BLT Helps

08/04/2025

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Amores Perros, the debut feature film by Academy Award-winning Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Fondazione Prada has created an exhibition in collaboration with the filmmaker. Titled “Sueño Perro,” the exhibition will be shown in Milan, Mexico City, and Los Angeles.

BLT Helps designed the vertical & horizontal versions of the posters that will be used in the museum exhibits in Milan, Mexico City, and here at LACMA.

“Sueño Perro” brings to light never-before-seen footage which speaks to Amores Perros’ enduring themes of love, betrayal, and violence. These gritty vignettes capture the charged and interconnected sociopolitical realities of Mexico City, still relevant decades later. At the heart of the installation is a deep reverence for the materiality of 35mm film, whose physical grain, flicker, and warmth evoke a deep sense of nostalgia. Conceived not as a tribute but a resurrection, the show strips narrative in favor of sensory presence, staging what Iñárritu calls “an invitation to feel what never was.”

Visitors will walk into a dimly lit labyrinth illuminated by 35mm analog projectors, casting a continuous stream of newly juxtaposed fragments from the movie. Slates, celluloid scratches, light flares between reels and a soundscape produced specifically for the occasion will remind visitors of the medium’s raw physicality. In an age of artificial intelligence and digital oversaturation, Iñárritu invites viewers to step into a man-made, tactile and analog landscape of memory, where the past flickers just out of reach.

The exhibit will arrive at LACMA in Spring 2026.

07/28/2025

Sister Úna Feeney spent her life eschewing stereotypes. Cursing like a sailor, smoking Camels, and wearing plaid flannels like a uniform, the raconteur was a rule-breaker and feminist long before it was cool. Sister Úna Lived a Good Death is an equally unconventional character study of a wisecracking, social justice-defending Catholic nun living out her last nine months in Encino, California with stage IV cancer and a strong will to thrive. Her unique approach to dying included planning her own funeral (with karaoke), hosting a funeral planning workshop for Sisters and friends to consider their last wishes, and making the most of her last days as she attempted to live for the birth of her beloved niece Sarah’s first child. A former youth minister, Úna used her death as her final teaching moment.

Úna was the self-proclaimed “leader of the misfits” and her special skill was making kids—particularly LGBTQ youth—feel okay to be their authentic selves. In completing her bucket list, she reunited with the cast of characters she inspired, the Sisters of Social Service in her community, and her large Boston Irish family. Filmed through hospice, Úna got her final wish of making sure her approach to life and death could inspire generations to come.

BLT Helps created the key art, title treatment, and the tagline for this inspiring documentary film.

07/21/2025

Tahnee Corea shares her experiences as one of the first graduates of the Netflix x Otis Access program in entertainment marketing.

07/14/2025

Of the 18 students who enrolled in the Netflix x Otis Access Entertainment Certificate program in fall 2023, 16 are now employed by recognized industry brands such as Marvel Studios, Dotdash, and Major Major and by Netflix’s agency partners which include BLT Communications, Gravillis, MOCEAN, WMA, Motive, and more!

The partnership between Netflix and Otis College was designed to develop a talent pipeline and provide a pathway into entertainment marketing careers through focused coursework, mentorship, and apprenticeship. All students received a full-tuition scholarship and took classes at Otis’ Los Angeles campus. They engaged with prominent guest speakers and received one-on-one mentorship with entertainment industry professionals and top art and design instructors. At the culmination of their instruction, students participated in a graduation ceremony hosted at Netflix’s Hollywood offices prior to being placed in paid professional apprenticeships for six-months with one of the company’s marketing agency partners.

Our warmest congratulations to the graduates, and a special welcome to the two talented individuals who’ve joined our ranks here at BLT, Benji Crawford and Tahnee Corea! With the creativity, passion, hard work, and dedication you’ve shown, we know you’ll accomplish great things. It’s a joy to have you with us!

07/11/2025

"Amid family drama and dysfunction, a woman who carries a BRCA gene mutation must decide whether or not to remove her breasts and ovaries to reduce her cancer risk."

