Media That Matters Film Festival

HEY EVERYONE - IF YOU ALREADY GOT TICKETS, PLEASE NOTE THERE IS A CHANGE OF VENUE FOR SATURDAY’S SCREENING...

The MTM9 film Immersion will be playing in the New Zealand Film Festival, which screens at locations across the country! It’s part of a program of short films called “Homegrown: Drama on Video”. For tickets and information, visit the NZFF website...

Selected films from the ninth annual Media That Matters collection will screen on June 30 in Roma, Italy for the official opening night of Senza Frontiere / Without Borders Film Festival...

MTM9 filmmakers Richard and Zareen Poonen Levien will screen their film, Immersion, at the Palm Springs International Shortfest in Palm Springs, CA. The film will be shown as part of the “Culture Clash” program, which highlights short films that deal with issues of intercultural communication...

June 19 in Dubuque, IA at 7:30PM (Doors open at 6:30 for social hour) Dubuque Film Society will screen the eighth annual Media That Matters Film Festival at The Blue Nickel Salon 1572 Central Ave

Looking Back and Bits and Pieces; from the newest collection of films from the ninth annual Media That Matters Film Festival, will be screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) on June 18th in Edinburgh, Scotland...

On June 18th, the feature-length film, of which last year’s MTM film African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal was a section will play at the NXNE Film Festival in Toronto, Canada...

MTM9 filmmaker Malika Dutt (Knock Knock, Who’s There?) was recently honored as one of India’s 50 most influential women by Verve Magazine, India’s premier women’s international magazine...

The recent switch from the analog to digital television signal has created a tsunami (estimated 5 billion pounds) of e-waste as American households dispose of their old television sets...

Project: Think Different, producer of MTM8’s Diana, is hosting a big event in the heart of Boston called Community Connect. Community Connect is a huge multi-media event that connects people with other companies and programs that offer services on pressing issues, based on community surveys...

MTM veterans the Meerkat Media Arts Collective (Every Third Bite, How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett) screened their new short film Brooklyn Boondoggle in Brooklyn...

A recent New York City law requiring electronics manufacturers to establish and manage e-waste disposal programs will go into effect on June 15th...

Media That Matters Festival and Outreach Manager, Leah Sapin will be presenting on a panel this Saturday, June 13 as part of Rooftop Films’ series: ROOFTOP PANORAMA: PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND FILM SCREENING which will be taking place on the roof of the Old American Can Factory at 232 3rd St...

Check out this great and extremely useful blog post by Rady Ananda. This article gives updates and background information on the issues covered in last year’s film Perversion of Justice that make it a must for anyone using this in their work or classroom. Plus links to various other organizations...

MTM9 filmmakers Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger (The Next Wave), just released this trailer for their feature length documentary Sun Come Up, edited by David Teague...

New York Times recently shone a spotlight on the Carteret Islanders - a community in the Pacific Islands that is tragically losing their homeland due to the effects of climate change. They are the world’s first climate change refugees...

Arts Engine is pleased to announce the world premiere of the ninth annual Media That Matters Film Festival in New York City...

June 5 in Seattle, WA at 7:00-9:30 PM Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies presents: THE NINTH ANNUAL MEDIA THAT MATTERS FILM FESTIVAL Great film and community discussion...

Arts Engine is pleased to announce the world premiere of the ninth annual Media That Matters Film Festival in New York City...

Invincible, a hip-hop artist featured in the upcoming ninth annual Media That Matters film Locusts, will be performing in Brooklyn the night of the awards ceremony! Check out this link for more information...

Arts Engine is pleased to announce the world premiere of the ninth annual Media That Matters Film Festival in New York City...

Announcing upcoming Media That Matters Film Festival screenings! Check out an upcoming local screening or organize your own. It’s easy - we’ve even made a Do It Yourself Guide to help you. Download our free materials, grab a DVD and start screening...

On May 31st, Tribeca Cinemas will feature a screening and panel discussion for LUMO, the feature-length version of In Transit. The film, focused on a unique Congolese hospital for rape survivors, has been recommended by Nicolas Kristof of The New York Times...

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Arts Engine is pleased to announce the world premiere of the ninth annual Media That Matters Film Festival in New York City...

