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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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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
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
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It is sometimes easy to forget that Storytelling can take many forms beyond film, television and other visual media with which we are so familiar. Attending...
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Spheres, 360° domes, and other wrap‑around immersive environments create an unusually powerful sense of presence, transporting audiences into story worlds both real and imagined....
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In the essay anthology 100 Plays to Save the World, theater artists Elizabeth Freestone and Jeanie O’Hare describe Pulitzer-finalist Madeleine George’s play Hurricane Diane...
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
Is the power a force, in which passion prevailed? Films may descend deep in the psyche and even further into the soul and their...
Impact & Storytellers
Before you get the wrong idea, let me be clear. I obviously don’t like the person he is or anything he’s done. Not by...
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...
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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...
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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...
Films
Through the dark and damp corridor she sneaks away, fearing and shivering, sweating and crying. Something is hunting her, a creature that knows how to...
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