Impact Storytelling
Our stories and art reflect the world in which they were created. Building visual, written, and audio narratives, or even telling a story through a campaign, is how we describe the world to each other, how we share experience and find meaning. We are wired to understand and retain the information entrusted to us in stories.
My goal with COAST MOUNTAIN CREATIVE is to foster a collaborative environment, to create art and stories that have an impact, that inspire creativity, adventure, and service, with the intention of bringing us all closer to each other and to our earth, becoming the good ancestors that future generations need.
Founder, Jeremy Hunter Rubingh is a documentary filmmaker, multi-disciplinary artist, conservation strategist, and Alaska commercial fisherman. He grew up in the Colorado high country with a backpack and fly rod in the summer, romping around the mountains on skis in the winter. In 2020 he produced Patagonia, Inc.’s widely-acclaimed film, Public Trust, which delves into the modern-day threats to America’s public lands (Executive Producers Robert Redford and Yvon Chouinard). His recent filmography also includes several short projects that have focused on environmental justice issues from Latinx communities’ disproportionate experience of air pollution to firefighters battling climate change, to a small mountain community that said “no” to a colossal mine in their watershed. These films have played in festivals, have screened on PBS and many different platforms, and have won awards all around the globe.
Aside from making films and art, Rubingh works in conservation developing campaigns, media strategy, and diverse voice engagement on a variety of national issues for nonprofit foundations. He is a recipient of a Colorado Creative Districts grant, was awarded a 2021 Commitment Grant from Telluride Mountain Film, and was recently selected as a featured artist by Olympic National Park for a project that will memorialize the Olympic mountains’ disappearing glaciers.
Jeremy spends part of his year in a remote village in Bristol Bay, Alaska where he runs a commercial sockeye salmon fishing operation with his wonderful partner, an assortment of dogs, the occasional wolf, and several coastal grizzly bears. He currently lives aboard his sailboat, S/V Raven, in Seattle, Washington where he feels lucky to connect with the Salish Sea, old growth forests, and the snow-covered volcanoes of the Coast Mountains.
