Defenders of Wildlife are on the lookout for a savvy Digital Campaigns Production Associate to support the Defenders Marketing department. As a leading environmental nonprofit organization, Defenders of Wildlife are dedicated to the protection of endangered species and habitat. This is an awesome opportunity for someone who is willing to dive in to a hands-on [...]
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The Pitch: 1 Foto 1 Family
This post is part of “The Pitch” series, which follows up with socially conscious creatives who submitted to the inaugural Benevolent Media Pitch Night competition in November 2012. At the event, held in Washington, D.C., 13 different projects and organizations presented 3-minute proposals on how to use storytelling and design for social good, for a chance [...]
The Color of Love: Showing Support for Marriage Equality
Even if you had no idea about today’s historic events at the U.S. Supreme Court, you’d be blind not to notice a movement swelling online. In the nation’s capital, oral arguments began yesterday on California’s Prop. 8, which amended the state Constitution to ban the right for same-sex couples to marry, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which [...]
Meet the Musician: Kiran Gandhi on Marching to the Beat of Her Own Drum
Take your hand and place it on your chest. Can you feel the beating of your heart? In many cultures around the world, drumming represents the heartbeat of Mother Earth. This month, in honor of National Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, I want to focus on drumming, a practice that is female, in its essence, and [...]
International Women’s Day: Gaining Momentum
Happy International Women’s Day! The global movement was created to inspire women and celebrate their achievements worldwide. The commemorative occasion originally started in the United States as a way for female laborers to demand shorter hours, better pay and voting rights. Now, people all over the world are organizing thousands of events, including political rallies, business [...]
New Website Collects Ideas to Improve the World
Have you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it and get feedback? How it could be different was founded for these purposes – to [...]
Meet the Musician: Edy Blu on Confronting Love, Music and Fear
What does “love” really mean, in the aftermath of Valentine’s Day? To explore this question, Benevolent Media is hosting The Loving Market on Saturday, February 16. The daytime pop-up shop will transform into an evening cocktail reception, with love-themed art and music as the backdrop. We caught up with vocalist and songwriter Edy Blu, who [...]
Film Review: In “The Square,” the Revolution Will Actually Be Televised
This post is part of Benevolent Media’s ongoing coverage of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. For more information, read “The Benevolent Guide to the Sundance Film Fesitval.” Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim‘s riveting firsthand account of the Egyptian revolution, “The Square (Al Midan),” took home the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at [...]
Filmmakers Take a Stand for Social Justice
This post is part of Benevolent Media’s ongoing coverage of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. For more information, read “The Benevolent Guide to the Sundance Film Fesitval.” What would it take for you to put everything on the line? At the Sundance Film Festival’s Filmmaker Lodge, a panel talk called “Taking [...]
Register for 2013 Media That Matters Conference
Media that Matters is an annual conference presented by the Center for Social Media in Washington, D.C. It is designed for established and aspiring filmmakers, nonprofit communications leaders, funders, and students who want to learn and share cutting-edge practices to make their media matter. The theme of the 2013 conference is “Measure for Measure,” focusing on [...]
Winners Announced for $200,000 Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition
CYBORG FOUNDATION | Rafel Duran Torrent from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo. This post is part of Benevolent Media’s ongoing coverage of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. For more information, read “The Benevolent Guide to the Sundance Film Fesitval.” Spanish director Rafel Duran Torrent took home the $100,000 Grand Jury Prize [...]
Meet the Filmmaker: David France
This post is part of Benevolent Media’s ongoing coverage of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. For more information, read “The Benevolent Guide to the Sundance Film Fesitval.” When journalist-turned-filmmaker David France set out to make a documentary about the early days of the HIV/AIDS activist movement, he didn’t intend to start [...]
The Benevolent Guide to the Sundance Film Festival
Ah, Sundance. The premiere indie film fest, where people all over the world descend on Park City, Utah to partake in the parties, the talks, the free swag, the networking, the snow bunnies, oh yes, and the movies. This year, we are keeping our eyes peeled for films and panels that explore ways to drive [...]
Telling the Story of Jyoti Singh Pandey
Her name is Jyoti Singh Pandey. The 23-year-old female medical student was brutally raped by six men on a private bus on her way back from watching a movie in New Delhi on December 16. She died from her injuries two weeks later in a Singapore hospital. The crime has sent India and the world [...]
Update: Vote for “Rags to Pads” in $200,000 Filmmaker Competition
We have an update from filmmaker Chithra Jeyaram, the Grand Prize winner of Benevolent Media’s inaugural Pitch Night: Chithra Jeyaram’s short film “Rags to Pads” is a semifinalist in the $200,000 Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition, a new series of 30 three-minute stories about innovative people who are reshaping the world through act or invention. Her [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Winners Announced for Benevolent Media Pitch Night
Cash Prizes to Support Multimedia Projects on Breast Cancer Awareness and Faith-Based Community Service WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 8, 2012) – Benevolent Media, a media and events company focused on celebrating storytelling and design for social good, today announced the winners of the inaugural Benevolent Media Pitch Night, held on November 5. The $2,000 Grand Prize was [...]
