Media Impact

On Saturday, June 16, in partnership with American University's Institute for Strategic Communication for Nonprofits, SILVERDOCS presented "Filmanthropy: Facilitating Creative and Strategic Partnerships." This day-long workshop connected filmmakers with leaders in the nonprofit world seeking to utilize media to achieve their goals. Funders who enable the development, production and distribution of social media also participated in the event. Read more...

Can social entrepreneurs bring new vision to public media? Could "filmanthropy" make more and better socially-conscious films? Social entrepreneurs take on social problems with solutions derived from the entrepreneurial and often more commercial arenas rather than via the usual array of interested non-profit groups.

A recent keynote speech by Ted Leonsis at the recent Silverdocs Film Festival, held from June 12-17 in Silver Spring, MD, provided an optimistic vision of social entrepreneurship and socially-responsive media. Leonsis is best known as a Vice Chairman of AOL. Read more...

If you attended SILVERDOCS this year, chances are you went home with a green pin imploring filmmakers to make media with no impact. While this may seem counter to every other media-making session you've attended, the greencodeproject folks are actually onto something.

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ArtsEngine recently hosted its Seventh Annual Media That Matters Film Festival in New York City. Sixteen inspiring new short films were selected for this year's event. The Center for Social Media was THRILLED to present this year's Fair Use award to The Apollos by young filmmakers Nick Parker and Jazmin Jones. Read more...

I had the pleasure of participating in my first DocAgora session at the
recently concluded HotDocs festival in Toronto. Read more...