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We’re a creative agency focused on film and photography.
For over a decade, we’ve worked with international organizations like UNICEF and the Elton John AIDS Foundation capturing stories that demand social justice and humanitarian action.
Our other clients include global brands like Meta, Sesame Workshop, and sports giants Manchester City and FC Barcelona.
Let’s co-create.
CAMPAIGNS
CAMPAIGNS
Elton John AIDS Foundation in the US South
CAMPAIGN
CLIENT: ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION
The US South accounts for over half of the country’s new HIV diagnoses.
We partnered with the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the legendary Billy Porter—an Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner—on a suite of powerful content spotlighting the fight against this epidemic and the work was showcased at Elton John’s Academy Awards party, helping to raise over $8.6 million to end HIV/AIDS.
Ukraine’s Lost Year
CAMPAIGN SPOT
CLIENT: UNICEF
To mark one year of the conflict in Ukraine, we partnered with UNICEF and a Ukrainian teenager to produce a 60-second film that showcases the reality of growing up in a war zone. The video received over 100 million views across social media and has helped to maintain UNICEF’s support for the children of Ukraine.
The Singularity is Nearer
TRAILER
CLIENT: Ray Kurzweil
To capture the ideas in inventor Ray Kurzweil’s new book The Singularity Is Nearer, Highway Child tells the story of how technology has aided humanity on its march towards progress since the dawn of time, and shows how that march has now become a sprint.
Directed by Timour Gregory (Section B), with cinematography by Emmy Award-winner Zebediah Smith (Resident Orca) and production design by David Pink (The Green Knight).
The Cost of War
CAMPAIGN SERIES
CLIENT: Business Insider
As the conflict in Ukraine reaches its third year, we partnered with Business Insider to investigate the ripple effects of the war in countries around the world, from the impact on fuel prices in Kenya to food security in Brazil, and a diplomatic tug-of-war in Indonesia.
Produced in partnership with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom.
Artificial: A Love Story
TRAILER
CLIENT: AMY KURZWEIL
We partnered with writer and New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil to produce an animated trailer for her latest graphic novel Artificial: a visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life.
Hope Reimagined
CAMPAIGN SPOT
CLIENT: UNICEF
In the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we partnered with UNICEF to inspire belief in vaccines and their capacity to bring about a brighter tomorrow.
We combed through 70 years of UNICEF photographs about immunization, brought them to life with captivating motion graphics and added a voiceover from Academy Award nominee and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson to produce a spot that was aired on TV all around the world.
FILMS
FILMS
Haraka
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
CLIENT: UNICEF
Ahmad, born with cerebral palsy, flees the war in Syria with his family and builds a new life in a Jordanian refugee camp in this feature-length documentary directed by Timour Gregory and produced by Highway Child, in association with UNICEF over the course of 10 years.
Section B
DOCUMENTARY SERIES
CLIENT: UNICEF
Follow the dreams and despair of four teenagers trying to survive alone in one of the world’s most notorious refugee camps in our hard-hitting short film for UNICEF.
Directed by Michail Gripiotis and Timour Gregory, Section B was featured on CNN and used as a key tool in UNICEF's advocacy efforts with European governments.
Keep Pushing
NARRATIVE SHORT
Keep Pushing tells the story of a young man from the Bronx who considers abandoning his dream of becoming a rapper and enlisting in the army on the brink of the Gulf War.
An official selection at the Hip-Hop Film Festival, Keep Pushing stars Harry Lennix (Justice League), Brandon Young (The Wire), and Carvens Lissaint (Hamilton).
Rashed
DOCUMENTARY SERIES
CLIENT: UNICEF
13-year-old Rashed navigates life in the world’s largest refugee camp in our three-part documentary series for UNICEF.
Rashed, directed by Timour Gregory, was featured on CNN International and helped change education policy for Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh.
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
Highway Child works with photographers from around the world to capture the most important global issues.
Our roster includes renowned photojournalists like Ashley Gilbertson and Roger LeMoyne, alongside exciting new talents like Florence Goupil and Anita Khemka.
Children from a nomadic community residing at the Kasliwal slum in Aurangabad, India.
©UNICEF/Khemka (Highway Child)
Valery, a child with Down Syndrome, plays with her mother in Iquitos, Peru.
©UNICEF/Kononenko (Highway Child)
Paolo, 7, draws in his notebook in an indigenous community in Loreto, Peru.
©UNICEF/Goupil (Highway Child)
Nazar, 12, hugs his mother in a shelter for displaced people displaced by the war in Lviv, Ukraine.
©UNICEF/Gilbertson (Highway Child)
A worker helps to rebuild a school that was recently destroyed in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
©UNICEF/Gilbertson (Highway Child)
Diana, 9, rollerblades in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
©UNICEF/Gilbertson (Highway Child)
A Kukama indigenous community in Loreto, Peru.
©UNICEF/Goupil (Highway Child)
A health worker carries vaccines to a remote community in Loreto, Peru.
©UNICEF/Goupil (Highway Child)
A family living in the Muralidhar Nagar Slum in Aurangabad, India.
©UNICEF/Khemka (Highway Child)