CINCINNATI (WXIX) – A Tri-State filmmaker is using her art of storytelling to help nonprofit organizations across the area looking to grow their brand.
Over the years, Kailah Ware has taken on several film projects in Cincinnati.
She has helped with the production of “Point Blank,” “Inconceivable,” “The Big Ugly,” and several others.
Over time, she learned she wanted to focus more on humanitarian efforts, which led her to open her own creative agency.
You might have seen some of her work in recent years through the Sunny Blue Creative Art Agency, a company she started seven years ago in Cincinnati.
“We help nonprofits, philanthropic organizations move their mission forward through creative tactics,” explained Ware. “So that looks like brand development, video production, graphic design and just anything creative.”
The Cincinnati native graduated from Wright State University in 2010 with a degree in film production and a dream to direct movies.
“Then I graduated and it’s like what do you do when you live in Ohio and have a film degree?” explained Ware. “Like you need to move to LA or Atlanta. Those were two things at the time I was not interested in at all.”
Fortunately, with the up-and-coming film production scene in Cincinnati, she was able to work on several major film sets as she tried to find her way.
Ware quickly learned her dream job was not quite what she imagined.
“I’m doing this thing that is supposed to be the next natural progression, which is working on these sets and getting these hours, so I joined the union, and I didn’t enjoy it,” remembers Ware. “So, I was like okay, let me think about something I did enjoy which was my organizing background and the organizing I did in college.”
That led her to launch the Sunny Blu Art Agency, where she decided to work solely with nonprofits and philanthropic organizations and use her skills of storytelling to help create messages of advocacy through the community.
“We’re moving mission forward through creative tactics here at Sunny Blue because we believe in the power of creativity to be able to make a change in our community,” Ware explained.
Ware says opening her creative agency has allowed her to work on several projects she truly cares about from a 2020 voting campaign encouraging Black voters to come to the polls to encouraging African Americans to stop using tobacco.
She even created a documentary called “Innocent.” The documentary takes a closer look at the justice system in Ohio, incarceration rates and rehabilitation for inmates.
With seven years under her belt, Ware is now focused on expanding her agency and building up her team to connect with more nonprofit agencies to tell more powerful stories inspiring change.
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