Audience Engagement; Impact; Social Documentary

Telluride Mountainfilm isn't just about mountains, it's about the mountain spirit--an uplifting sense of community that drives social change. In my last post I gave just a few examples of calls to action that resonated throughout the festival. Read more...

Sometimes the social change goal isn't to move mountains, it's to stop moving mountains. No one knows this better than Maria Gunnoe, West Virginia resident and passionate advocate against mountaintop removal for coal mining. Gunnoe's presentation kicked off the Awareness Into Action Moving Mountains Symposium at the 2011 Telluride Mountainfilm Festival
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Festival Director Tony Gittens tells me that Filmfest DC is the only festival in the world that has a Justice Matters award. I had the privilege of serving on the jury for Filmfest DC’s  2011 Justice Matters series, made possible by the locally based CrossCurrents Foundation. Read more...

For director Tom Shadyac, making a film that matters meant making a film that was deeply personal. Speaking after the screening of his documentary I AM, Shadyac said that media is the most powerful when you write and create it from a personal place.Read more...

Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis, filmmakers for over 25 years and keynote speakers at the 2010 Making Your Media Matter (MYMM) conference, are taking a grassroots approach to fundraising for an Oscar nomination through Read more...