The premiere screenings will be held today at BAMcinematek
in Brooklyn at
7 p.mediathatmattersfest. Technology is creating a lot of exciting
opportunities
for so many different points of view, and providing important
new delivery systems," commented award
presenter Tim Robbins."
Awards were presented to:
Battleground Minnesota (8 min
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m.com. "Arts Engine and the Media That Matters Film Festival in particular
work
to develop innovative strategies to get social-issue films to new groups and
individuals
. "We no longer
have to rely on major corporations for things to be seen."
Sarah McLachlan
sent a speech to the awards ceremony commenting on the
importance of social change.
Freidus
and Curt McPhail, Chia, Directors and Producers
Producers
Winner of the Tolerance Education
Winner of the Youth Voice Award Award ($1,000) sponsored
by Third
($1,000) sponsored by Paola Millennium Foundation and
Freccero and presented
by presented by Carol Stakenas of
Robert McChesney, founder of Third Millennium
Foundation
Free Press
Homecoming (5:30 min) - Youth
Happy Ending (8:00 min) - Youth Documentary
Documentary Brian
Schirber and Kirstin
Chris Irrizarry, Director, HBO Nelson, Directors, Listen Up! and
Young Filmmaker Lab, Producer Perpich Center for Arts
Winner of the Family and
Education, Producers
Society Award presented by Winner of the Peter Yarrow Peace
Eliza Byard, President of the in Our Classrooms Award ($1,000)
Arts Engine, Inc
."
The Fifth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival includes a yearlong
program of web streaming
, DVD distribution and screenings around the country
intended to connect audiences to inspiring, independently
and youth-produced
short films that spark debate and action.mediarights.deadlinethemovie.artsengine
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At the May 26th awards ceremony that honored this year's crop of visionary
filmmakers, Robbins and Seder were joined by two-time Academy Award-winning
filmmaker Barbara
Kopple, comedian and radio host Al Franken, social activist
and musician Peter Yarrow ("Peter, Paul
+ Mary"), media policy reformist
Robert McChesney, filmmaker Rodney Evans and New York State Assembly
Member
Deborah Glick, all of whom presented awards."
This work is paying off as evidenced
by the organization's success
promoting the films in last year's festival. We have the Internet
to
distribute and to find new material, new voices and new points of view --
points of view that have
been thwarted or kept back by a studio system that is
not very adventurous or daring. I'm so happy
to have World on Fire be
recognized as a motivator of that kind of change. Board sponsored
by Frank Marshall and
presented by Peter Yarrow of
Peter, Paul and Mary
"We marched a long time ago for
the mother of all efforts which let us
know that we could change things in this country," commented
award presenter
Peter Yarrow."
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"Independent media of all kinds, especially films
that address social
issues have been reaching larger audiences and growing in impact.
"It
's an exciting time. "Netflix is proud to be back in the Media
That Matters Film Festival because
we share the vision that film is not only
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Winner of the Jury Award Award ($1,000) sponsored by
($1,000) sponsored by Netflix
Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation
and co-presented by Tim and presented by Robin
Reid,
Robbins, and Ted Sarandos, Board Member of Arts Engine, Inc.
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ARTS ENGINE, INC.
The Media That Matters Film Festival is produced by Arts Engine, Inc, a
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organization that supports, produces, and distributes independent
media of consequence and promotes
the use of independent media by advocates,
educators and the general public.ymdi.net.
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time, it is difficult to reach audiences
with this media through mainstream
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of Arts Engine,
Inc. "We live in a world where in each generation there are people
who become
active. I want to pay tribute to all of you [filmmakers] for
carrying on this work. By fostering
the production and use of
independent film, video and new media, Arts Engine connects media makers
and
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The Fifth Annual Media That
Matters Film Festival
awards ceremony and reception was held at HBO's New York
screening room. Over 50 screenings around
the
country and the world were organized for festival films, and the festival's
website, which
offers streaming video of all of the films, averages 150,000
unique visitors each month."
