18th Street Casa De Cultura
Organization Spotlight | 4 min | 2025
In partnership with Healing Illinois, Mandazifilms spotlights 18th Street Casa De Cultura, “an organization of artists, musicians, educators, and advocates dedicated to honoring and cultivating the legacy of cultural and artistic expression rooted in generational practices of Chicago’s Mexicano – Latino community by utilizing ancestral cultural conocimiento or knowledge.”
Collaboraction – The Light
Organization Spotlight | 4 min | 2025
In partnership with the Field Foundation, MandaziFilms spotlights Collaboraction’s The Light program — a dynamic youth theater initiative that provides students with a paid opportunity to explore art production while driving social change.
Dennis Wise: A Logan Square Community Builder
Artist Spotlight | 9 min | 2024
Dennis brings people together. He’s an artist, a retired theater professor from Columbia College of Chicago, a contra dancer and a valued member of his community. He brings this community together through many forms of creative expression and with the help of his sculpture garden–a magical oasis where neighbors and passersby take refuge. Dennis repurposes unused objects and transforms them into wonder-inspiring pieces of art.
Healthy Schools Campaign
Organization Spotlight | 4 min | 2024
Healthy Schools Campaign believes that schools can be a place where children’s needs are more equitably met and that students can be healthier and better learners when the school environment best supports them. We made this video for their annual gala.
