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Jeanette Milio: Financing Your Film

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bf3e9a_554ca0fe2cb94e64978c4f21f3ead7da~mv2Jeanette Millo is a Producer with 20 years of experience, born and raised in Germany, currently teaching Film Finance at USC. Her students have inspired her to write her new book, Entertainment Finance Today. We talk about what it was like to break into Hollywood as a Native German, the importance of weighing the story you want to tell against what it can make, and how to tell impactful stories.

 

For more information on the Stanford Prisoner Experiment, listen to our podcast with the man that conducted it, Philip Zimbardo.

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Imperium invoking empathy to shine light on domestic terrorism

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This Cinema of Change podcast is with Daniel Ragussis, writer/director/producer of Imperium starring Daniel Radcliffe, that centers around an FBI agent who infiltrates a white supremacist group to uncover a domestic terror plot. Though initially Radcliffe’s character, Nate Foster, suspects the obvious skinheads, the film offers a three dimensional look at white radical groups operating in many walks of life.

Bringing the film into the real world, the podcast is also joined by TM Garret, a former Neo-Nazi who now has a non-profit helping others get out and de-radicalize. The foundation is called, C.H.A.N.G.E.

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HBO’s Chance Morrison on Storytelling and Corporate Social Responsibility

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“You are serving up medicine to people. You should be responsible enough to give people directions on how to take that medicine.”

Chance Morrison has worked at HBO for 11 years, holding various positions and currently working in the department for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Chance is a passionate advocate for impactful cinema, serving on the board of Bowery Residents Committee as Junior Board Chairwoman, creating the Ask Chance foundation to provide young women exposure to industry professionals, and earning herself the prestigious Time Warner Richard D. Parsons Award for Community Service in 2017.

She works on impact campaigns for all HBO content, ranging from Sesame Street to Euphoria.

 

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Kathy Eldon: Founder of Creative Visions

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Kathy Eldon and her daughter, Amy, were inspired by Dan’s life to become the co-founders of the Creative Visions Foundation, a global organization dedicated to supporting “creative activists who use media and the arts to transform the world around them”.  CVF has assisted more than 100 artists, filmmakers, playwrights, leaders of social movements on five continents who use media and the arts as vehicles of social change. The foundation’s headquarters are in Malibu at the Dan Eldon Center for Creative Activism.

 

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Following the death of her son, Dan Eldon, who was a photojournalist killed at age 22 while covering the conflict in Somalia for Reuters News Agency, Kathy, along with her daughter, Amy, relaunched Creative Visions in 1998 as non-profit organization to celebrate and support “creative activists” like Dan.

 

 

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