The Story of Safety
A Documentary
About Belonging, Resistance
and the Sacred Power of Home
about the film
Blueprints for Belonging
Do we truly have the right to exist?
The Story of Safety follows six visionary GAMECHANGERS reshaping the very idea of home.
These are not just stewards of the built environment, but they are cultural warriors, savants of spiritual space, and memory-keepers confronting a broken system that displaces, divides, and destroys.
Their work speaks the language of reclamation. Each design answers a deeper question: Who gets to belong?the basic right to breathe—and live without environmental harm
This series is not just about built structures. It’s about restoration, ritual, survival—and the spiritual act of building a future you are welcome within.
audience & reach
who it is for
• Civilians, homeowners, city-dwellers, and homebodies asking can I live without sabotaging my own health?• Students and educators of city planning, architecture, sacred spaces, urban studies, Black & Brown studies, Indigenous and environmental justice as well as Restorative justice.• Partners and platforms seeking a cinematic, emotionally resonant, socially grounded documentary.
where it travels
• Community in-person screening networks & virtual screenings.• Universities, foundations, and cultural institutions invested in land, legacy, and liberation.
Architecture as ancestry
Sanitation as dignity
Flood design as survival
Equity through construction
Public safety without carceral logic
Spiritual practice as civic resistance
Spatial Concepts and Construction Methods Guided by deep respect for land and lineage, each episode dives into how we shape space—and how space, in turn, shapes us.
filmmakers
director and editor - BA Turner
producer - cisco newman
featured interviews
JANAKA -
Architect of public sector buildings totalling $100 million. Practitioner of ecological urbanism.
SOLUTION PROVIDERS -
Front Line System Builders reworking broken rules, to achieve residential health equity.
TO BE ANNOUNCED.
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERTS, CITY PLANNERS, HISTORIANS -
To be announced.
Strategic Vision for Partners & Investors
The Story of Safety series is built as part of a multi-year plan:
Align with ESG capital and cultural investment goals.
Offer varying brand-integrated collaborations for recurring value.
Activate underserved markets through interest marketing
Serve as a gateway to shared & earned media, community engagement, and asset stacking
Full partner deck available for more information.
