HAVE YOU CONSIDERED?
SOZO produces an intersectional environmental short film
February 26, 2026
4 MIN READ
Oakland, CA — SOZO is proud to have executive produced a stunning new collaboration between Drag Queen Pattie Gonia, vertical dance pioneers BANDALOOP and Grammy Award Winning sound innovator Imogen Heap.
What began as mutual artistic admiration and shared purpose between BANDALOOP & Pattie Gonia over social media in 2020 has materialized into a striking cinematic work that reflects deeply on our relationship to one another, our planet, and the systems we take for granted.
Conceived out of sheer belief that social justice and environmental justice are inextricably linked and require action now, the artists set out to conceive a work created in and WITH nature, to consider what we take for granted. The work invites us into reflection, grief, accountability, and possibility:
Have we considered if we couldn't have each other?
If we couldn't have our planet?
Pattie Gonia began training with Oakland-based BANDALOOP under Artistic Director Melecio Estrella in 2023. Soon after, Pattie and Imogen Heap started writing together through a series of Instagram Live sessions, composing the song in real time using sounds recorded in nature. Through this process, the three artists found deep alignment in their values, their artistic vision, and their shared commitment to the planet.
In fall 2025, the artists gathered a 46-person creative team in the Eastern Sierra—on the ancestral lands of the Kootzaduka’a—to film a short work that positions nature as a central creative force. Production was led by Wondercamp, an environmental storytelling studio that previously collaborated with Pattie Gonia and Yo-Yo Ma on a film project in Alaska.
From top: Drag Queen Pattie Gonia suspended above BANDALOOP in California’s Eastern Sierra.
CREDIT: Wondercamp
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED? was made possible by the Pattie Gonia Community, in association with Ford JustFilms with additional support provided by InMaat, Oil Change International, SOZO Impact, Rika Iino, and Wondercamp.
SOZO Impact CEO & Founder Rika Iino served as Co-Executive Producer on the film, along with Thomas Cavanagh, BANDALOOP and Jenny Dugan, developing this one-of-a-kind collaboration across disciplines and stewarding a process that bridges performance, activism, and nature.
About SOZO Impact Inc.
SOZO means “to imagine and to create” in Japanese and “to heal, to make whole” in Greek. Guided by both meanings, SOZO believes that healing requires imagining a different world and creating it. The organization invests in artists as worldbuilders and cultural leaders, shifting away from transactional and extractive models of creative labor toward a circular approach rooted in co-creation and shared agency.
SOZO’s work brings together three integrated practices: an artist incubator offering fellowships and coaching that support sustainable, long-term creative lives, serving 33 artists nationally, with a focus on the San Francisco/Bay Area; an international agency that produces, represents, and tours a curated portfolio of artists and projects across dance, music, technology, and social impact; and a national impact accelerator that develops place-based impact producing initiatives with artists, institutions, civic partners, and brands to connect creative work with public engagement, wellness, and community life.
SOZO collaborates with a growing network of philanthropic partners committed to creative labor, innovation, and empathic futures. Current partners include the Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rainin Foundation, Gerbode Foundation, InMaat Foundation, Deloitte, and others. These partners enable a diversified redistributive revenue approach that supports creative risk while strengthening organizational sustainability.
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