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...
Hi, what are you looking for?
SIE Voices
- Impact & Storytellers
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
- Member Voices
- 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
- Non-Profit
- Social Impact Entertainment
- Podcasts
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...
Social Impact Entertainment
Nobody saw this coming: a new chapter in the macho, muscle-bound 80’s monster franchise with a First Nations female as the hero. We take...
Social Impact Entertainment
We’ve curated this list of films that explore how loneliness can impact us in four unique ways and settings and a bonus one you...
Social Impact Entertainment
From a nervous first date to whiling away a rainy afternoon, the human race fell in love with cinema over a century ago. We...
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...
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...
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
Companies
What happened to the days of classical Hollywood when hit movies weren’t a sequel or some variation thereof? When a film wasn’t made on...
Non-Profit
In 1916, Henry D. Hubbard, the Secretary of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, spoke to the inaugural meeting of the Society of Motion...
Exchange
There is no single silence, but a typology of non-hearing and non-listening. Whether the supposed silence of a musical rest, of the anticipation of...
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...
Impact & Storytellers
