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September 7, 2022

Developing Visually Impaired Audiences

The ICO programmes a network of over 20 cinemas, festivals and mixed arts venues. We offer training, preview screenings events, consultancy and advice so that independent cinema professionals can benefit from highlevel knowledge and to ensure our sector is innovative, successful and progressive.
August 22, 2022

Save My Lake

Save My Lake is a one-hour television documentary that set off alarm bells by revealing the science behind the ecological time bomb of algae that is infesting Lake Winnipeg, the world’s 10th largest freshwater lake that sits at the heart of North America. Narrated by David Suzuki, it premiered on CBC’s The Nature of Things April 2011.
August 22, 2022

The Ghosts in Our Machine

Most people (68% in the US) support minimizing and eventually eliminating all forms of animal cruelty and suffering, yet in practice our compassion rarely extends beyond our companion animals and the few species of wildlife we consider worthy of protection. The result is that billions of lives are invisible, existing only in the shadows of our highly mechanized world: animals raised and slaughtered for food; animals held captive for entertainment purposes; animals used in research experiments; and animals killed for their fur or skin.
January 3, 2022

Homelessness & Housing Security in U.s. Culture: How Popular Culture & News Depict an American Challenge

This report was prepared and written by a team at the Center for Media & Social Impact. CMSI director Caty Borum Chattoo served as principal investigator. The report was written by David Conrad, CMSI postdoctoral researcher, and Lori Young, PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, with the tremendous support of three American University (AU) School of Communication researchers
January 3, 2022

American Dreaming: The Roadmap to Resilience for Undocumented Storytellers

We acknowledge the strong history of immigrant rights movements in the U.S. and build on the foundation of those that came before us in our examination of the undocumented youth movement of the 21st century. The report is unconventional in format. Written in first person plural (i.e. “we”), it is a composite narrative that reflects salient themes from life history interviews with study participants.
January 3, 2022

Best Practices for Strengthening Strategic Communications for Social Justice Documentary

Documentary storytellers, impact producers, and engagement strategists were affected in countless ways, compelling new strategy lessons and approaches to their work. Documentaries with social impact goals were challenged to move beyond the legacy of physical screenings and community-based events to find audiences, spur dialogue, create partnerships, and forge movements in the virtual world.

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