One Tree Forest Films

One Tree Forest Films is a Peabody Award-winning branded content studio based in Chicago's West Town neighborhood. The team describes itself as truth seekers with an enthusiasm for sustainability, culture, technology, and design, and they make smart, heartfelt content for people and brands who have something meaningful to say. Their video production work blends the craft of a film studio with the strategic sensibility of an agency.

The studio handles projects end to end, from creative design, scripting, and storyboarding through production, post-production, visual effects, and motion graphics. That full-service approach lets them carry an idea from concept to finished branded film without handing it off, keeping the original story-driven intent intact across every stage of the video production process.

One Tree Forest's reel spans national brands including Gatorade, American Family Insurance, Northern Trust, and Exelon, along with social-impact campaigns. Their best-known work is #MoreThanMean, a campaign confronting the online harassment of women sports reporters that earned a 2016 Peabody Award, a 2016 CLIO Grand Award, a 2016 Cannes Lions shortlist, a 2017 Gracies Grand Award, and multiple Telly Awards. As a boutique Chicago, Illinois video production team, they focus on thought-provoking storytelling rather than high-volume commercial output.