What if screens were a bridge between living rooms and forests waiting to be discovered? What if the hours kids spend every day watching content brought them closer to nature instead of further away?
Studio Rewild creates playful, emotional, & nerdily accurate content that inspires a relationship between children and nature unlike ever before.
The Formula
Studio Rewild isn't just television. It isn't just content for children. The studio isn't just animation or film. Studio Rewild exists at the center of Production, Music & Sound, Childhood, Biology, and Business Innovation. Without careful attention paid to each piece, our puzzle collapses.
First and foremost, we produce content kids will love. No curriculum targets. No grade level reading. No developmental goals. These are the plays that guide each moment of story we tell.
The Playbook
Production
With a mobile production unit of industry experts and paraprofessionals, we produce high quality animation, live-action, and reality television for children.
Music & Sound
Music is central to emotion and our sound team pays extra attention to develop original scores that amplify the themes of every show.
Biology
Every episode of every series has a team of biologists committed to accurately representing the flora and fauna of our world.
Childhood
Our childhood team is responsible for making sure that the content we produce reflects current research about child development. Will kids like it?
Business Innovation
Children are always growing, technology is always advancing, storytelling changes with each generation. We look at every story and the way we tell it with an eye on the future.
Every child, from birth, is born an inquisitive scientist committed to learning about the world around them. Kids do not need to be taught how to learn and when we step out of the way of their experiments, they develop some incredible conclusions.
Children are powerful scientists.
When kids experience the unknown or unfamiliar, their instinct is curiosity. The path to ignorance is taught. One of the best ways to put children in the drivers' seat is to introduce them to new unguided experiences.
Curiosity is the best guide.
Nature is predictable. Nature is diverse. Nature is consistent. Nature has immense influence over every person on the planet and there are infinite lessons that can be learned from nature - without the intervention of adults.
Nature is the greatest classroom.
Children are born with empathy. Disney didn't help children care about animals by anthropomorphizing a rodent. They tapped into the innate empathy of children to care about others. The empathy is too often tempered to fit into society.
Kids care about nature.
It is so easy to see the influence that adults have over children in the world. After all, the world is filled with spaces where adults make every decision that affects kids. If given the chance, the incredible minds of kids have the power to influence society for the better.
Kids have influence.
While kids would not be on the planet without adults, their lives extend beyond the boundaries of the adults in their lives. Their imaginations and play worlds often intentionally exclude adults. These are the moments they are most free and these are the worlds where they find themselves.
Kids exist without adults.
The natural world is filled with truly remarkable wonder. From the smallest organisms thriving in volcanoes to the largest groves of trees on the planet. From the power of a raging river to the calmness of waves on a beach. The real natural world does not need exaggerating or dramatizing to be wonderful.
Nature is remarkable.
There are so many places in the world where kids are restricted. The real power in a kid's life comes when they find comfort and support in a place. For so many kids, televisions are that place. Even more, the predictable and expected settings of their favorite show open the doors for children to find their voice.
Child development is place-based.
While it may not feel like it today, humans are born of the same biology and evolutionary processes as the rest of the animal world. We have a lot to learn from the creatures around us. Our lives directly impact the rest of the living world and the success (or failure) of the living world has a massive impact on us.
Humans and creatures are connected.
The Playbook
Innovation Head
Founder of Studio Rewild. Small town boy. Lover of childhood and Muppets.
The Team
The Team
The Team
The Stories
Alexander & The Wotifs
Driven middle-schooler Alexander is proudly on his path to valedictorian until a new kid in school asks him if he is happy. His world is thrown into a spiral as he is torn between the path to success his well-meaning parents want for him and the happiness he finds in music. Before long, he accidentally discovers an unlikely and motley pack of forest guides that have a way of calming his mind in the wilds of Northern Minnesota.
Birding
A crew of birds is brought together only by their obsession with humanity. Nested in NYC, a ditzy northern mocking bird, a mad scientist rock pigeon, a heroic peregrine falcon, a chaotic and clumsy northern flicker, and a stranded migratory sandpiper join wings to travel the country and check off the humans on their life list. One way or another, the unassuming flock of feather friends will find the two legged myths they have only heard rumors of.
My Planet
Driven by the curiosity of viewers, each three-part episode of My Planet brings a child on a journey to seek the answers to their burning questions about nature. The episode takes the curious kid to observe their question in nature before they gain more pieces of the puzzle as they study the episode's subject in a zoo or arboretum. Finally, the youngster joins our hosts in the My Planet Biolab to test the ultimate hypothesis. Can a rhino jump? How fast do mushrooms grow? Are feathers necessary?
