Tso Inspired Media Arts LLC is a digital media and consulting company that works with individuals and organizations to produce educational multimedia projects and provide media arts education, communications and development consulting.

Filmmaking / Media Arts Services: Digital Films - Documentary, Narrative, and Educational. Producing, Directing, Script and Treatment Writing, Cinematography, Editing. Event Recording and Oral History Preservation. Production Crew and Post-Production Technical Assistance. Dine' (Navajo) Language Translation and Culture Advising. 

Consulting: Communications, Development, Grant Writing and Research, Multimedia Campaign Design, Customized Curriculum Design, Project Management, Workshop Facilitation, Teacher Trainings, Professional and Academic Writing. 

We can create multimedia content and projects for you or mentor you through each step to do it yourself.

We offer Tutorials, Classes, and Workshops for all ages in documentary and narrative filmmaking, media arts and media literacy, digital storytelling, and oral histories preservation. We specialize in working with educators on integrating place-based media arts projects into a state standards / common core curriculum.

STAR 3-to-3rd Project Coordinator and Teacher Training Curriculum Development, 2011 – Present.   Created a multimedia curriculum for educator trainings and workshops; including nine instructional films, both facilitator and participant guides, an extensive literature review, programmed tablets for each participant, and a webpage for the innovative STAR School 3 to-3rd (Age 3 to Grade 3) Project.  Worked in a team to fully implement the program at STAR School, identify salient research, facilitate workshops and teacher trainings, and support implementation of the program at four indigenous serving schools in the southwest and Hawaii.  Produced the following Films / Curriculum Chapters: "Adopting and Adapting: Finding the Right Approach",  "A Focus on Math: High Quality Materials", "A Focus on Math: Áhi'iltaa - Math in Cultural Context",  "A Focus on Math: The Math Relationship", "Multilingual Cognition: Sign Language", "Multilingual Cognition: Navajo Language", "Place-Based Education", "The Prepared Environment", and Supportive School Climate.  Click here for more information on the 3-to-3rd project.

Honoring Our Elders Project, 2012 to Present.  Facilitating youth from the Hard Rock Chapter and Rocky Ridge Bureau of Indian Education School in interviewing their elders and editing the footage for an oral history documentary film project.

Place-based Media Arts Education at STAR School, 2010 – Present. Facilitate students through a Place-Based Media Arts curriculum to create Films and Digital Story Telling Projects that are meaningful to them and their community.  Through a place-based lens, students learn all steps to create a media project, from pre-production through production, post-production, and to public presentation and screenings.

Rachel Tso is an Educator, Filmmaker, and a Consultant who has produced multiple award-winning projects.  Her passion is in facilitating students, educators, and organizations in creating Place-Based Media Arts projects that are deeply meaningful for them and their communities.  She has been successfully teaching youth and adults throughout the country filmmaking and theatre arts skills so they could tell their own unique stories since 1992. 

Rachel is currently working on her Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction at Northern Arizona University. She graduated at the head of her class with a Masters Degree in Sustainable Communities from NAU where she authored her Place-Based Media Arts curriculum integrating Media Arts and Literacy with Place-Based Education. She holds a B.A. from Antioch College in Environmental Communications and received her teaching certificates through Prescott College.  Contact  //  Curriculum Vitae  //  IMDB

Camille Manybeads Tso is a very talented and Award-Winning young Filmmaker, Producer, Director, Script-writer, and Actor.  She is also a youth mentor, and media arts workshop facilitator. She studied film at the prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy, and is best known for making the award winning film, In the Footsteps of Yellow Woman, and producing several youth-made documentary projects.  IMDB Page

Francis Tso is an excellent Navajo-English translator and cultural advisor.  He grew up in the traditional Dine' (Navajo) way of life in a remote area of Black Mesa.  Dine' is his first language, and he studied the modern writing and reading of it in college at Northern Arizona University.  He has also been known to handle horses on set and even occasionally act.