Impact & Storytellers
Films that entertain and films that drive positive change in the world are often thought to be mutually exclusive. That’s the way it’s always...
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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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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
How to Survive a Dictatorship
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Social Impact Entertainment
Bold as always, Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar elegantly tackles the touchiest of subjects for his first English-language feature. The Room Next Door releases in Australian...
Social Impact Entertainment
He’s been hailed as the most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel – but there’s one area where he truly excels. Over a...
Social Impact Entertainment
For a dam wall to burst, it takes someone to create the first cracks. Meet Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor: the two journalists whose...
Social Impact Entertainment
Films with a mental health focus might not be the first ones you reach for on a lazy night in – but as these...
Social Impact Entertainment
The Pitt, Shrinking, Dying for Sex Among Shows Taking Renamed Sentinel Prizes By Roberta Cruger Seven series recognized for powerful storytelling on topics like...
Social Impact Entertainment
Nonprofit Collaboration for Storytelling That Makes a Difference USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center has announced an expansion in health and wellness resources for entertainment content...
SIE Voices
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...
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...
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...
Non-Profit
Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger went to Stanford, CA to meet 91-year old rockstar of Psychology, Albert Bandura. Bandura pioneered fundamental psychological theories...
Impact & Storytellers
Films
Going to Sundance ’16, I didn’t actually plan on seeing any movies. There were too many exciting events, too many great panels, and a plethora of...
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
There is no other film that has made more of an indelible mark on history and pop culture than Star Wars. In its most recent...
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,...
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