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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
African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
America for Dummies
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Ashray
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Battleground Minnesota
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Bush for Peace
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
By-Standing: The Beginning of an American Lifetime
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Day of Remembrance
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
E-Waste
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Esmeraldas: Petroleum and Poverty
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Eyes on the Fair Use of the Prize
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Holla Back Dubai!
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
In Transit
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Is My Neighbor Latino?
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Knock Knock, Who’s There?
Official selection of the
Ninth 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
Massacre at Murambi
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
My Hotness is Pasted on Yey!

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
Pizza Surveillance Feature
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Power Up
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Rebel
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Silence Speaks
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Slip of the Tongue
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Sonic Memorial Project
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
Struggling to Survive
Official selection of the
Fourth 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
The Final Frontier: Explorers or Warriors?
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
The Luckiest Nut In The World
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
The Meatrix
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
The News Is What We Make It
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
The Rules of the Game
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Water Warriors
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
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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— Tim Robbins








