Unscripted Archives - Stonecastle Pictures

Making history

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

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.

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

It’s Hannah’s hospital

Most children are afraid of going to the hospital. Hannah pretends to be sick so her parents will take her there. We created this documentary-style commercial as part of a brand campaign for Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. See also: What makes it personal

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

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…

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

She’s more than a patient

A physician puts her humanity on full display as she explains the rare medical condition facing one of her patients. We filmed this documentary-style commercial as part of a brand campaign for Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. See also: It’s Hannah’s hospital

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.

30 years

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

Sneaker therapy

After a devastating divorce, Lucy Moss finds healing in an unexpected place.

The heart of a transplant cardiologist

A transplant cardiologist explains what drives her to find novel ways of expanding the donor pool. This documentary-style commercial was filmed as part of a brand campaign for Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. See also: She’s more than a patient

Who is my neighbor?

A retired couple reflects on their decision to adopt the skeptical inhabitants of a troubled Nashville neighborhood and what it has given them in return.

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…

Careful what you ask for

They wanted more kids. Well, they got them. This commercial was part of a nonfiction broadcast TV campaign called “Nothing Shall Be Impossible,” filmed in partnership with Bohan Advertising for Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville. See also: Thank you

The chaplains

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

No Matter Where (Hurricane Katrina)

In this scene from our feature documentary “No Matter Where,” we explore the public health disaster that followed the destruction of paper medical records during Hurricane Katrina. Health officials share their conviction that this massive loss of personal health information — which led to the deaths of hundreds of the city’s most vulnerable — could…

Broken Records

Comedians around the country gather in Nashville, Tennessee, to break the Guinness World Record for longest non-stop comedy show, an astounding and absurd ten-day feat that takes them to the limits of exhaustion.

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.

Thank You

NFL quarterback Marcus Mariota shares his own story for a documentary-style campaign we filmed in partnership with Bohan Advertising for Saint Thomas Health in Nashville. Also in this campaign: Careful what you ask for

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

No Matter Where (A story about your medical records)

In this scene from our feature documentary “No Matter Where,” we illustrate the anxiety patients feel when their physicians can’t access all their medical information. Many patients assume their records, since they’re electronic, are accessible to any physician. They’re not. The documentary, which was an official selection at the Nashville Film Festival, examined why the…

Growing pains

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…

What makes it personal

This is the anthem for a nonfiction brand campaign we created for Vanderbilt Medical Center. See also: It’s Hannah’s hospital

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.

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 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…