Award-winning film, documentary, and commercial production. Four decades of combined storytelling across seven continents and 150+ productions.
Features and adventure docs for broadcast and streaming. Four decades across UK, African, and American television.
Short films, series pilots, and feature narratives. Festival-selected and audience-tested storytelling.
Kid series, adventure series, and episodic content. From concept through full-season production.
Brand films, corporate storytelling, and marketing content for companies that want to stand apart.
From concept to screenplay. Film, television, and web series development by a NYT bestselling writing team.
Pioneering AI-driven storytelling across every aspect of production. From concept to final cut, we integrate cutting-edge AI tools into our creative process.
Forty plus years of combined experience. Seven continents. Over 150 productions — from Coca-Cola South Africa and TAG Heuer campaigns to expedition documentaries in Antarctica and the jungles of Haiti. What you see below is just a taste of what we've been up to.
Trailer for a children’s series
Documentary series
Pilot episode for a children’s series
Book series with Mark Batterson
Episodic trailer for a book series
Presidential campaign for Senator Tim Scott
Docu-series
Comedy series
Teaching series
Docu-series trailer
Feature documentary
Docu-series
The book you can watch
Teaching series
Music video
Music video
A Family Story Films is an award-winning production company based in Washington, DC, with a studio in Charlotte, North Carolina. We have spent our careers traveling the globe, stepping into extraordinary worlds, earning trust, and telling stories that stay with people.
Our work has taken us from child soldiers in Haiti to an unsupported expedition to the South Pole, from Fortune 500 brand campaigns to independent films that found life on the festival circuit. Across every kind of project, we bring the same level of craft, curiosity, and care. Our founder, Joel N. Clark, is a New York Times bestselling author, a 2025 Blacklist Select, and director whose work has taken him to all seven continents.
We do not believe in one-size-fits-all crews. Every project is built from the ground up with the team it actually needs — the right director of photography, the right editor, and the right creative chemistry to bring the story to life.
Joel N. Clark is a director, producer, and writer whose career has been defined by one thing: going where the story is. He has directed and produced over 150 projects across seven continents from expeditions to the South Pole to Fortune 500 campaigns for Coca-Cola, TAG Heuer, and Bank of America.
He is a two-time New York Times bestselling author and 2025 Blacklist Select. His work has earned selections at Los Angeles International, Austin Film Festival, and over a dozen others.
He founded A Family Story Films on a simple conviction: the best stories come from people who go looking for them.
Whether you have a story that needs telling, a brand that needs elevating, or a vision that needs a production partner — we'd love to hear from you.