Brand films Archives - Stonecastle Pictures

Making history

Leaders at Vanderbilt reflect on the one-hundred year anniversary of the Department of Medicine.

Patients, physicians, and volunteers at Siloam Health sit down to reflect on the nonprofit clinic’s impact in the lives of its neighbors since its founding thirty years ago. See also: Same storm, different boat

A girl named Hallelujah

Hallelujah Joy takes a friend back to her hometown of Shelbyville, Tennessee, the source of childhood trauma and insecurities that derailed her life until she discovered a nonprofit called UpRise Nashville. See also: Second chances

Same storm, different boat

The story of how a nonprofit clinic specializing in healthcare for Nashville’s immigrant population navigated the complexities of delivering care during the early days of the pandemic. See also: 30 years

A new life for broken hearts

The opioid crisis, for all the lives it’s taken, has increased the supply of organ donors. However, many of those organs are infected with hepatitis C, and transplant centers often discard them for fear of infecting the recipients. In this short brand film, Dr. Kelly Schlendorf explains how Vanderbilt Medical Center has found a way…

The chaplains

Chaplains at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville reflect on their jobs and the growing role they play in the service of healthcare.

The tour guide

Every school offers a tour. But not like the one at Meharry Medical College. Henry Atwater has a story to tell, and he’s going to make sure you feel it.

Graduation day

Dominique Burns is about to graduate from a program called UpRise Nashville. When she began the program, she was homeless. Now, thanks to the staff at UpRise, she has a full-time job with benefits. We follow her as she prepares for an emotional graduation day. See also: A girl named Hallelujah

This church has wheels

Metro World Child is a non-profit Christian ministry in NYC that rolls out a mobile Sunday School each week for children throughout the city. The operation reaches thousands of kids who are unable to attend church. It’s known around the city simply as Sidewalk Sunday School.

The national treasure in their backyard

A 100-year old schoolhouse sitting abandoned along a rural stretch in Williamson County, Tennessee, holds an important place in history that preservationists have just discovered. Now there’s a race to save it before it’s too late. See also: A preservationist’s dream

Fist Bump

In this product video for publisher David C Cook, we tell the story of how little gestures can change lives.

The price of growth: a cautionary tale

Over the past decade, Nashville has grown so fast that locals joke the unofficial city bird is the crane. But in the race to erect a skyline crowded with gleaming new towers, developers have demolished an alarming number of historic buildings in the process. More and more Nashvillians wonder if all this unrestrained progress has…

Second chances

Rachel King returns to the homeless camp where she hit rock bottom. Inviting us to come with her, she reflects on her painful past and the organization that changed her life.

The Jewel of Main Street

There’s a beloved old theater in Franklin, Tennessee, that has outlasted developers, depressions, natural disasters, and most recently, a pandemic. So as the tenth anniversary of The Franklin Theatre’s restoration approached – just as the world was beginning to re-open after COVID – the event came to symbolize much more. For organizers, it became a…

The heroes behind the heroes

An employee celebration anthem that sent us into the furthest reaches of Vanderbilt Medical Center, down into the corridors patients never see, to illustrate the magnitude of its daily operations.

A preservationist’s dream

Preservationists look back fifty years at the founding of the Heritage Foundation in Franklin, Tennessee, and how it helped transform the town into what is now one of the most famous small towns in America. We created this short documentary film to commemorate the organization’s fiftieth anniversary. See also: The national treasure in their…

Bringing hospital-level care home

Healthcare companies often have a hard time shedding the insider jargon and explaining clearly to the rest of us what exactly they do. Terms like payment model and progressive provider can be the death of marketing videos meant to engage audiences. That was the problem facing the team at Contessa, who came to Stonecastle for…

What it takes to be a world-class nursing school

Vanderbilt’s School of Nursing had a lot to brag about, but struggled to communicate it to prospective students. We created this recruitment that said it all in 90 seconds.

The future physician

Vanderbilt’s School of Medicine was about to fundamentally change how it educated its students. Some were worried; many were confused. This new approach was called Curriculum 2.0, and it signaled a massive shift in how Vanderbilt would structure its training for the next generation of medical students. A decision like this needed some explanation.

The heart of Mercy

Mercy Multiplied is a counseling and outreach program based in Nashville for young women who struggle with anxiety, depression, and a host of addictions. Before they leave the program, graduates stand before an audience of friends and family to share their story. This is Nicky’s.

Red Kap ZeroScratch

There are customers, and then there are the life-long devotees who swear their allegiance to a single brand. Jacob Miles is one of those people. He owns a paint and body shop outside of Nashville, Tennessee, and has very strong feelings about the brand of uniform he wears to work each day. Perfect guy for…