California Story Company tells true stories across a variety of platforms in partnership with interesting clients and other top craft practitioners around the world. We are a small-agency collaborative of honored journalists and storytellers who believe deeply in the power of honest, well-calibrated media to create empathy, effect positive change and advance enterprises that seek to create a better world as they grow. The California in our name reflects where we are in the world, but also our worldview: inclusive, accessible, multicultural, beautiful.

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We eschew artifice and transcend the predictable, relying on time-honored journalistic methods and values to help clients find multidimensional, engaging characters in often unexpected places. Our research-first approach strives to be representationally honest and ethically rigorous — true to our subjects, clients and audiences alike. We work efficently and in ways that yield maximum comfort for our subjects and profound, engaging moments on screen.

With roots in journalism, we welcome tackling new subjects and ideas. We also have deep experience creating award-winning work within the fintech/global macroeconomics, medical science and STEM-related spaces, along with higher education.

Our full-service work often takes the shape of award-winning video portraiture or multi-part web series that celebrate exceptional people, contemporary themes and binding human truths. Clients often use our work to drive large capital campaigns, take center stage at events, gain new business, help honor an exceptional individual, mark a milestone, humanize brand identity, or underwrite journalistic exploration of an issue important to them. We also provide preproduction research, story guidance and interview assistance.

What story are you looking to find? For now, we’re glad you found us. Feel free to say hello.

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