Sometimes you don’t even need a word to convey a powerful impression through short film. As students and young people around Venezuela take to the streets in protest, powerful films have emerged in solidarity with their cause.
Short films can draw an audience and humanize a subject. Just ask the White House, which recently produced a one-minute, behind-the-scenes film to increase interest in President Obama’s State of the Union Address.
The Sundance Film Festival is a changemaker’s event, yet changemakers tend to think of their own stories landing on the big screen in Utah as a far-off dream. We explore how crowdsourcing, and Kickstarter in particular, has changed the game.
“How Might We” (HMW, for short) is a powerful way to frame a problem in an open-ended, optimistic, and collaborative fashion. If you are innovating on a social or environmental front, this is a critical way to express the opportunity you envision and to invite your audience to dream big with you.
Last week the New York Times published a beautiful short film titled “Paraíso,” the Spanish word for paradise. The film documents the lives of window washers in Chicago, exploring the daily perils of their jobs and the existential questions about life, death and shared humanity that they grapple with each time they strap into their harnesses.Given the […]