Making Your Media Matter Videos
The 2010 Making Your Media Matter Conference, entitled "Real Stories, Real Impact," brought together documentary filmmakers, fiction filmmakers, funders, activists, non-profits and other media makers to discuss strategies for how to make your media have the most impact possible.
This 17 minute documentary takes viewers to three different cities where communities are using media to promote workers rights, empower voters, and fill cracks in the social welfare system.
Focusing on Chicago's CAN-TV, Brooklyn's BCAT and DCTV's work with the Edgewood Terrace project in Washington D.C.'s Northeast, the video features
The first of an annual producer's workshop was held at the Center for Social Media at American University on February 7, 2005. The workshop was designed to showcase strategies and resources on audience engagement using media. It served to highlight the dynamic and growing
Cara Mertes, P.O.V. Executive Director, discusses the power of a well-crafted human story that treats people fairly; strong support materials; and feedback in the creation of an effective documentary. She uses Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson's Every Mother's Son
to illustrate her points.
Ellen Schneider, Executive
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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...