Making Your Media Matter 2009

How can media makers connect their ethical and aesthetic values with their financial needs?

The Center for Social Media invites established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders, and students to our 5th annual Making Your Media Matter conference. This is a perfect opportunity to learn and share cutting-edge practices for creating media that matters.

Where: American University’s Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016

When: February 12-13, 2009

Click here to register.
Registration is $100, with a $50 price for students. Please note that a student ID will be required upon check-in.

Join filmmakers, distributors, outreach specialists and an impressive cast of media pioneers for a series of panel discussions on the latest tools and trends in creating, distributing, and fundraising for social issue media.

Keynote speakers include: Gordon Quinn and George Stoney.

SCHEDULE
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 12th

5:30 Introduction by School of Communication’s Dean Larry Kirkman

5:50 Mini-keynote: George Stoney on ethics in social-issue film

6:15 Keynote: Gordon Quinn and the ethics of Cinema Verite

7:30 Reception

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13TH

9:00 Registration, coffee/bagels, and demos

10:00 Welcome and Logistics

10:15 Panel: Money and Mission

An in-depth look at the issue of funding social issue media, and how to meet the demands of funders while also fulfilling the ethical needs of your mission. Featuring:
Danny Alpert, Executive Producer of See3 and Kindling Group

Julie Goldman, founder of Cactus Three Films
Alyce Myatt, Executive Director of Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media
Diana Barrett, founder of the Fledgling Fund

11:45 Announcements/Shout-outs

11:50 Birds of a Feather Lunch

Birds of a Feather lunch is a way to sign up for a theme or issue you would like to discuss before the conference, network online with people with similar interests, and meet for lunch to discuss that topic. You can sign up for your BOF group or create a new one on our networking site.

1:15 Raffle

1:30 Panel: Outreach and Connection

This panel will focus on the various ways that outreach and audience connection can be incorporated into social-issue media, and provide new approaches in measuring impact. Featuring:
Andrew Mer of Snagfilms

Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, film makers of Made in LA

Scott Kirsner, author of CinemaTech

Wendy Levy, Director of Creative Programming of the Bay Area Video Coalition

3:00 Networking Break

3:30 Panel: Art, Ethics and Mission

What happens when you make a beautiful film about a dark subject? This panel will take a look at how to marry the ethics of media making with the aesthetic choices required to make powerful art. Featuring:
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, film makers of War Dance

Cara Mertes, Director of the Sundance Documentary Film Program

Thomas Allen Harris, Director of Chimpanzee Productions

Sky Sitney, Programming Director of SILVERDOCS

5:00 Reception

Be sure to join our network for Making Your Media Matter, and begin making contacts with other attendees today!

The Making Your Media Matter network

Please visit our MYMM 2009 sponsors!

Accommodations and Directions
Georgetown Holiday Inn (be sure to mention you’re part of the conference at American University for a reduced rate)
Days Inn
Directions to American University
Campus Map (Katzen Arts Center located on corner of Nebraska and Massachusetts)

To learn more about Making Your Media Matter, read the Rapporteur’s Report from the 2008 conference here.

Special thanks to Mashable!

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