Reach you are not just funding a production. You are funding the record. The story that will outlast the news cycle, that will be shown in classrooms and screened at festivals and passed from person to person long after the moment has passed.

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