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Missed Jennifer Maytorena Taylor and New Muslim Cool?

Documentary filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor was on campus on October 22nd to screen her new film New Muslim Cool and to present a filmmaking master class on how to build narrative and character arcs when you're working with verite footage. If you couldn't make it to the screening and the class, you can still watch clips from them here. Read more...

Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning Public Media for the 21st Century

Check out this video of Center for Social Media Fellow Ellen Goodman, a professor at Rutgers University School of Law, who's been working on current policy issues related to public media 2.0. She and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange, discuss the role of public media in providing news and information and empowering publics to communicate and organize.Read more...

QUESTION OF THE MONTH: Using Copyrighted Material for Commenting and Illustration

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Check out our interview with documentary filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson!

On Friday, October 2, American University's School of Communications screened the documentary film As We Forgive as part of Human Rights Month. The film, which tells the stories of two Rwandan women who come face to face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide, was directed by AU alum Laura Waters Hinson. Read more...

Missed Burma VJ?

You can still check out the video of the Q & A session with Burmese monks U Agga and U Gawasita, and Michael Haack from the US Campaign for Burma! Burma VJ screened to a packed house as part of our 10th Annual Human Rights Film Series, and the audience was captivated both by the film and by our panelists' comments about the 2007 Saffron Revolution and the ongoing situation in Burma. You can watch the video below.Read more...