The Essential Image Source Foundation, founded in 1999, is a non-profit (I.R.S. 501(c)(3)) organization, located in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Malibu, California, and North Palm Beach, Florida. Founder and President, Susan Sember, while actively engaged in her former litigation law practice, recognized, based also on her undergraduate education in television and film, the tremendous value of engaging the persuasive and sensory format of film to connect others in the education and advocacy of various causes. In addition, while producing documentary films, Susan discovered and became a firm believer in the vastly superior resolution and color, unmatched evergreen quality and significant benefits of high definition to transport viewers into a realm previously unrealized by film audiences.
As such, the foundation utilizes visually stunning, high definition images and illuminating stories aimed towards prompting the psyche, heart and soul of a variety of audiences, into raising awareness, preserving, protecting and spurring into action.
We have created successful alliances with numerous corporate, community, and philanthropic partnerships to fund the most technically advanced and creatively gripping documentaries, while at the same time, synergistically combining the interests of those in education, science, outreach, business, and entertainment.
Our high definition media team members are recruited from around the world and are acclaimed globally for their talents and expertise. Above all, it is our passion and commitment, however, that bring us together to make a difference through the most compelling art of film and new media.
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Collaborating with the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park
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Preservation of Wild Elephants
with High Definition
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Capturing the historically significant heritage of the Chumash Indians crossing the Pacific waters to Santa Cruz Island in a hand built tomol
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Using HD to establish a donor base for a captive chimpanzee beneficiary trust
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Since its inception, The Essential Image Source Foundation has accumulated hundreds of thousands of high definition images and produced numerous films, public service announcements and other educational and scientific by-products. However, we are not simply another film production entity. Rather, high definition filmmaking is the platform by which we effectuate change, educate and inform, prompt action, and leave a legacy of making a positive difference in our world, as well as, inspiring others to do the same.
More notable also is the innovative and enterprising approach that has been taken by this nonprofit documentary film foundation, in forming strategic partnerships to artistically produce the most visually advanced high definition films that stir the soul and engage the heart. It is filmmaking with a purpose. For it is our passions, ideas and causes that are just as key as the flawless excellence of our film productions.
Mentoring emerging filmmakers to use their art in a proactive voice; engaging visionary business persons to merge business skills with art and philanthropy; spurring calculated alliances for outreach; and recruiting scientists and researchers seeking a unique connectivity of the global communities to their findings, all through the technology of high definition - those are the accomplishments of which we are most proud, are most representative of our mission and will continue to be highlighted in this section of our web site.
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Filming a Land Mine Awareness
Campaign for Children
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