Film and Director
We all want to pursue our purpose and want to change the world in the process. The trouble is figuring out how to start, overcome doubt, push through struggles that are bound to come and ultimately, leave the world better than you found it. In this presentation, audiences will take-away: •The two questions that [Read more…]
Healing the Hate – Civil Discourse in the Age of Online Mobs and Viral Videos seeks to create a much needed dialogue about changing the toxic culture in social media and news coverage. Starting with an examination of their documentary film Rush to Judgement, filmmakers Steve Oldfield and Ryan Anderson begin the discussion with an inside [Read more…]
Virtual Option: Individual screenings followed by your choice of various technology options (ie: Zoom, Skype) for group Q & A/discussion with the principals from the film. Amidst the storm of the Ferguson, MO, shooting, seven St. Louis college students evolved into advocates and activists as they demanded change through policy and protest. From 100 hours [Read more…]
Think you have nothing to hide? Guess again! Admit it: you don’t really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or app you download. But every day, billion-dollar corporations are learning more about your interests, your friends and family, your finances, and your secrets…and are not [Read more…]
With the launch of their 30th Anniversary re-boot of their JUST DO IT ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, Nike set the internet on fire and the social media blaze is still burning. But this deal had raised some really big social justice questions. •Should Colin Kaepernick have signed his multi-million Nike deal given Nike’s [Read more…]
Dan Parris@ TEDx Gateway Arch, St. Louis, on 9/11/14 Virtual Option: Individual screenings followed by your choice of various technology options (ie: Zoom, Skype) for group Q & A/discussion with the principals from the film. PERFECT for Poverty Awareness and National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Weeks. What breaks your heart? What makes you [Read more…]
For better and for worse, no ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. ADDICTED TO PLASTIC is a global journey to investigate what we really know about the material of a thousand uses and why there’s so darn much of it. On the way we discover a toxic legacy, [Read more…]
Surviving Inside the American Drug War Even Minor Marijuana Charges Could End Your College Career! Every state and every university is different. This program is an interactive multi media presentation utilizing audience participation to keep the conversation focused on what matters to you. Institutions won’t allow students to use marijuana on campuses for fear of running afoul [Read more…]