On May 24th, Media that Matters vets Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin (Argentina Turning Around) screened their film Good Food at the Northwest Forklife Festival in Seattle, WA as part of the Meaningful Movies Project. For decades Northwest agriculture was focused on a few big crops for export...

Arts Engine is pleased to announce the world premiere of the ninth annual Media That Matters Film Festival in New York City...

Declared an official, annual celebration by Mayor Bloomberg, Immigrant Heritage Week is a unique celebration of the vibrant immigrant cultures, heritage, and communities found in every corner of the City...

Naniola Productions presents the annual Food For Thought Film Festival presenting films about our most important life sustaining resource; food...

UCLA CIBER, in conjunction with the UCLA Latin American Institute, will showcase Part II of its Social Issues in International Business Film Series focused on economic crisis...

Reel Works Film Festival in Santa Cruz, sponsored by the United Nations Association of Santa Cruz County, is featuring “Argentina Turning Around,” a Media That Matters film directed by Mark Dworkin (2008). The film highlights new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina...

Bringing together some of the best minds working with the moving image in the classroom, this conference will focus on how to harness the power and excitement of informal education through consumption of popular culture and media, which involves learning, taste, and discrimination...

Reel Works Film Festival in Santa Cruz, sponsored by the United Nations Association of Santa Cruz County, is featuring “Argentina Turning Around,” a Media That Matters film directed by Mark Dworkin (2008). The film highlights new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina...

Media That Matters’ “Young Agrarians,” Neglected Sky,” “The Future of Food” and “The Meatrix” premiered at Sustainable Loudoun’s 2009 Environmental Film Festival at the Tally Ho Theatre in Leesburg, VA, Feb.2. For more information about the festival visit: www.sust

Imagine Your Own Environmental Film Festival - Right in Your Home. That’s the big idea behind a new Conservation Fund project featuring Media That Matters’ “Every Third Bite.” This playful and colorful excursion honors bees, beekeepers and the ancient dance between the two...

Something’s Moving, from the eighth annual Media That Matters Film Festival, has a new website where you can check out the new trailer, and keep updated with the progress of the documentary...

The 4th Annual Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival will screen one of 2008’s biggest hip-hop films, “African Underground: Democracy in Dakar.” The film examines the impact hip-hop culture has had on the African nation of Senegal...

Director Rene Dongo and spoken-word artist Sofia Snow will appear at Youth Producing Change, presented by Adobe Youth Voices, a program showcasing youth-made films at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in London...

SXSW Music and Media Conference presents the Global Underground Panel on Friday, March 20, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at the Austin Convention Center...

The 4th Annual Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival will screen one of 2008’s biggest hip-hop films, “African Underground: Democracy in Dakar.” The film examines the impact hip-hop culture has had on the African nation of Senegal...

Media that Matters is proud to support the 2009 Native American Film & Video Festival taking place in New York March 26-29 at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)...

The 2009 SXSW Film Festival held in Austin, Texas from March 13-21, just announced its acceptance of the feature length version of Garbage Dreams from the seventh annual Media That Matter Film Festival...

Who says you need your own camera to be an award-winning filmmaker? Certainly not Rene Dongo, winner of AOL TV’s Best Youth 18 and Under Video...

Director Rene Dongo and spoken-word artist Sofia Snow will appear at Youth Producing Change, presented by Adobe Youth Voices, a program showcasing youth-made films at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in London...

SXSW Music and Media Conference presents the Global Underground Panel on Friday, March 20, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at the Austin Convention Center...

The City of Issaquah’s Resource Conservation Office (RCO) is hosting the first in its series of free movie nights March 17. RCO’s first movie showing will feature “Good Food,” which is directed by Seattle filmmakers Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young...

Mercy Corps’ Action Center to End World Hunger and Arts Engine’s Media That Matters Film Festival will screen a program of award winning short films on gender on March 9 at 6 p.m. The films include: In Transit, World On Fire, Ashray, Seeds of Hope: South Africa...

UCLA CIBER, in conjunction with the UCLA Latin American Institute, will showcase Part II of its Social Issues in International Business Film Series focused on economic crisis...