Calling it home.

DOCUSERIES + SOCIAL

WhatsApp’s main audience are people who call multiple places home, with love, family, and tensions that span time zones and languages. They are our Cultural Crossovers.

WhatsApp enlisted us at Media.Monks to tell these stories of diaspora resulting in our five-ish episode docuseries “Crossing Cultures” hosted by the first Black woman to travel every country in the world, Jessica Nabongo.

I had a really interesting role in this. The WhatsApp team doesn’t love Hallmark tales and our first cuts veered too sentimental. I came in to reverse engineer episodes combing through hours of raw footage and stringouts while fashioning VO lines for Jessica that would bring the greater narrative themes to life. The result was a paper edit, which we worked through with WhatsApp before diving into the film edit.

It all resulted in beautiful episodes where big questions and personal stories are given space and sensitivity––the room to be explored.