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Impact Storytelling Is Reshaping Entertainment — And Awards Season Is Proving It
The Five Most Important Minutes in Entertainment And Why the Industry Is Finally Ready
Resistance in Film: An Exploration on Three Reels
Whose Story Is It, Anyway?
One Woman’s Journey: Forging the Pathway to a Career in Producing
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The Five Most Important Minutes in Entertainment And Why the Industry Is Finally Ready
Every Film Has Social Impact Whether We Design for It or Not
Jane Fonda: “This Is Our Documentary Moment” – Committee for the First Amendment, ACLU SoCal, SIE and the Power of Storytelling
TV Shows That Make a Difference Win New Norman Lear Awards
Hollywood, Health & Society and Entertainment Industries Council Join Forces to Focus on Shared Missions
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Impact & Storytellers
Impact-driven storytelling isn’t just a trend anymore; it’s becoming one of the biggest forces in entertainment. Across television, streaming and film, the projects breaking...
Companies
A powerful idea is gaining traction; the minutes immediately after a film ends may be the most psychologically valuable window in the entire storytelling...
Perspectives in Cinema
Isn’t the honesty of things where they resist, where only the wind can bend them back… — from “The Age of Reason” by Jorie...
Impact & Storytellers
In this case, it felt like common sense. By “case,” I mean actual litigation as our work ultimately would be one of too few...
Filmmakers
About two-thirds of the way through Robert Rippberger and Scott Rosenfelt’s harrowing new documentary 7 Days In Syria, we are led into an unnamed...
Filmmakers
Glenn Sparks wrote one of the most used textbooks for media studies titled: Media Effects Research: A Basic Overview. Over the past 30 years,...
Impact & Storytellers
★★★★★ “Aren’t you worried?” “Would it help?” It is exchanges like these, not grueling battle scenes or mercilessly woven plot threads, that become the blood...
Films
What a bracing experience Ridley Scott’s The Martian turned out to be. In an age of films leadened by misplaced self-importance, here is one...
Impact & Storytellers
In 2003, two plaintiffs sued McDonald’s Corporation for their failure to warn consumers of the dangers of its food. The case was dismissed, noting...
Impact & Storytellers
Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. For more...
Companies
For audiences nearly a century ago, magic was believed to play an integral part in the production of filmmaking. Filmmakers were like magicians, discovering...
Filmmakers
Warning: this article contains spoilers. “I just want to have a few beers and talk like friends.” This is how Nathan, a genius billionaire...
Impact & Storytellers
From living in a Syrian refugee camp to surviving on a dollar a day as a radish farmer in Guatemala, Chris and his co-founder...
Impact & Storytellers
