ABOUT BOSTON FILMWORKS

Heart, Soul, Relationships, Moments

We're passionate about the telling stories that move people. Whether you're a school, a college, a performing arts organization, a health care service, a city or town, our approach to telling your story is character-driven. We know how to build that emotional connection that brings new resources and people to your organization and to your cause. Working together, we construct a narrative through the candid and natural interactions between the people that make your organization special. Our interviews are relaxed and informal, putting both the subject and the viewer at ease.

We don't charge by the day. The 'clock' is never running at Boston Filmworks. Every project and every client is different. We work with you at the outset to agree on a set of deliverables, a budget that's fair and affordable, and then we work until everyone is 100% satisfied.

Our financial model is based on Newman's Own. 100% of the net profits from Boston Filmworks are directly invested in Boston Filmworks Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable organization (currently operating under the name Ripple of Hope Films, Inc. dba Boston Filmworks while we await a formal name change). Those proceeds go to defray the costs of making quality films to help promote underfunded community non-profits.

DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER STEVE LISS

For twenty-three years Steve Liss was a Time magazine contract photographer, where he photographed 43 Time covers on assignment, the second highest number in the history of the magazine. As a licensed pilot, he flew himself to and from assignments across the United States, to the arctic and across the outback of Australia.

In 2006, Liss received his first Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award, one of many career awards, for writing and photographing No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention (University of Texas Press). The Chicago Tribune called the book, “Journalism of the most moral and galvanizing kind.” 

Among his television directorial credits are Finding Fatherhood (PBS), a documentary short about estranged single fathers seeking reunification with their children; Sacred Cod (Discovery Channel), a documentary feature about the death of the centuries-old cod fish industry in the the Gulf of Maine; and 16 and Recovering, (MTV) a four-part docu-series depicting a year in the life of a public high school for students recovering from substance abuse disorder. Liss received his second RFK Human Rights Journalism Award for as director and showrunner for16 and Recovering.

A dedicated educator, Steve Liss Liss taught at the graduate school at the Medill College of Journalism at Northwestern University, followed by teaching positions at Columbia College Chicago and finally as an associate professor of media at Endicott College prior to founding Boston Filmworks.