Infrastructure, built from Deaf culture outward

Where Deaf culture leads. Everyone who signs belongs.

As should be.

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What is Sesmedia?

Sesmedia turns ideas into lasting ventures, built from Deaf culture outward.

We help great ideas become something built to last by building the identity, systems, and infrastructure behind them.

So every new venture builds on what came before, instead of starting from scratch.

The ventures

Live commerceRad Style Depot

Live shopping, hosted entirely in sign language.

AccessibilityLagundo ASL Services

A Deaf-led accessibility and interpreting company.

Culture258 Deaf Street

A festival celebrating sign language and culture.

ProductionPah! Studios

Production infrastructure behind every venture.

Trusted across media, commerce, and community

340+ProductionsAcross broadcast, film, festivals, and live work.

200+Customers & clientsServed across production, access, commerce, and consulting.

20+YearsBuilding infrastructure from Deaf culture outward.

A packed, diverse audience of all ages at the 258 Deaf Street festival in Denver, Colorado. — This is what belonging looks like.258 Deaf Street Festival · Denver, CO

Clients and partners

Built for what?

Media

Films, shows, and studio work where sign language is the first language on set, not a caption added afterward.

Entertainment

Live shows, original productions, and performances created in sign language, where the performance communicates on sight.

Commerce

Live shopping hosted in sign language, where the audience claims what they want right in the chat.

Accessibility

Interpreting and access run by Deaf and CODA teams, built into the work from the start, not added at the end.

Festivals & Community

Festivals and gatherings where Deaf culture sets the room, and everyone who signs is already on the inside.

Why?

Deaf culture leads. Belonging is built in, not an afterthought.

We do not add accessibility to a finished product. We start there.

Every system we build starts from Deaf experience and is designed from Deaf culture outward, so everyone can take part. Accessibility is not a feature. It is the architecture.

You can see it throughout our work:

Our live shows are performed in sign language, with voice interpreters welcoming people who do not sign into a Deaf space.
Our comedy is written to work visually first, so the performance communicates on sight.
Our broadcasts are designed so the experience makes sense even with the sound turned off.
Our festival begins with Deaf culture as the foundation, not accessibility as an afterthought.

How?

One company. Many ventures. Shared infrastructure.

Sesmedia Enterprises

Divisions

sesmedia Media Services

Client services, production, and consulting. The Pah! Studios lineage.

sesmedia Entertainment Group

Characters, shows, and original productions. Home of Wanda White and Chef Sesma.

Sesmedia companies

Pah! Studios

Studio, broadcast, and creator production.

Rad Style Depot

Live, Deaf-hosted shopping.

258 Deaf Street

The festival. Community, in person.

Partners · powered by Sesmedia

Lagundo ASL Services

Interpreting and accessibility. Deaf-led, CODA-founded.

Deafies in Drag

Touring Deaf drag. Representation, on stage.

Devarim 28 Supply Co.

Fulfillment and freight. The supply backbone.

Macaw Blue

Jewelry, made in Brazil. An independent partner; website and commerce built with Sesmedia.

What’s next?

The next generation shouldn’t have to build this again.

Twenty years of production, accessibility, commerce, and community become the foundation the next idea stands on.

Company

One infrastructure. Many ventures.

Sesmedia is the shared infrastructure built from Deaf culture outward, so creators, businesses, and communities can focus on what they do best.

Why Sesmedia

Sesmedia is not a media company. It is infrastructure.

Under Sesmedia sits a family of Deaf-led ventures: a production studio, a live-shopping show, an interpreting service, a festival, and more. From the outside, they look like separate businesses. For a long time, we thought they were too.

But each one was solving the same problem from a different angle. The problem was never media, or retail, or a show. It was that Deaf people keep having to build their own way in, one organization at a time. Sesmedia is the shared infrastructure underneath them all, so the next idea does not start from nothing.

Who we are

A Deaf-led company, built in Las Vegas.

