We’ve got big goals for Fair Share Films, and they aren’t just about succeeding financially as a production company. The “why” and the “how” matter as much as everything else to us.

Here are the operating principles we’ve adopted as a company:

1. We embrace fallibility and take responsibility: We use this set of operating principles as a guide for all our work. If we mess up, we’ll keep ourselves accountable by owning our mistakes and seeking to improve.
   
   
2. Balanced and sustainable production processes: We commit to sustainable production practices that balance the pursuit of excellence with firm boundaries around overwork and anything else that might contribute to burnout. We do this in spite of and in opposition to prevailing economic systems.
   
   
3. Equitable and Inclusive Storytelling: We prioritize stories that embrace and reflect diverse perspectives, cultures, and experiences, ensuring that all voices have an equal opportunity to be heard. In seeking collaborators, we partner with diverse talents of all identities, both in front of and behind the camera, prioritizing passion and capabilities over credits and connections.
   
   
4. Quality as a standard: We make sure everything we produce is as good as it can be, regardless of budget AND in alignment with our commitment to humane workflows.
   
   
5. Teach while doing: We believe the craft and career of production should be more accessible and affordable to the average filmmaker. As we learn and grow, we’ll share our knowledge along the way.
   
   
6. We’re in this together: We believe in cooperative ownership. If you helped make something, you own a piece of it. When profits roll in, they are divided up among collaborators in line with everyone’s individual contributions
   
   
7. Actual transparency: We’re open and honest with our audience, and maintain actual transparency whenever possible in our business operations and partnerships.
   
   
8. Community focus: We take a community mindset with us, wherever our work takes us. Beginning from our base on Burlington, VT, and extending out through any travels and in our digital work, we give as much as we take when it comes to local communities, as well as audience members both IRL and across the web.
   
   
9. Ethical representation: We prioritize ethical representation in storytelling, advocating for accurate and respectful portrayals of cultures, identities, and experiences. In our comedy work, we are mindful of the limits of parody in this area.