Three Entrepreneurs, One Vision: Creating Positive Change through Social Entrepreneurship

The world of social entrepreneurship is a fascinating space where innovation meets purpose. In a recent documentary series, filmmaker [Filmmaker's Name] shines a light on three remarkable entrepreneurs who are making waves in the industry. From turning discarded fishing nets into skateboard decks to creating affordable socks for the homeless, these individuals embody the spirit of creative problem-solving and community-driven initiatives.

One such entrepreneur is Maria, whose company, "Waves," uses 100% recycled fishing nets to produce skateboard decks. This innovative approach not only reduces plastic waste but also creates a unique product that appeals to environmentally conscious consumers. What's even more impressive is Maria's efforts to educate local fishermen about the importance of proper waste disposal and supply them with bins to store their empty nets, thereby reducing the amount of trash that ends up in our oceans.

Another entrepreneur profiled in the documentary series is Jenna Blackheart, founder of "Good Folk." This young woman from New Orleans has created a business model where every pair of socks sold donates a matching pair to a homeless person. This one-for-one approach not only provides essential clothing but also promotes social responsibility and empathy. The idea behind Good Folk is to empower individuals to make a positive impact in their communities, and it's a concept that resonates deeply with [Filmmaker's Name]'s own values.

[ Filmmaker's Name] has spent two years documenting the journeys of these three entrepreneurs, learning about their passions, challenges, and triumphs. As someone who has followed the stories of these individuals for an extended period, it's clear that they have become like a surrogate family to him. The documentary series offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process, highlighting the highs and lows of launching a business.

In contrast to the complexity of social entrepreneurship, [Filmmaker's Name]'s next project is a more straightforward feature film about emo music. This coming-of-age story will delve into the world of 1990s emo bands like The Promise Ring and Braid, exploring their rise to fame and the impact they had on the music industry. The filmmaker's personal connection to the genre and his desire to share its stories with a wider audience make this project particularly exciting.

As [Filmmaker's Name] embarks on this new creative journey, he reflects on the lessons learned from his previous documentary series. While social entrepreneurship can be intellectually demanding, he acknowledges that his next film will be more personal and introspective. With the support of his fans and followers, who have been eagerly awaiting his next project, [Filmmaker's Name] is ready to take on this new challenge.

For those interested in learning more about these entrepreneurs or checking out their work, there are various resources available. The filmmaker's website features a social media section where visitors can stay updated on his latest projects and behind-the-scenes insights. Additionally, joining the mailing list will ensure that fans receive notifications when the documentary series becomes available.

The next step for [Filmmaker's Name] is to submit his films to film festivals, which will take place over the coming months. This marks an exciting milestone in the release process, as it signals the official launch of his work into the wider cinematic landscape. With March and April set to be significant months for his documentaries, fans can look forward to witnessing their impact on audiences around the world.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enback here with more digital trends live thank you everyone for tuning in today I got to say there is a theme that has been established for today's show and it is denim we've got a lot more that we're gonna be discussing but Jeremy can't blame myself and our next guest that is joining us right now so we love having different interviews and talking to different creators here on digital trans live and we are joined now by Pete Williams filmmaker extraordinaire Thank You Pete for hopping in here with us today good to be here man good to be yeah I mean I'm it's good to have you in here and I do want to discuss there's so much about your movie we're gonna be playing the trailer here in just a minute talking about the documentary and again called the new breed but one thing I really I think I want to talk about first is clarifying you say that this is a movie about the social entrepreneur exactly what is a social entrepreneur what is the definition this is something that's a word that's been around for about 10 years now mm-hmm and a lot of people still don't know what it is yeah but for my film our definition is a social entrepreneur is someone who creates a business but the primary objective of fixing a social or environmental problem so trying to solve something try to yeah trying to fix something for other people which is you know kind of a noble way to start a business yeah you know I mean yes but at the same time it's a business so exactly yeah and so how that all works well part of the lunch walk us through what this documentary was about like what you did for this sure well about six years ago I had a TV show called makers which was about young entrepreneurs around the world making things with their hands and I noticed some of these makers had some kind of social impact built into their business oh that's an interesting idea maybe that could be something to explore later right so you're doing this yes so you're doing the television show meeting all these different people and where was the television show that was on channel 4 in the UK okay it's collect the HBO of Europe nice yeah congratulations thanks man it's huge yeah so so you're doing this and you're meeting all these different people and thinking maybe there's a theme here that could work yeah for a movie and when we're gonna again we're gonna play the trailer here in just a minute but just to talk about this what did it take to get this movie made dude it was it was tough yes this is my