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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
The National Geographic Society Harnesses the Power of Storytelling
The Intersection of Work and the Household – How to show up for your career and your family without losing yourself.
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Is the New SNOW WHITE Really the “Worst Film of All Time”?!
This Refugee Film Was Blasted By a Right-Wing Government – Then it Helped Overthrow Them
How to Survive a Dictatorship
Why The Seed of the Sacred Fig is the Film Iran Doesn’t Want You to Watch
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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...
Impact & Storytellers
As I walked through the large steel gate towards the vibrantly colored mural on the windowless concrete facade, the pulsing beat of Reggaetón greeted...
Filmmakers
In today’s filmed entertainment environment a screenwriter is often asked, “Why this, why now?” In other words they are asked to prove a story’s...
Impact & Storytellers
For decades now, the conventional wisdom in the film industry has been that there are films made for entertainment, and films made with depth,...
Impact & Storytellers
Is the power a force, in which passion prevailed? Films may descend deep in the psyche and even further into the soul and their...
Member Voices
In our search to understand what makes a masterpiece or blockbuster work, we concluded in our last article that these films work because they...
Impact & Storytellers
In the wake of a blossoming society that tells the Donald Sterlings of yesteryear that mainstream bigotry is indeed a thing of the past,...
Impact & Storytellers
Photo Credit: Universal Pictures and Focus Features To say that it’s been hard to escape any mention of EL James’ juggernaut hit 50 Shades...
Member Voices
In 2005 Andrew Bujalski’s “Mutual Appreciation,” and Jay and Mark Duplass’ “Puffy Chair” initiated a string of movies that embodied elements which would later...
Companies
Storytelling has been around since the dawn of humanity. Narrative is perhaps the most universal cognitive tool for situated understanding. The idea of interactive...
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What are we to make of events that reach us in the form of a video clip of a police shooting that is sandwiched...
Filmmakers
Lars von Trier, the “enfant terrible” of contemporary cinema, has grown a reputation for putting his female protagonists in harms way. Half of von...
Member Voices
There are many ways to look at films, and to have conversations about what we as filmmakers do and ought to do. The conversation...
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