We film the work as it happens — programs, participants, staff and volunteers — and animate the parts a camera cannot reach. Nonprofit video production for charities, unions and public agencies across Canada.
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Mammothic Films is a nonprofit video production company working with charities, foundations, unions, First Nations and public agencies across Canada. We come to your program, film the people doing the work, and turn one shoot day into the videos your fundraising, reporting and recruitment actually need.
We are based in Vancouver and travel nationally. When a topic cannot be filmed — a policy, a process, a statistic, a service nobody can point a camera at — we animate it instead. Most organizations end up with some of both.
internet users watch online video every week. Your donors, funders and volunteers are already there. (DataReportal / GWI, 2025)
of viewers finish a video under one minute. Past twenty minutes, only about one in five do. (Vidyard, 2025)
of teams now make their videos accessible, captions most commonly. For public-facing work that is table stakes. (Wistia, 2026)
We start with what the video has to do — raise funds, report to a funder, recruit volunteers, explain a service — and who has to see it. Then we walk or call through the location, so we know the room, the light, the noise and the access before the day.
You get a shoot plan: a schedule, a shot list, who we need in front of camera and for how long, and what your team needs to arrange. Consent and release forms go out at this stage, not on the day.
A small crew comes to you. For most nonprofit work that is two people, camera and sound, which is quiet enough to film inside a program, a classroom, a shelter or a community space without changing what is happening in the room.
We film the interviews, the work itself, and the b-roll around it. Anyone on camera can stop, skip a question or withdraw at any point, and we say so before we roll. Where something cannot be filmed, we plan an animated sequence to carry it instead.
You review a rough cut as a link with timecoded comments, so notes from your whole team land in one place instead of five email threads.
The finished piece comes with captions and a transcript as standard. From the same footage we cut the versions you need — vertical for social, a 30-second appeal, a funder-report edit — plus stills, and the raw footage if you want it.
A fundraising video has one job: make a stranger care enough to give. That usually means one person and one story, filmed where the work actually happens, rather than a montage of everything your organization does.
We build the appeal around a real participant or a frontline staff member, keep it to 60 to 90 seconds, and cut a 30-second and a vertical version from the same footage for the campaign.
Funders and boards want to see the program, not hear about it. We film a session, a site visit or a day in the field, and cut it into something you can put in an annual report, a grant application or an AGM.
Where the impact is a number or a process rather than a scene, we animate that part and cut it into the filmed footage.
Interview-led films with the people your work touches — participants, volunteers, staff and donors. One shoot day usually yields three or four separate stories you can release over months.
These are handled carefully. We interview in a way that lets someone skip a question, stop, or withdraw afterwards, and nothing goes out before you and they have seen the cut.
Yes. Most of our nonprofit work is filmed on location — program spaces, shelters, classrooms, offices, community centres and outdoors. We do a site visit or a call-through first so we know the access, power, light and noise before the day, and we build the schedule around your program rather than the other way round.
We send the questions in advance, tell the person before we roll that they can skip anything or stop entirely, and keep the crew small so the room stays calm. Nothing is published before both you and the person on camera have seen the cut. If someone withdraws afterwards, we take them out.
We provide the release forms and send them at the planning stage, so they can be signed before the shoot instead of rushed on the day. Minors need a parent or guardian signature. If people appear in the background in a public space, we will tell you what can and cannot be used.
Yes. Events are a different setup — usually two cameras and a feed from the venue audio, with a plan for which speakers and moments matter. We can turn around a short highlight edit the next day if you need it while the event is still fresh.
We quote nonprofit work by shoot day and edit rather than per video, which usually works out better for organizations that need several pieces from one visit. See our pricing page for ranges. Tell us the grant or campaign budget you are working inside and we will tell you honestly what fits.
Yes. You own the finished videos and can use them anywhere. We can also hand over the raw footage and a selects reel, so your team can pull clips for reports, socials or a future campaign without coming back to us.
Yes, we carry commercial general liability insurance and can issue a certificate naming your organization or venue ahead of the shoot. Tell us at booking who needs to be named and by when. We travel across Canada; travel and accommodation are quoted separately and agreed before booking.
That is common — a policy change, a statistic, a service that plays out over months, something too private to film. We animate those sections and cut them into the filmed footage, so the video still works without staging something that did not happen. Start with a quote request.
