Archipelago Films

Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated directors Susan Todd and Andrew Young have been making cutting-edge, character-based films for the past three decades. They founded Archipelago Films in 1991 and their mission remains to inform, inspire, and ignite through high-quality, visual storytelling. With a well-established track record of producing, directing, editing, and filming dozens of documentary and fiction films, television, wildlife and natural history, museum installations, corporate, and commercial projects, Archipelago Films is now expanding its scope to include the Giant Screen format. Backyard Wilderness, their first Giant Screen film, is currently in production and is being produced under their 501(c) 3 organization, Arise Media, which was created to produce quality, thought-provoking media about some of the most pressing social and environmental issues of our time. Pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology, Backyard Wilderness combines cutting-edge natural history techniques to