Making Your Media Matter

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...

With the news this week that a military commission has recommended that the Department of Defense eliminate policies excluding women from combat, as well as other “barriers and inconsistencies,” we were again reminded of the important role of Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers’ Lioness in raising awareness about the need to provide full recognition f Read more...

When exploring the strategies that make an effective social documentary, we have to also ask the question that the audience asks themselves, "Now what?" This year's Environmental Film Festival attempts to answer that question and many others, March 15-27 through film screenings and discussions across Washington, D.C.including at American University's Wechsler Theater. Read more...

At Realscreen, the annual scrimmage where aspiring producers of non-fiction television, cable programmers and vendors mix (as usual, in Washington DC), the panel on fair use was titled for conflict: “The New fair Use Battleground: Resetting the Ground Rules.” The panel, funded by the Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors, explored the premi Read more...

Documentaries at Sundance did more than just challenge, they asked audiences to consider their personal responsibility, whether to history, to humanity, to women, to the environment or to people who are no longer with us. 
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