Maitri River Productions

Maitri River Production is a Dallas-based production company producing art for social change.  Our work intends to create high quality broadcast media productions which inform and inspire.  

 

Currently, we are producing Abundant, a feature-length documentary film about the human experience of giving.  The film stars non-directed living kidney donors: these are people who have donated a kidney to a complete stranger. They are considered our society’s most extreme altruists.  The content in their stories is further explored through the commentary of national- and internationally recognized experts who have given interviews for Abundant.  These experts include Nobel Prize Laureate Alvin Roth, PhD, leading sociologist, Mark Granovetter, Ned Brooks, Founder of The National Kidney Donation Organization, Harvey Mysel, Founder of the Living Kidney Donors Network and more.

 

As part of this production, Maitri River Productions produced CrowdSource for Life, a staged theatrical production featuring the cast of 13 living kidney donors.  Staged in a historic Dallas landmark, The Majestic Theater, the monologue performances of the kidney donor cast will be recorded by a full film crew for Abundant.  

 
 CrowdSource for Life and Abundant will not advocate, promote, or persuade the audience toward living kidney donation. That sort of message is not medically ethical, nor is it allowable on public airwaves. Abundant‘s secret sauce is first-person storytelling’s powerful ability for connect.  By expressing the human-interest stories surrounding living kidney donation, Abundant will expand national awareness of the benefits of living kidney donation, while entertaining its audience.   

 

Maitri River Productions has numerous projects in development which will take a similar creative approach to addressing large societal issues.  They are:

 

A healthcare equity podcast focused on kidney disease and kidney transplant/donation.

 

A documentary feature film which follows the story of the family of a terminally-ill person and their end of life celebration for their loved one centered around an in-home musical concert.  The story expands to include many related topics on aging, hospice care, and dying in America.