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How We Help

Jane DiMaso with the Food Network’s Jeff Mauro

Jane DiMaso with the Food Network’s Jeff Mauro

Jane DiMaso with the Food Network’s Jeff Mauro

DiMaso Studios combines story strategy, creative development, and filmmaking to build each project around the story you need to tell, not a predetermined package.

We help untangle what you’re trying to communicate by looking at your audience, positioning, messaging, and larger organizational story, then find the strongest story to build around.

That may include:

  • Your audience and their priorities

  • What you want people to understand, feel, or remember

  • How different programs, ideas, or initiatives connect

  • Your positioning and larger organizational story

  • Stories that already exist but haven’t been fully explored.

  • What kind of creative work could actually help

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Organizations often know their work inside and out, but after years of refining the mission, messaging, and everything around it, the larger story can get buried. 

Clarify Your Story

This could lead to: a story strategy, messaging direction, campaign concept, storytelling roadmap, film concept, or recommendations for what to create next.

Tell Your Story

Once we know what matters, we start looking for the people and moments that can make it real.

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Joseph helps keep the work connected to the audience, message, and larger goal. Jane shapes the creative direction, interviews, visuals, and edit into a film that feels human rather than scripted around talking points.

Depending on the project, that may involve:

  • Story and narrative development

  • Interview planning

  • Creative direction

  • Documentary style production

  • Editing and post-production

  • Supporting short-form pieces

This could lead to: an organizational film, founder story, impact film, campaign film, donor story, student or alumni story, interview series, testimonial, or community story.

Build a Storytelling Partnership

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Build a storytelling approach that connects the bigger brand picture with the people and stories that make it real.

Organizations rarely have only one meaningful story, and those stories don’t usually appear on a schedule. They’re happening all the time, across programs, relationships, milestones, campaigns, and everyday moments.

A partnership might include:

  • Story planning

  • Quarterly or campaign-based strategy

  • Story opportunity identification

  • Creative direction

  • Recurring documentary work

  • Campaign support

The exact shape depends on what your organization needs. The goal is simply to make storytelling a more thoughtful part of how you communicate.

What We Can Create

Each project is completely different and tailored towards your needs. Depending on what the story calls for, we create:

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Brand & Organizational Films
Stories that help people understand the purpose, people, and personality behind an organization.

Documentary & Legacy Films
Films that preserve history, honor a legacy, or explore a meaningful story in depth.

Impact & Campaign Films
Stories designed to make impact visible, support a campaign, or help move an audience toward action.

Interviews & Testimonials
Thoughtfully produced conversations that help real people communicate why the work matters.

Oral Histories & Anniversary Films
Stories that capture memories, milestones, and institutional history before they are lost.

Event Storytelling
Coverage built around the people, meaning, and moments behind an event.

More Ways We Can Help Tell the Story

Depending on the project, we may also create:

  • Archival storytelling

  • Institutional and community histories

  • Event interviews

  • Short-form supporting films

  • Website edits

  • Social cutdowns

  • Founder and leadership stories

  • Donor stories

  • Student and alumni stories

  • Community stories

  • Interview series

  • Personal and family stories

“We couldn't be happier with the video and editing done by DiMaso Studios. The sound and video quality are great and went beyond expectations. They were easy to work with and we will definitely use them again!”

Tara T.

North Berwyn Park District

Not sure where your project fits?

You don’t need to know the format, runtime, number of deliverables, or even exactly what the story is yet.

We can figure out what the story should become together.