Filmmaking For Change

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.   We’ve got a good mix this week, A 15-year-old coming-of-age movie, a fun new series where a mom tries is learning lessons of her own, and a sequel to an award-winning doc. This week's picks include: The Biggest Little Farm - The Return The Diary of a Teenage Girl  Tiny Beautiful Things And that’s a wrap for the Cause Cinema Spotlight.  Hope you enjoy this week’s picks, don’t forget about our Earth Day Showcase - 30 documentaries at Cause Cinema.com

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.   Three new releases for you today.  An environmental thriller…A documentary sharing solutions for a divided America, and a fun dramedy series that begins with road rage. This week’s picks include: How to Blow Up A Pipeline The First Step Beef  

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.  3 projects.  Under 10 minutes.   We’ve got some period pieces this week, and a cop thriller with more drama behind the camera on the production than the movie itself.   Let’s start there, with Dragged Across Concrete. Festivals and critics responded well to the filmmaking, but the subject matter and then behind-the-scenes accusations caused the production company to shut down. Casting Mel Gibson always causes controversy, but this film's scandals escalated from its handling of police brutality and racism.  The story chose to directly address real-life issues like racial profiling and police brutality, while some of the actual police work is questionable. You be the judge. This week's picks include: Dragged Across Concrete Mary Antoinette Living And that’s a wrap for the Cause Cinema Spotlight this week.  Hope you enjoy this week’s picks.

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.  3 projects.  Under 10 minutes.   Today is March 17th.  Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.  Yes, we’re going to bookend our picks with some Irish love.  And still being Women’s History Month, let’s kick things off with Brooklyn, which is anchored by a beautiful performance from Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, in... Brooklyn Extrapolations Hear My Song And that’s a wrap for the Cause Cinema Spotlight this week.   

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.   As we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month and with the Academy Awards this weekend, let’s kick off with a strong candidate in the Feature Documentary category. This week's picks include: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Palm Trees And Power Lines Finding Michael And that’s a wrap for the Cause Cinema Spotlight this week

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.  3 projects.  Under 10 minutes.   This is an exciting time of year, right.  it’s Oscar season, and yesterday march 2nd, Academy voters start to make their final selections.  And in March, we celebrate Women’s History Month. This week’s picks include: Women Talking Fire of Love Framing Agnes And that’s a wrap for the Cause Cinema Spotlight this week.  

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.  3 projects.  Under 10 minutes.   This week’s picks include: Bad Axe After Love EO    

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.  Again, My goal is to highlight engaging, often inspiring, movies and series, to save you time.  3 projects.  Under 10 minutes.   This week’s picks: Bill Russell: Legend Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence  Shepherd: The Story Of A Jewish Dog Until next time, you be well.  

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.  As you must know by now, and hopefully you’ve seen the Showcase of 28 Movies we shared earlier this week, we’re celebrating Black History Month!   Here are this week’s picks, starting with a great doc, from filmmaker, film critic, and all around great guy Elvis Mitchell:  Is That Black Enough For You?!?  The Story Of Looking Take Me To the River: New Orleans And that is a wrap for the Cause Cinema Spotlight this week.  Until next time, you be well.  

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.   Been a busy work, with the Oscars being announced, and today we recognize International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945. As established by the United Nations. This week’s picks include: Schindler's List  When You Finish Saving the World To Leslie And that is a wrap for the Cause Cinema Spotlight this week.   Until next time, you be well.

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.  Where I share 3 worthy projects, streaming on a variety of platforms.  I aim to highlight engaging, often inspiring, new or timely movies and series, and save you time.  Hear the trailers and learn where to find them. 3 projects. Under 10 minutes.   So let's jump in with the power of music, and pay tribute to David Crosby, who we lost this week at the ripe old age of 81.  He was a founding member of The Byrds, and then Crosby Stills and Nash.   “The power of music is undeniable.  I truly believe that it can change the world”. Graham Nash (From the documentary Echo in the Canyon) This week’s picks include: Echo in the Canyon Nothing Compares The Return Of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile Until next time, you be well.

Welcome back to the Cause Cinema Spotlight.  Where I share 3 worthy projects, streaming on a variety of platforms.  I aim to highlight engaging, often inspiring, new or timely movies and series, and save you time.  3 projects.  Under 10 minutes.     This week’s picks include:   The Last of Us The Territory Ari pu (Declaration)    Until next time, you be well.