The sixteen provocative, short, social-issue films in the festival range
from fast-paced musical
animations to insightful personal documentaries that
offer new perspectives on the war in Iraq, racial
identity, global warming,
gay rights, civil liberties, sustainable agriculture/development, drug
addiction and more.
(8:21 min) - Animation Kellogg Foundation and presented
Nickey Robare, by Nicole de Beaufort, Kellogg
Director/Producer
Foundation consultant
Winner of the Media Reform
Award ($1,000) sponsored
by World on Fire (4:20 min) - Music
Utne Magazine and presented by Video by Sarah
McLachlan
Judy Rudrud of Utne magazine Sophie Muller, Director
Winner of the Citizen Engagement
Laptop (0:30 min) - Public Award
($1,000) sponsored by Green
Service Announcement Mountain Coffee Roasters
Larry Frye, Director, Public Foundation and presented by
Interest, Producer
Michael Dupee of Green Mountion
Winner of the Digital Divide Coffee Roasters
Foundation
Award presented by Sam Seder
The Luckiest
Nut in the World
A Girl Named Kai (8:00 min) - (8:00 min) - Musical
Experimental
Emily James, Director, Fulcrum
Kai Ling Xue, Director/Producer TV
, Producer
Winner of the Lesbian, Gay, Winner of the Global Justice
Bisexual, Transgender
Rights Award ($1,000) sponsored by Oxfam
Award presented by Rodney America and
presented by Barbara
Evans, Director of "Brother to Fiorito, Board Chair of Oxfam
Brother" America
Bad Choices (3:00 min) - Youth Something
Other Than Other (7:05
Digital Story min) - Experimental
Aderian
Fair, Director, Natasha Jerry A. The company offers an Internet database of 40 million
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Tickets to the
premiere screenings are $10 each and are
available at the BAM Box Office (718) 636-4100 or through
http://www. In addition, all 16 festival films will begin
streaming online for one year today
on the Festival's website
(http://www.
AWARDS
"Everything I have seen so far has
been fascinating," said former
Minnesotan Al Franken, who introduced Battleground Minnesota, the
eight-minute
Jury Award-winning film that follows a young African-American hip-hop artist
as he
gets the low down on the political process from former vice-president
Walter Mondale and other key
political figures in the battleground state. Henry and Andrea J. The management has over 30 years
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in the European travel industry and will continue to operate the
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Fifth Annual Media that Matters Film Festival Celebrates Cinema and Social Activism
, a nonprofit that supports the
creation of documentary films that make a difference, today will
premiere 16
documentary films that were celebrated last week at an awards ceremony, which
featured
actor/director/writer Tim Robbins as a presenter and Air America
Radio's Sam Seder as its host. and
9:30 p. All 16 films were honored with awards and $10,000 in outreach
grants were distributed. "Media
that Matters is about people making the
switch from apathy to action.
The Jury Award was sponsored
by Netflix and presented by Ted Sarandos, the
company's chief content officer.
Chief Content
Officer of
Netflix Fast and Reliable (7:53 min) -
Documentary
All That I Can Be (8:30 min) - Tom Soper, Director
/Producer,
Youth Documentary Sean Morrison, Co-Producer
Educational Video
Center, Winner of the Against the Odds
Producer Award presented
by Sam Seder
Winner of the Economic Justice
Award presented by Barbara Neglected
Sky (1:36 min) - Youth
Kopple Animation
John Cooney, Director and
Pizza Surveillance Feature Producer with
Citizens for Global
(2:20 min) - Public Service Solutions
Announcement
Winner of the Environment Award
Micah Laaker, Director, ($1,000)
sponsored by Loreto Bay
American Civil Liberties Union, Company and presented by David
Producer Butterfield of Loreto Bay Company
Winner of the Civil
Liberties
Award presented by New York Young Agrarians (8:00 min) -
State Assembly
Member Documentary
Deborah Glick Johanna Divine, Director
/Producer
Winner of the Nourishing Change
The News
Is What We Make It Award ($1,000) sponsored by W.org),
the Youth Media Distribution initiative
(http://www.org) and documentary
films such as Deadline (http://www. For more information
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