Making Your Media Matter

As presenting partners, we're thrilled to announce Arts Engine's upcoming Media That Matters Film Festival in June.

If you're going to be in New York, don't miss the premiere of the eight jury-selected films on June 2nd, as well as a workshop on June 3rd which addresses impact issues. Also you can pre-order your very own copy of the films to host your own screening.

**You're invited!**

10 Years. More than 10 million viewers. 156 shorts.Read more...

The Center for Social Media held a screening of Fighter as a part of the campus wide Terezin Project, which aimed to explore the experience of the Holocaust through a variety of artistic lenses. The screening of Fighter explored the memory of two Holocaust survivors through a documentary film lens.Read more...

Filmmaker Judith Helfand was in DC last week to screen her film Cooked with the Environmental Film Festival, and while she was here she joined us at the CSM for the day to lead a master class. Read more...

Public media mavens closely watch general business trends, if they want to seize opportunities. So at SXSW I was scouting for shifts in distribution. How does the Internet change film distribution? Read more...

South by Southwest Film Festival, in Austin, TX, has become a rich environment for documentaries, under the aegis of Janet Pierson (and if you don’t know this extraordinary champion of indie film, check out her interview on the POV blog). Even selecting for social-issue, human rights and cultural criticism (my stock categories), there was way too much to see. What I saw, by and large, I was happy to have seen—and no, I’m not sharing with you what I didn’t like. Read more...