Art for Social Change
Documentary • Television • Film • Podcasts
At Maitri River Productions, we produce art that illuminates, educates, models and influences positive social change.
How Do You See The World?
Why is it so difficult for some people to give so little and so easy for others to give so much? Abundant explores these questions by entering the world of extreme altruism: non-directed kidney donation. These rare individuals give kidneys away to complete strangers.
Through personal stories and interviews with nationally acclaimed experts, Abundant explores how our culture struggles with abundance and what we can do to become more altruistic as a community.
This insightful, inspiring documentary features live performance content from CrowdSource for Life and it’s cast of living kidney donors. Commentary from a wide variety of experts in abundance and high-profile activists from the kidney transplant/donation community expounds on how acts of altruism and abundance changes lives.
And, there’s a surprise as the film follows the unbelievable events that occurred as this cast of extreme altruists learned the art of storytelling to create an emotional and inspirational storytelling show.
Coming to Film Festivals and Theaters in 2025.
A Travel Television Series about History, Music and Social Progress
Hosted by musicologists and cultural commentators, Through the Music travels to American cities and towns in search of progress and the music that pushes progress forward. Featuring casual interviews with local experts, authorities and activists, each episode of Through the Music explores the history and the forward trajectory of an American community. The show pairs that conversation with expertly curated live music performances from an emerging artist playing one of the community’s historic music venues. We’ll dig deeply into American culture through the music found in these places.
In Development
A Podcast About Cognitive Biases
Scratch the surface on those opinions and up comes a series of compounded limiting factors that comprise what we all can disagree is “our culture.” Nude/Naked opens that door, and looks into popular misconceptions about free thinking, reality, right, wrong and the future of humanity.