(Hate) Machine

More About (Hate) Machine from Director Phil Caron The concept for (Hate) Machine came out of the…
Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal

More About African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal from Director Ben Herson I was inspired to make…
Official selection of the Eighth Annual Festival

America for Dummies

More About America for Dummies from Director Niaz Mosharraf Witnessing and experiencing the apathy and ignorance of…
Official selection of the Eighth Annual Festival

Ashray

More About Ashray from Director Ambika Samartha Ashray, one of the project organizations that makes up the…
Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Battleground Minnesota

More About Battleground Minnesota from Director Gabriel Cheifetz Chris, Glenn, and I had worked together before on…
Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

Bush for Peace

More About Bush for Peace One night when co-directors Sarah Christman and Jen Simmons were sitting around…
Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

By-Standing: The Beginning of an American Lifetime

More About By-Standing: The Beginning of an American Lifetime from Director Karen Lin By-Standing is the collision…
Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Day of Remembrance

More About Day of Remembrance from Director Cynthia Fujikawa Day of Remembrance is a short documentary that…
Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

E-Waste

More About E-Waste from Producers at GOOD Magazine If the transition from 386 to 486 resonates loudly…
Official selection of the Eighth Annual Festival

Esmeraldas: Petroleum and Poverty

Esmeraldas: Petroleum and Poverty was directed by Joshua Holst, a life-long student of the environment and human…
Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Eyes on the Fair Use of the Prize

More About Eyes On The Fair Use Of The Prize from Director/Producer Jacob Caggiano Eyes On The…
Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy

Face to Face, produced by Rob Mikuriya, connects the experiences of Japanese-Americans in the early 1940s with…
Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Holla Back Dubai!

Founded in 1991, Global Action Project empowers youth to become agents of change by making powerful, thought-provoking…
Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett

More About How Wal-Mart Came To Haslett from Director and Producer Meerkat Media Collective In the fall…
Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

In Transit

More About In Transit from Directors and Producers Bent Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III and Louis Abelman…
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Is My Neighbor Latino?

Is My Neighbor Latino? was produced and directed by Jorge Aguirre and commissioned by Latino Public Broadcasting…
Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Knock Knock, Who’s There?

More about Knock Knock, Who’s There? from Breakthrough Part of a larger Bell Bajao or Ring the…
Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

Laptop

More About Laptop from Producer Public Interest In Spring 2000, President Clinton announced a new televised campaign…
Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

Lone Wolf

More about Lone Wolf from Jason Sussberg On July 8, 2005, blogger and activist Josh Wolf filmed…
Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

Looking Back

More about Looking Back from Director Emile Bokaer I learned about Albert Lewis while reading a newspaper…
Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

Massacre at Murambi

More About Massacre at Murambi from Director & Producer Sam Kauffmann During the genocide in Rwanda in…
Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

My Fellow American

Filmmaker Alex Kronemer

Most Americans have never met an American Muslim. Many only know Muslims through the way they are portrayed in the media. American Muslims are so often vilified as “the other” that we don’t recognize most American Muslims were born in the US. Or that those who immigrated here came seeking the same freedoms and opportunities that have always attracted people to America.

These Muslims are our fellow Americans, who today face threats to their civil rights and even their personal safety because of the fearful and often hateful rhetoric that would not be tolerated were it uttered about any other minority group.

My Hotness is Pasted on Yey!

Filmmaker Gus Andrews

The Media Show is a YouTube channel series staring puppets Weena and Erna, two high-school-aged sisters skipping school to spend time making their own videos in an abandoned storage closet in an advertising agency in New York City. The show’s model of media literacy aims to reconcile the exuberance of fan-created media with a critique of ad-driven corporate media.

In this episode of The Media Show, My Hotness is Pasted on Yey!, Weena and Erna happen across a terrible graphics job in Cosmopolitan, leading them to the website Photoshop Disasters, which gets them thinking about other photo manipulation throughout history. Stalin, Hitler, OJ Simpson, Beyoncé—who hasn’t been touched by photo alteration in some way? The girls explore art and propaganda and end up playing with Photoshop themselves, taking control and manipulating their own appearance.

