Filmmakers use immersive storytelling to produce intense thoughts and emotions in the viewer. Journeys in Film uses this powerful medium as a springboard for meaningful dialogue around humanity’s most pressing issues.

This report is intended to give an overview of the state of media literacy and media literacy education in an era where the feld is fnally coming out of the shadows and taking its place as an important global discipline. Because media literacy addresses cognitive processing

Youth are often confronted with biased media representations that can impact how they see themselves and others. Students confront these media representations at a crucial point in their adolescent development, when they are gaining self-efcacy and making decisions that afect their future selves. Far too many youth in the U.S. do not have the tools to make sense of media content and the biases embedded in it. This is especially true now, when lines are increasingly blurred between entertainment, news, advertising, and social media. And rarely are youth encouraged to bridge in-class learning with their personal time spent with media technologies and online content.