S a y i n g  Y e s  Q u i c k l y

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.

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 Beautiful Faces is being produced in association with the UNESCO Chair in Bio-Ethics and Human Rights. Executive Director Dr. Fernando Lorenzo Rego, based in Rome, calls the film "a great documentary . . . Seeing this film is one of the most significant human and spiritual experiences I've had in recent years. What pride it gave me in being a doctor, what pride to find work like this in Mexico . . . what pride I found in the hope of these families, and in these children who remind us of the grandeur of the human being created by God."

 Beautiful Faces's filming concluded in Mexico City in July. The documentary is now in post-production,and its premiere is planned for early 2012.

 Two Spirits won the Audience Award for the 2010-2011 season of the PBS series "Independent Lens," selected by viewers as their favorite among the twenty films broadcast during the season.

 Beautiful Faces has received very generous production funding from the Mexican National Ministry of Health (Secretaría de Salud).

 The World Craniofacial Foundation has become Beautiful Faces's fiscal sponsor and is providing invalubale logistical and consultative support.

 Two Spirits was broadcast during the 2010-2011 season of the PBS series "Independent Lens" and was seen my million of viewers nationwide.

 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, Copenhagen, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, Santa Barbara and around the world.

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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 Ojai, California, near Los Angeles, and can be reached by telephone at 805.500.5490 or by
e-mail at russell [AT] SYQproductions.net.