A Message from Sarah McLachlanSarah McLachlan wrote us this message about her music video and participation in the Media That Matters Film Festival:When Sophie Muller and I made World on Fire, our hope was to show how easy it can be to use your wealth to help make immeasurable improvements in peo...
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Suzanne Twining’s five minute animated short film, Terminator Tomatoes, was completed in 2001. In 1999 Suzanne had moved to Portland, Oregon to work for Will Vinton Studios on an animated television show called The PJs. Between the show’s second and third seasons there was a hiatus of...
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Three years ago, we set out to make a film about the self-proclaimed Asparagus Capital of the Nation, the tiny rural community in western Michigan where Kirsten grew up in the 1970s and 80s. As the daughter of an asparagus farmer, Kirsten spent her childhood working on the farm and was a proud me...
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Directed by Magee McIlvaine, Ben Herson, Chris Moore, Produced by Nomadic Wax and Sol Productions More About African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal from Director Ben HersonI was inspired to make this film when I was writing my thesis in college about the role of Hip Hop in the 2000 presidential ...
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Juvenile justice in California is a national embarrassment, a statewide disaster and a source of rich profit for a small number of entrenched interests. At the center of this issue is the California Youth Authority (CYA), the formal prison system for youths in California. Presently, the CYA is co...
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Andrea and I started to film a video diary on the day we found out that she was pregnant. We would sit down in our bedroom or living room and tape our conversations about our plans for the future, baby names, the progress of the pregnancy etc, etc. We did this so that Quin will be able to dig out...
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As a second-year student at Hampshire College, I applied for the Hampshire film alumni internship program and was placed at a small animation studio in Portland, OR. I returned to intern there for two summers, during which time I fell in love with the medium. I wasn’t very familiar with ani...
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In Spring 2000, President Clinton announced a new televised campaign to address the “digital divide” — the lack of access that most low-income minority families have to information resources such as the internet. The President was referring to two spots we produced and distribut...
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Young Agrarians was created as a tool to introduce young people to a new way of looking at agriculture and food production. The project grew out of several concerns: the demise of family farms in America, the rising average age of farmers (65% of U.S. farmers are over 55), and the fact that young...
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In the fall of 2005 Meerkat Media decided to launch a video blog, or “vlog,” to challenge themselves to post new short videos on the internet every week. The content would range from sketch comedy to political commentary, and would be created for a new medium that anyone could access,...
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Chris, Glenn, and I had worked together before on projects for Phillips Community TV (PCTV); in fact, that was how we met. When Minnesota was officially declared a “battleground” state, in the spring of 2004, I wanted to investigate what that meant exactly, for all of us as Minnesotan...
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