first feature film so in the past I was just given budgets to make content commercials and TV shows and this one I had to fund myself so I had to learn how to raise money for feature films like develop a feature film and then shoot it and edit it it's been three years in total three years in the making for this and how did you choose who it was you were going to film as you choose your subjects for this yeah I so I spent a whole year traveling around the world meeting social entrepreneurs I met with over 100 Wow and I just try to pick the ones that were most engaging on camera someone the people the viewers could fall in love with and really be engaged in their story and different businesses so the three businesses that I chose are very different very different lifecycle stages of their business one's a startup one's ten years old and different products yeah and different kinds of people that they're helping and I know yeah but like you said you went all over the world so yeah I know in this movie you it's it's featured in several different places yeah where all did you go in this uh we spent some time in Uganda Chile Peru Guatemala Haiti Canada and all over the USA Wow that is crazy that's a lot of traveling yeah I can see why that took a long time to make well I want to come back and talk about more more about this and we can take comments and questions too cuz we're broadcasting live so I want to see what people want to want to say what your questions are about this but why don't we go ahead and roll the trailer and we'll get a better idea I think for everybody of what's going on in the movie and come back and talk to Pete some more our biggest global problems like poverty inequality and climate change are not being fixed by governments or charities business has been corrupted putting profit before people and the planet our generation has learned that protesting occupying and boycotting is not enough if we want to create a world that's fair peaceful and healthy we need a new form of activism a movement has begun young entrepreneurs are combining the best parts of business and the social sector to tackle the world's biggest issues 10% of the oceans pollution is due to stuff like this it started derelict fish nets our generation and the generations that are coming up are seeing the state of the world and the way things are going and they see by buying a product that might cost a little more but by making a positive impact they can do so much more in the world we made a 25 inch plastic Cruiser skateboard and we've sold a couple thousand of them to this point last Saturday was the first graduation ceremony that I was able to be a part of it's hard to put into words how special that was getting to hear some of the stories of our graduates that have actually graduated out of our program and who are standing independently on their own two feet that is a realization of our vision join us on an entrepreneurial journey from global problems to business solutions and all of the challenges Adventures and celebrations in between social enterprise is an idea whose time has come and the future of business has never looked so good Wow three years in the making the new breed new breed TV also for everybody out there who wants to go there and take a look at the website and find out how to watch the film right there and I mean incredible just incredible cinematography in that and really want to dig in on some of the stories and I know that's why you need to watch the movie but maybe in particular just that Uganda segment just kind of really stood out to me I mean I've I've never been to Uganda I would love to go check that out I mean it just seems it just seems amazing but what was maybe we could talk about what the story was behind that sure that that was the main story that got me excited about this movement yes it's a company called crochet kids okay they're now called known supply they've had a brand change which is what the film is about but ten years ago these high school students went to Uganda and saw poverty firsthand and they thought this is messed up what can we what can we do to help what can we give you guys because we come from a rich country yeah and the biggest takeaway that they heard from the people living in poverty in Uganda was we don't want to we don't you to give us anything we want opportunity we want a job we're gonna provide for ourselves those charities come over here all the time and give us things we don't want more gifts we want to be empowered because I mean where you gonna get that's nice a temporary solution but exactly it doesn't happen in the long run so so what did they what do they do from there so they had one skill these teenage boys from Spokane Washington then you had a crochet beanies because there were snowboarders so they thought okay if we teach these women how to crochet will buy the beanies from them and we'll see if we can sell them back in America nice and so that was ten years ago and now they employ a hundred and fifty women and you gather in Peru to crochet beanies and you can buy them in Nordstrom's and and Patagonia and different stores that's incredible I mean and that that is the definition of a social entrepreneur like now and still doing a business at the same time you know best of both worlds really totally it comes down to it and and so you were over there how long did that take to film in Uganda I was in Uganda for two weeks okay yeah and that was including shooting them making the the products hanging out with Cole who's a co-founder and it's travelling with him while he met their graduates after three years women graduate from the program and start their own business it really is an empowerment program but they start winning it other people then continues on like that exactly and get that entrepreneurial you know spirit in that that kind of education I guess yeah how to run a business that's incredible and that's just one of the one of the places that you talk to in this one of the one of the social entrepreneurs well let's talk about some of the things that we have here yeah table so I know we've got this and a couple other things that we're gonna bring up I get a skateboard yes a skateboard too so what's going on here let's