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Report from Vienna
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 40 people and registered 4. Everybody was very positive and loved the films...We are going to be screening films nearly once a week up until the elections and then monthly through the winter. We have an active little expat community here and the Avenida Culture of Peace Galleria is a wonderful center for Peace and Global Harmony work. They are presently very involved in The Art Miles Mural Project, creating 12 miles of murals! Check out the Web site. If you would like to host a screening of the Media That Matters Traveling FIlm Festival, contact Shira.Digital Storytelling Course
If you've watched Harold Clinton's Lean on Me, then you're familiar with the powerful simplicity of digital storytelling. 13-year-old Herald was able…Operation Truth
If you've watched Bush for Peace, then you've been introduced to an alternate vision of the world. In this striking short, Filmmakers…Patriot Act Reverses Visa For Muslim Scholar
by Kathleen Kennedy If you have seen Day of Remembrance, featured in this years Media That Matters Film Festival you recognize the…“The FCC Does Not Represent Me!”
by Wendy Cohen Last night over 300 people gathered in midtown Manhattan for the March On the Media, a rally in front of largest media corporations in North America. The protest began at CBS and continued on to CNN, passing NBC and convened in front of FOX. In a short 5 block radius along the Avenue of the America’s, we passed 4 of the 5 largest media corporations in North America. This geographical proximity is the most telling metaphor for the current media climate: there is no room for alternate voices. Organized by FAIR, Paper Tiger TV and other media activist, the rally challenged the media’s domination of public discourse and celebrated those who are committed to creating and circulating independent media. The rally was attended by indy media superstars such as Deedee Halleck, Founder of Paper Tiger TV and co-founder of Deep Dish TV, Alyce Myatt of OneWorld TV, Danny Schechter, Executive Director of Mediachannel.org, Reverend Billy and Jeff Cohen, Founder of FAIR. 7 transnational corporations rule the U.S media and dominate the global media and 75% of television news is controlled by 5 of those corporations. If 80% of Americans get their news solely from broadcast media* how much diversity and dissent is the public receiving? MediaRights began the Just Media Project to illuminate this media crisis and call for fair, balanced and accurate reporting. With the backdrop of the Republican National Convention and amidst the the most important weeks of the political season, it is crucial to vociferously demand that the most trusted and most watched news sources detach themselves from their commercial and political puppeteers. "The current state of mass media is fundamentally threatening our democracy," says Shira Golding who joined me last night at the march. "It scares me that the majority of people consume this media uncritically and they do not have the tools to critique what they see and hear; they just assume it is trustworthy." In the United States today, there are over 1,700 newspapers, 11,000 magazines, 9,000 radio and 1,000 telelvision stations. If each of these were operated by a different owner, there would be over 22,000 independent media voices. Now that would be a breath of fresh airwaves. To learn more, visit the Just Media Project. *Adbuster January 2004Media That Matters In the Best of Rooftop Films!
Rooftop Films is concluding its summer outdoor film series this Friday September 3rd. This final evening is your last chance to see…Ascension Screening
On Sunday August 29th, Enlightened Production's Ascension took place at OfficeOps in Brooklyn. As New York City prepared for the Republican National…Being Bullied by Instant Messaging
Can you relate to Laugh at the Fat Kid and Storm? Have you even been bullied or witnessed it happening? Bullying is…Page 86 of 95 of festival news « First < 84 85 86 87 88 > Last »
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