The White Elephant Group (WEG) is a nonprofit film and media collective founded in 2013 by Ronald Baez, Eddy Moon, Kevin Ondarza and Ashley Ramirez. WEG continues to support and platform stories and storytellers from underrepresented backgrounds to the shared benefit of underrepresented artists and the communities that shaped them. With continued support from national arts institutions, industry stakeholders and organizations partners, WEG continues to produce emotionally provocative, original works and create community-oriented arts programming in service of arts communities across the region.

The feature documentary “Razing Liberty Square” launched a national impact campaign in 2024 serving residents of at-risk communities across the United States struggling with Climate Gentrification and housing injustice. The impact campaign produced an 8 month series of public film screenings, panels, community discussions and social justice advocacy efforts around the country in partnership with various nonprofit partners as a strategic effort to raise awareness of and combat climate gentrification.

The After School Film Institute (ASFI) is a nonprofit arts organization founded in 2016 by Ronald Baez, Devin Marsh and Kevin Cerchiai. ASFI brings together professional, award-winning filmmakers and at-risk middle and high school students from underserved communities across South Florida to mentor the students in the various arts and technologies of industry-standard film production with the purpose of teaching students artistic, technical and life skills.

WEGx is a 2 day event together award-winning filmmakers, media artists, regional and national film industry leaders to participate project pitches, experimental discussion panels, film screenings and open forum debates with the aim of challenging the wider film industry to re-think its role in generating global, regional and even hyper-local community impact.

The WEG Feature Film Lab is a project development program awarding fellowships to eight notable filmmakers from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds. During the six-week intensive, Lab Fellows are mentored by Academy Award winning producers, internationally-acclaimed directors and screenwriters, and other film and media industry veterans as they develop and prepare industry pitches for their respective feature film projects.

WEG Weekend is a three-day event celebrating South Florida's unique cinematic voices and traditions. Featuring special screenings, technologically reimagines panels, gamified networking opportunities and sponsored parties throughout, WEG Weekend is made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, NBC 6 & Telemundo 51, Miami-Dade County, the Community Foundation of Broward and the After School Film Institute.

The WEG Short Film Lab is a hybrid film and media incubator and community arts program servicing emerging filmmakers and underserved communities. In 2022 the program commissioned over $70,000 in short film projects by underrepresented filmmakers and media artists who, as part of their commission, led free public arts workshops and masterclasses in a variety of underserved communities across South Florida.

Fireside with WEG is an artists speaker series bringing internationally acclaimed filmmakers and media artists into discussion with South Florida communities to intimately explore their work, process and the ins and outs of impactful filmmaking in the modern industry. In partnership with various nonprofits, arts institutions and local County Commissions, the speaker series continues to explore the intimate impact of provocative work across the region.

Slamdance Miami is a film exhibition event produced collaboration between Slamdance, its alumni and Miami's arts leaders. The partnership selected 18 films from filmmakers in nine countries representing the future of filmmaking from the Americas.

The ASFI Future In Films Festival is a single evening cultural event celebrating the artistic and technical achievements of emerging and at-risk student filmmakers and media artists across South Florida. The Festival provides young, often at-risk filmmakers the unique opportunity to platform and celebrate their work as emerging artists as well as to network with professional mentors in the South Florida film industry.