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The Fifth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival Launches June 1st, 2005

Posted on May 11, 2005

Ready to be inspired? In MediaRights' fifth annual Media That Matters Film Festival hip-hop activists, dancing peanuts and claymation teenagers tackle today's most pressing social issues. Launching June 1, 2005 Media That Matters brings innovative shorts and take action tools to audiences around the country, all year long. The 16 jury-selected films by independent and youth producers stream online, tour the country through community screenings, are broadcast on TV and are distributed as a jam-packed DVD to teachers and activists.

The fifth annual Media That Matters Film Festival is presented by Loreto Bay Company.

World Premiere at BAMcinématek: June 1st, 2005 at 7pm
Watch the films on the big screen, meet the filmmakers and MediaRights staff at the Take Action Table.

Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue (between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tickets are $10: www.movietickets.com
Encore screening at 9:30pm

Web Launch: June 1st, 2005 at www.mediathatmattersfest.org
Watch films, take action, find out about upcoming screenings and learn how to bring Media That Matters to your community.

Installation at Lincoln Center: June 11, 12 & 17-19
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival presents an installation of the Media That Matters Film Festival in Walter Reade Theater’s Furman Gallery at Lincoln Center in New York City.

DVD
Order the DVD online at www.mediathatmattersfest.org/dvd and stay tuned for screening and broadcast times throughout the year.

For more information email festival@mediarights.org.

For Press

Download the Press Release (PDF, 172 KB)


Media That Matters Graphic (TIFF, 2.8 MB)

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All That I Can Be (TIFF, 5.8 MB)

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A Girl Named Kai (JPG, 632 KB)

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Laptop (TIFF, 4.9 MB)

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The News Is What We Make It (JPG, 528 KB)

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Something Other Than Other (JPG, 620 KB)

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System Failure (JPG, 392 KB)

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World on Fire (JPG, 312 KB)

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Young Agrarians (TIFF, 7 MB)

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Screenings

June 29: Media That Matters Film Festival at the Roxie hosted by BAVC, San Francisco: Festival partner BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition) hosts the West Coast Premiere of the sixth annual Media That Matters Film Festival at the Roxie in San Francisco, CA. Stay tuned for details!... [more]

Festival News

Get free tools and host your own screening!
The fifth annual Media That Matters DVD is now available. You can host a screening in your community by getting the DVD from the MediaRights store and downloading the free DIY kit including handouts, evaluations and promotional tools!