Making Your Media Matter

Filmmakers like Luisa Dantas are paving the way for more people to understand and experiment with web-native documentary production. What does this really mean, and what can we learn from them so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel? Read more...

Hear the instant reactions of AU students, staff, and filmmaker Michael Collins to "Give Up Tomorrow," the very first showing of the 2012 Human Rights Film Series on Sept. 27.Read more...

So you want to make a movie but aren’t exactly sure where to start?  Don't fret!  The options are fairly simple and filmmakers always fall in one of two categories: they go to film school or they buy a camera and start shooting.  Both have their benefits and while learning on the fly with just you and a camera is a bit cheaper, film school will hopefully provide tools for students through both knowledge and practice to not face the same avoidable confusion as their filmmaking predecessors.   Read more...

Ten years ago, people were running across parking lots in zig-zags, and they were afraid to go out in public. October marks the ten-year anniversary of the famously dubbed “D.C. Sniper” attacks, in which two assailants terrorized the city and other parts of the nation for 23 days.

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By Andrea Olson
In an age of online over-sharing (we know what what most of our “friends” are watching, listening to and “liking”), Land of Opportunity has been grappling with how to achieve a major goal on this innovative project: sharing lessons learned.  How do we  effectively convey our successes and failures for those setting out to explore the intersection of film, social justice and emerging media? Read more...