Beyond Borders Studios, is a globally oriented, and California rooted creative studio focused on content development, design, and film production for social and spiritual impact clients.
Our design pallet is the beautiful, complex, transnational world we share together. We live, love, and tell stories beyond borders.
Founded by Dustin Craun in 2014, Beyond Borders Studios was birthed in the grassroots youth movements around the world. As the world’s first truly global generation we have built our studio as a reflection of all of US. We focus on social impact clients from startups to nonprofits and corporations whose daily work is to create a better world for all.
Dustin Craun is a creative strategist, filmmaker, writer, digital media producer, ethnic studies scholar, and community organizer. His work in digital media has been featured in over 200 global publications, and his writings on race, philosophy, and Islamic studies have been published in academic journals and popular publications.
He is the founder of Beyond Borders Studios a digital production studio focused on digital strategy, and film production. He is also the co-founder of MPower Change the largest Muslim led social and racial justice organization in the United States. In 2020 he founded the Center for Global Muslim Life, a future-oriented media production hub, research center, & cultural incubator creating cutting edge conversations across diverse Muslim communities around the world.
With Beyond Borders Studios we have worked with clients startups, nonprofits, universities, and corporations of many different sizes including the University of California at Berkeley, The Othering and Belonging Institute, Port of Mokha Coffee, the Walt Disney Studios, The California Endowment, 500 Startups, Faith in Action National Network, The University of Colorado at Boulder, and CAIR California.
As a filmmaker Mustafa Dustin Craun has produced 10 short films to date including - A Prayer Beyond Borders, Hacking for Peace, The All-Seeing Eyes of San Diego Surveillance, We Are California - Vote For Our Future, Transforming California from Red to Blue - How Community Organizing Changed the Political Landscape, and From Palestine to Mexico - Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Visits the Border Mosque. He is currently working on his first feature-length documentary, A Prayer Beyond Borders.
Raised in Denver, Colorado, Dustin has spent his adult life building with communities around the world, having lived in Mexico, Ghana, Morocco, California, the Middle East, and Malaysia. Dustin brings a uniquely transnational lens to the interconnected world we inhabit.
He has a bachelor's in Ethnic Studies from the University of Colorado-Boulder and a Master’s in Ethnic Studies from the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. He studied Latin American philosophy and the Decoloniality school of thought in the graduate school of Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, and traditional Islamic Studies at Zaytuna College.
