Website created for a foundation in Colombia that works with the protection and education of tropical birds. To see more websites and interactive design click here:
http://mystikfilms.com/interactive/

“Save the forest, Save the culture” is an awareness project created by Ana Santos and Alessandra Mattanza around the idea that everyone shares a part in the issues the Amazon and the forests in the world are currently facing. From the indigenous people, we can relearn long-forgotten values and reclaim our true relationship with nature, improving our daily lives and ensuring our future. Because of their carefully preserved and special knowledge of the forest ecosystem, the indigenous people of this region are key in the quest to find new answers and substainable solutions for climate change and the survival of our world.

100 VISIONS: The “heroes” of the Amazon. The campaign aims to be “green” and socially unifying in its quest to reframe our thinking of the planet’s resouces and how they are allocated. A first-time media initiative, this will be a collection of 100 visions from the famous and the not-so-famous: non-profit organisations, local and foreign biologists, anthropologists, researchers, scientists, writers, artists, healers, explorers, filmmakers, actors, celebrities, and also ordinary people, whose voices are no less significant. This “voice of the forest” will become the voice of the people, traveling and echoing around the world.

The SAVE THE FOREST, SAVE THE CULTURE campaign includes: a feature 58 min. documetary film; a coffee table book with interactive DVD with interactive DVD; a mobile interactive social media campaign; mobile exhibitions; gala events; and concert fundraising events. 

LIGHT FOR THE FUTURE is a new transmedia campaign, created by Alessandra Mattanza and the filmmaker and visual artist Ana Santos. It is based on the work of the renowned photographer Steve McCurry and aims to help children in conflict zones secure an education and to instill awareness around the world about their situation. The full project will involve a social interactive campaign with international exhibitions, City Lights Installations, and a Live TV Experience. There will also be serial-reportage of journeys into conflict zones, by a different filmmaker (famous or independent) for each country, connecting children to various cultural and social events. In the end, all these experiences, these trips, this knowledge from around the world will be edited into a documentary film and a coffee table book to commemorate the lives and experiences of these children of light.

Website and campaign for Chron’s disease. The website helps to create connection between people who is sick and doctors and a community.
http://www.crohnsandme.com/

Universal Studios and NBC developed a series of websites, videos and campaigns about being green, creating tips, connecting with celebrities and stories that help to create awareness and discussion around this issues.

http://www.greenisuniversal.com/?page_id=10255

Posters and campaign to help to portrait the despair of aids in Africa. Designed for www.aidstruth.org

Mamajagua is a movement inspired by indigenous people, locals, artists and designers in Northern Colombia whose common goal is to preserve ancient weaving techniques, Caribbean sea life, restore deforested land and specially create a link between artists, designers and communities to develop new ventures. Mamajagua bags are the first product made from recycled plastics gathered from local beaches and mountains, weaved by youth at risk and women and designed by leading Colombian artists Norma Alvares, Ana Santos and Loula Guarin.

The goal of this first project was to work with local communities to clean a highly polluted ecosystem that is affecting and destroying the resources in the region. The effort relies heavily on creating alternative livelihoods for local people who barely have enough income to live and commonly fall in drug related businesses or in the destruction of the environment. The Tayrona region is one of the richest ecosystems in the world and now it’s been devastated from the sea life to a huge deforestation, animal species like the titi monkey, frogs and thousands of wild spices are close to extinction. One of the reasons of this devastation is because locals don’t have basic resources and in the look for income they sell or trade and destroy the area.

We want to educate people on how to protect and consume less plastic as well as create a product that brings sustainable options to the community as well as keeping traditional ways and culture.

More photos and products on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anaorange/sets/72157623413353145/