talk about it okay so let's talk about the skateboard first so this is a company called Barea and they're based in Ventura California and there are three surfing dudes and they were sick of seeing plastic pollution in the ocean Tim sealable plastic pollution is fishing nets discarded fishing nets yeah so their solution was let's collect these discarded fishing nets melt them down into real plastic and make it into products that people want to buy that's so cool so this product here this skateboard is made out of 100% recycled fishing nets why sure just thought of top destroying our oceans a hundred percent fishing net 100% how are they getting them out of the water so they're they're actually they started getting them out of the water but now they're trying to prevent them from ending up there in the first place so they're working with the local fishermen educating them about pollution supplying them with big bins where they can put their empty Nets in instead of throwing them out yeah exactly and they're paying the fishermen to discard their way stupid Beria that's a smart smart move and sanitizing yeah make it worth their while to do that and and learn at the same time and what's the name of this company again Maria Maria which means waves in my Putin gun which is a Chilean native language very cool yeah we're learning we're learning all kinds of things here today and then I'm noticing these two yes so this is the third entrepreneur this is the newest company it's a it's called bond folk ok good folk in French she's from New Orleans it's a young woman could Jenna Blackheart and it's basically the one for one model similar to TOMS shoes mhm every pair of socks that she sells she gives a pair of socks to a homeless person Wow yeah that's that's a good person yeah somebody doing something good there and that's cool and so again what was this called bon bon faux good good folk yeah and these are just a couple of the different things different products that we're talking about and were these featured in the documentary yeah say there's three entrepreneurs I follow it for two years and they're all very sick of me them hanging out with too long with the camera and they're trying to run a business and alright China are in their face yeah exactly no tell me another story tell me this yeah well and again the new breed so new breed TV exactly place to go yep be able to check this out so what's next for you now that you've done this you know three years of your life you know in this film where do you go from there yeah so record here do you start something else I'm not very good at taking breaks yeah so I'm ready to jump straight into my next project and I mean the new breed was such a intellectually difficult film to get my head around this whole social enterprise movement right one just interviewing a hundred different people to to try to find yeah the right subjects that's a lot to process it was big it's like it's got political undertones economic undertones it was a big topic so my next film I'm gonna keep it pretty simple okay and that's a feature film about emo about emo yeah music did you have an emo phase yeah yes no absolutely and there's nothing wrong with that but yeah it's cool yeah I had I had an emo phase there's pictures out there's more what I'm worried about but I so so what about emo what about you male in particular well there's never really been a film about this amazing music yeah because it's gonna say even the definition emo is pretty broad I feel like everybody's kind of got their own definition of what is totally yeah whether you know you're going to the goth side or you go to you know I don't know there's all kinds of different definitions you could have so that's interests are you gonna hello like the bands on it and well I'm gonna go back to the 90s okay and talk about emo before it became sweeping fringes and self-harming and nail polish yeah yeah back to like the promise ring and braid and jazz and all these amazing bands and never really got the attention they deserved mm-hmm but they set up bands that became famous in the 2000s right but they didn't get any of the credit for it so I'm gonna get back and and check out those bands to chase the roots of it yeah I've never seen anything on emo so that's really that's really interesting yeah cool well congratulations thanks man on all your success and again the new breed new breed TV and go there and and check out the movie check out these products the social entrepreneurs of the world working on that and we really appreciate Pete sniping where can people follow you what is it another way just before we go to break the websites the bests okay source because there's a social media links on there and you can join our mailing list which is where you'll find out when the film's available okay the next step for us is to go to film festivals the films done so it's going to film festivals now for the next few months and then we'll probably be available March April next year okay fantasticback here with more digital trends live thank you everyone for tuning in today I got to say there is a theme that has been established for today's show and it is denim we've got a lot more that we're gonna be discussing but Jeremy can't blame myself and our next guest that is joining us right now so we love having different interviews and talking to different creators here on digital trans live and we are joined now by Pete Williams filmmaker extraordinaire Thank You Pete for hopping in here with us today good to be here man good to be yeah I mean I'm it's good to have you in here and I do want to discuss there's so much about your movie we're gonna be playing the trailer here in just a minute talking about the documentary and again called the new breed but one thing I really I think I want to talk about first is clarifying you say that this is a movie about the social entrepreneur exactly what is a social entrepreneur what is the definition this is something that's a word that's been around for about 10 years now mm-hmm and a lot of people still don't know what it is yeah but for my film our definition is a social entrepreneur is someone who creates a business but the primary objective of fixing a social or environmental problem