Facts inform. Stories inspire.
Our Mission:
Translate facts into stories that compel audiences to know, care, and act.
Anthem Multimedia is a Boston-based production firm with deep roots in journalism and creative storytelling. We work with mission-driven clients to create powerful, authentic messages across a range of media that speak with economy and motivate to action. Whether through video production, corporate advertising campaigns, public awareness campaigns or large-scale projection installations, we deliver through a customized, creative, and collaborative approach to each of our client's needs.
Short documentary coming 2024:
Bearing Witness:
A Name & A Voice
Featured Narrative Short:
The Storm & the Tree
Motion:
Compel. Connect. Challenge.
Leading viewers through a narrative is a craft. Evoking emotions and motivating action elevates storytelling to art. As filmmakers, we bring our skills to to both.
Moving. Documentary.
Transcend conventional business marketing communications to elicit and illuminate customer, patient, and employee needs, and elevate them to international attention.
Responsible. Action.
Tell award-winning social and environmental stories that connect with compassion, warmth and humor to compel audiences to take positive action.
Scientific. Discovery.
We fearlessly go wherever the story takes us, whether that is a deep dive into the human genome, an interview on the edge of a cliff, or an eagle’s eye view of Boston.
Stories. Spanning stories.
The alchemy of images, motion, graphics, technology, math and light melded in a well-orchestrated program, informed by the context of the public sphere, imbued with meaning and significance through place, time, scale and civic significance: this is projection art.
And we do it.
Featured Projection:
The Earthshot Prize Campaign - Boston 2022
Location: Boston
Client: The Earthshot Prize
Meet Our Projectionist
Erik Jacobs conceptualizes and designs our projection projects, tailoring each approach to the goals, challenges and opportunities presented by the subject matter and venue.
Vanish
This is an Anthem Multimedia initiative in development with with National Geographic and other partners.
Photography:
Still. Storytelling.
The right image speaks volumes. With our deep roots in photojournalism and editorial photography, we deliver images that stop the eye and start the conversation. Scroll through, or jump to some of our portfolios to get a sense of what is possible.
Services Overview:
Award-winning team. At your service.
Motion
We are a full-service video production agency. We love jumping in early to help our clients shape a vision from their messaging goals, and then executing on that vision in delightful ways. Our footprint can be tiny or large, as suits the project, and we bring our extensive motion graphics expertise to bear on projects that benefit from another dimension.
Full Service Production
Scriptwriting. Production planning. HD-6K cinematography, lighting, editing, and color grading. Sound. Motion graphics. Drone & still photography. Projection art. If your story needs it, we can even do green goo.
Projection Art
Sometimes a screen, no matter how big, is too small. In those instances, we turn to technology that casts words and images across cityscapes and landscapes. The sheer size and public nature of projection art draws attention that no screen can match, and that attention creates conversations. Each projection project is unique and works with the specifics of the projection surface and location. We design the campaigns from concept through technical execution.
Interviews & Directing
Our Emmy-award winning team combines a journalistic ethos with the know-how to draw out genuine responses.
Photography
Still images tell complex stories and convey impact - instantly. This ability is unique to photography, and it’s this power that drew us to visual storytelling in the beginning. Two of our founders are long-time photojournalists, which gives us the ability to offer top-notch in-house photography services.
Augment Your Team
We work well together with others! Consider adding us to your team whether you are short on crew, or need an entire unit.
Our Team:
Dina Rudick
Creative Director / Owner / Lead Editor
Dina Rudick is a documentary filmmaker with deep roots in journalism and a passion for telling critical and complex stories.
Dina has won 4 Emmy Awards for her video and documentary work, as well as dozens of national photography awards during her decades-long career as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. She is the owner and director of Anthem Multimedia, a video production company in Boston that specializes in short-form cinematic documentary work.
During her 16 years as a staff photojournalist at The Boston Globe newspaper, Dina has done extensive documentary work around the globe, including in Kenya, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bolivia, and Haiti, and the Americas. View Dina’s photography portfolio here.
She was instrumental in starting The Boston Globe’s video department in 2008, and led the Globe to its first Emmy win in 2009. Dina went on to win 3 more New England Emmy Awards including ‘Outstanding Documentary’ for her first documentary “Practice: Change - The Africa Yoga Project Story” in 2012.
Dina taught photography and video for years at Boston University College of Communication and Harvard University Extension, and has lectured widely at institutions in the United States.
With a background in science and decades in journalism, Dina gravitated to telling complex medical and scientific stories, with special focus on rare diseases. Her films have been screened and won awards at dozens of film festivals around the world, and her series about cystic fibrosis was the centerpiece of a months-long international advocacy and education campaign.
Dina’s technical and interpersonal skills, her ability to manage complex projects and multi-disciplinary teams, and her deep conviction to tell the hard stories combine to create a powerful leader committed to creating positive change.
Dylan Trivette
Director of Photography
As a Cinematographer, Dylan has garnered accolades for filming a wide range of projects that span issues such as Palliative Care in Zambia, Yoga in the slums of Kenya, and ultra-marathon running in the canyons of Mexico. When not traveling on assignment for documentary and corporate projects, Dylan films EPK (electronic press kits) and behind-the-scenes featurettes for Hollywood film studios.
In addition for his love for film and video, Dylan also has a passion for photography, music, and the natural world. Dylan graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts with a degree in Filmmaking and a Concentration in Producing.
Erik Jacobs
Photographer / Principal
Erik Jacobs is an award‐winning photographer who works regularly for many of the leading national and international publications. Erik’s clients span all industries from journalistic outlets to international corporations. He has extensive experience in portraiture, food, editorial work and corporate photography. His passion, however, is long-term documentary projects. His editorial work can be seen at www.jacobsphotographic.us
A sampling of Erik's photography clients includes: Intel, General Motors, Putnam Investments, The International Economic Alliance, Outward Bound, Time Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and The Boston Globe. He has won numerous awards and is an adjunct faculty member at Boston University's Center for Digital Imaging Arts.
Erik Jacobs studied Photojournalism at Western Kentucky’s School of Journalism & Broadcasting.
Erik is also very passionate about sustainable agriculture. When not shooting photos, Erik runs a neighborhood CSA called the Plough & Stars Project.
Adam Johnson
Sound Engineer
Adam Johnson is a Grammy nominated audio engineer and producer. His music credits include work with some of the biggest artists and companies around the world including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, Yo-Yo Ma, Bela Fleck, James Taylor, Edgar Meyer, Alison Kraus, Harry Connick Jr., Audra McDonald, The Emerson String Quartet, Itzhak Perlman, Andre Previn, and Maya Angelou to name a few. He also worked on the Grammy award-winning album “Legacy” with David Holt and Doc Watson.
Expanding on his music background and education, Adam also works as a production sound mixer and post-sound engineer for commercials, TV productions, documentaries and feature-length films.
Adam holds degrees in music production as well as computer science. He is also a member of the Audio Engineering Society, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.
He currently is the head-engineer and co-owner of Sound Lab Studios based out of Asheville, North Carolina.
What’s your story?
The best way to learn about how we might work together is for us to talk ideas. Drop us a note at erik@anthemmultimedia.com, or call our office: 617-991-9090