MEDIA
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
When media messages are constructed, sometimes truth hits the cutting room floor.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
Bush for Peace
It’s Dubya as you’ve never heard him before in a re-mix of U.S. foreign policy.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
CopWatch
Fed up with police brutality, the organization “Copwatch” decided to keep an eye on big brother. This short film shows how peaceful observation of police behavior can change the way a neighborhood and a police force deal with one another.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Eyes on the Fair Use of the Prize
Copyright abuse or Fair Use? Learn how much is at stake when vital films are pulled from public discourse.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
Holla Back Dubai!
In this touching video letter exchange, kids from the United Arab Emirates “holla back” to a class of sixth-graders in Washington Heights, New York and show that a stereotype is no match for a smile.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Laptop
A computer is only as advanced as the person behind the keyboard. Laptop reminds us that the digital divide still resides within our borders.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
Novela, Novela
A group of Nicaraguan activists produce a homegrown soap opera about issues like safe sex and domestic abuse.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English
Ron English’s billboards force the man on the street to look twice…or maybe three times.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Pizza Surveillance Feature
Want some privacy infringement with that? If the Patriot Act continues to grow in scope, you may get more than mushrooms with your next pizza order.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
Rebel
In this body-positive youth-produced film, the young women of the Lower East Side Girls Club take to the streets in celebration of their individuality and strength.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Silence Speaks
Domestic abuse, hate crimes, poverty, political persecution and war. Highly personal multimedia pieces tell the stories of survivors and witnesses of these many forms of violence.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Sonic Memorial Project
An interactive audio landscape where oral stories, ambient sounds, voicemails and archival recordings collectively tell the rich history of the Twin Towers and the events of 9/11.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Spring in Awe
The overpowering displays of Times Square put a spell on the world in a disturbing lullaby of global capitalism.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
The Meatrix
Will Leo the pig take the blue pill and remain in a fantasyland where quaint family farms produce food for our tables?
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
The News Is What We Make It
When the same company owns all the TV stations in town, where can you turn for an alternative perspective? A high-schooler gets burned and turns insult into action.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
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