FEATURED PROJECTS
THE STAND TOGETHER FOR CHILDREN CAMPAIGN
A global awareness & fundraising program
to support, nurture and protect Children on the Move
Global displacement caused by armed conflict, poverty, and natural disasters is constantly putting children at risk. It is estimated that this ongoing humanitarian crisis is seeing more than 110 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, including 50 million children. To make matters worse, these numbers continue to grow. Innovative Global Advisement joined with the Rotary Club and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in a powerful public-private partnership (P3 model) focused on this issue. The project unites award-winning film aand concert producer Jeff Oppenheim, composer Michael Orland (American Idol), and engineer to the stars Miklos Malek. The collaboration will follow the model of "We Are The World" by creating an anthem, a music video, and a documentary to raise awareness of global displacement and support the children affected. By directing public, private and individual donations to Arigatou International, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization registered in New York, you will directly contribute to grassroots organizations that tirelessly work on the ground, providing aid and care to refugee children worldwide.
STRIPPED: MUSIC THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
The Steve Joester Project
advocating for and benefiting STEAM Educational Youth Programs
As featured in Dan’s Paper, the East Hampton exhbition showcased the work of renowned photographer and mixed media artist Steve Joester.
From Left to Right: Filmmaker Jeff Oppenheim, photographer/artist Steve Joester and Alibe Hamacher
Renowned Photographer and Mixed-Media Artist Steve Joester unveiled a striking new exhibition at The White Room Gallery in East Hampton, New York with a portion of proceeds going to benefit the Save The Music Foundation. STRIPPED: Music that Changed the World presented in partnership with Allibe Hamacher and her colleauge, award-winning Filmmaker Jeff Oppenheim, showcased the work of the award-winning photographer and mixed-media artist. The opening also offered a sneak-peak of a documentary Hamacher & Oppenheim are producing on the artist; the musician and era of music he chronicled; and the cultural revolution it inspired. Elements were displayed as unique video installations works and helped set the retro vibe of the exhibition chronicling the artist’s work from 1970’s London to 1980’s NYC and inclusive of the Hamptons today. The exhbition will tour with the completed documehttps://www.danspapers.com/2025/04/steve-joester-explores-the-art-of-rock/
HARMONY IN CHAOS: A GLOBAL AFFAIRS WEBINAR SERIES
Harmony in Chaos: Navigating Global Challenges Together is an ongoing webinar series produced in partnership with UTRGV’s International Study Program, the School of Social Work and visiting digital journalist and documentary filmmaker Jeff Oppenheim. It serves as an expanded resource for the students by bringing deep expertise from around the globe to discuss hotbed issues of today. UTRGV serves the Rio Grande Valley and beyond via an innovative and unique multicultural education dedicated to student access and success. Drawing on the unique identity as the leading Hispanic-Serving Institution in a bilingual and bicultural environment, UTRGV promotes student access and success by building from strength in education and creating a vibrant campus experience. During the 2024/2025 season we coproduced a series of seminars on today’s hotbed issues featuring a dynamic and diverse panels of experts from across the nation and beyond.
A MILLION FEET FROM HOME
A DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON FORCED DISPLACEMENT
As part of my role with Arigatou International, I helped the organization realize a long-time dream of producing a documentary about the work of the organization. Co-producing with Jeff Oppenheim of @suite24k, we envisioned and realized the feature-length film “A Million Feet From Home: A Call to Action for Children on the Move.” The project involved filming over two dozen religious leaders from around the world who partner with the global nonprofit in protecting children’s rights. It also features interviews with executives from some of the leading NGOs who rely on an interfaith approach to serve children are put in harms way due to forced migration. The film is in the final stages of post production and will be distributed in 2024.
SUPERHEROES & OTHER MEN
The Art and Practice of Being a Modern Gentleman in a Gender Complex World
A 360 live to digital journey into the art and practice of being a modern gentleman in a gender-complex world and discovering a pathway to the hero within. “Superheroes and Other Men” looks at the psyche of boys. It examines the hero-worship prevalent in a young man’s life. It is ultimately a journey of self-discovery, through the beauty and brutality of male energies while drawing attention to the often-neglected issue of men’s mental health and wellness. At the core of the project is one man's quest to identify the characteristics of the men who, for better or for worse, influenced his transition from boyhood to manhood and ultimately to fatherhood. As parenthood is the catalyst for change in the story, it also chronicles motherhood and the influence of feminine energies in a man’s life from mother to wife and even gay men in a straight man’s life.
The project is guided by a true-to-life performance monologue directed by Obie-winning director and dramaturge Byron C. Saunders and executive produced by Alibe V. Hamacher. The play was workshopped at the Blue Building performance space in NYC and later became an offical selection of The One Fest. In 2024 it recieved a limited Off Broadway run at Teatro Circulo and was filmed before a live audience. It is now being developed into a limited documentary lifestyle series.
The work serves to raise awareness for men’s mental health and seeks to raise funds for grassroots organizations working in the area of youth development and fatherhood role modeling support groups.
As highlighted in the Washington Post, “Faith & State” was a web-based series about religion and politics with anchor Lew Nescott, Jr, a professor of Criminal Justice Department at the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice & Forensic Sciences
From reports from Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC just days for the election to speaking with political and faith leaders about their perception of how religion mixes with politics in America during the the 2020 election.
“Unprecedented Journey & Tomorrow’s Journey”
Anchor Jeff Oppnheim Hosts Unprededented Journey
Unprecedented Journey: Jeff Oppenheim sat down with the Venerable Hui Dong who demonstrated meditation and explained why now is a perfect time to adopt the practice.
Unprecedented Journey is a video web-cast series created, and hosted by Jeff Oppenheim and produced by Innovative Global Advisement’s own Alibe Hamacher, in association with @suite24k.
The series, which launched in March 2020, was created to offer perspective and resources in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Through interviews with a variety of guests, the series seeks to offer alternative thinking and viable habits that can be put to practice during quarantine to achieve long-term personal goals and life changing mindfulness beyond the crisis.
The series has featured many guests and covered a wide range of topics from lifestyle practices such as meditation to writing and publishing advice from published authors, and much more.
As we begin to emerge from beyond the pandemic, the programming of Video blog is poised to shift the focus onto other types of extraordinary journeys that have led people through adversity and out of non-traditional paths to practice mindfulness and engage in transformative productivity.