We are a documentary media production company with offices in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Palo Alto, California. Horse Opera was founded in 2001 by documentary filmmaker Vanessa Warheit and historian Amy Elizabeth Robinson.

Our work is informed by a vision of a world in which authentic freedom and security are achieved through peaceful dialogue and cultural understanding.

Our mission is to produce high-quality media that helps to dismantle the social and cultural myths that hamper this vision, and that provides us with new and sustaining stories to live by.

Currently we are working on a PBS documentary film: The Insular Empire: America in the Marianas.

The Insular Empire is about the indigenous communities of the U.S. Territory of Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which together form the Mariana Islands archipelago. These small, heavily militarized "insular" territories, part of America's globe-straddling empire, have long been hidden beneath the western shadow of the American flag - and beneath the stories Americans tell themselves about democracy. They form America's vulnerable yet vibrant Pacific frontier.

It is time for the indigenous communities of our Pacific frontier to tell us their story - a story of struggle and survival. Let's listen - because American democracy is at stake in the insular empire.