Social Impact Filmmaking @ Stony Brook University - Similar companies

The power of storytelling through sound and images has taken hold as the most effective method of mass communication on the g ... lobe. Remarkably high-quality cameras are now installed on the phones we can’t let out of our sight. At the moment, you can point your camera at a global pandemic, massive protests around the world, the effects of a severely wounded American economy, evidence of escalating political/cultural divisions or discriminatory practices, right in our own backyards. Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, #Me Too Movement and Black Lives Matter, among others, are ideas that became transformative global movements primarily because of activist media, which in itself, with some help from social media and technology, has become a new movement in the history of filmmaking. Major global events have inspired new film movements since the invention of film, but it’s a brand new model to see film movements form to inspire the birth of global protests. Against this backdrop, Social Impact Filmmaking, an 8 month, 3 hours once-a-week program, will prepare students to participate in this historic battle to transform perspective, initiate change, and inspire people to act. read more