THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEDIA THAT MATTERS FILM FESTIVAL
Welcome to MediaRights' fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festival. Our jury has chosen 16 short films on the burning topics of today: Corporate Accountability, Sustainable Agriculture, Civil Liberties, Youth Media and more. Choose your media player below, select a film to your right, and click on a link to take action on the causes you care about most. STREAM>CLICK>ACTION
I Promise Africa
- Donate to Keep a Child Alive, and help provide medicine to children with AIDS.
- Get the facts about AIDS in Africa through avert.org.
- Join the DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) action network.
iThemba
- Endorse equal access to HIV/AIDS medication through Health GAP.
- Lend your voice to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
- Join the Campaign to End Aids.
Seeds of Hope: South Africa
- Lend your voice to the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture.
- Get the facts by sitting down at the Sustainable Table.
- Contribute to the latest action at the Institute for Food and Development Policy.
The Meatrix
- Learn how to live sustainably from Sustainable Table.
- Join the fight against factory farms through the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment.
- Help victims of the factory farm industry through Farm Sanctuary.
- Find local organic alternatives through Local Harvest.
Laugh at the Fat Kid
- Learn about overeating and good nutrition from KidsHealth.
- What you can do to stop bullying from the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center.
- Test your bullying prevention know-how through a fun game at Stop Bullying Now.
Lean on Me
- Get in on the action at YouthNOISE.
- Learn how to tell your own story through the Center for Digital Storytelling.
- Make an impact with your digital story or film through the Youth Media Distribution Toolkit.
Books Not Bars
- Urge congress to fund educational programs through the National Education Association.
- Hard facts on spending from the Justice Policy Institute.
- Join the struggle to end the prison industrial complex.
The Children of Birmingham
- Learn more about Birmingham and the civil rights movement at Africanaonline.com.
- Join the movement of student-led activists for social change at Sound Out.
- Support the enforcement of Civil Rights at civilrights.org.
Day of Remembrance
- Speak out on behalf of the post 9/11 detainees through the Human Rights Watch campaign.
- Educate yourself and prevent anti-Arab discrimination at ADC.org.
- Learn how you can get involved with issues affecting Japanese-Americans.
Dedicated to My Family
- Advocate for the homeless through the National Coalition for the Homeless.
- Support homeless teens by donating to Stand Up For Kids.
- Are you a teen in need of support? Call Teen Line.
Struggling to Survive
- Learn about and join the fight for a living wage at the Living Wage Resource Center.
- Lend your voice to fight for a living wage and worker’s rights at 9to5.
- Sign the Universal Living Wage petition.
- Tell your U.S. representative to bring the minimum wage increase to a vote at the AFLCIO website.
The Sixth Section
- Donate to Grupo Unión’s well and water system project.
- Defend the rights of Mexicans in America through the Mexico Solidarity Network.
- Urge Congress to reform unjust immigration laws through the ACLU.
Novela, Novela
- Get the facts about the abuse of women in Latin America from MADRE.
- Fight violence against women through the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Join the Feminist Majority.
Bush for Peace
- Stop nuclear weapons proliferation through WagingPeace.org.
- Join the global peace movement through United for Peace and Justice.
- Take action for peace.
Spring in Awe
- Get alternative coverage of the War on Iraq.
- Ten ways to become media literate from the Center for Media Literacy.
- Fight for media democracy through the Just Media Project.
POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English
- Sign the Media Carta from Adbusters.
- Fight for corporate accountability through CorpWatch.
- Fight for media democracy through the Just Media Project.