Sesmedia is not a single product or a single show. It is the connective tissue underneath many: the studios, the storefronts, the stages, and the services that Deaf creators and businesses rely on.

Everything we make is designed from Deaf culture outward, so it is native to the people it serves and understood by everyone else.

How we’re built

Divisions, companies, and partners.

Our divisions are run inside Sesmedia. Our companies are ventures we own and operate. Our partners are independent, Deaf-led organizations we power and stand beside.

See the full ecosystem ↗

The idea, in one line

The tagline is the org chart.

Pah! Studios: media, as should be.

Lagundo ASL Services: accessibility, as should be.

Rad Style Depot: commerce, as should be.

258 Deaf Street: community, as should be.

Sesmedia: society, as should be.

Leadership

Photo

Eduardo Sesma

Founder · Host

Deaf founder and host. Builds the shows, the systems, and the standard the rest of the family is measured against.

History

2006The work begins. Pah! Productions is born, the first of many Deaf-led ventures and the name the rest are held to. Today it is Pah! Studios.

The years afterA family grows: studios, live commerce, a festival, and access services, each built Deaf-first.

TodaySesmedia unites twenty years of that work under one roof, from Las Vegas, Nevada, one foundation beneath many brands.

How it grew

One name, divided.

Sesmedia Media Services and Pah! Studios were one name once: Pah! Studios Multimedia Services, a single studio that both made the work and served the client. As each side matured, the name divided in two. The services half rose to become Sesmedia Media Services. The studio half stayed as Pah! Studios. Nothing was replaced. It branched.

So Media Services is not a new division. It is the living continuation of the client-services practice that began as Pah! in 2006. The structure was not invented. It grew.

As should be.

Ecosystem

The family, in full.

One family of brands, built and backed by Sesmedia. Divisions we run, companies we own, and partners we power.

Divisions

sesmedia Media Services

Client services, production, and consulting. The Pah! Studios lineage, offered to the world.

sesmedia Entertainment Group

Characters, shows, and original productions. Home of Wanda White and Chef Sesma.

Sesmedia companies

Pah! Studios

Studio, broadcast, and creator production.

Rad Style Depot

Live, Deaf-hosted shopping.

258 Deaf Street

The festival. Community, in person.

Partners · powered by Sesmedia

Lagundo ASL Services

Interpreting and accessibility. Deaf-led, CODA-founded.

Deafies in Drag

Touring Deaf drag. Representation, on stage.

Devarim 28 Supply Co.

Fulfillment and freight. The supply backbone.

Macaw Blue

Jewelry, made in Brazil. An independent partner; website and commerce built with Sesmedia.

As should be.

Impact

Access designed in, not added on.

Most of the world treats Deaf access as an afterthought. Sesmedia starts there. This is what that changes.

Where we focus

Access

ASL and Deaf-first design built into every product from the first line, not bolted on at the end.

Representation

Deaf hosts, Deaf performers, and Deaf stories, in front of the camera and behind it.

Community

Gatherings, festivals, and live rooms where signing is the default, not the exception.

Livelihood

Real businesses and real income for Deaf creators, so the culture can sustain itself.

Productions

Stories shown Deaf-first.

From live shopping to touring performance, our productions put Deaf voices at the center and invite everyone else in. Access is not a feature we advertise. It is the shape of the work.

Press

For journalists and partners.

Coverage, fact sheets, and brand assets will live here. For media requests in the meantime, reach the press desk through Connect.

As should be.

Journal

Notes from the build.

News, spotlights, and letters from the founder. Written as the work happens, not polished after the fact.

Recent

Founder LetterWhy we design from Deaf culture outwardComing soon SpotlightInside a live, Deaf-hosted showComing soon NewsThe family, and what comes nextComing soon Founder LetterBuilding institutions, not one-off winsComing soon

Full articles arrive as the Journal opens. Titles shown are drafts.

As should be.

Connect

Let’s build something that lasts.

Whether you want to partner, book a show, reach the press desk, or ask a question, start here. We are Deaf-led and ASL-first.

