Filming Revolution
Check out So Mayer‘s Sight & Sound essay about film scholar and practitioner Alisa Lebow‘s interactive project, Filming Revolution, which chronicles and reflects on the practices of filmmakers and media engagement…
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Sailor J: Political Commentary in Makeup Tutorials
Meet Sailor J whose makeup tutorials are lessons in feminist critique. The Daily Beast offers a profile of this prolific young YouTube star. Much attention has been given to her T & P Makeup look video, about which…
Aliko & Ambai Film Project: Engaging with Communities
Mark Eby, a co-director and facilitator of the film Aliko & Ambai (Mark Eby & Diane Anton) describes the community benefit in stages of preproduction and development. The film, scripted by two PNG screenwriters…
Aliko and Ambai (Diane Ashton, Mark Eby, 2017): A Study in Audience as Community
Class Exercise 6 November 2018 The film Aliko and Ambai (Diane Ashton, Mark Eby, PNG, 2017), was one born out of a community, conceived, written, and directed by residents of the rural Papua New Guinean communities…
Fledgling Fund Offers Impact Resources and Case Studies
The Fledgling Fund is a private organisation that explores the ways films can be used to educate, engage, and mobilise. Their website is very informative and offers resources and case studies for consideration.
Media Impact Funders on Assessing Impact
In this item from Media Impact Funders, Jessica Clark offers considerations for the ways film can be used for impact. As she notes, these rarely involve the film alone but a range of practices, collaborations, and…
Meena: A Role-Model to Bearing Witness
Meena Cartoon is a South Asian children’s show featuring Meena, an inspirational 9-year-old girl from a small village. She is the face behind the Meena Communication Initiative (MCI), which began in 1991 and is a human…
No Consent= No Fairytale
From Amnesty International Canada.
Conservation: How a movement built on inequality might perpetuate that inequality
Zoologist Hannah Mumby reflects on the geopolitical and colonial underpinnings of the conservation movement. How can we see and divest ourselves of the legacy of the origins of this movement? Full URL:…
Irony and Politics in Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’
American rapper Childish Gambino’s music video ‘This Is America’ is an overtly political piece. The very title makes a very direct statement: what is contained in this video is America, a microcosm of a nation. Gambino…