About Us
Founders Patrick James Lynch and Ryan Gielen's recent producing and directing credits include the feature documentary My Beautiful Stutter from producers Paul Rudd and Mariska Hargitay, and the feature documentary Bombardier Blood from producer Alex Borstein. They are founders of Believe Limited, PatientStories.co’s parent company, and an award-winning agency that has produced content for clients in the rare/chronic disease and health/wellness spaces for over ten years, and across all seven continents.
Meet The Team
Patrick James Lynch
Patrick is a filmmaker, media professional, and globally-recognized health advocate with work featured by BuzzFeed, Forbes, Fox News, HemAware, HuffPo, PBS, Reuters, VoyageLA, and elsewhere. Recent credits include producing/directing the Apple TV documentary Bombardier Blood, from producer Alex Borstein.
Accolades & Experience
National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD) Rare Impact Award (2020)
National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) Meritorious Service Award (2014)
World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) Plenary Presenter, (2016, 2018)
Ryan Gielen
Ryan is a filmmaker and media professional whose recent producing/directing credits include the Discovery+ documentary My Beautiful Stutter from producers Paul Rudd, Mariska Hargitay, and World Series MVP George Springer. He is a contributor to Sundance Artist Services Blog, Tribeca Film Fest Blog, and NoFilmSchool.com.
Accolades & Experience
SABRE Marketing & PR Award, Best Live Event, “Hemophilia: The Musical” & Breaking Through Program (2019)
The Shorty Awards: Social Good Award, My Beautiful Stutter (2020)
The 13th Annual WEBBY Award, Best Experimental Series, Deleted: The Game (2011)
Allison Stoney
Head of Production. Allison is a Camera Operator and editor from Seattle, WA, where she worked in video production for Seattle’s WBNA team, the Storm. Since moving to Los Angeles, Allison has worked on seasons 7 & 8 of Stop the Bleeding!, has assisted on several of Believe's documentary projects and is the lead editor for many of Believe's legacy projects including numerous commercials, music videos, and short films.
Drama DelRosario
Lead Video Producer. Drama is a Filipinx documentary film director and producer. Known for his documentary films that tackle queer issues and mental health, he is the winner of the inaugural BAFTA-GSA Commissioning Grant in 2019 for the documentary I'm Okay (And Neither Are You), as well as the Loni Ding Award in Social Issue Documentary presented by the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) in 2019 for the documentary In This Family.
Rob Bradford
Chief Operating Officer. As COO and lead producer on everything Believe Limited and PatientStories.co create, Rob has helmed productions on all seven continents, as well as produced and shot in over twenty developing countries for several ongoing docu-series highlighting the disparity in treatment for rare diseases around the world.
Amy Board, MNM
Senior Director of Community Engagement. Amy spent seven years as the executive director of the Colorado Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation before joining Believe Limited in 2019. She has a background in non-profit management, program development, grassroots advocacy, healthcare policy, fundraising, and theatre.
At Believe Limited, we bring patient stories to life every day, and not just on video.
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Our Documentaries
Project Credits
Producers
Paul Rudd, Mariska Hargitay, Ryan Gielen, Patrick James Lynch, Michael Alden, Peter Hermann, George Springer
Director
Ryan Gielen
Distributors
Discovery+ (US), SkyTV (UK/Europe), NHK (Japan), Al Jazeera (Middle East/Various), Vimeo OnDemand (Worldwide)
Synopsis
My Beautiful Stutter follows five kids who stutter, ages 9 to 18, from all over the United States and all walks of life, who, after lifetimes of bullying and stigmatization, meet other children who stutter at an interactive arts-based program, The Stuttering Association for the Young (SAY), based in New York City. Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent. Over the course of a year we witness first hand the incredible transformation that happens when these young people of wildly different backgrounds experience for the first time the revolutionary idea at the heart of SAY: that it's okay to stutter. Visit www.MyBeautifulStutter.com to learn more.
Awards & Engagement
300+ worldwide screenings in 30 countries.
2 million+ social engagements across FB/Instagram.
10 Festivals, 5 Best Doc Awards.
WINNER: Shorty Social Good Award, 2020.
Project Credits
Producers
Alex Borstein, Patrick James Lynch, Ryan Gielen, Rob Bradford, Josh Bragg,
Director
Patrick James Lynch
Distributors
FandangoNOW, Spectrum OnDemand, Charter OnDemand, YouTube, Google Play
Synopsis
Chris Bombardier has never let severe hemophilia stop him from climbing some of the world’s tallest mountains. In 2017, Chris partnered with hemophiliac filmmaker Patrick James Lynch and his award-winning production team at Believe Limited to film his journey through Nepal to summit the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest. In his home state of Colorado, filming captured Chris's training, interviews with Chris, his wife and family, and his hemophilia clinicians. In Nepal, production followed Chris to meetings with Nepalese hemophilia advocates and clinicians as well as to the homes of patients and families affected by the disease, where Chris heard the emotional stories of pain, suffering, and loss related to hemophilia. Production remained with Chris during his two months on Everest, capturing the physical, psychological, and emotional struggle of acclimating to the mountain and preparing for the greatest challenge of his life, all with the eyes of the global hemophilia community watching. Visit www.BombardierBlood.com to learn more.
Awards & Engagement
1.2 million+ social engagements across FB/Instagram.
130+ impact screenings worldwide.
100+ hemophilia community screenings for 4,000+ community audience members.
Worldwide broadcast & print media coverage.
Project Credits
Producers
Patrick James Lynch & Ryan Gielen
Directors
Randi Mitchell, Jenny Callaghan
Program Partners
National Association to Advance Black Birth (NAABB), Entertainment to Affect Change (E2AC)
Synopsis
Our healthcare system is the most expensive in the industrialized world, yet the most deadly for new mothers. Within this broken system, Black mothers die at three times the rate of White and Hispanic mothers. In fact, a Black mother with a college education is at 60 percent greater risk of maternal death than a white or Hispanic woman with less than a high school education.
Black mothers are dying in childbirth at staggering rates, and in the midst of a global pandemic and a national race reckoning, black midwives around the country are opening birth centers and demanding justice for Black mothers. In Los Angeles, Kimberly Durdin and Allegra Hill, owners of Kindred Space LA, are a part of a growing group of black midwives challenging one of the most complex health care systems in the world by creating solutions for the Black maternal crisis, on their own terms.
As our story unfolds, we meet Black midwives in Detroit, Chicago, and Ferguson, on similar journeys to bring safe and culturally-centered maternal care to communities of color. We watch as they battle complex and racist birthing laws, zoning regulations, and investor drought, all while advocating for Black moms and catching new babies. While this is an incredibly complex and deeply rooted problem within the United States, this film will present accessible Black midwifery care as a powerful and immediate vehicle for change; as well as a way for viewers to get involved and make a difference so that Black mothers will no longer have to fear death after creating life.
Visit www.DeliverUsDoc.com to learn more.
Award-winning Production
WINNER: 2019 SABRE AWARD
The Sabre Awards are North America’s top PR Awards, focused on creative works that drive business impact.
WINNER: 2020 SHORTY AWARD
The Shorty Awards are the top honor for brands & agencies producing digital short form content for social good.
WINNER: TWO WEBBY AWARDS
The Webby Awards are the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.
WINNER: 2020 RARE IMPACT AWARD
The Sabre Awards are North America’s top PR Awards, focused on creative works that drive business impact.
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
E2AC empowers creators and funders to collaborate to tell powerful stories that entertain, educate, and inspire.
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