A Small Business Story is a short film celebrating the small businesses, makers, and creatives who turn main streets into living, breathing communities. Through the voices of eight local New Jersey business owners + makers, this piece explores what it really means to shop small: to step into someone’s heart and vision, to support a person, a family, a community, to help create the kind of world you want to live in. It’s about being known by name, gathering in spaces that feel like home, and remembering that every choice we make as neighbors can bring our towns, and each other, more fully to life.
a small business story
[ FEATURING ]
Ashley Mills | Be Free Creations | Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
Danielle Klim | Milk Made Studio | Collingswood, NJ
Alice Hayes-Keefe | Wonderland + Sea | Manasquan, NJ
Ashley Burk| SteadyHand Cafe | Bradley Beach, NJ
Magdalena + Vincent | Boro Records | Freehold, NJ
Georgia Fickes | Earth, Thread + Stone | Oakhurst, NJ
Dana Weiss | District Refillery & Co. | Point Pleasant, NJ
Juliana + Alecia | FloraSoma Studio | New Jersey
Uplifting Community
Every person in this film named other small businesses they love + believe in (and by no means is this an exhaustive list / it’s forever growing). We’ve gathered some of those shout-outs here so you can explore these business + makers too. This is the heart of small business, lifting each other up, sharing what we love + keeping the circle of support going :)