so trying to solve something try to yeah trying to fix something for other people which is you know kind of a noble way to start a business yeah you know I mean yes but at the same time it's a business so exactly yeah and so how that all works well part of the lunch walk us through what this documentary was about like what you did for this sure well about six years ago I had a TV show called makers which was about young entrepreneurs around the world making things with their hands and I noticed some of these makers had some kind of social impact built into their business oh that's an interesting idea maybe that could be something to explore later right so you're doing this yes so you're doing the television show meeting all these different people and where was the television show that was on channel 4 in the UK okay it's collect the HBO of Europe nice yeah congratulations thanks man it's huge yeah so so you're doing this and you're meeting all these different people and thinking maybe there's a theme here that could work yeah for a movie and when we're gonna again we're gonna play the trailer here in just a minute but just to talk about this what did it take to get this movie made dude it was it was tough yes this is my first feature film so in the past I was just given budgets to make content commercials and TV shows and this one I had to fund myself so I had to learn how to raise money for feature films like develop a feature film and then shoot it and edit it it's been three years in total three years in the making for this and how did you choose who it was you were going to film as you choose your subjects for this yeah I so I spent a whole year traveling around the world meeting social entrepreneurs I met with over 100 Wow and I just try to pick the ones that were most engaging on camera someone the people the viewers could fall in love with and really be engaged in their story and different businesses so the three businesses that I chose are very different very different lifecycle stages of their business one's a startup one's ten years old and different products yeah and different kinds of people that they're helping and I know yeah but like you said you went all over the world so yeah I know in this movie you it's it's featured in several different places yeah where all did you go in this uh we spent some time in Uganda Chile Peru Guatemala Haiti Canada and all over the USA Wow that is crazy that's a lot of traveling yeah I can see why that took a long time to make well I want to come back and talk about more more about this and we can take comments and questions too cuz we're broadcasting live so I want to see what people want to want to say what your questions are about this but why don't we go ahead and roll the trailer and we'll get a better idea I think for everybody of what's going on in the movie and come back and talk to Pete some more our biggest global problems like poverty inequality and climate change are not being fixed by governments or charities business has been corrupted putting profit before people and the planet our generation has learned that protesting occupying and boycotting is not enough if we want to create a world that's fair peaceful and healthy we need a new form of activism a movement has begun young entrepreneurs are combining the best parts of business and the social sector to tackle the world's biggest issues 10% of the oceans pollution is due to stuff like this it started derelict fish nets our generation and the generations that are coming up are seeing the state of the world and the way things are going and they see by buying a product that might cost a little more but by making a positive impact they can do so much more in the world we made a 25 inch plastic Cruiser skateboard and we've sold a couple thousand of them to this point last Saturday was the first graduation ceremony that I was able to be a part of it's hard to put into words how special that was getting to hear some of the stories of our graduates that have actually graduated out of our program and who are standing independently on their own two feet that is a realization of our vision join us on an entrepreneurial journey from global problems to business solutions and all of the challenges Adventures and celebrations in between social enterprise is an idea whose time has come and the future of business has never looked so good Wow three years in the making the new breed new breed TV also for everybody out there who wants to go there and take a look at the website and find out how to watch the film right there and I mean incredible just incredible cinematography in that and really want to dig in on some of the stories and I know that's why you need to watch the movie but maybe in particular just that Uganda segment just kind of really stood out to me I mean I've I've never been to Uganda I would love to go check that out I mean it just seems it just seems amazing but what was maybe we could talk about what the story was behind that sure that that was the main story that got me excited about this movement yes it's a company called crochet kids okay they're now called known supply they've had a brand change which is what the film is about but ten years ago these high school students went to Uganda and saw poverty firsthand and they thought this is messed up what can we what can we do to help what can we give you guys because we come from a rich country yeah and the biggest takeaway that they heard from the people living in poverty in Uganda was we don't want to we don't you to give us anything we want opportunity we want a job we're gonna provide for ourselves those charities come over here all the time and give us things we don't want more gifts we want to be empowered because I mean where you gonna get that's nice a temporary solution but exactly it doesn't happen in the long run so so what did they what do they do from there so they had one skill these teenage boys from Spokane Washington then you had a crochet beanies because there were snowboarders so they thought okay if we teach these women how to crochet will buy the beanies from them and we'll see if we can sell them back in America nice and so that was ten years ago and now they employ a hundred and fifty