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.