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THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEDIA THAT MATTERS FILM FESTIVAL
Welcome to MediaRights' fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festival. Our jury has chosen 16 short films on the burning topics of today: Corporate Accountability, Sustainable Agriculture, Civil Liberties, Youth Media and more. Choose your media player below, select a film to your right, and click on a link to take action on the causes you care about most. STREAM>CLICK>ACTION
I Promise Africa
- Donate to Keep a Child Alive, and help provide medicine to children with AIDS.
- Get the facts about AIDS in Africa through avert.org.
- Join the DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) action network.
iThemba
- Endorse equal access to HIV/AIDS medication through Health GAP.
- Lend your voice to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
- Join the Campaign to End Aids.
Seeds of Hope: South Africa
- Lend your voice to the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture.
- Get the facts by sitting down at the Sustainable Table.
- Contribute to the latest action at the Institute for Food and Development Policy.
The Meatrix
- Learn how to live sustainably from Sustainable Table.
- Join the fight against factory farms through the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment.
- Help victims of the factory farm industry through Farm Sanctuary.
- Find local organic alternatives through Local Harvest.
Laugh at the Fat Kid
- Learn about overeating and good nutrition from KidsHealth.
- What you can do to stop bullying from the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center.
- Test your bullying prevention know-how through a fun game at Stop Bullying Now.
Lean on Me
- Get in on the action at YouthNOISE.
- Learn how to tell your own story through the Center for Digital Storytelling.
- Make an impact with your digital story or film through the Youth Media Distribution Toolkit.
Books Not Bars
- Urge congress to fund educational programs through the National Education Association.
- Hard facts on spending from the Justice Policy Institute.
- Join the struggle to end the prison industrial complex.
The Children of Birmingham
- Learn more about Birmingham and the civil rights movement at Africanaonline.com.
- Join the movement of student-led activists for social change at Sound Out.
- Support the enforcement of Civil Rights at civilrights.org.
Day of Remembrance
- Speak out on behalf of the post 9/11 detainees through the Human Rights Watch campaign.
- Educate yourself and prevent anti-Arab discrimination at ADC.org.
- Learn how you can get involved with issues affecting Japanese-Americans.
Dedicated to My Family
- Advocate for the homeless through the National Coalition for the Homeless.
- Support homeless teens by donating to Stand Up For Kids.
- Are you a teen in need of support? Call Teen Line.
Struggling to Survive
- Learn about and join the fight for a living wage at the Living Wage Resource Center.
- Lend your voice to fight for a living wage and worker’s rights at 9to5.
- Tell your U.S. representative to bring the minimum wage increase to a vote at the AFLCIO website.
The Sixth Section
- Donate to Grupo Unión’s well and water system project.
- Defend the rights of Mexicans in America through the Mexico Solidarity Network.
- Urge Congress to reform unjust immigration laws through the ACLU.
Novela, Novela
- Get the facts about the abuse of women in Latin America from MADRE.
- Fight violence against women through the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Join the Feminist Majority.
Bush for Peace
- Stop nuclear weapons proliferation through WagingPeace.org.
- Join the global peace movement through United for Peace and Justice.
- Take action for peace.
Spring in Awe
- Get alternative coverage of the War on Iraq.
- Ten ways to become media literate from the Center for Media Literacy.
- Fight for media democracy through the Just Media Project.
POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English
- Sign the Media Carta from Adbusters.
- Fight for corporate accountability through CorpWatch.
- Fight for media democracy through the Just Media Project.
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I Promise Africa
2:40 min
Public Service Announcement
Winner of the Jury Award Sponsored by National Film Network
While making a documentary about orphans, a filmmaker preserves the voices of a generation that will soon be silenced.
Public Service Announcement
Winner of the Jury Award Sponsored by National Film Network
While making a documentary about orphans, a filmmaker preserves the voices of a generation that will soon be silenced.
iThemba
5:19 min
Documentary Short
Winner of the Health Advocacy Award Sponsored by Sundance Channel
The Sinikithemba Choir turns stage into soapbox, singing and speaking for 5 million HIV+ South Africans.
Documentary Short
Winner of the Health Advocacy Award Sponsored by Sundance Channel
The Sinikithemba Choir turns stage into soapbox, singing and speaking for 5 million HIV+ South Africans.
Seeds of Hope: South Africa
6:12 min
International Documentary
Winner of the Environment Award
A group of women in a South African township learn how to sustain themselves and their children.
International Documentary
Winner of the Environment Award
A group of women in a South African township learn how to sustain themselves and their children.
The Meatrix
3:47 min
Flash Animation
Winner of the Film for Thought Award Sponsored by Heifer International
Will Leo the pig take the blue pill and remain in a fantasyland where quaint family farms produce food for our tables?