women and you gather in Peru to crochet beanies and you can buy them in Nordstrom's and and Patagonia and different stores that's incredible I mean and that that is the definition of a social entrepreneur like now and still doing a business at the same time you know best of both worlds really totally it comes down to it and and so you were over there how long did that take to film in Uganda I was in Uganda for two weeks okay yeah and that was including shooting them making the the products hanging out with Cole who's a co-founder and it's travelling with him while he met their graduates after three years women graduate from the program and start their own business it really is an empowerment program but they start winning it other people then continues on like that exactly and get that entrepreneurial you know spirit in that that kind of education I guess yeah how to run a business that's incredible and that's just one of the one of the places that you talk to in this one of the one of the social entrepreneurs well let's talk about some of the things that we have here yeah table so I know we've got this and a couple other things that we're gonna bring up I get a skateboard yes a skateboard too so what's going on here let's talk about it okay so let's talk about the skateboard first so this is a company called Barea and they're based in Ventura California and there are three surfing dudes and they were sick of seeing plastic pollution in the ocean Tim sealable plastic pollution is fishing nets discarded fishing nets yeah so their solution was let's collect these discarded fishing nets melt them down into real plastic and make it into products that people want to buy that's so cool so this product here this skateboard is made out of 100% recycled fishing nets why sure just thought of top destroying our oceans a hundred percent fishing net 100% how are they getting them out of the water so they're they're actually they started getting them out of the water but now they're trying to prevent them from ending up there in the first place so they're working with the local fishermen educating them about pollution supplying them with big bins where they can put their empty Nets in instead of throwing them out yeah exactly and they're paying the fishermen to discard their way stupid Beria that's a smart smart move and sanitizing yeah make it worth their while to do that and and learn at the same time and what's the name of this company again Maria Maria which means waves in my Putin gun which is a Chilean native language very cool yeah we're learning we're learning all kinds of things here today and then I'm noticing these two yes so this is the third entrepreneur this is the newest company it's a it's called bond folk ok good folk in French she's from New Orleans it's a young woman could Jenna Blackheart and it's basically the one for one model similar to TOMS shoes mhm every pair of socks that she sells she gives a pair of socks to a homeless person Wow yeah that's that's a good person yeah somebody doing something good there and that's cool and so again what was this called bon bon faux good good folk yeah and these are just a couple of the different things different products that we're talking about and were these featured in the documentary yeah say there's three entrepreneurs I follow it for two years and they're all very sick of me them hanging out with too long with the camera and they're trying to run a business and alright China are in their face yeah exactly no tell me another story tell me this yeah well and again the new breed so new breed TV exactly place to go yep be able to check this out so what's next for you now that you've done this you know three years of your life you know in this film where do you go from there yeah so record here do you start something else I'm not very good at taking breaks yeah so I'm ready to jump straight into my next project and I mean the new breed was such a intellectually difficult film to get my head around this whole social enterprise movement right one just interviewing a hundred different people to to try to find yeah the right subjects that's a lot to process it was big it's like it's got political undertones economic undertones it was a big topic so my next film I'm gonna keep it pretty simple okay and that's a feature film about emo about emo yeah music did you have an emo phase yeah yes no absolutely and there's nothing wrong with that but yeah it's cool yeah I had I had an emo phase there's pictures out there's more what I'm worried about but I so so what about emo what about you male in particular well there's never really been a film about this amazing music yeah because it's gonna say even the definition emo is pretty broad I feel like everybody's kind of got their own definition of what is totally yeah whether you know you're going to the goth side or you go to you know I don't know there's all kinds of different definitions you could have so that's interests are you gonna hello like the bands on it and well I'm gonna go back to the 90s okay and talk about emo before it became sweeping fringes and self-harming and nail polish yeah yeah back to like the promise ring and braid and jazz and all these amazing bands and never really got the attention they deserved mm-hmm but they set up bands that became famous in the 2000s right but they didn't get any of the credit for it so I'm gonna get back and and check out those bands to chase the roots of it yeah I've never seen anything on emo so that's really that's really interesting yeah cool well congratulations thanks man on all your success and again the new breed new breed TV and go there and and check out the movie check out these products the social entrepreneurs of the world working on that and we really appreciate Pete sniping where can people follow you what is it another way just before we go to break the websites the bests okay source because there's a social media links on there and you can join our mailing list which is where you'll find out when the film's available okay the next step for us is to go to film festivals the films done so it's going to film festivals now for the next few months and then we'll probably be available March April next year okay fantastic\n"