Speak Up Productions

Speak Up Productions

Speak Up Productions is a socially driven film production company dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices and shedding light on important social issues through the power of storytelling.

Their collection on EncoreNOW features compelling documentaries and narratives that challenge perspectives, inspire action, and give a platform to voices that need to be heard.

Speak Up Productions
  • Show Me Democracy

    Amidst the uprising in Ferguson, seven St. Louis college students evolve into advocates and activists as they demand change through policy and protest.

  • What Matters

    Three friends, two idealistic activists and one skeptic, attempt to live in poverty, on $1.25 a day, across 3 continents. The adventure takes a devastating turn when two of them survive a deadly plane crash in Africa, and all three must fight to finish what they started.

  • When the Saints

    The story of God’s mission to fight sexual exploitation in the heart of Malawi, Africa, and one man’s journey to discover that it begins in his own heart.

    Beautiful, honest, vulnerable, and wildly compelling, this story challenges us all to explore the unplumbed depths of our hearts. It calls u...

  • Thunderdome

    Haunted by a tragic past, Rob Lehr makes an extraordinary choice - to lean into life rather than turn away from it. In the wake of a deadly plane crash, he transforms his backyard into a makeshift Nerf battlefield and dives headlong into the communal game Humans Vs Zombies.

    Through these playfu...