our story

• We've been writer-producers for some of television's most respected networks but, when the first iPad came out, we immediately realized that this was the device we had been waiting for. For the first time in history, there is a device equally comfortable displaying text and video. Text will never be the same – and for us, it's become the vehicle for the films we've always wanted to make.

• Multi-media books have given us the opportunity to cast aside the restraints of commercial television; we can create dynamic new forms of media that the world has never seen before. It's a little like producing a deconstructed documentary – there are short films involved, but also long-form writing, graphics, games and more… readers can even communicate with one another without ever leaving the confines of the 'book.'

• It's all very exciting. At first, we even spent a couple of days thinking about what these 'new books/films' should be called (newook? bookish? fooks?). Thankfully, we've moved past that question.

• So we started Arcade Sunshine Media to experiment with new forms of narrative and storytelling – to bring text to life, to further the conversation around a set of ideas, to provide readers with a way to dive deeply into a text, or simply skim the surface in a more efficient way.

• And though we're excited to be part of this brave new frontier, our apps are really about something far more primitive: Great storytelling. Basically, we started Arcade Sunshine to make the films we dreamt about making when we were 18.

the team

• Aziz Isham

  Aziz has developed and produced programming for most cable broadcasters (A&E, History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic) and done media consulting for several non-profits (Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Chess Challenge DC). He was the VP of JWM Productions, one of the country's top independent production companies, and has been a sailor in the South Pacific, a chef in Argentina, a chess coach in New York and a teacher in Morocco. He got his BA from Yale in Anthropology and grew up in New York City.

• Patrick White

  Patrick is an independent documentary producer and writer. He's produced award winning films about public health in east Africa, created multiple series for the largest networks in commercial television and recently directed the highest rated show in National Geographic Wild's history. He was also just named as one of the area's best DJ's by the Washington Post…a title he's earned three years in a row.