Welcome to the Cause Cinema Spotlight, where I will highlight 3 films I think you should know about.  Many of them will fit squarely into the social impact film space.  Others may have less of a call to action but they will always have some social relevance, what we call filmmaking for change.   With the onslaught of movies being released on a variety of platforms, our hope is to save you some time in searching. We'll share insights on some great movies and tell you WHERE you can see them. This week's picks include: Banshees of Inisherin Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me Triangle of Sadness Enjoy!

Vessel begins with a young doctor who lived by the sea, and an unlikely idea.  Rebecca Gomperts, horrified by the realities created by anti-abortion law around the world, felt compelled to challenge this.  Her method: to provide abortions on a ship in offshore waters. Diana's film premiered at SXSW where it won the Audience Award for Documentary in Competition.  Supported by Impact Partners, the movie went on to win many more prizes, before playing on college campuses, engaging in education screenings and playing on Netflix.  The film is now available on multiple platforms. The interview includes the following highlights: Background on the origins of the project The partnerships that supported the distribution Tips for filmmakers embarking on social impact campaign Engaging in community screenings Diana's 3 movie picks    

This week, we're excited to have a special guest who wears multiple hats in the impact film space.  Michael Kuehnert has directed films and created numerous Impact Campaigns for filmmakers, leading acquisitions for documentary distributor The Video Project.

Welcome back the Filmmaking for Change podcast. This week, we’re excited to have film producer & Cinematographer, Mike Esposito, share his words of wisdom on social impact filmmaking, as he and his team prepares to bring their Award winning documentary – The Rebound – into the world. Mike shares the backstory on how this project become a reality, how they hit their stride on the festival circuit and how their grassroots campaign is affecting viewers across the country. For more information on the film, to see the trailer and join their mailing list so you can get the latest news on their distribution, visit: http://www.reboundthefilm.com/  

"Ideas + Empathy = impact"  is the motto for The Nation of Artists.  We sat down with the Founder and CEO of this innovative company, Elliot Kotek to learn more about how they work with a broad range of parters to leverage the power of story to create change. The social impact space continues to expand and Elliot is connecting a lot of dots - branded storytelling, innovation and impact.      

We’re excited to dive into film production today, with a very prolific film producer, master builder, Gill Holland.   Show Notes You wear a lot of hats, and are continue to be very respected in film and music world.  Tell us more about your workflow, and how your film and music roles intersect. You've managed to have a successful career, living on the indie side of Hollywood, before we jump into your current work, give us a few highlights from projects over the years.  A story or two, lessons learned (emerging filmmakers want to learn from these podcasts) So you have two films that have been playing the fest circuit, that will soon be seen by audiences, on their platform or choice I assume.  7 Splinters in Tim  is one of them.  Tell us more about this project and how/when our listeners can see it? Beauty Mark is another film of yours recently acquired for distribution.  Give us some background on how you got involved in that project. Since this is clearly in the Cause Cinema space, and knowing it is based on

We’re excited to continue our exploration of distribution – in this modern digital world, and we’re pleased to be joined by the Head of Global Sales & Licensing at Filmhub, Roger Jackson. Show Notes:  1. Tells us more about Film Hub and your mission as a company. 2. I'm sure it's on your website, but is there a straight forward rev share model you can explain...filmmaker split? 3. Are you active in the Acquisition space, or do most films come to you?  and general Sales strategy 4. What if a filmmaker wants Netflix and/or iTunes, do you submit everything or essentially curate what you believe they will want? 5. Would you say overall, this is a very exciting time for independent filmmakers, with so many distribution outlets?  Or that we need to narrow the Platform playing field, and/or support more curation tools? Learn more at FilmmakingforChange.com  

We’re excited to dig into film Distribution today, and pleased to be joined by Richard Castro (COO & VP, Distribution & Acquisitions) of Cinema Libre, a leader in the social impact space. Cinema Libre supports projects on a mission, distributing more than 200 films over the past 15 years.  While many of  their films are acquisitions from  the film festival arena, they do have a production division and provide post production services. For more on Filmmaking for Change, click here. For more on Cinema Libre, click here.