We are optimistic. We practice hope in action creating works that expand beyond the screen to make change happen together. We make art and film and music and books, we work with solar technology and sunflowers, we print money and set off explosions - whatever we need to do to create contagious stories of people powered action on the crises of our time.

Radical hijnks with a serious purpose.
— New Internationalist

We make film and art as direct action. 

We don’t just document what is wrong with the world. 

We intervene. 

We tell and make stories of transformation. With hope and humour. 

We reimagine power through filmmaking as world making storytelling.

We smash the ‘overton window.’

We make the case for people power. For art and film as power, courage and responsibility.  

We ‘Reclaim the streets’ and build new infrastructures – of city and imagination.

We make hope and action contagious.

One of the greatest obstacles to change is our ability to believe in or visualise the world being different. That’s where creative activists and filmmakers Optimistic succeed
— Andrew Simms