UPP Creative is a multi-media company that tells stories that matter.

We tell stories that illustrate how colorful and fun life really is.

We tell stories the reveal the inhumanity that percolates in the soul.

We tell stories.

We educate you about marginalized communities so that you can learn from them, while stimulating the mind and spirit with projects that are designed to make you think. Our work is intended to entertain and inform through different media avenues.

Laughter is essential to life. Empathy is essential to eternity.

We exalt the name of God through creative expressions.

  

Our Vision
We dream wider than the sky
Deeper than the ocean
and with the heart of God

Social Media:

Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @uppcreative   

Company History

UPP Creative Media was founded in 2010 by Karen Anderson with the desire to make movies that entertained people but pointed toward a higher calling for everyone. The company started producing books, videos and photos. With small budgets and big hearts, she set out to prove it could be done.

Movie

She produced and directed Family Tree in 2015 which showed in the Oklahoma Urban Film Festival and the Festival International du Pan African in the Cannes. In 2023, her training class created the short film, The Invitation which was shown on CAN TV and in the Bill Johnson Black Film Festival in Gary Indiana.

Publishing

Between 2011 and 2017 eight books were published under UPP Creative Publishing, Destiny’s Dilemma, Dancing During the Storm Vol. 1 and 2, Privateers, Connections and nonfiction, When You Forget Your Phone, Caught in the Crosswinds and How to Raise God Wise Kids in a Satan Rich World. Anderson also had her article “Best Trip Ever” published in Chicken Soup For the Soul I’m Speaking Now in 2021. She had another article pushished in the anthology, Mamas, Martyrs and Jezebel, titled “It Ain’t Easy Being Independent.”

Podcast

In 2024 the podcast, An Moment in African American History, started telling the stories of African Americans like Richard Potter and Annie Turnbo Malone.