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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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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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- Social Impact Entertainment
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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Social Impact Entertainment
How do you tell a story about a country clouded by secrecy and oppression? By zooming in on the lives of one family. Woman....
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...
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...
SIE Voices
From intention to impact intelligence in the next era of storytelling By Ed Lantz & Julie Davitz For years, Social Impact Entertainment (SIE) has...
SIE Voices
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...
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
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...
Exchange
This article is part of the CoC@SXSW2015 series. Back in March 2015 I attended SXSW in Austin, Texas. After six months of endless work, finally this...
Filmmakers
Professor Paige teaches at the UC Berkeley French Department and has published a number of papers and books focusing mostly on seventeenth and eighteenth-century...
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