Steven Melhado
Client Acquisition

A creative studio for the people changing their corner of the world.
Your partners in real impact.
We exist for the founders, nonprofits, and movements fighting to move the culture forward — and refusing to look small while they do it. If your work changes people, it deserves marketing that moves them.
Built for institutions with a mission.
City agencies, universities, school districts, and national nonprofits — the craft of a creative studio with the rigor public institutions require.
Public campaigns, agency storytelling, and civic initiatives that earn public trust.
Brand films, recruitment, and program storytelling for schools and higher ed.
Mission marketing, donor campaigns, and impact films that move people to act.
Storytelling and brand work for churches, ministries, and community movements.
Real rooms, real people, real change — the work behind the work.
From Wynwood walls to Brickell boardrooms — the city sets the standard, and so do we.
Questions, answered.
You work directly with Ronnie — not a junior team or an account manager. He's hands-on from strategy through final delivery on every engagement. That's the entire point of a founder-led studio: the person who sold you the vision is the person who builds it.
Every engagement is scoped to your mission rather than pulled from a fixed menu — so the honest answer is that it depends on what you're building. Once we understand the goal, the timeline, and what winning looks like, you get a clear, fixed-scope proposal with the number up front. No surprise invoices, no hourly meter running. The best first step is a short conversation.
We scope every project to a specific outcome — awareness, enrollment, dollars raised, partners moved — and build the work to hit it. You'll see the strategy and the measure of success before we shoot a frame or write a line of code. We're not selling content; we're selling results.
Yes. We have real experience as a vendor for government agencies, school districts, universities, and 501(c)(3) nonprofits — W-9s, certificates of insurance, net-30/60 terms, grant-reporting language, and your procurement process are all handled without friction. Your finance team won't have to chase us.
Revisions are built into every scope — you'll never see a “final” cut for the first time. We review early and often, so course corrections happen while they're cheap and easy. If the direction is off, we fix it; that's part of the price, not an add-on.
We can usually kick off within one to two weeks. To begin, we need a 30-minute call, your goal, and whatever assets or access you already have — we drive the rest of the process so your team isn't buried in busywork. The mission is yours; the heavy lifting is ours.
Tell us what you're building. We'll show you what it can become. Every project begins with a free consultation.
Get a free consultationTrusted by the organizations doing work that matters
Portfolio that moves culture.
Film, brand, web, and full campaigns for the organizations changing their corner of the world.
The orgs doing real work.
From school districts to national networks — partners who trusted us with the mission.










Five disciplines, one team — film, web, brand, campaigns, and strategy, built to work together instead of in silos.
What we can do for you.
Documentary-grade storytelling, produced in house from first frame to final color.
Custom sites built to turn attention into action — not just look good.
A complete identity that makes the mission look as serious as it is.
End-to-end campaigns — strategy, creative, media, and measurement under one roof.
The plan that makes everything else work — before a dollar gets spent.
From first call to real results.
We learn your mission, your audience, and what winning actually looks like.
We map the plan and the story before we ever shoot a frame.
Documentary-grade creative, produced in house — not outsourced.
We ship, measure, and refine until it moves the numbers that matter.
From the 305 to wherever the mission leads — campaigns with a pulse.
Honest ballparks, scoped to you.
The ranges below are real starting points, so you can gauge fit before we ever talk. Every project flexes with scope, timeline, and what you're trying to move — think of these as a conversation starter, not a checkout total. Tell us what you're building and we'll scope it to your mission.
Bundled engagements.
A Miami creative studio led by Ronnie Lillard — giving mission-driven institutions the storytelling usually reserved for brands ten times their size.
Founder & CEO, Revolt Marketing · CEO, We The Revolt
Filmmaker. Strategist. Founder. He built Revolt to put elite creative in service of the mission.
Rice University took him on a full football scholarship, where he triple-majored in Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Sociology before earning his MPA. That mix — the philosopher, the strategist, the storyteller — is exactly why the work lands.
As a director and cinematographer, Ronnie has led documentary and brand work across Miami, Chicago, and Texas — most notably Hip Hop Hope, an Official Selection at the Hollywood Hope Film Festival. As the recording artist Reconcile, he's spent years turning conviction into something people feel.
We don't make content. We make the case for the mission — and we make it impossible to ignore.
As CEO of We The Revolt, his 501(c)(3), he leads juvenile-justice and community work inside detention centers and re-entry programs — partnering with school districts, county agencies, and national nonprofits.
The people behind the work.
Client Acquisition
Project Manager
CEO / FOUNDER
Chief Director of Photography
Tell us what you're working on. Every project begins with a free consultation — no pressure, just a real conversation about the mission.
Every Revolt project runs through Ronnie directly — strategy, story, and craft. You're not handed to a junior team. That's why the work lands.
Book a 15-min callAnswer a few quick questions and we'll route your project to the right plan — it takes about 30 seconds.
A feature documentary built as prophetic witness — turning lived conviction into something impossible to ignore.
Hip Hop Hope follows the artists and advocates turning the realities of the justice system into testimony. We approached it not as a crime documentary but as prophetic witness — building the case scene by scene, voice by voice.
From Cook County to Houston, the film moves through courtrooms, studios, and street corners, letting the people closest to the work speak for themselves. The result is a film that doesn't just inform — it indicts, it hopes, and it refuses to be background noise.
It doesn't just inform. It refuses to be ignored.