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Sparking Social Impact at Full Frame Documentary Festival

2014 Full FrameFull Frame Documentary Film Festival earned its reputation as the “filmmakers’ festival” in part by becoming a showcase for powerfully intimate stories, most often about people. “Character-driven” can be a redundant quality when it comes to most modern documentaries, but Full Frame distinguishes both its films and its own character as “bold, personal and very brave.” This was how programming director Sadie Tillery introduced Darius Clark Monroe’s "Evolution of a Criminal," which went on to win both the Reva and David Logan Grand Jury and the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Awards. Read more...

AIM and Shoot Discussion Focuses on Impact and Measurement

AIM and ShootIn March, the Center's creative director Caty Borum Chattoo traveled to Los Angeles to speak at Media Impact Focus: AIM and Shoot, the latest in a series of discussions on cutting-edge media impact analysis methods. Read more...

SXSW: Engagement and Action

SXSWAt SXSW, social-issue storytellers—filmmakers, journalists, game designers, and more--could benefit from a range of messages, not all designed for the social-issue space. Consider: Read more...

SXSW Verite: Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes

The Great InvisibleAt SXSW 2014, Tilda Swinton told a packed crowd that film was an"amazingly humane opportunity to put yourselves in the shoes of someone else." Verite documentaries exemplified the best in that opportunity.

THE GREAT INVISIBLE

The grand jury prize winner, "The Great Invisible," was a great example. Margaret Brown’s film invites us to look at the consequences of the BP oil spill on the people most directly affected--the victims of the Deep Water Horizon explosion and their families, the seafood industry workers, and oil industry executives. Read more...

Empowering the Human Voice: Kunal Gupta on Media That Matters

As we count down the days until Media That Matters 2014, check the CMSI blog to learn more about our #MTMDC panelists and why they engage with media that matters. 

Kunal Gupta of Baycastles and The Silent Barn will be speaking at Media That Matters 2014 on the panel Digital Games: Using persuasive play for social impact. Here is his story. Read more...