We Are the Messengers
McCosh. It's a Scottish and Northern Irish name, anglicized from the Gaelic Mac Coise. It means messenger. Son of the one who carries word from one place to another. The one trusted to deliver what matters safely, and without losing anything along the way. We didn't choose that meaning. We inherited it.
She Taught Me to Listen
My grandmother, Mildred McCosh, was a quiet woman. Not withdrawn, quiet the way still water is quiet, full underneath, calm on the surface, deeper than it first appears.
She cried when she heard someone was hurting. Not out of pity. Out of genuine feeling for another human being's weight. She cooked every day of her life, even from a wheelchair near the end, because feeding the people she loved was not something she was willing to stop doing. And she told stories. On the porch, with the whole family gathered, stories about people, about life, about what it all meant and how to carry it.
I grew up listening to her, and somewhere in that listening I fell in love with stories. With the way a story could hold a room. With the way it could make someone feel less alone.
She passed before she ever got to see what I built with her name. That sits with me every day. I hope she’s proud of the work we’re doing.
Mildred McCosh Rumbley
We live in a very noisy world. Loud, fast, and full of content that nobody asked for and nobody remembers. My grandmother's porch is gone. The one where families sat until dark, debating and laughing and solving things together, just by talking. Where nobody was performing for an audience. Where people were actually real. They didn’t know how else to be.
I have spent more than thirty years as a journalist and documentary filmmaker sitting with people, asking real questions, and listening to what they actually said. What I learned is the same thing Mildred already knew: every person has a story worth telling, and almost nobody is asking to hear it. McCosh Films exists to change that. One story, one conversation, one human being at a time.
The point is what happens when people finally feel heard, when a message lands the way it was meant to, when a story reaches the person who needed it. Media is the vehicle. Human connection is the destination.
Why McCosh Films Exists
What We Believe
We are all just trying to figure life out. Every organization, every leader, every person sitting across from us has something they are trying to say and someone they are trying to reach. Our job is to help them say it in a way that is true, clear, and worthy of the people receiving it.
Everything begins and ends with the human spirit. We have believed that since the beginning. Communication is built on empathy, how we treat one another, and how well we listen.
why i do this
I grew up listening to my grandmother telling stories, and it led to thirty years of following in her footsteps.
I became a journalist because I believed that people deserved to be heard. I became a filmmaker because some truths need more than words to carry them. And I built McCosh Films because I couldn't stop believing that the most important thing any of us can do is help another human being feel seen. This work is personal to me. It always has been.
Thirty years of journalism. Documentary films. Podcasts. Branded content. Broadcast television. Partners have included HGTV, Fox News, Warner Bros. Discovery, VISA, Vogue, Animal Planet, and Spotify. Awards include the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Gabriel Award, and an Emmy nomination.
The recognition matters less than this: every project, every single one, started with a person brave enough to tell their story. We just made sure the world could hear it.
I’m grateful you’re here.
Jason Hensley
Founding President | Executive Producer
For organizations wrestling with something harder than a message, the breakdown of trust, the silence spreading through a building, the best people quietly deciding to leave, we offer something different. A methodology built on thirty years of listening to what people are afraid to say out loud.
We help people talk to each other again. If that sounds like something your organization needs, the door is always open. Let us help you figure it out.