TELLING YOUR STORY
Great Sky Media serves nonprofits, arts and cultural institutions, schools, and businesses by creating high-quality documentaries, commercials, virtual events, and more
Our mission is to facilitate the imaginations of the organizations, artists, and businesses we work with to tell impactful stories. Filmmaking is more than creating beautiful images. At its heart, it’s about articulating human experience and amplifying voices that might not otherwise be heard. We are proud to create these relationships and to serve our community.
EVERY STORY HAS IMPACT
Joe Aidonidis, founder of Great Sky Media, creates films focused on the extraordinary challenges of ordinary people by capturing their unique experiences. For the past four years, he has used film to explore the issues surrounding opiate use disorder in the Berkshires.
In 2020, Joe was named one of the inaugural artists chosen by Artists at Work, a new program inspired by the Works Progress Administration that gives artists resources to continue producing work during the health and economic crisis brought on by COVID-19. For his work, “Children of Apathy” was nominated for a New England Emmy in 2023.
This project built on his past work chronicling this disease of isolation in a time of quarantine. It takes an honest look at the opiate crisis in the Northern Berkshires; aiming to understand the stresses on systems and people, with a specific focus on families, first responders, and health care providers.
In July 2021, Joe won a New England Emmy Award for this biographic piece on author Tony DiTerlizzi’s “Kenny and the Book of Beasts,” created for Simon & Schuster.
DOCUMENTARY WORK
‘Children of Apathy: Addiction in the Promised Land’ explores the ongoing opiate crisis; examining its many causes through a hyper-local lens in central and western Massachusetts. Its characters grapple with the echo of national policies and profit-before-people economics, the inertia of which ripples through daily life.
