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.
Lydia Nibley and Russell Martin 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 is cheered by audiences in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, and Santa Barbara.
Two
Spiritsis "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 Spiritsis
"a gorgeous, moving, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting story, the kind of film that opens the mind and heart so wide they can never close as tightly again,” says
bestselling author and Oprah Magazine columnist Martha Beck.
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 enrich the lives of “people you don’t know
and have never seen.” And Russell and Lydia love to say yes quickly themselves
when they're entertained, moved, or impassioned by
the creative work of others.
They are
based in Los Angeles and work wherever in the world their joint and individual television,
book, and film projects take them. They can be reached by telephone
at 818.861.7590 or by e-mail at
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