Folktellers Studios Film Production

Crafting and Communicating Compelling Stories for Entertainment and Business

Folktellers Studios are experts in multimedia storytelling, helping entertainment franchises and corporate clients design, craft, and communicate compelling narratives and films. The Folktellers Studios process brings a holistic approach to creating engaging stories, taking into account all aspects of the narrative, including historical context, facts & figures, multimedia elements, and audience engagement.

  • Stories inspire, engage, and shape culture.
  • Folktellers Studios specializes in transmedia storytelling, creating narratives that resonate across multiple digital platforms.
  • Story Activate™: A holistic approach to crafting stories with historical context, facts, multimedia, and audience engagement.

Whether you are thinking about your external brand or internal culture, Folktellers Studios is fostering transformation change through storytelling. The following provides a brief outline of Folktellers Studio’s service offering surrounding their patented three-phase process of story activation.

What is Story Activate™

Story Activate™ is a propritary process developed by Folktellers Studios to help entertainment franchises and corporate clients develop and execute a purposeful storytelling strategy that can inspire audiences, increase engagement, and shape culture. By combining the worlds of entertainment, education, and technology, Story Activate™ crafts powerful stories that transform business or project.

  • A 3-phase methodology to develop and execute purposeful storytelling strategies.
  • Combines entertainment, education, and technology to transform businesses and projects.
  • Goal: Inspire audiences, increase engagement, and drive cultural change.

Phase 1: Story Board - Blueprint Your Narrative

What We Do:

  • Conduct targeted research and analysis.
  • Identify unique attributes of your brand, product, or project.
  • Capture your most important stories.

Outcome:

  • A strategic storyboard blueprint to optimize your brand and engage employees and customers.

Phase 2: Story Craft - Bring Your Story to Life

What We Do:

  • Craft dynamic, story-focused content using a proprietary model.
  • Explore compelling formats, interactive elements, and multimedia (e.g., books, scripts, videos, full films, streaming series, concerts).

Outcome:

  • A powerful, engaging narrative ready for dissemination.

Phase 3: Story Tell - Share Your Story Effectively

What We Do:

  • Define and use proven digital methods to disseminate your story.
  • Ensure content is properly curated and channelized for your audience.

Outcome:

  • An impactful digital marketing strategy that drives successful entertainment properties, events, and corporate organizational change.

Sample Film Projects

Hero's Journey The Series - Animated Series

Hero’s Journey: The Series delivers a vibrant animated anthology rooted in musical myth and legend. It illuminates real-life legends through bold and expressive visuals. This pivotal episode chronicles Gorgeous George, the magnetic Master of Ceremonies of the Chitlin’ Circuit. His unparalleled influence shaped rock and roll’s golden era during racial and segregated times.

George appears as much more than a host. He serves as mentor, stylist, guardian, and strategist. He promoted rising talents, crafted iconic stage personas, issued timely warnings against industry pitfalls, and fiercely protected his circle from exploitation, racial violence, and systemic dangers. The narrative animates his profound bonds with luminaries including Jimi Hendrix, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Otis Redding, Tina Turner, and countless others. It depicts intimate moments of camaraderie amid the Circuit’s electrifying yet perilous world of enforced segregation and Jim Crow era threats.

The first series uses dynamic 2D animation with era-evoking aesthetics. Vibrant neon hues, fluid choreography, and seamless blends of historical fidelity and mythic exaggeration capture the pulse of segregated venues, backstage confidences, and triumphant performances that defied oppression and redefined music history. In active production, this trailer exemplifies the series’ dedication to authentic heroism within the Folktellers Universe. It transforms documented alliances into an animated tribute to mentorship, resilience, and the unbreakable spirit of the Chitlin’ Circuit.

Excerpts from an Unknown Guidebook Series

Folktellers Studios is adapting the Excerpts from an Unknown Guidebook series into a film project set in the Folktellers Universe, where stories are the ultimate power source. These essential tales foster learning, growth, and destiny, inciting dark forces to suppress them. Folktellers, timeless guardians, share universal stories of adventure, courage, and love to repel shadows. The series follows novice Folkteller Aaron—a rare Seer who extracts and wields stories as spells—alongside Traveler Wendy, Guardian Jake, and protector Eddie Little Bear. They race across dimensions to save endangered narratives from ruthless Shadows, discovering the Master Guidebook of all origins. In a high-stakes quest involving puzzle maps and excerpts, they confront the Council and Shadow Realm: whoever holds the story wields the power.

Folktellers Universe - Nain Rouge Rising

Embark on a mythic odyssey through the shadowed streets of Detroit with Nain Rouge Rising, the flagship cinematic expansion of the Folktellers Universe. This gripping feature film reawakens the legendary Nain Rouge—the ominous red dwarf of Motor City folklore—as a harbinger of upheaval and redemption. Directed with visceral intensity, the production fuses supernatural thriller elements with authentic Midwest mythology, chronicling a modern hero’s confrontation with ancient curses threatening the city’s resurgence. Currently in principal photography, Nain Rouge Rising harnesses innovative practical effects, location-based storytelling, and a diverse ensemble to position Detroit as a vibrant epicenter of independent genre filmmaking.