ABOUT KLTRD MEDIA
We didn’t start as a production company. We started in the room.
We don’t come to organizations as outside observers. We come as people who have been in the room, at the table, in the community, doing the work.
SCENE 01 · WHY WE EXIST
KLTRD MEDIA is a brand storytelling and video production agency founded on a belief that isn’t a tagline — it’s a lived conviction. That belief didn’t come from a business plan. It came from years of sitting in community meetings, supporting youth-led organizations, and building initiatives from the ground up.
Everyone deserves to be seen.
We built KLTRD MEDIA because we saw what was missing: a creative partner that doesn’t just show up to film — one that actually understands the work being done, and the people doing it.
SCENE 02 · THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE WORK
Meet the founders.
Combined, decades of video production, brand strategy, Entrepreneurship, nonprofit leadership, and direct community service across California brought together under one lens.
Martín Sanchez
Co-Founder & Creative Director / CinematographerMartín combines creative talent with community engagement, directing and shooting stories for organizations and individuals who deserve recognition. Known for building trust and listening deeply, he treats brand films as vital nonprofit assets, fundraising tools and community resources, not just deliverables. His ties across California initiatives include DCYF, Blaze Consulting Group, and Rise East, New Joaquín CDC and more.
· martin@kltrdmedia.com
Co-Founder / Brand & Community Strategy
Matthew Henry
Matthew fosters genuine relationships built over years of community engagement. His background in nonprofit leadership and startup development lets him navigate the dynamics of funders and organizations with fluency few production partners have. He’s collaborated with Boys & Girls Clubs and the San Francisco Beacon Initiative, and through Blaze Consulting Group has helped partners align strategy, community engagement, and organizational development. ·
matt@kltrdmedia.com
SCENE 03 · OUR ROOTS
Proximity to the work is the foundation, not the backstory.
Between our two founders, we’ve spent years at the intersection of youth development, nonprofit strategy, community organizing, and entrepreneurship. We know what it feels like to believe in a mission deeply — and to struggle to get others to see it the way you do.
We’ve been in rooms with organizations like yours. We’ve supported people who were shaped by programs like yours. That understanding shows up in every interview setup, every editorial decision, and every frame we shoot — not because we were briefed on it, but because we lived adjacent to it.
“Seen. Heard. Felt.” — that’s not a slogan. It’s how we measure the work. · Organizations and partners we’ve worked alongside: San Francisco Beacon Initiative · Oakland Kids First · San Joaquin A+ · José M. Hernández Reaching for the Stars Foundation · Family Resource Center · Team Hill Enterprises · Rise East · DCYF · Blaze Consulting Group · Boys & Girls Clubs
READY WHEN YOU ARE
We’d love to hear your story. Let’s talk.
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck, no pressure — just an honest conversation about the work you’re doing and the story it deserves.