Stone Soup Productions

05/25/2026

05/19/2026

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

It’s a good time to highlight the important story of Japanese American artist Miné Okubo. Okubo was a gifted artist who was working with Diego Rivera on murals for the WPA when she was forced into an incarceration camp for Japanese American citizens during World War 2. Okubo used her skills as an artist to depict the injustice in her landmark book Citizen 13660.

Her work helped give us a profound new lens on the American identity. It was an honor to speak with her nieces and share her story in The People’s Recorder.

Listen to Episode 9: “Is This Land Your Land?” wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUX0-EKrOi8

That episode was produced with support from California Humanities and National Endowment for the Humanities

05/18/2026

And to think that our connection started with a simple domain sale!

Fifteen years later, we’re still connected. Paul Carlin has just started Elite Finishing Labs, a space for indies to get top rate finishing, color, conform and broadcast deliverables, without all the corporate overhead. Check him out at https://elitefinishinglabs.com

Wishing him lots of great projects, good humans, smooth exports and plenty of inspirational sparks ahead!

05/12/2026

04/22/2026

Today is Earth Day!

It’s a good time to remember Aldo Leopold, a key figure in developing modern environmental ethics. His groundbreaking writings helped inspire the formation of Earth Day in 1970.

Leopold's story was featured in The People's Recorder Episode 7: A Voice for the Land. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p-0jiq6sU4

This episode was produced with support from Wisconsin Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities and Create Wisconsin.



Aldo Leopold Foundation

03/08/2026

03/03/2026

02/16/2026

This Black History Month, revisit Spark’s powerful documentaries and podcasts that bring lost histories to light and honor the depth and range of Black voices that have shaped America.

Based on the The New York Times bestseller, The Pact follows three friends who beat the odds in Newark, New Jersey, rising from poverty and crime to become doctors. The Three Doctors then stayed in their community to lift up the next generation.

An inspirational must-see film for all ages.

Watch it now for free on Tubi at https://tubitv.com/movies/615622/the-pact

02/13/2026

This Black History Month, revisit Spark's powerful documentaries and podcasts that bring lost histories to light and honor the depth and range of Black voices that have shaped America.

Partners of the Heart was our first feature documentary and honors a true giant that American history has forgotten.

In segregated America, Vivian Thomas, a Black carpenter’s apprentice with a gift for surgery, partnered with renowned white surgeon, Dr. Alfred Blalock. Together, they forged an unlikely partnership that changed history.

Narrated by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman.

Watch it now for free on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYM3A15cr0A

02/04/2026

Honor Black History Month with Spark Media!

This Black History Month, revisit our powerful documentaries and podcasts that bring lost histories to light and honor the depth and range of Black voices that have shaped America.

The Pact - Documentary – The promise that changed everything.
https://pickrelay.com/t/8ce0-c11a/the-pact

Partners of the Heart – Honoring the giant that American history forgot.
https://pickrelay.com/t/c078-db8c/partners-of-the-heart

The People's Recorder – Where the past is always present tense.
https://www.youtube.com/

Prince Among Slaves – One man’s legacy. One nation’s reckoning.
https://www.upf.tv/films/prince-among-slaves/