The Sonnett Media Group was honored to be asked by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin to help promote his film The Buddha, which premiered on PBS nationwide on April 7, 2010. We first worked with David in 2000 to help create the companion website for his film Napoleon and worked with him again in 2003 for Young Dr. Freud. For The Buddha, we created a dynamic website featuring PBS’s COVE video player, integrated Facebook and Flickr feeds, and a series of...

Sonnett Media Group continues to work with Journey to Planet Earth producers Marilyn and Hal Weiner of Screenscope, Inc. to support the PBS companion website for the series, which features stories of hope from people struggling with global environmental change and a message from host and narrator Matt Damon. Divers with Whale Shark. The eleven programs in the series Journey to Planet Earth explore the fragile relationship between people and the world they inhabit....

In February of 2009, the “Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake” exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. opened to the public. For many, it was the first time they could stand—literally face-to-face—with some of the first settlers of the colonial Chesapeake region. Fortunately, for us, we had been able to document and present the recovery and study of a range of skeletons...

Sure, you’ve heard about what happens during the night at the museum. But what happens during the day is just as magical! The elephant in the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History The Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Facilities Engineering and Operations (OFEO) needed a eye-catching video to showcase the wide range of services the unit provides to the Smithsonian’s vast complex and museums, research centers, and other facilities....