1440
Studios
Every Minute Has a Story.
1440 Studios creates animated features, documentaries, and impact films designed to move people, expand imagination, and inspire action.
There are 1,440 minutes
in every day.
We believe each one can hold a story, a choice, a memory, a risk, a laugh, a loss, a breakthrough, or a beginning.
1440 Studios exists to capture those moments and turn them into films, animated worlds, music, and media that remind people to live fully. Every project begins with a minute — a real one, felt by someone — and grows into something that moves an audience.
Snow
Birds
A cinematic adventure about belonging, courage, change, and the strange beauty of finding your flock.
A Civilization
Above the Ice
Set in a vast Arctic bird civilization, Snow Birds follows a young awkward bird coming of age just as the flock faces a changing world beyond the cliffs. The film covers family, identity, migration, and what it takes to become who you are. Part comedy, part adventure, entirely its own thing.
A Modern
Creative
Studio
1440 Studios is a modern creative studio blending human storytelling with emerging production tools. We develop stories from lived experience and bring them to life through a full spectrum of production disciplines.
Our production process draws from a modern creative stack, including cinematic video generation, voice performance, music composition, animation workflows, editing platforms, and traditional story development.
The Slate
Snow Birds
A young bird's coming-of-age in a vast Arctic civilization facing a changing world.
Here's the Deal
The Art of Selling Policy. A forensic investigation into money, lobbying, and power in California politics.
Public Interest Films
Films built for communities. To help people see themselves and understand what's happening around them.
Short Films
Concentrated cinematic stories that prove a single minute can hold an entire world.
Music & Visual Stories
Music-driven visual stories where the song and the film are the same thing.
Future Animated Features
A growing slate of original animated worlds, each built around a story worth telling.
Here's
the Deal
The Art of Selling Policy
"They didn't forget about you. They just decided you weren't worth the investment."
California is the fourth-largest economy in the world. It has the highest gas prices, the highest income taxes, and a housing crisis that has displaced millions. This film asks: why?
Here's the Deal follows the money. From the marble hallways of the Sacramento Capitol to the anonymous LLCs funding ballot initiatives, from the oil industry's lobbying apparatus to the think tanks that manufacture consensus. Told through investigative journalism and the voices of ordinary Californians paying the price.
See Full Film Treatment →The New
Studio System
1440 Studios uses emerging creative tools to accelerate production while keeping story, emotion, and human direction at the center. Technology is a collaborator. It is not the author.
Story & Script Development
Every project begins with lived experience. We develop stories through research, collaboration, and deep creative iteration before a single frame is produced.
AI-Assisted Previsualization
We use emerging tools to visualize worlds, test sequences, and explore visual language before committing to full production. It speeds up decisions without cutting corners.
Animation & Cinematic Video
From hand-drawn animation to AI-generated cinematics, the image serves the story. Not the other way around.
Voice & Performance
Character voice, narration, and performance are directed with the same care as live-action casting. The voice carries the story.
Music & Sound
Original scores and sound design are built for each project specifically. Nothing is borrowed from a library.
Editing & Postproduction
The edit is where the story is truly made. Our post process is rigorous, iterative, and always in service of the audience's experience.
Distribution & Campaign Strategy
We think about audiences from day one. Distribution and impact strategies are built alongside the creative work, not added at the end.
"We are not creating content for the sake of content. We are building stories that help people feel something, remember something, and do something."
Our work begins with lived experience and ends with movement. Every project is accountable to the audience it serves. Not to an algorithm, a trend, or a platform's recommendation engine.
Built by
Storytellers
1440 Studios is built by storytellers, filmmakers, artists, organizers, technologists, musicians, producers, and builders who believe media should help people live with more imagination, courage, and purpose.
We are a creative collective. Distributed, collaborative, and serious about the work. Not built around a single voice, but many, each one in service of the same story.
Bring Us
the Story.
We collaborate with filmmakers, communities, artists, funders, educators, public agencies, and mission-aligned partners to develop stories that deserve to be seen.
Follow the story as it unfolds.