Send a message

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Thank you.

Your message is on its way. We usually reply within two business days.

Or reach us directly

General

Questions, ideas, or anything that doesn’t fit a box.

hello@sesmediaenterprises.com

Partnerships

Brands, venues, and organizations who want to build with the family.

partnerships@sesmediaenterprises.com

Media inquiry

Press, interviews, and requests for brand assets.

press@sesmediaenterprises.com

Support

Help with an order, a show, or one of our products.

support@sesmediaenterprises.com

Visit

Las Vegas, Nevada.

Sesmedia Enterprises LLC. Deaf-led, ASL-first. Mailing address available on request.

As should be.

Division

sesmedia Media Services.

Production, client services, and consulting, Deaf-first. The Pah! Studios lineage, offered to the world.

What we do

Media, made with you.

Video, broadcast, brand, and web work built from Deaf culture outward, for Deaf-led organizations and the partners who want to reach them.

We don’t bolt access on at the end. We start there, so the work is native to the people it’s for.

Work with us

Start a project.

Show us what you’re building and we’ll shape it together. Reach the team ↗

As should be.

Division

sesmedia Entertainment Group.

Characters, shows, and original productions. Home of Wanda White and Chef Sesma.

The stage

Deaf stories, front and center.

Live performance, characters, and originals that put Deaf voices at the center and invite everyone in.

The roster

Wanda White

The character, the show, the origin.

Chef Sesma

Food, culture, and performance.

As should be.

Sesmedia company

Pah! Studios.

Studio, broadcast, and creator production. Where the work is made.

The studio

Built to broadcast.

A Deaf-run studio for shows, streams, and creator production, the engine room behind the family’s media.

As should be.

Coming soon

Devarim 28 Supply Co.

Fulfillment and freight, the supply backbone. Their page is on its way.

As should be.

Legal

Terms of Use.

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1. Acceptance of these terms

By accessing or using sesmediaenterprises.com (the “site”), you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

2. Use of the site

You may use the site for lawful, personal, and informational purposes. You agree not to misuse the site, interfere with its operation, or attempt to access areas or data you are not authorized to reach.

3. Intellectual property

The site and its content, including text, graphics, logos, and the Sesmedia name and marks, are owned by Sesmedia Enterprises LLC or its licensors and are protected by law. You may not copy, reproduce, or redistribute content without permission, except as allowed by these terms or applicable law.

4. Brands and trademarks

Sesmedia and the names of its divisions, companies, and partners are trademarks of their respective owners. Nothing on the site grants any license to use those marks without written consent.

5. Third-party links

The site may link to sites we do not control. We are not responsible for their content, policies, or practices, and linking does not imply endorsement.

6. Disclaimers

The site is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

7. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Sesmedia Enterprises LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the site.

8. Changes

We may update these terms from time to time. Changes take effect when posted, and your continued use of the site means you accept them.

9. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.

10. Contact

Questions about these terms? Email hello@sesmediaenterprises.com.

Legal

Privacy Policy.

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1. Who we are

Sesmedia Enterprises LLC (“Sesmedia,” “we,” “us”) operates sesmediaenterprises.com. This policy explains what we collect and how we use it.

2. Information we collect

Information you give us, such as your name and email when you contact us.
Usage information, such as pages viewed and general device and browser data, collected automatically.

3. How we use information

To respond to your messages and requests.
To operate, maintain, and improve the site.
To keep the site secure and prevent misuse.

4. Cookies and analytics

The site may use cookies or similar tools to understand how it is used. You can control cookies through your browser settings.

5. Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. We may share it with service providers who help us run the site, or when required by law.

6. Data retention

We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described here, or as required by law.

7. Your choices

You may ask us to access, correct, or delete your personal information. To make a request, email us using the address below.

8. Children

The site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information.

9. Security

We take reasonable steps to protect your information, though no method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

10. Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes take effect when posted.

11. Contact

Questions about privacy? Email hello@sesmediaenterprises.com.