FESTIVAL NEWS
Photos from the Sixth Annual Festival Awards Ceremony
The sixth annual Media That Matters Film Festival took place June 1, 2006 at HBO Headquarters in NYC. Filmmakers, sponsors, partners and friends came from all around the country to celebrate Media That Matters and to honor the incredible filmmakers for their work.
June 2, 2006 - Download the Press Release (PDF, 80 KB)
All photos by Pauline Shapiro.
The crew from Youth Rights Media, Producer of Book 'Em: Undereducated, Overincarcerated.
(left to right) Phil Caron, Director of (Hate) Machine, Miguel Salinas of Adobe Systems, Lisa Proctor of Utne magazine and Shira Golding, Director of Education & Outreach at Arts Engine.
The Meerkat Media Collective, makers of How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett.
Jacob Caggiano, Director of Eyes on the Fair Use of the Prize (left) with Peter Jaszi of American University. Peter presented the Fair Use Award supported by the Center for Social Media to Jacob for his film.
Katy Chevigny, Executive Director of Arts Engine (left) with Cara Mertes of the Sundance Institute.
Garance Burke, Co-Director of The Rules of the Game with the Ford Foundation's Orlando Bagwell.
Bahman Naraghi and Shauna Spenley of Netflix. Netflix sponsored the War & Peace Award given to Kathy Huang, Director of Night Visions.
(left to right) Wendy Cohen and Anayansi Diaz-Cortes of Arts Engine, Cynthia Carrion of MNN Youth Channel, Kristin Wernicke of Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, Mariela Rosario and Kim Hall of MNN Youth Channel.
Legendary documentarian Albert Maysles presents the Global Justice Award, sponsored by Seventh Generation, to Marcelo Bukin, Director of Bread.
Liz Miller, Director of Water Warriors, received the Environment Award sponsored by Loreto Bay Company.
Filmmakers Kirsten Kelly and Anne de Mare with Nicole de Beaufort (center), who presented them with the Good Food Award supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary).
Arts Engine's Kibra Yohannes, Director of Operations and Enrico Cullen, Director of Development & External Affairs.
(left to right) Louis Abelman, Barbara Kopple, Nelson Walker III, Arlin Green and Paula Yudenfriend. Kopple, Green and Yudenfriend presented the Global Health Award, supported by the Daniel B. and Florence E. Green Foundation, to Abelman and Walker for their film, In Transit.
(righ to left) Arts Engine's Board Member Thom Valentino presents the Community Discourse Award to Monica Lam and Garance Burke, for their film The Rules of the Game.
US Congressman Jerrold Nadler presents the Women's Rights Award to Danielle Lurie, Director of In the Morning.
Actor Terry Kinney from HBO's Oz presented the Criminal Justice Award to Youth Rights Media, Producer of Book 'Em: Undereducated, Overincarcerated.
(right to left) Marshall Curry, Director of Street Fight presents the Knowledge is Power Award, supported by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Foundation to No Child filmmakers Glenn Scott, Chris "Shakademic" Johnson and Gabe Cheifetz.
Actor Reiko Aylesworth of the hit show 24 presents the Jury Award to Karen Lum, Director of Slip of the Tongue.
Poet Adriel Luis performs his piece Slip of the Tongue live for the Awards Ceremony audience.
Legendary documentarian Albert Maysles with Arts Engine's Executive Director, Katy Chevigny. Maysles presented the Global Justice Award, sponsored by Seventh Generation, to Marcelo Bukin, Director of Bread.
(left to right) Miguel Salinas of Adobe Systems with Arts Engine Executive Director Katy Chevigny, Actor Reiko Aylesworth of the hit show 24 and Jury Award Winner Karen Lum, Director of Slip of the Tongue.
(right to left) Filmmaker Kiri Davis, Director of A Girl Like Me with Glenda Davis, one of the young women featured in her film, which won the Diversity Award supported by the Third Millennium Foundation.
Marshall Curry, Director of Street Fight with Academy Award-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple. Curry presented the Knowledge is Power Award, supported by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Foundation to No Child and Kopple presented the Global Health Award, supported by the Daniel B. and Florence E. Green Foundation to In Transit.
Anna Velasco of the Canadian Consulate with Canadian filmmaker Phil Caron, Director of (Hate) Machine, and Arts Engine's Wendy Cohen, another Canadian.
(left to right) Shakademic and Glenn Scott of No Child strike a pose with filmmaker Karen Lum and poet Adriel Luis of Slip of the Tongue.
CBS Early Show and People Magazine film critic Jess Cagle, kicked off the Awards Ceremony.
Published on June 2, 2006
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