Activist documentary exposé Before the Flood(BTF) seeks to educate audiences on US politics surrounding global warming. Beginning with observational footage of a diminishing global landscape, the documentary then…
In the 2006 documentary ‘Manufactured Landscapes’, director Jennifer Biachwal uses Edward Burtynsky’s photographs depicting rapid industrialisation to create a provocative window into the volume of waste and…
Figure 1 – SeaWorld’s stock price can be seen peaking before Blackfish was released. Its drastic fall can be seen as a result of the impact that Blackfish had on the public [1] Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s film, Blackfish…
Massachusetts ballot: On November 6th, roughly 68 percent of respondents in the state said “yes” to Question 3, which called to uphold existing nondiscrimination protections on the basis of gender identity. Alex…
Alex King reflects on the virtual reality projects taken on by human rights filmmakers and activists, addressing the ways they bring new forms of visibility to a range of crises. How might these technologies combat…
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has often been set apart from its fellow satirical current affairs programmes by its concerted efforts to engage its audience in active campaigns to effect change surrounding the…
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…
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…
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…