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Media That Matters and MediaRights

The Festival

Sustainability, Justice, Civic Engagement — these topics and more are tackled by the Media That Matters Film Festival. Launching June 1st, 2005, the Festival brings high-impact shorts and Take Action tools to audiences around the country, all year long. The Festival's film and video shorts tour the country through community screenings, and hit the airwaves on cable and satellite television channels. A Festival DVD with special features will be available for educators and activists in fall 2005.

MediaRights held its open call for entries in October 2004 and received over 450 inspiring entries from producers from all over the United States and the world. In February 2005, official selections were chosen by a jury of accomplished filmmakers, activists, journalists, artists, television programmers, teachers and young people.

Festival filmmakers are seasoned professionals as well as talented youth media producers with important stories to tell. You can read about their creative processes by visiting the Festival's film info pages.

The Festival kicked off in New York City with an Awards Ceremony at HBO headquarters on May 26th, the Media in Action Coalition-Building Workshop on May 27th at the Inernational Center for Tolerance Education in Dumbo, and the World Premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on June 1st, 2005.

After its New York debut the Media That Matters Traveling Festival comes to a different city every month with a screening and discussion hosted by one of our partners. To find out when the Festival is showing in your community, visit the news page. You can host your own event by ordering a copy of the Festival DVD. Activists and teachers will be able to download a Teacher's Guide and other screening tools in fall 2005.

Previous Festivals:
Fourth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival
Third Annual Media That Matters Film Festival
Second Annual Media That Matters Film Festival
First Annual Media That Matters Film Festival

MediaRights

The Media That Matters Film Festival is produced by MediaRights, a nonprofit organization that connects filmmakers, activists, educators and youth through a variety of online and offline projects. By developing relationships between filmmakers and nonprofits, MediaRights promotes the exhibition of documentaries in a wide range of community venues. The MediaRights website features the nation's most comprehensive database of issue-oriented films and provides educators and librarians with powerful tools to create media curricula, curate audio/visual collections, and use film more effectively in the classroom. More than 100,000 visitors come to MediaRights each month making the site one of the most vibrant online centers for community/filmmaker collaboration. MediaRights and the Media That Matters Film festival are projects of Arts Engine, Inc.

If you are looking for the Media That Matters Hollyhock Conference, you can find it at MediaThatMatters.org.