Flash Animation
Winner of the Film for Thought Award Sponsored by Heifer International
Will Leo the pig take the blue pill and remain in a fantasyland where quaint family farms produce food for our tables?
Laugh at the Fat Kid
7:57 min
Narrative Short
Winner of the Peter Yarrow Peace in Our Classrooms Award Sponsored by Frank Marshall
A young boy caught in a cycle of ridicule and overeating — what’s wrong with this picture?
Narrative Short
Winner of the Peter Yarrow Peace in Our Classrooms Award Sponsored by Frank Marshall
A young boy caught in a cycle of ridicule and overeating — what’s wrong with this picture?
Lean on Me
1:46 min
Youth Digital Story
Winner of the Youth Digital Story Award Sponsored by the Waitt Family Foundation
When the mayor’s office says “no,” a group of kids find a safe place to play basketball.
Youth Digital Story
Winner of the Youth Digital Story Award Sponsored by the Waitt Family Foundation
When the mayor’s office says “no,” a group of kids find a safe place to play basketball.
Books Not Bars
3:44 min
Campaign Portrait
Winner of the Criminal Justice Award Sponsored by Open Society Institute
The teens of the Books Not Bars movement demand that education be the government’s priority, now and in the future.
Campaign Portrait
Winner of the Criminal Justice Award Sponsored by Open Society Institute
The teens of the Books Not Bars movement demand that education be the government’s priority, now and in the future.
The Children of Birmingham
6:17 min
Animation
Winner of the Youth Video Award Sponsored by Time Warner Foundation
Baltimore youth tell the story of their 1960s counterparts who fought for civil rights.
Animation
Winner of the Youth Video Award Sponsored by Time Warner Foundation
Baltimore youth tell the story of their 1960s counterparts who fought for civil rights.
Day of Remembrance
8:00 min
Political Documentary
Winner of the Racial Justice Award
Sixty years have passed between Pearl Harbor and September 11th, but have things really changed for Arab and Muslim Americans?
Political Documentary
Winner of the Racial Justice Award
Sixty years have passed between Pearl Harbor and September 11th, but have things really changed for Arab and Muslim Americans?
Dedicated to My Family
3:51 min
Personal Documentary
Winner of the Family and Society Award
Living in a teen shelter, Nicole has learned that family is where the heart is.
Personal Documentary
Winner of the Family and Society Award
Living in a teen shelter, Nicole has learned that family is where the heart is.
Struggling to Survive
7:37 min
Youth Documentary
Winner of the Youth Documentary Award Sponsored by Time Warner Foundation
Teenagers in eastern Kentucky turn their cameras on the living wage crisis in their community.
Youth Documentary
Winner of the Youth Documentary Award Sponsored by Time Warner Foundation
Teenagers in eastern Kentucky turn their cameras on the living wage crisis in their community.
The Sixth Section
8:10 min
Social Documentary
Winner of the American Dream Award Sponsored by Netflix
During the cold winters of upstate New York, a group of immigrants work together to give back to their hometown of Boqueron, Mexico.
Social Documentary
Winner of the American Dream Award Sponsored by Netflix
During the cold winters of upstate New York, a group of immigrants work together to give back to their hometown of Boqueron, Mexico.
Novela, Novela
7:20 min
International Documentary
Winner of the Women’s Rights Award
A group of Nicaraguan activists produce a homegrown soap opera about issues like safe sex and domestic abuse.
International Documentary
Winner of the Women’s Rights Award
A group of Nicaraguan activists produce a homegrown soap opera about issues like safe sex and domestic abuse.
Bush for Peace
1:56 min
Satirical Short
Winner of the Politics and Government Award
It’s Dubya as you’ve never heard him before in a re-mix of U.S. foreign policy.
Satirical Short
Winner of the Politics and Government Award
It’s Dubya as you’ve never heard him before in a re-mix of U.S. foreign policy.
Spring in Awe
4:00 min
Experimental Short
Winner of the Media Awareness Award Sponsored by AIVF
The overpowering displays of Times Square put a spell on the world in a disturbing lullaby of global capitalism.
Experimental Short
Winner of the Media Awareness Award Sponsored by AIVF
The overpowering displays of Times Square put a spell on the world in a disturbing lullaby of global capitalism.
POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English
8:24 min
Portrait
Winner of the Media Literacy Award Sponsored by Paola Freccero
Ron English’s billboards force the man on the street to look twice…or maybe three times.
Portrait
Winner of the Media Literacy Award Sponsored by Paola Freccero
Ron English’s billboards force the man on the street to look twice…or maybe three times.
The Media That Matters Film Festival is a project of Arts Engine Inc.,
a 501(c)(3) organization
