 Nicole Betancourt,
Executive Director of MediaRights
Now in its fourth year, The Media That Matters Film Festival celebrates films, videos, and new media that inspire people to speak out and take action for social change. The Festival is streamed at MediaThatMattersFest.org.
The films and new media projects featured in The Media That Matters Film Festival were chosen by a jury of accomplished filmmakers, activists, journalists, programmers, new media specialists and young people who came together to watch, discuss and choose the official selections
Go to Mediarights.org to learn more about the Media That Matters Film Festival.
See Change, Make Change Youth Media Distribution Contest. Deadline, January 5, 2003.
Announcement: Rooftop Films Screens Media That Matters
Rooftop Films, an innovative outdoor screening series based in Brooklyn, is showing films from the third and fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festivals all summer long! Each event focuses on a different theme, putting Media That Matters films in dialogue with other shorts from around the country. Get your tickets today!
August 20th - Youth Power: Global Action Project's Holla Back Dubai!, Lower Eastside Girls Club's Rebel, and other youth-produced shorts will be screened.
August 27th - This is What Democracy Looks Like: Gabriel London's No Escape, Prison Rape and other political shorts will be screened.
Article: Media Democracy and You
Have you been trying to make sense of the media reform movement and how it affects you? Check out this article to get the facts and learn about the recent victory in the courts spearheaded by our Just Media Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Andrew Jay Schwartzman.
Article: Outreach Journal I: Caravan
MediaRights' Outreach Journal Series gives you access to the most important part of the fimmaking process - outreach! This month, Little Dust Productions' Lucy Kaye talks about the outreach goals for Caravan, a documentary film that uses music as a window to look beyond stereotypes about Romani (Gypsy) people.
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