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- Impact & Storytellers
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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- Social Impact Entertainment
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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Impact & Storytellers
In the world of philanthropy, the impact of your investments matters. When it comes to funding social impact films, the challenge lies not only...
Impact & Storytellers
Diversity in Hollywood today focuses on racial and gender inclusion, but is largely missing another important community in that conversation: people with disabilities. RespectAbility,...
Companies
“Social impact entertainment’s time has come,” Teri Schwartz, the dean of UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television said as she welcomed everyone to...
Impact & Storytellers
The character of a president matters. And in this past year since Donald Trump was elected, many of us wished for a president who...
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
Impact & Storytellers
For it’s 1993 release, the Jonathan Demme film, Philadelphia, set a novel precedent. At this time, the HIV/AIDS virus was essentially a death sentence...
SIE Voices
John Ford, the director known for such classic films as The Searchers and The Grapes of Wrath, once said, “Make a movie for them,...
Impact & Storytellers
“I’d rather die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober...
Impact & Storytellers
As filmmakers, our greatest hurdle is money. How much? What’s the budget? Can we cut things from the script to make it more feasible? ...
Impact & Storytellers
