Mission Documentary — International Mission Board — 2024
The Last Frontier
A twelve-minute documentary following a family of missionaries into the final unreached villages of the Alaskan interior.
Deliverables
- Long-form documentary (12 min)
- Fundraising cutdown (3 min)
- Six vertical social edits
- Board-room presentation cut
The challenge
Communicate the tension of remote missions work — sacrifice and slow, quiet fruit — without dramatizing or flattening the people at its center.
The approach
Six weeks of field production with a two-person crew, mostly natural light and lav audio. Editorial built around the family's own words, held together by long, patient landscape frames.
Impact
$4.2M
Year-end raise
+38%
Above prior year
1,940
New monthly donors
“It’s the first film that made me weep at my own organization’s work. That’s a rare and important thing.”
President, International Mission Board
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