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Discrimination in the Justice System
Books Not Bars explores the relationship between race, prison and education. With new prisons being built while schools lack appropriate funding, Books…Music Videos That Matter
by Shira Golding Here at the Media That Matters Film Festival we celebrate shorts that inspire action and debate. We also know…Filmmakers and Copyright
Just Media Project partner the Center for Social Mediaat American University launches a new report on the copyright problems facing doc filmmakers, and invites you to attend the launch on November 8 from 4-6 p.m. at the Washington College of Law, Room 603 (4801 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC)! The report, Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers, produced in conjunction with the Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in American University's Washington College of Law and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, results from dozens of in-depth interviews about rights clearance with documentary filmmakers working in today’s theatrical and TV environment. The report reveals the lived experience of "clearance culture" and its creative cost. Find out about doc filmmakers' problems and about practical, achievable ways to fix the problems at the launch It begins with a new short film based on the report, “Stories Untold” by American University professor Brigid Maher. A panel of filmmakers and scholars, moderated by Center director and School of Communication professor Pat Aufderheide, will discuss the issues: Panelists: Jim Gilliam (Robert Greenwald Productions) Grace Guggenheim (Guggenheim Productions) Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law) Michael Madison (University of Pittsburgh Law School) Jeffrey Tuchman (Documania Films) Joseph Turow (Annenberg School) Please join us! Get more information. Also, the report and short film will be available on DVD by December 1. Please contact the address below, including your mailing address, if you would like to receive a copy. All materials will also be available on the website for downloading on Nov. 8. This project is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Agnes Varnum, Assistant Director Center for Social Media, American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Mary Graydon Center Room 300 Washington, DC 20016-8017 tel: (202) 885-3107Sustainable agribusiness
In Seeds of Hope: South Africa, African women find solutions to hunger and poverty via sustainable agriculture methods. But what happens when…Media That Matters at NCTE!
Thanks to MediaRights Advisory Council member Dale Allender, the Media That Matters Film Festival will be screening at the upcoming National Council…Media That Matters Travels to Plattsburgh!
Plattsburgh State University of New York is hosting a screening of the Media That Matters Film Festival this Friday Oct. 29th. As…“Don’t Laugh At Me” on NPR - the Movement is Growing!
Here is a great story about media that matters! This weekend NPR ran a story about "Don't Laugh At Me" as part…New Yorkers Fight for a Wage Increase
Have you seen Struggling to Survive? Campaigns to raise the minimum wage and living wage crisis in the United States are springing…Page 88 of 101 of festival news « First < 86 87 88 89 90 > Last »
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