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Profile: Media That Matters Film Festival
Year Founded
2000
Type
Non-profit
Last on Think
Updated on: 06/27/2008 07:52
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Mission Statement

A project of Arts Engine, The Media That Matters Film Festival brings high-impact shorts and Take Action tools to audiences around the country all year long through distribution of an annual DVD with twelve to sixteen winning films, web streaming, broadcasts and community screenings.

 

www.mediathatmattersfest.org

 

 

We no longer have to rely on major corporations for things to be seen -- we have Media that Matters to distribute new material and new voices and new points of view.
-Tim Robbins, Actor
Location
104 West 14th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10011
United States
Phone
1-646-230-6368
Fax
1-646-230-6388
Website
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/
Email
festival@artsengine.net
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Homecoming
When coming out makes Ron a target for attack, he finds a school where respect and acceptance are taught alongside Math and English. His story confirms how essential a school environment is to the well-being of young adults and how this setting should be supportive of students of all backgrounds and orientations.
By Media That Matters Film Festival on march 05, 2008
Views 328
Tags  school   acceptance   Gay   LGBT   respect   society   coming out   orientation...
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Happy Ending
Drugs have taken Chris’s mom out of his life but not out of his heart. In this personal travelogue, he goes to Philadelphia in search of a happy ending. I had a secret and I felt that people needed to know. My mom always told me never to tell anybody about the secret. Making this film was a big step for me. I came to the HBO Young Filmmakers Lab in spring of 2003 with the help of my counselor, Neil. He believed in me and wanted to help me to tell my story.
By Media That Matters Film Festival on march 05, 2008
Views 370
Tags  film   youth   drugs   health   family   mother   parents
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Battleground Minnesota
Battleground Minnesota is about Hip-hop activist Shakademic who proves that if Walter Mondale can learn how to scratch, young voters can get schooled in election politics.
By Media That Matters Film Festival on march 05, 2008
Views 178
Tags  elections   politics   youth   vote   government   young voters
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Bad Choices
Without a support system, it’s hard for a teenager to stay out of trouble. Aderian reflects on the lessons he has learned from his bad choices. The film was made in December of 2004 along with 6 other films. The project sought to give a voice to youth in transition, youth aged 19-21 with experience in the justice or foster care system.
By Media That Matters Film Festival on march 05, 2008
Views 193
Tags  politics   family   justice   teenagers   criminal   support   society
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All That I Can Be
William, like many young Americans, feels that joining the military is his only way out of a dead-end job and a rough life. There are more advertisements for chain store jobs than there are for photography groups and poetry slams. People I know are joining the military because they need money for college and they don’t want to work at McDonald’s like they did in high school.
By Media That Matters Film Festival on march 05, 2008
Views 143
Tags  Money
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A Girl Named Kai
Three years in the making, shot in four countries, A Girl Named Kai is a brave and honest autobiographical vignette in three chapters about Kai Ling’s relationships, self discoveries, passions, secrets and dreams. Through a stirring poetic mix of video and sound, Kai appeals to her traditional Taiwanese parents for acceptance in spite of her untraditional take on life and love.
By Media That Matters Film Festival on march 05, 2008
Views 227
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Slip of the Tongue
"Whats your ethnic makeup?" A young man makes a pass at a beautiful stranger and gets an eye-opening schooling on race and gender. This film shows the power of youth poetry to convey strong messages, including messages of culture, ethnicity and beauty.
By Media That Matters Film Festival on march 05, 2008
Views 250
Tags  Women   image   Beauty   gender   poetry   society   racial justice   ethnicity...
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Book 'Em: Undereducated, Overincarcerated
how are laws, policies and institutional procedures pushing youth out of the classrooms and closer to jail cells? In June 2005, 13 youth media makers premiered Book ‘Em: Undereducated, Overincarcerated to a standing room only audience at New Haven’s Little Theatre. The film, which includes interviews with students, teachers, administrators, attorneys and researchers, discusses truancy laws, zero tolerance policies, the overuse of school suspensions, and the role of police officers in schools.
By Media That Matters Film Festival on march 05, 2008
Views 277
Tags  youth   Police   family   jail   prison   tolerance   criminal justice   institution...
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A Girl Like Me
I was constructing an anthology with a wide range of different stories that I believed reflected the black girl’s experience. I conducted interviews with a variety of black girls in my high school, and a number of issues surfaced concerning the standards of beauty imposed on today’s black girls and how this affects their self-image. I thought this topic would make an interesting film and so when I was accepted into the Reel Works Teen Filmmaking program, I set out to explore these issues.
By Media That Matters Film Festival on march 05, 2008
Views 215
Tags  image   youth   Beauty   woman   black   gender   justice   teenagers   racial...
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(Hate) Machine
The concept for (Hate) Machine came out of the distortions/biases that I saw in post-911 media. As a Canadian who is regularly exposed to American, British and Canadian news, it was shocking to see such differences in storytelling, and to see how the same raw material could be twisted and personalized. (Hate) Machine is my response to the concept of media truth and is meant to provoke a closer inspection of the words and images that we rely on to interpret our world.
By Media That Matters Film Festival on march 05, 2008
Views 198
Tags  youth   news   9/11   Media   Canada   Truth   Television   bias   distortion
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