Making Your Media Matter
Media That Matters
Media That Matters
This year's theme is Change for Good - and early bird registration is officially open! Join us February 10-11, 2012 at American University. Check out the conference agenda, get directions, and connect on Facebook.
Get details...Visiting Filmmakers
Visiting Filmmakers
CSM hosts visiting filmmakers in the fall and spring semesters at American University. These successful independents offer their wisdom, mistakes and victories, in the process of making socially engaged media.
View the schedule.Pull Focus
Pull Focus
Closely linked to Visiting FIlmmakers is our Pull Focus Series. Pull Focus is an ongoing online discussion that explores the practice and purpose of documentary filmmaking with a focus on the technical, ethical and economic challenges confronting experienced and emerging filmmakers. CSM hosts online podcasts and transcripts of the Pull Focus interviews with filmmakers to serve as a resource for students and the community at large on the subject of social documentary.
Read interviews.Educational Materials
Educational Materials
In addition to the Pull Focus series, the CSM website is home to a number of additional educational materials available for usage and download.
Browse materials.The Center for Social Media is committed to providing resources and showcasing cutting-edge practices to help you make your media matter. Making Your Media Matter (MYMM) is a program that explores the evolution of documentary film and video in the digital and transmedia age. We ask questions and look for answers about effective outreach, audience engagement, distribution, funding, partnerships, impact, and how to be strategic from the start with your socially engaged media.
SPOTLIGHT ON: Making An Impact - including examples of creative media projects that have propelled massive social action and our new report, Social Justice Documentary: Designing For Impact
CSM Blog
Videos
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This year's theme, "Storytelling across Platforms," focuses on today's evolving media world...
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Lisa Smithline of Cultural Front Productions moderated this panel--which included Patrice O'Neill,...
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On this final panel of the day, American University Professor Claudia Myers moderated, while...