Smush Films

Patient Connect: Bernie For this series we were commissioned to drive home the emotional impact of diseases and treatments on patients and their families. GENENTECH

      Smush was asked to create video and still content for this rich media piece about scientific breakthroughs that have transformed the treatment of an aggressive form of breast cancer. Take the Journey

Heritage Salvage founder Michael Bug Deakin rescues sustainable building materials from a fate of landfill. We follow him as he repurposes reclaimed wood into country furniture.  

Making Medicine depicts the epic journey of a molecule to a medicine in a dynamic web experience with videos, galleries and articles, translating rigorous scientific processes into accessible and engaging content. On our own 10-week, 20-video journey, we had the pleasure (and challenge) of interviewing 53 of the brightest minds in science, and earned our honorary PhDs along the way... Making Medicine premiered at the Birth of Biotech exhibition at the Smithsonian. Experience Making Medicine

The latest episode in our Big Ideas animation series exploring recent scientific breakthroughs. It's science with a twist, complete with a colorful cast of characters working together to put the smackdown on pain.  

The first and largest national wish-granting organization for adults, Dream Foundation enhances the quality of life for individuals, their families, and their caregivers battling life-threatening illnesses.  

Client: “Your mission should you choose to accept it - Capture the inside perspective of our 12,300 employees’ daily activities in 120 seconds or less. Oh, and shoot it with Google Glass...”  

The latest in our series of personal profiles features Wendy Kan.  Inside Genentech, she's a programmer on the BioInformatics team, developing software to help make science faster. Outside, she’s a triathlete and a mentor to other women computer professionals.

Access to Clinical Trial data has been a recent subject of contentious debate within the scientific community. We created this piece to help bring some clarity to the process for both research scientists and the general public.

In our Big Ideas series, we start with a complex scientific discussion about a breakthrough discovery, distill it to a story we can actually understand, add hand crafted animation, mix in freshly composed music, a couple of high-kicks and… Well, you should see for yourselves…