By primarily distributing online, we aim to enter into a dialog about media where young producers, both casual and political, are already displaying and critiquing their work. We hoped this episode might be many things to many people. To viewers on YouTube, it has prompted dialog about whether media can simply be dismissed as “fake” and how photos are involved in the “pro-ana” (pro-anorexia) community online. To educators, we hope it offers Photoshop Disasters and ad agency websites as potential materials for media literacy lessons, while sparking some new ideas on how to approach the topic. We even hope that this might give ad agency creatives a moment to reflect on the impact of their work.

Night Visions

More About Night Visions from Director Kathy Huang Since September 11, 2001, over a million Americans have…
Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

No Child

More About No Child from Director Gabe Cheifetz No Child was a difficult piece to make.  We…
Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

Novela, Novela

More About Novela, Novela from Director Elizabeth Miller I first met Virginia Lacayo and Amy Bank, Executive…
Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

Permission

More About Permission from Producer Public Interest In 2004, MTV invited Public Interest to create 6 spots…
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Pizza Surveillance Feature

More About Pizza Surveillance Feature from the American Civil Liberties Union Based loosely on an Internet joke,…
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POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English

More About POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English Ron English first gained fame in 1982…
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Power Up

More About Power Up from Director & Producer Sverre Fredriksen Power Up is an animated short film…
Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Rebel

The Lower East Side Girls Club was founded in 1996 to address the egregious lack of services…
Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border

More About Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border from Producer WITNESS Rights on the Line:…
Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Silence Speaks

Silence Speaks provides violence survivors, witnesses, and prevention advocates with the support, skills, and equipment they need…
Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Slip of the Tongue

More About Slip Of The Tongue from Director Karen Lum I shot and edited Slip of the…
Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

Sonic Memorial Project

Shortly after September 11, 2001, NPR’s Lost & Found Sound brought together radio producers, artists, historians, archivists,…
Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Spring in Awe

More About Spring in Awe from Director Martina Radwan My story behind the film is very simple…
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Still Standing

More About Still Standing from Producer EVC Youth Organizers Television (YO-TV) In December 2005, the EVC Youth…
Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Struggling to Survive

More About Struggling to Survive from Producer Appalshop Struggling to Survive was produced during the Summer of…
Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

Superstar

More About Superstar from Director Naiquan Greene I was inspired by the people around me to make…
Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

System Failure

More About System Failure from Producer WITNESS Juvenile justice in California is a national embarrassment, a statewide…
Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

The Apollos

More About The Apollos from Director Nick Parker My role in the making of The Apollos was…
Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

The Countdown

More About The Countdown from Director Rene Dongo The Countdown is a collaboration that had been in…
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The Final Frontier: Explorers or Warriors?

More About The Final Frontier: Explorers or Warriors? from Filmmakers Stephen Sotor & Trace Gaynor On January…
Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

The Luckiest Nut In The World

More About The Luckiest Nut in the World from Director Emily James I had been reading a…
Official selection of the Media That Matters: Good Food

The Meatrix

More About The Meatrix from Free Range Graphics The Meatrix is a humorous 4-minute Flash animation that…
Official selection of the Media That Matters: Good Food

The News Is What We Make It

More About The News Is What We Make It from Director Nickey Robare As a second-year student…
Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

The Rules of the Game

More About The Rules of the Game from Directors and Producers Garance Burke and Monica Lam Garance…
Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

Water Warriors

More About Water Warriors from Director and Producer Liz Miller Water is quickly becoming the liquid gold…
Official selection of the Media That Matters: Good Food

We Were Humans

Allysson Lucca’s Italian production company, LuccaCo, specializes in creating Web sites/movies for humanitarian and social organizations and…
Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Will I Be Next?

More about Will I Be Next? from Director Ralph Rollins Will I Be Next? explores the issue…
Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

World On Fire

A Message from Sarah McLachlan Sarah McLachlan wrote us this message about her music video and participation…
Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival