Media Sutra, Inc.

Media Sutra, Inc. POC-led company with Indo-Caribbean roots. We are filmmakers, resource mobilizers, healers, coaches, consultants & artists for justice.

Partner with us to become more visible, sustainable and impactful. Media Sutra is a socially responsible company, owned and employed by people of color with over 40 years of combined experience in filmmaking, storytelling, coaching, facilitating, consulting and resource mobilization. We support our client partners to be creative, strategic and transformative. By working with us and incorporating our unique approach, you will become increasingly visible, impactful and sustainable. We are grounded in the vision of a world where everyone thrives by living a joyful, purpose-driven life fueled by self and community determination. Check out our offerings, and contact us today to get started:
- Film Production
- Facilitation & Transformative Coaching
- Strategic Consulting
- Resource Mobilization Strategy
- Event Design & Arts Integration
- Transformative Storytelling
- Communications & Campaign Support
- Leadership Development, Workshops & Retreats

Happy Spring Equinox ☀️💚☀️ Now is the time to create like our lives depend on it—because they do.Artists, storytellers, ...
03/20/2026

Happy Spring Equinox ☀️💚☀️ Now is the time to create like our lives depend on it—because they do.

Artists, storytellers, cultural workers—we are more than responders to crisis. We are architects of what comes next. So today, we ask:

✨ What are you tending this season?
✨ What are you ready to create, even now?
✨ Who are you building with?

This is the energy of the equinox—to choose, with intention, what we grow.

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Love asks more of us than silence. It asks us to tell the truth. To hold complexity. To stay when things get uncomfortab...
03/19/2026

Love asks more of us than silence. It asks us to tell the truth. To hold complexity. To stay when things get uncomfortable—and transform what we’ve built.

Dolores Huerta has given her life to building power, dignity, and possibility for farmworkers and working people. Her legacy is undeniable. Her impact—immeasurable.

And now, alongside that legacy, we are invited to hold something else: the truth of what she carried; the cost of what she protected; the courage it takes to speak after decades of silence.

This is a moment to embrace the complexity that many of us have already been navigating in movement spaces.

What does it mean when movements that fight for justice also hold harm within them? What are we asking of women—especially women of color—when survival of the collective comes at the cost of their truth? What is the difference between protection… and suppression And what becomes possible when truth is finally spoken?

At Media Sutra, we believe transformative storytelling is also about how we metabolize what is revealed.

☀️ Can we honor her legacy and her pain?
☀️ Can we resist flattening this moment into headlines or hashtags?
☀️ Can we learn how to build movements that do not require silence as the price of belonging?

This is an invitation to listen more deeply, to build more honestly, to lead in ways where truth does not have to wait decades to be held.

Because love—real love—does not demand silence to survive. It makes room for truth. It makes room for repair. It makes room for us all to be whole.

We are in the liminal. 🌑🌿 This Pisces New Moon — the last before Aries season ignites — arrives like a slow exhale. Sun,...
03/19/2026

We are in the liminal. 🌑🌿 This Pisces New Moon — the last before Aries season ignites — arrives like a slow exhale. Sun,

Moon, Mercury, and Mars all submerged in the waters of Pisces. An invitation to stop swimming and let the current carry us.

So we rest. We clear our spaces. We walk outside and let the earth remember us. We sit in the quiet and listen for what’s been growing underground.

Because that’s the thing about new moons — and about spring. The most sacred work happens before anything is visible. Seeds don’t announce their growing. They just do it. In the dark. In the stillness. Beneath the surface.

Aries season arrives in two days. The fire is coming.

But first — the breath before the bloom.

Sharing these journal prompts to reflect, release, and prepare for what wants to be born through us. 🌸

We are living in a moment that asks more of us than quiet care alone.We feel it in our bodies — the way grief settles, t...
01/09/2026

We are living in a moment that asks more of us than quiet care alone.

We feel it in our bodies — the way grief settles, the way fear moves fast, the way imagination keeps calling even as the ground shifts beneath us. Lives are being taken, families torn open, and communities terrorized by systems that claim safety while delivering harm.

