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The following films from the multiple Media That Matters Film Festival collections explore the issue of media. For even more films on this issue, visit MediaRights.org.

(Hate) Machine


Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

Ashray


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Bush for Peace


Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

E-Waste


Official selection of the Eighth Annual Festival

Holla Back Dubai!


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

In Transit


Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

Laptop


Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

Lone Wolf


Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

Looking Back


Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

My Hotness is Pasted on Yey!

Gus Andrews
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.


Official selection of the Tenth Annual Media That Matters

Night Visions


Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

No Child


Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

Novela, Novela


Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

Permission


Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

Power Up


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Rebel


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Silence Speaks


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Spring in Awe


Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

Still Standing


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

Superstar


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

System Failure


Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

The Apollos


Official selection of the Seventh Annual Festival

The Countdown


Official selection of the Eighth Annual Festival

We Were Humans


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Will I Be Next?


Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

World On Fire


Official selection of the Fifth Annual Festival

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