Consultancy & Production
Documentary-grade production for organisations that want community storytelling done properly — no extraction, no shortcuts.
Our Services
CICADA Foundation offers complete production consultancy for NGOs, institutions, and organisations seeking authentic community documentation and visual storytelling.
Research-driven narratives rooted in community voices. We develop scripts through extensive field immersion — never from a desk.
Professional documentary-grade filming with acute sensitivity to cultural contexts, tribal councils, and consent-led community protocols.
Editing, colour grading, sound design, subtitling (Hindi / English / regional) — crafting final deliverables that travel across festivals and grass-roots audiences alike.
Long-term documentation of community life, traditions, and change — building living archives that the community itself owns and can return to.
Who We Work With
Every commission starts with a 30-minute call to make sure we're the right studio for the story you have in mind.
Commission films that document your impact, tell beneficiary stories with dignity, or anchor an awareness campaign — without the extractive-footage pitfalls.
Research-based documentaries, campus-anchored student engagement films, and institutional profiles that pass academic-rigour tests.
Ground-level documentation for scheme evaluation, community feedback loops, and policy communication that actually reaches the last mile.
Start the Conversation
Send us a short brief — what community, what question, what outcome you're after. We'll respond within 48 hours with whether we're the right fit, and what a scoped proposal would look like.
Discuss your project