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We help people tell their stories.
Help Films have created a wide variety of film and TV work for communities and clients, ranging from TV networks, agencies and non-profits. Our work is wide range, encompassing editing, directing, story producing, and consulting. We work with anyone who has a fantastic story to tell.
It may be helping filmmakers making their best sizzles to get funding. To directing a fully-funded feature documentary. We are all story, all the time.
Creative Director / Director
Maxine Trump
Maxine’s latest critically acclaimed feature documentary To Kid or Not To Kid? has played in theaters and on TV networks around the world and can be found streaming on Amazon. She has directed feature docs, short documentaries, commercials and branded content. For PBS, TNT, Sundance Channel, BBC, Discovery and many more. She worked for the BBC in London for seven years as a development executive for scripted comedy before emigrating to the USA.
Maxine is a Sundance instructor, having devised and implemented courses for their documentary team. She is the author of the documentary guide "A Documentary Filmmakers Roadmap" and thoroughly enjoys being approached to story consultant for documentary filmmakers. Do get in touch.
Creative Director / Editor
Josh Granger
Josh worked as story producer for the first season of the award-winning real-life series “Random 1” on A&E and has produced and edited programs for National Geographic Television and PBS and many more. He has worked for the past 15 years producing and editing documentary programming for channels such as A&E, TBS, TNT, National Geographic, and BBC America.
Josh was also a founder / partner of the creative agency A Million Neon Rainbows, which produced and edited trailer campaigns for such flagship programs as AMC's "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul", and SyFy's "Twelve Monkeys" among others. He has won numerous Promax/BDA awards for his work on trailers. He has lectured at American University and School of Visual Arts.