Our lives are made of stories told over countless cups of coffee, broadcast and projected onto screens, passed hand-to-hand on the printed page, and whispered in bed. We all eagerly listen to the stories of others and relish telling our own. In their simplicity and grandeur, humor and drama, stories occupy the very heart of what it means to be human.

Russell Martin and his colleagues create imaginative, character-based stories for television and film—stories that get people talking, true stories that reflect the complexities of individual lives and imagined stories that mine essential elements of our shared humanity.

  Two Spirits will be broadcast during the 2010-2011 season of the PBS series "Independent Lens" and will reach a potential audience of six million viewers.

  Two Spirits higlights the British Film Institute's LGBT Film Festival in London and is nominated for the CHE Film Award.

    Two Spirits nominated for the Fund for Santa Barbara's Social Justice Award at the 25th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

  Two Spirits is cheered by audiences in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, and Santa Barbara.

  Two Spirits is "riveting," says LA Weekly, ". . . a crash course on Navajo history and culture while illuminating the struggles of Martinez, whose detailed murder and mother’s grief are devastating."

  Two Spirits and the Fred Martinez Project receive the 2008 Monette-Horwitz Award.

The name“Say Yes Quickly” comes from a poem by Jelaluddin Rumi, the great Sufi mystic who lived in the thirteenth century. The poem affirms that it’s possible to touch the lives of “people you don’t know and have never seen.” And we love to say yes quickly ourselves when we're entertained, moved, or impassioned by the creative work of others.

Russell and his colleagues at Say Yes Quickly are based in Los Angeles and can be reached by telephone at 818.859.7120 or by e-mail at .