Things Are Changing Productions, LLC is an independent documentary film company dedicated to exploring consciousness and social transformation through genre-bending and thought-provoking storytelling. Founded by Katy and Joél Mejia, who are Kingston, NY-based educators, parents, activists, musicians and filmmakers.
Jóel Mejia
Joél Mejia is an artivist, filmmaker, and cooperative strategist working at the intersection of culture, consciousness, and economic transformation.
As the co-founder of Things Are Changing Productions, Joél creates films and immersive experiences that explore time, love, and human potential as living forces. His current feature documentary, Time is Art 2: The Frequency of Love, follows a visionary artist’s journey through grief, synchronicity, and spiritual awakening—inviting audiences to reconsider time not as a system to manage, but as a frequency to feel.
His creative work is not separate from his economic practice—it is an extension of it.
Joél is a cooperative developer and communications strategist with The ICA Group, where he supports the growth of worker-owned businesses and contributes to a broader movement toward employee ownership and the solidarity economy. He is also the founder of Mi Oh My Farms, a worker-owned cooperative rooted in food sovereignty, education, and regenerative design. Through this work, he has supported dozens of cooperatives and community-based enterprises in building models that center ownership, dignity, and collective power.
Across film, food systems, and economic development, Joél’s work is guided by a deeper inquiry: how do we repair our relationship to time, to the Earth, and to each other?
Rooted in his Afro-Latino and Taíno lineage, his approach weaves together indigenous wisdom, permaculture, and cultural storytelling as tools for healing and transformation. Whether designing cooperative ecosystems or crafting cinematic experiences, he is committed to building a future where art, economy, and spirit are no longer fragmented—but fully aligned.
Joél lives and works in Kingston, New York, with his family.
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Katy Walker Mejia
Katy Walker Mejia is an educator, mother, activist, musician, and filmmaker. In 2002 she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Video and Photographic Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. After moving to New York City to follow her passion for music and film, she found work as a DJ and produced a slew of high-vibration events with various collaborators. She eventually worked as an Art Director for clients such as HBO, HBO Documentary Films, Comedy Central, Interscope and various entertainment companies. Living in Brooklyn, she forged lasting connections with unique musicians, teaching artists and filmmakers, merging her passion for music and film with her husband, Joél Mejia, and eventually joining Things Are Changing Productions. She is dedicated to creating music and films about consciousness, culture, and the evolving human experience.
Because she has always seen herself as a multidisciplinary artist, it was a natural step to bring like minds together to create the genre-defying music collective, Dream Circle, which furthers her development in songwriting, storytelling, and filmmaking. Time is Art: Synchronicity & the Collective Dream (2015) was her first feature film and was independently released and screened worldwide and is available on the Gaia platform.
Katy also directed the short documentary film, Birth From the Earth (2023) which won runner up at the Denton Black Film Festival and won best short film at the 2023 MOM Film Festival.
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