A participant speaking with another attendee at the Resilient Pathways gathering, produced for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa

Some work is easy to miss. We make sure it hits.

Grain & Thunder is a documentary production company in Minot, North Dakota. We’ve made films for tribal nations, city governments, and national brands — on location across the Northern Plains and nationwide.

Still: Resilient Pathways, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa

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How we work

We build the crew around the job and manage the production from prep through delivery.

Tell us the goal

Who you need to reach and what should change once they have seen it. Scope, dates, and budget if you have them.

Talk it through

We'll reply within one business day with questions and next steps.

Make the work

We handle the crew, locations, production, and post.

Direction · Cinematography · Crew · Locations · Aerial · Production · Post

Original work

We develop and produce our own projects, too. It keeps the company doing the thing we ask clients to trust us with: finding the idea, building the team, and carrying it all the way to the screen.

Crew operating a gimbal rig on the support-group set while the director gives a note to a seated actor
Shooting THE B.O.G., support-group set, North Dakota

THE B.O.G.

THE B.O.G. is a half-hour ensemble comedy created and filmed in North Dakota. The pilot is complete.

Meet the show

Millennial Taekwondo Tortoises received a Bronze award for comedy animation at the 47th Annual Telly Awards.

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Have a story to tell, or an audience you need to reach?

You do not need a finished brief. Tell us who you are trying to reach and what should change once they have seen the film. We will help shape the production from there.

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