Making Your Media Matter

Film Screening and Dialogue on Violence Prevention in DC

Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 1:00pm - 3:30pm

Location: Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center 3rd Floor, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016

This event is part of the Benevolent Media Festival, an all-volunteer project celebrating storytelling and design for good, organized during Digital Capital Week.

Eventbrite listing: http://benmedfestinterrupters.eventbrite.com/

Join the Center for Social Media and the Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop for a special screening of The Interrupters, courtesy of Cinema Guild and Kartemquin Films. The Interrupters documentary film tells the powerful story of three individuals who choose to interrupt the cycle of violence they once employed in their own communities.

Following the screening, esteemed members of Free Minds will a special reading of poems relating to the issues in "The Interrupters" to kick off DC-focused dialogue about ways to decrease violence in communities. The vision of the Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop is for every young inmate to receive the necessary tools, inspiration and community support to pursue education and follow a positive new path in life. Members' experiences are a direct reflection of The Interrupters story--Washington, DC's own struggle to face the issue of violence and the hope of transformation.

Event Schedule

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 7:00pm - 9:45pm

Location: New York, NY

 Join the Center for Social Media for the Arts Engine Media That Matters™ festival and Impact conference.

Camera as Catalyst

Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location: Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center 3rd Floor, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016

Join CSM for a FotoWeek DC discussion with photographer and LUCEO founding member Matt Eich.

Human Rights Film Series

Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011 (All day)

Location: American University, Katzen Arts Center

The Center for Social Media will be hosting Patrice O'Neill for a Pull Focus interview, graduate film master class and screening of her latest film, Not in Our Town III: Light in the Darkness, the fourth in the 2011 Human Rights Film Series.

Human Rights Film Series

Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011 (All day)

Location: American University, Katzen Arts Center

The Center for Social Media will be hosting Daniele Anastasion and Eric Strauss  for a Pull Focus interview, graduate film master class and screening of their latest film, The Redemption of General Butt Naked, the third in the 2011 Human Rights Film Series.