Can art catalyze positive social change? Does culture drive or reflect the collective values of societies? This interactive town hall forum, first seen at the Sundance Film Festival in collaboration with For Freedoms, will examine these questions from a critical perspective using performance and media as creative provocations for a lively, audience-driven discussion.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM, Thursday, April 11, 2019 BSTLocation:
Pyramid Room (TBEC)
Speakers
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ModeratorCo-Founder, The FederationTanya Selvaratnam is a writer and an Emmy-nominated and multiple Webby-winning producer. She has produced for the Vision & Justice Project, Joy To The Polls, Glamour Women of the Year, The Meteor, For Freedoms, Invisible Hand, Rubell Family Collection, The Shed, NGO Forum/Fourth World…
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SpeakerSkoll World Forum Fellow, Sundance InstituteShirley Abraham is a Cannes prize-winning Indian documentary film maker. Her work is supported by the Sundance Institute, MacArthur Foundation, New York Times, IDFA Bertha Fund, Bertha Foundation, BBC, Filmmaker Fund, Catapult Film Fund and Asian Network of Documentary. She has been a fellow…
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SpeakerFounder / Creative & Executive Director, Sundance InstituteJudy is the pioneering filmmaker and behind Docubox, The East African Film Fund. Starting her career as a copywriter then Creative Director at McAnn Erickson, the leading advertising agency in East Africa during the 90s, she wrote some of the regions favorite adverts before transitioning to…
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SpeakerFounder, Code for AmericaJennifer Pahlka works on making government work for people in the digital age. She is the founder and former executive director of Code for America and served as U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded…
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SpeakerArtistic Director, Kiln TheatreIndhu Rubasingham is the Artistic Director of Kiln Theatre. Productions as Artistic Director include: Red Velvet (Evening Standard Award and Critics’ Circle Award, also at St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC and Kenneth Branagh Season, West End), A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, Multitudes, The House That Will Not…
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SpeakerChief Impact Officer, ParticipantHolly Gordon is the Chief Impact Officer at Participant, overseeing the company’s social impact strategy and campaigns, furthering Participant’s mission to create storytelling that inspires positive social change. These global, multi-year campaigns are driven by the company’s content and powered by…
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ModeratorDirector of Producing and Impact Strategy, Sundance InstituteBrenda Coughlin joined Sundance Institute in September 2018 as Director of Producing and Impact Strategy, a newly created position designed to drive the Institute’s cross-disciplinary and artist-forward impact strategy, focused on the production of compelling work across documentary, fiction, and…