Filmmaker Nefin Dinc on "The Other Town"
When Turkish filmmaker Nefin Dinc was a graduate student in Great Britain, she noticed that while her Greek friends and Turkish friends "liked each other a lot," they also repeated similar ideas about...
View ArticleWater Under the Bridge: Keeping Stories Afloat Across the Transmedia Ocean
Co-Authored by Andrea Olson and Laine Kaplan-LevensonHow do we tell stories? We tell them on porches, around fires, over drinks, on the phone, via text (or as ‘dem kids call it, ‘sext’), and now on the...
View ArticleDon’t Push It: Integrating Interactivity with Intention… and Discretion
Co-Authored by Sofie Strasser & Laine Kaplan-LevensonIt’s another week thinking about interactivity here at Land of Opportunity, especially after receiving the great news that we will be...
View ArticleProcessing our Process: Documentation and Reporting in the Age of Transmedia
By Andrea OlsonIn an age of online over-sharing (we know what what most of our “friends” are watching, listening to and “liking”), Land of Opportunity has been grappling with how to achieve a major...
View ArticleCelebrating Ambulante
If you want to show docs to people who never watch them, try holding your events outdoors. That’s one of the tips that Elena Fortes, programmer of the renowned Ambulante traveling film festival in...
View ArticleNew Frontier at Sundance: Innovating Story
Each year at the Sundance Film Festival I try to answer a question: why should filmmakers pay attention to the experimental media showcased at the New Frontier exhibition? Read more...
View ArticleRobert West: Pioneer in Social Documentary
Robert West, the co-founder with Judith Helfand of Working Films, who died June 6 of brain cancer, was a pioneer of activist engagement strategies. He never was content with goals of information and...
View ArticlePull Focus Interview with Dawn Porter
As part of the 2013 Human Rights Film Series, filmmaker Dawn Porter recently visited the Center to share the stories behind her latest documentary project "Gideon's Army."Read more...
View ArticleClass Dismissed: Engaging Dropouts and Communities on Public Media
When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting threw down the American Graduate challenge, Catherine Stifter and friends in California’s Central Valley took it on, and learned 5 key lessons in how to...
View ArticleForming Partnerships to Build Audience
In light of Facebook’s breastfeeding censoring scandal comes a documentary aiming to normalize the birthing process--"The Mama Sherpas." This documentary, by Brigid Maher, producer/director and...
View ArticleBreaking Down the Impact of "Blackfish"
In January 2013, the documentary "Blackfish" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, telling the story “about Tilikum, a performing killer whale that killed several people while in captivity,”...
View ArticleField Report: LandofOpportunity Interactive Platform
LandofOpportunity the interactive web platform launched in 2014 after several years of development. CMSI has been tracking the evolution and outcomes of this multi-platform project for the duration and...
View ArticleDocumentaries and Civic Engagement: Molly Murphy on Media That Matters.
The 2015 Media That Matters conference is right around the corner, so we decided to let our #MTMDC panelists to introduce themselves and explain in their own words how they engage with media that...
View ArticleCutting-Edge Storytelling Technology: Luisa Dantas on Media That Matters.
The 2015 Media That Matters conference is right around the corner, so we decided to let our #MTMDC panelists to introduce themselves and explain in their own words how they engage with media that...
View Article“Stand Up Planet” Impact Evaluation Demonstrates Power of Comedy for Change
Audience engagement is one of the key aspects of social issue documentaries seeking meaningful change within communities – yet filmmakers still struggle with the best ways to move audiences from...
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