These are not abstractions. These are people.

Silverio Villegas González (38), a father killed by ICE at a checkpoint in Illinois.
Keith Porter (43), killed by an off-duty ICE agent in California.
Renee Nicole Good (37), a poet and mother killed during a federal enforcement action in Minnesota.
Jaime Alanís (57), a farmworker fatally injured during a workplace raid.
Jocelyn Rojo Carranza (11), a child lost after ongoing trauma and threats tied to ICE.
Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez (52), chased by ICE and struck and killed while seeking safety.

And so many more — names unrecorded, stories unfinished, families still searching.

Grieving together matters. Tenderness matters. Art, ritual, embodiment, and song matter deeply. And this moment asks us to pair care with courage.

Healing and resistance grow together — shared, resilient, alive. Care, survival, imagination, and resistance are bound to one another across generations, across identities, across place.

We say their names because they mattered.
We tell the truth because silence costs lives.
We stand in solidarity with every family and community carrying this weight.

This could have been any one of us.

Call to Action

Say the names.
Protect the vulnerable.
Choose solidarity.
Demand accountability.

Abolish ICE.

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Winter Solstice Greetings ❄️ Yesterday the light turned. Today, we’re still listening.Winter has arrived quietly—asking ...
12/22/2025

Winter Solstice Greetings ❄️ Yesterday the light turned. Today, we’re still listening.

Winter has arrived quietly—asking for presence, patience, and trust in what’s forming beneath the surface. This is a season we move through with care,
rooted in relationship, guided by land,
dreaming forward together.

Come wander with us ❄️❄️❄️

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12/20/2025

The Fire 🔥 Between us by — throw back to our keynote at the national conference

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We followed art back to its roots—and forward to what’s possible. Thank you and for including us in the piloting of y...
12/17/2025

We followed art back to its roots—and forward to what’s possible. Thank you and for including us in the piloting of your curriculum: Art ✨ Economics ✨ Transformations ✨ EAT!

Together, over 3 days, our cohort traced the ways artists have been asked to survive—and tapped into the worlds we’re already building.

Swipe 👉🏾 for reflections from on Day 3 — Art as Communal.

Here’s a little on the 3 C’s that framed our 3 days together 👇🏾

Commodity: Art shaped by markets. Value tied to sales. A superstar economy that concentrates resources while thinning the field of what gets made. We named how scarcity distorts imagination when survival depends on selling.

Command: Art funded by patrons and the state—from popes to philanthropy. We held the tension: public investment can bring stability and scale, and it can also bring gatekeeping and control. We explored models that fund artists while expanding democratic choice.

Communal: Art before money. Creation rooted in relationship, reciprocity, and shared responsibility. We asked what communal art looks like now—co-ops, land trusts, mutual aid, shared infrastructure, and practices of repair that make collaboration last.

Artists have always been world-builders. Let’s build together, on purpose!

So excited to share this graphic novel that we helped to create in partnership with Unlocking Our Superpowers: SEL Goes...
12/05/2025

So excited to share this graphic novel that we helped to create in partnership with

Unlocking Our Superpowers: SEL Goes to School!

Check out the graphic novel here 👇🏾
https://simplebooklet.com/selgoestoschool

Whether you’re a para, teacher, principal, parent or caregiver, after-school counselor or director, or CBO community, you are invited to share in this gift.

Our first time at the National Convening felt like walking into a love fest—one held by the brightest minds and biggest...
11/19/2025

Our first time at the National Convening felt like walking into a love fest—one held by the brightest minds and biggest hearts in the BIPOC documentary ecosystem.

Being among 130+ leaders from 70+ organizations—across movements, geographies, and generations—was a reminder that building narrative power is strategy and deep soul work.

We left Chicago with:

🎬 A reminder of our lineage of self-determination, and why BIPOC artists must own the means of production and distribution, especially in a moment when mainstream networks cannot be trusted with our truths.

