Screening News
Media That Matters at the Center for Social Media!
March 08, 2005
In partnership with the DC Environmental Film Festival, the Center for Social Media at American University hosts the Environmental Film Festival March 10-25 in Washington DC. The Center will present three feature films and several ... [more]Media That Matters at NCTE!
October 26, 2004
Thanks to MediaRights Advisory Council member Dale Allender, the Media That Matters Film Festival will be screening at the upcoming National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention in Indianapolis. Hundreds of educators and ... [more]Media That Matters and Community Food Security
October 21, 2004
Last Monday, MediaRights moderated the Media Workshop at the 8th Annual Community Food Security Coalition Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Moderated by MediaRights Director of Education & Outreach Shira Golding, the workshop highlighted the power of ... [more]Media That Matters Comes to Washington, DC!
October 08, 2004
On October 22-23, a selection of Media That Matters films will be screening as part of the Globalization and the Informal Sector Film Festival at George Washington University's Center for the Study of Globalization. October ... [more]Media That Matters Comes to Miami!
October 08, 2004
For the third year running, the Media That Matters Traveling Film Festival hits Miami next week as part of the Florida Room Documentary Film Festival. organized by MediaRights' founding member Juan Carlos Zaldívar (90 Miles, ... [more]Report from Vienna
September 08, 2004
From Linda Gallagher, who organized a screening of the Festival in Vienna on September 2nd to promote civic engagement and voter registration amongst American citizens living abroad: The screening went very well! We had about ... [more]Media That Matters Screens at Ascension
August 24, 2004
The third and fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festivals will screen on Sunday April 29 as part of Enlightened Production's Ascension, a celebration of the positive potential of creative collaboration to transform the ... [more]Media That Matters Comes to Vienna!
August 24, 2004
In the hopes of encouraging civic engagement and non-partisan voter registration, Democrats Abroad Austria is hosting a screening of the Media That Matters Film Festival in Vienna. Check out the films, meet other American citizens ... [more]Last Chance to see Media That Matters on a Rooftop!
August 24, 2004
Rooftop Films, an innovative outdoor screening series based in Brooklyn, has been showing films from the third and fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festivals all summer long. Each event focuses on a different theme, ... [more]Spring in Awe on a Rooftop
July 15, 2004
Come see Spring in Awe on a rooftop in Brooklyn! New York Non-Fiction Friday, July 16, 2004 8:30 - Live music by Jeremy James 9:00 - Slices of the city On the roof of The ... [more]Ohio Screenings Highlight Youth Media
July 12, 2004
The Youth Media Festival in Youngstown screened Media That Matters shorts and inspiring videos by local youth. Shira here. I just got back from a weekend in Youngstown, Ohio where the McDonough Museum of Art ... [more]Screening Journal - Rooftop Screens "Un-American" Films
July 06, 2004
by MediaRights intern Jessica Pascoe I was among the approximately two hundred people who gathered this Fourth of July at the River Project on Pier 26 in lower Manhattan to watch Rooftop Films' curated series ... [more]Media That Matters Comes to Youngtown!
July 02, 2004
The McDonough Museum of Art at Youngstown State University hosts The 6th Annual Festival of the Arts Youth Media Film Festival on July 10th and 11th in Youngstown, Ohio. Youth-produced films from the third and ... [more]I Promise Africa at Rooftop Films
June 29, 2004
Last Friday night, Rooftop Films screened the first of many Media That Matters Festival films. Jerry Henry's I Promise Africa was part of a program entitled Home Movies. A nearly sold-out audience braved the stormy ... [more]Rooftop Films Screens Media That Matters
June 23, 2004
Rooftop Films, an innovative outdoor screening series based in Brooklyn, will be showing films from the third and fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festivals this summer! Each event focuses on a different theme, putting ... [more]Media That Matters Comes to Seattle!
June 02, 2004
On Friday, June 11th, Seattle's 911 Media Arts Center hosts the first stop in the fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festival's traveling tour. The screening highlights Nicole Sobottke's "Dedicated to My Family", which was ... [more]Festival Premiere at BAM
May 16, 2004
Corporate Accountability, Culture-Jamming, Sustainable Agriculture, Civil Liberties – these topics and more are tackled by MediaRights’ fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festival. Join us in kicking-off another year of online streaming, TV broadcasts, community ... [more]