Earthship Media
Independent documentary journalism exploring people, places, and stories that shape our lives.
MISSION
Local news plays an essential role in covering breaking and time-sensitive stories that keep communities informed. At Earthship Media, our mission is to document real people and places beyond the headlines with longer form or more in-depth coverage. Through independent documentary-style journalism, we share community-centered stories that explore what shapes everyday life that document people, place, or time.
THREE CORE PILLARS
Community
Sharing real people’s stories and local knowledge to help explain the world around us.
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Conservation
Exploring relationships between people, culture, land, and global environmental change.
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Understanding
Telling honest, real-life stories that help people understand complex issues clearly and humanely.
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ABOUT
EARTHSHIP MEDIA
Earthship Media was founded by life-long techie and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Bork. His work combines technical skill with community-based storytelling focused on real life. Each film is made with care, honesty, and respect, and guided by ethical storytelling and editorial independence. Earthship Media works with individuals, communities, and mission-driven organizations to document culture and explore how local life changes or is impacted by global forces that shape everyday life.
We believe it is possible to operate transparently and ethically with shared responsibility that creates a sustainable balance for everyone involved. Earthship Media operates under two distinct funding categories: Community Funded and Commissioned Projects. ​This structure allows us to pursue independent storytelling while providing flexibility in how projects are funded, produced, and shared.
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COMMUNITY FUNDED PROJECTS
Community stories are often overlooked because because of a lack of return of investment or marketing value. These stories help preserve the cultural significance of events, people, and location. Crowdfunding or partnerships with organizations and people allow for shared licensing or YouTube content that can be openly distributed. Together we can remove the financial barrier for capturing the stories that matter to communities.
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CROWDFUNDED
Projects taken on by Earthship Media at no direct cost with the hope of community donations to cover expenses.
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PARTNERSHIPS
Shared financial investments with organizations or people through aligned values to share stories within a community.
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DriftTV
DriftTV is an ongoing documentary project capturing everyday life, work, and moments of meaning across the Driftless Region. Each story follows people, places, or events over time, using a range of documentary styles shaped by the story itself.
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Some DriftTV episodes focus on local culture, traditions, and community life. Others explore how environmental, economic, and social forces shape everyday experiences in the region. Together, these stories highlight the human impact of change.
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To support this work, Earthship Media takes on these projects through crowdfunding and a sponsorship model that keeps these stories editorially independent, community-centered, and rooted in trust.
CREATOR ECOLOGY
Digital & Media Literacy
Creator Ecology is an educational project that helps people, organizations, and communities understand how media is made, shared, and understood online. It examines how global digital platforms and tools shape how we communicate, learn, and tell stories. The goal of Creator Ecology is to support transparent, honest, and responsible communication by building digital and media literacy around the media people create and consume every day.
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COMMISSIONED PROJECTS
These client-owned projects that tell their story. Earthship Media uses different documentary style approaches to capture specific events or processes for clients. All stories must align with Earthship Media's ethics statement and shared values towards preserving the cultural significance of the community, conservation efforts, or stories of historical value for the public.​
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This is currently how we fund no direct cost community projects such as DriftTV and Creator Ecology education projects that help capture culturally significant information that documents the lives of people and places. Earthship Media works with individuals, organizations, and mission-driven groups to create documentary films and short client-owned videos.
Please visit our services page for a breakdown of costs for commissioned project services that we offer for projects that align with Earthship Media's values and mission.​ Contact us to to work on your next project.