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December
1
Pandemic: Facing AIDS
Film screening commemorating World AIDS Day,
5:30 p.m., Wechsler Theater, MGC
 Five
amazing--and inspiring--stories of AIDS in real lives in Thailand,
Russia, Uganda, India and Brazil, from acclaimed filmmaker Rory
Kennedy. Free soundtrack CD's to the first 25 people!
More about the film>>
More
about National World AIDS Day>>
November
13
Jenny Matthews
Presentation and Discussion
5:30 p.m., Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
Matthews presented her new book “Women
and War,” which looks at the experience of mothers, widows,
refugees and survivors, carers, combatants and campaigners. Deep
and wide ranging, it is both an exploration and a personal diary
drawn from Jenny Matthews’ coverage of most of the major conflicts
of the last 20 years. More>>
November
4-8
 Kartemquin
Films Retrospective with Gordon Quinn
Co-Sponsored by the John & Rachel
King Foundation
See the full event
schedule and find out more about Quinn and Kartemquin Films>>
October 22
Patricia Castano, Director of "War Takes"
Read more about War
Takes and Patricia Castano>>
October 24-25
Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA
Panel discussions sponsored by the Center
for Social Media and moderated by Center Director Pat Aufderheide
"The Future of Hollywood: Creators, Conglomeration and Culture"
Friday, 10/24 4:00 p.m.
Hollywood has become the engine of commercial culture, but will
that engine sputter with rapid business and technological change?
Recent megamergers, with the FCC's June decision encouraging more
concentration of ownership, promise to change the landscape of entertainment
production. Digital innovations are shaking old business practices.
In this panel, creators--whose talent makes it all possible--discussed
the shakeups in the commercial film business from their point of
view. More>>
"Public culture at risk? Supporting
media arts in trying times"
Saturday, 10/25 2:30 p.m.
So why is making and finding films and videos made for noncommercial
purposes such a struggle? Who out there is finding new approaches
to the challenge of making film and video part of a vital and democratic
public culture?
More>>
Click
here to visit the website of the 16th Annual Virigina Film Festival!
September
24
Willful Infringement
5:30 p.m., Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
 To
celebrate the launch of the Center's new research project, "Imagination,
Creativity and Control in Independent Filmmaking," funded by the
Rockefeller Foundation, the Center hosts a screening of the new
doc by Jed Horovitz, Willful Infringement.
Horovitz'
funny, insightful work shows real-life absurdities of the current
copyright laws for filmmakers, musicians and-yes-clowns. The research
project investigates rights management issues faced by working filmmakers.
Discussion with Washington College of Law Professor Peter Jaszi
and filmmaker Jed Horovitz. Read
Educational Media Reviews Online of Willful Infringement.
September
11, 2003
Visiting Photographer: John Ficara
Presentation and discussion
7:00 p.m., Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
John Ficara is a freelance photojournalist who has worked
for three years documenting the disappearance of the black farmer
in America, a study that began as a Newsweek assignment while he
was on staff for the magazine. He will be discussing his new book
on the subject, Distant
Echoes. Read more>>
September 5
 DC
Labor Film Festival
Lens at Work: Labor Filmmakers and the Challenges of Storytelling
Moderated by School of Communication dean Larry Kirkman, panelists
Nina Shapiro-Perl of SEIU, author Tom Zaniello, filmmaker Samantha
Davidson Green and Richard di Donato discussed the difficulties
in bringing stories about labor to audiences, and the general ability
of films to affect change. The DC
Labor Film Festival, which the Center helps to curate, is the
leading site to see the latest film and video on the cultures and
issues of the workplace.
June 29, 2003
Center for Social Media Hosts Panel at AMLA:
How do social change and advocacy materials
fit into a classroom standing in the shadow of standardized testing?
"Video is only one dimension of a process," said
Ronit Avni of the human rights organization Witness. "You need to
know more about the complexity of any human rights issue, and you
need to know what you can do. Otherwise, compassion fatigue sets
in." More>>
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