Established in 1989 by director and producer Andrea Kalin, the company specializes in creating socially conscious media used to raise public awareness in America and throughout the world.
Partners of the Heart went on to win the Erik Barnouw Award for Best History Documentary in 2004[15] and was later turned into the Golden Globe-nominated[16] HBO film Something The Lord Made starring Mos Def, who also narrated Prince Among Slaves.
On January 6, 2021, Shaner’s empathy is challenged when a violent mob supporting outgoing President Donald Trump storms the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.
[38][39] Spark Media is also in post-production on Klandestine Man, about Stetson Kennedy, the folklorist and social justice activist who famously infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1950s with the goal of dismantling the violent white supremacist group from the inside out.
[43] In December 2020, Spark Media in collaboration with UXR Tech completed production on El 48,[44] a virtual reality experience based on the abolition of the Costa Rican army.