4 - 5:30 Registration & Demos
5:30 - 7 pm Games for Social Change: How games and video are playing well together
How are online games mobilizing audiences around social issues? This panel will explore how video games can double as tools for conflict resolution, and maybe even save the environment!
Moderated by: Suzanne Seggerman (G4C)
Panelists: Heidi Boisvert (ICED!), Eric Brown (PeaceMaker), Ivan Marovic (A Force More Powerful), Dennis Palmieri ([ITVS], World Without Oil)
7 - 9 pm Kick-off Reception, co-sponsored by See3!
Join us for an evening of food, drink and fun!
8 - 9 am Registration & Demos
9 - 10:30 am Plight Entertainment
Sometimes the most uncomfortable stories are the most important ones to tell. What’s the process for pitching and telling stories that don’t have Hollywood endings? Then what?
Moderated by: Leena Jayaswal (American University, School of Communication)
Panelists: Julia Bacha (Control Room, Encounter Point), Bristol Baughan (GOOD), Salome Chasnoff (Beyondmedia Education), Giovanna Chesler (G6 Pictures)
10:30 - 11 am Break
11 - 12 pm Keynote Address: Byron Hurt and Sonya Childress
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is a film that deftly explores issues of manhood, misogyny, violence and creativity in hip-hop. Join filmmaker Byron Hurt and community outreach campaign strategist Sonya Childress as they continue to inspire and engage!
Birds of a Feather Lunch. Choose your topic & table now!
12 - 1 pm Birds of a Feather Lunch
1 - 2:30 pm Crossing Cultural Boundaries
How are filmmakers and organizations using media to promote intercultural understanding? Amazing stories of media projects as agents of change in areas traditionally wrought with conflict.
Moderated by: Frederick Thomas (MHz Networks)
Panelists: Caroline Avakian (FilmAid International), Nenad Maksimovic (AED), Senain Kheshgi (Project Kashmir), Geeta Patel (Project Kashmir), Virginia Williams (New View Films)
2:30 - 3 pm Break
3 - 4:30 pm Short Shorts and Hot Platforms: Emerging Formats and Distribution Strategies
This panel features some of the most progressive practitioners on the public media landscape, frankly discussing what worked…and what didn’t.
Moderated by: Daniel Hartman (See3, dogooder.tv)
Panelists: Leba Haber (Where My Ladies At?), Matisse Bustos Hawkes (WITNESS Hub), Melissa Roberts (Free Range Studios), Leighton Woodhouse (Brave New Films)
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