BLT Helps was honored to create the poster for “Love, Danielle”, the first scripted feature film to tackle "the completely absurd decisions and issues faced by an individual who carries a BRCA gene mutation but has not been diagnosed with cancer. It is estimated that around 1 in 200-400 individuals worldwide carries a BRCA gene mutation."

Co-writer and Producer Devin Sidell, who also stars as Danielle, is BRCA-1 positive and underwent a preventative oophorectomy/hysterectomy in November 2016 while her older sister was undergoing chemotherapy for Triple-Negative, Stage 2B breast cancer. Sidell’s mother survived Stage 3C ovarian cancer in 1994 as well as breast cancer in 2012. Her mother’s sister passed away from ovarian cancer in 1996. In December 2017, Sidell opted to undergo a preventative double-mastectomy. Before her reconstruction surgery, she shot footage for the film that openly exhibits her scars and expanders so that the audience can truly get a feeling for what a difficult decision this is and how the aftermath honestly looks.

02/17/2023

While working on set on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1976, famed photographer Mary Ellen Mark (working with writer Karen Folger Jacobs) first encountered and documented the lives of the women in the Oregon State Hospital in Salem — the only locked psychiatric ward in the state — and created a groundbreaking book called Ward 81 that was released in 1979.

Now, 44 years since its publication, the late photographer’s book is being celebrated with an expanded edition, a special exhibit at The Image Centre in Toronto, and a new documentary called Ward 81 Voices directed by Mark’s husband and long-time collaborator, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Martin Bell.

The film uses audio recordings, archival materials and Mark’s extraordinary photographs to offer a remarkable snapshot of her creative process in action and the humanistic approach and long-term commitment to her subjects that have made Mark’s images landmarks in the field of documentary photography.

BLT Helps was honored to contribute the titles and animation for the documentary.

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02/09/2023

Bailey Coleman, the teenage daughter of BLT alum Jason Coleman, is a leukemia survivor and she has recently been selected as a candidate to participate in a leadership program called Student Visionaries of the Year with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society!

Student Visionaries of the Year is a groundbreaking philanthropic leadership development program for high school students. Every year, courageous young leaders embark on an exciting 7-week journey with a goal to create a world without blood cancers, striving to earn the Student Visionary of the Year title.

If you would like to support Bailey and others like her, please consider making a donation at her fundraising page or find out more about the Student Visionaries program at their website.

https://events.lls.org/calso/svoyla23/bcoleman

01/27/2023

On January 23, 2023, Otis College of Art and Design unveiled a partnership with Netflix to launch a new program that will give underrepresented students a leg up in exciting careers in entertainment. The Access: Netflix x Otis Entertainment Certificate Program, which is now accepting applications, leverages both Otis’ leadership and commitment to diversity and Netflix’s unparalleled industry expertise to provide a unique opportunity for historically underrepresented students of color, who have traditionally lacked access to jobs in entertainment marketing. Admitted students will learn critical art and design skills with Otis College, while receiving hands-on training from entertainment industry professionals.

Otis College unveiled a partnership with Netflix to launch a new program that will give underrepresented students career opportunities in entertainment.

10/05/2022

With over a decade of experience, Humanitarian Affairs Asia engages and inspires our youth, bringing a new generation of like-minded global citizens to a common platform.

BLT Helps assisted HAA with these advertisements for their Global Internship for Changemakers.

10/05/2022

Humanitarian Affairs Asia has developed their own global initiatives to nurture a sense of social consciousness among the youth of today. Through bringing together young visionaries, the possibilities are endless.

BLT Helps assisted HAA with these advertisements for their upcoming programs.

06/21/2022

05/18/2022

BLT is proud sponsor of Soapbox Women, a self-sustaining, independent collective committed to empowering, protecting and promoting women in the entertainment, creative advertising, and marketing industries.

Soapbox Women is open to all women. They offer programming for personal development, mentorship, specialized speaker events, workshops, and networking happy hours.

Visit www.soapboxwomen.com to learn more and become a member!