🎬 Inspiration from the Chicago Media Coalition, whose hyperlocal, relational, interdependent leadership showed what it looks like to build community power from the ground up.

🎬 A sense of belonging that can only be created when people gather in courage, creativity, tenderness, and rigor.

🎬 Clarity that narrative work is movement work—rooted in solidarity across movements fighting for racial justice, Land Back, reparations, gender justice,
economic justice, and more.

🎬 A renewed commitment to abundant funding, refusing to center scarcity when our stories—and our people—deserve so much more.

🎬 A deeper belief in building our own ecosystem, not waiting for the mainstream to validate us, but strengthening the infrastructures we control: our own platforms, pipelines, distribution channels, and narrative strategies.

Chicago affirmed that collectively we’re building infrastructure for liberation. And at the center of it all is creativity love. The kind that refuses extraction, insists on truth, and keeps calling us toward the world we know is possible.

Grateful to be part of this community. Grateful to keep building. Grateful for the love that carries us.

Some of the strongest movements we’ve ever known were born in kitchens, community cyphers, and backyard gatherings — whe...
11/17/2025

Some of the strongest movements we’ve ever known were born in kitchens, community cyphers, and backyard gatherings — where love, creativity, and kinship were the fuel.

We come from a lineage where family (birth and chosen) is strategy, art is infrastructure, and relationships are the original organizing tool. It is a sort of superpower for us, instead of a liability.

And when that kind of energy converges, cities shift. Cultures transform. Whole futures rearrange themselves.

Swipe ➡️ to see how massive political WIN in NYC was powered by story, sound, artistry, memory, and the kind of familial and communal love you can’t fabricate for optics. The kind that builds trust, moves people, and makes progress possible.

When creativity is centered, kinship is honored, and love is core, we can make magic together.

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We love a good love story — especially love between artists like and rooted in justice, creativity, and power to the p...
11/16/2025

We love a good love story — especially love between artists like and rooted in justice, creativity, and power to the people ✊🏾 We believe that when love fuels liberation, social movements grow stronger.

And if you know Media Sutra… you already know ❤️‍🔥

Their journey started with a swipe. Zohran first met Rama on the dating app Hinge in 2021—two kindred spirits drawn together by shared values.

Rama, a Brooklyn-based illustrator and storyteller born to a Syrian family, had been making work that bridged diasporic experience and visual activism.

Zohran, the historic mayor-elect of New York City (first Muslim, first Indian-American in the role), carried into their partnership his deep commitment to movement and community power.

Behind the scenes you’ll find the creative roots: Zohran grew up on film sets—his mother is filmmaker Mira Nair —and his love of music led him to rap under the name Young Cardamom, blending languages and cultures through hip-hop.

Rama and Zohran formalised their commitment in early 2025, first in a civil ceremony at New York City Hall, then in a more private celebration.

Today, their union stands as a love story anchored in creativity, justice, and transformation—a testament to what happens when love is both personal and political.

This morning, we had the honor of witnessing the unveiling of Gian Galang’s powerful new CHARM mural at the Orange Count...
11/14/2025

This morning, we had the honor of witnessing the unveiling of Gian Galang’s powerful new CHARM mural at the Orange County School of Dance — a stunning testament to what happens when art, community, and purpose meet on the same wall. ✨🎨

Congratulations to Gian for creating a piece that not only beautifies the space, but sparks conversation, connection, and pride. These are the kinds of moments that remind us why arts and culture are the heartbeat of strong, sustainable, hyper-local communities.

Deep gratitude to our partners at the Orange County Arts Council and Arts Mid-Hudson, along with NYSCA, Governor Hochul’s office, and the Town of Monroe, for making this celebration possible. Your commitment to uplifting artists and investing in community-rooted creativity is how culture shifts, neighborhood by neighborhood.

At Media Sutra, we believe art is infrastructure — a catalyst for belonging, imagination, and collective power. Today’s unveiling affirmed that. We’re grateful to be in community with collaborators who share that vision.

Here’s to more murals, more movement-building, and more creative dreams that become anchors for the communities we love.

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