SoapBox Productions and Organizing is a film and social activism nonprofit specializing in multimedia storytelling for structural social change. 

We pair art and media with grassroots organizing efforts by developing, documenting, and promoting racial, economic, and social justice initiatives with community collaborators. Our mission is to utilize media to power and sustain social movements for a more equitable and creative world.

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W H A T ' S     G O O D ?

​As technology and entertainment push the digital age forward, the need for inclusive communities of compassion, humanity, and justice continues to build. Our destinies are connected to each other. With that, we must remember that creative integrity and radical change are essential to our progress as a society. Check out some of our recent projects, events, and endeavors below.

FILM | Black and brown youth march the streets of downtown Chicago after the 38-8 City Council vote in favor of the cop academy in 2019. The upcoming #NoCopAcademy documentary chronicles the campaign (photo by SoapBox's David A. Moran).

EVENTS | Panelists speak at Fitness Against Fascism 3: Prison-industrial Complex & Healthy Communities, discussing the role the PIC has had in their lives and on society as a whole at the 2019 SoapBox fundraiser (Photo by @whereizmerz).

SOAPBOX ACTION WORKS | The #WeAreMore campaign centers the experiences of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, and pushes back against fear-mongering “tough on crime” rhetoric resurging in the 2022 election season. We need more pathways out of prison, not new ones into it. Through advocacy, public education, and direct representation, the Illinois Prison Project brings hope to and fight in community with incarcerated people and their loved ones for a brighter, more humane, more just system for us all. (Photo by @kaymireya.jpeg).

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EDITORIAL | Christian Ianniello examines the wellness and fitness industries during the time of coronavirus (Photo by Spencer Pratt).

PODCAST | SoapBox colleagues Caullen Hudson and David A. Moran co-host the affiliate podcast Bourbon 'n BrownTown (Photo by @thereal_seankelly).

ORGANIZING | A press conference on the harms of the Chicago gang database by members of the #EraseTheDatabase coalition (Photo by unknown).

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Photo below by Jalen Hamilton.
Last photo by David A. Moran.

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We produce scripted narratives, documentaries, promotionals, written articles, educational initiatives, and new media content. Our multimedia format encourages broader access that caters to diverse audiences within the digital space and beyond.

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SoapBox fosters radical imagination in a creative context to deliver emotional impact storytelling with a liberatory, anti-oppressive framework. Say something with us.

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“Our visions of technology, design, entertainment and creativity have to be married with a vision of humanity, compassion and justice.”
BRYAN STEVENSON | Lawyer, Professor, & Activist