Transform & Enrich

Cherry Street Productions represents the storytelling practice of Nolan Dean, an award-winning, multi-disciplinary filmmaker based in the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta who has centered his portfolio on compelling stories that promote cross-cultural empathy and human welfare.

Located in Helena, Arkansas - on the banks of the Mississippi River - our films grow from the soil which once cultivated the music of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Son House and Sonny Boy Williamson II. Like these forefathers, we aim to tell the truth with the piercing clarity and artistic flourish of true bluesmen.

The Delta, though poor financially, is rich in the things that matter - story, community, authenticity. We believe this region is the Fertile Crescent of American culture, being the birthplace of American music, the American novel, and much of the modern civil rights movement.

Despite this, the Delta has not told its story well, and neither has the rest of the country. Time and again, it is portrayed as depressed, backward and oppressive. While there is truth in this, it’s not the only truth, nor is it the only place that struggles to carve a bright future out of a dark past.

Cherry Street Productions, in all the work we do, hopes to use the power of storytelling to reverse the narrative of rural disinvestment through commercial, documentary, musical and motion picture works.

By helping businesses, artists and individuals tell their stories with beautiful clarity, as well as creating original films that tell stories in the Delta, our goal is to transform Delta communities, while enriching the world with stories from this region.