Magpie Entertainment uses the power of visual media to empower, educate and engage people to make a difference in the world at large. Through powerful storytelling, eyes can be opened, boundaries explored and minds can expand to help create meaningful change.
MISSION
“A society that delineates its Scholars from its Warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools!”
We are at a crossroads. Once revered, our nation’s diplomatic image is being eroded – a growing negative perception has devastating effects on the future of diplomacy—from recruitment to impacting peace, security and prosperity.
Entire careers and lives have been spent forging relationships, negotiating peace, promoting equality and lobbying for democracy. Victories and losses along the way have made our country even stronger, but now the greatest threat to diplomacy is one rooted at home.
DIPLOMACY is the ultimate art of negotiation, requiring endurance, discipline, and compassion. It’s the artful eye for the future paired with the respect and insight of the past. It’s time to remind the world of the power and importance of diplomacy - what it looked like, what it looks like today, and how it can, and will, shape our tomorrow.
As a career filmmaker and producer of organic, powerful and raw storytelling, our purpose taps into a place more intimate and insightful than most would be comfortable with. Growing up in the whirlwind of global affairs and state responsibilities separates Mags Miller from other film and content makers. Perhaps it is time we shine a light on what diplomacy looks like, how it works and why it’s important.
ABOUT
“If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately.”
MAGS MILLER
In 2018, Mags launched Magpie Entertainment, a creative boutique company, with the sole purpose of creating content that highlights the strength of the human spirit. Her belief is that content with this mission, can help educate, engage and empower audiences around the globe.
Mags is a freelance producer, director and writer for Discovery Networks, National Geographic TV, and NGOs. She’s filmed in over 23 countries, embedded with the USMC in Afghanistan, directed “Naked and Afraid”, hung with Orangutans in Borneo, navigated through 25 hoarders homes, directed a variety of personalities and has eaten some of the best food in amazing locations.
PARTNERships
IN DEVELOPMENT
“All of a sudden, diplomacy is being degraded.”
SAMPLE OF WORK
EXPLORER: CAMP LEATHERNECK, NatGeo Embedded with USMC in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in summer of 2009 CITY OF STORIES: NEW ORLEANS National Geographic Partners
NAKED AND AFRAID, Season 4, Discovery Channel
HOARDING: BURIED ALIVE, TLC
YOUTHAIDS SPECIAL, TLC
GEDE FOUNDATION, Braun Film. Producer/Director/Writer. Video for the Gede Foundation, a Nigerian NGO with a focus on HIV/AIDS prevention and education
MAKING DEMOCRACY, Alhurra TV. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
FINDING BIGFOOT: UNTOLD STORIES & GOLD RUSH: THE DIRT, Animal Planet & Discovery Channel
BIZARRE FOODS: DELICIOUS DESTINATIONS, Travel Channel
CONTACT
“I know that war is the failure of diplomacy and the failure of leaders to make alternative decisions.”
