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These screenings will qualify <em>Pushing the Elephant</em> for consideration for next year’s Oscars. A list of screening dates and times are below.</p> <p><strong>New York</strong> <br /> IFC Center <br /> Fri 6-Aug 12:00 PM 5:30 PM<br /> Sat 7-Aug 1:35 PM 7:30 PM<br /> Sun 8-Aug 3:35 PM 9:45 PM<br /> Mon 9-Aug 12:00 PM 5:30 PM<br /> Tue 10-Aug 1:35 PM 7:30 PM<br /> Wed 11-Aug 3:35 PM 9:45 PM<br /> Thu 12-Aug 3:35 PM 9:45 PM</p> <p><strong>Los Angeles</strong><br /> ArcLight Hollywood<br /> Fri 13-Aug 12:00 PM 5:40 PM<br /> Sat 14-Aug 1:45 PM 7:40 PM<br /> Sun 15-Aug 3:45 PM 9:50 PM<br /> Mon 16-Aug 12:00 PM 5:40 PM<br /> Tue 17-Aug 1:45 PM 7:40 PM<br /> Wed 18-Aug 3:45 PM 9:50 PM<br /> Thu 19-Aug 3:45 PM 9:50 PM</p> <p> </p><p> <p style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Published on July 12</p> </div> <div class="default_slot"> <h3><a name="20693"></a><a href="/news/items/tenth_annual_media_that_matters_collection_now_available" style="color:#670000;">Tenth Annual Media That Matters Collection Now Available!</a></h3> <p><p>On June 2, 2010 the tenth annual Media That Matters collection launched with simultaneous premieres in New York City and Minneapolis. The complete list of screenings for the month of June included: </p> <p>1. New York City (June 2)—WORLD PREMIERE<br /> 2. Minneapolis (June 2)—near-simultaneous screening with questions to the winning filmmakers in NYC, in partnership with Minnesota Film Arts<br /> 3. London (June 4)—in partnership with Working Films and Shooting People. <br /> 4. Denver (June 12)—in partnership with Denver Film Society (Starz Film Center)<br /> 5. Miami (June 16)—in partnership with Miami Beach Cinematheque<br /> 6. San Francisco (June 18)—in partnership with Ninth Street Independent Film Center and BAVC<br /> 7. Washington DC (June 22)—in partnership with Campus Progress and Women In Film and Video<br /> 8. Santa Fe, NM (June 25)—in partnership with Warehouse 21<br /> 9. Evanston, IL (June 26)—in partnership with Evanston Arts Depot<br /> 10. Portland, OR (June 29)—in partnership with Film Action Oregon</p> <p>This year’s selection celebrates twelve jury-selected shorts, each under twelve minutes, tackling a broad range of social issues with humor, humanity, and honesty. </p> <p>All twelve new Media That Matters films are available <a href="http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/10/" title="online">online</a>. The collection is being distributed nationwide on DVD and via “do-it-yourself” screenings in many different locations. To develop your own do-it- yourself screening, please contact us. </p><p> <p style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Published on July 12</p> </div> <div class="default_slot"> <h3><a name="20557"></a><a href="/news/items/help_get_media_that_matters_into_classrooms" style="color:#670000;">Help Get Media That Matters into Classrooms!!</a></h3> <p><p>This year, Arts Engine is trying to bring <a href="http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/" title="Media That Matters">Media That Matters</a> into more educational settings than ever before. Please join our 2010 Peer2Peer fundraising campaign. Make a donation and let your peers on facebook and twitter know that you’ve done so. Your donation and sharing will help ensure that diverse voices and stories are represented in our youth’s educations in a year when our educational institutions, due to budget cuts, could use the help.</p> <p>Please <a href="http://www.artsengine.net/p2p" title="donate">donate</a>. A donation of only $24 (or the equivalent of $2/ month for the next twelve months) will help get this year’s collection into schools. There are twelve films. And there’s twelve months until the release of the next collection. Screenings in schools cost approximately $250 each. If even 200 of our 20,000 members donated $24, it would add about 20 school screenings in the upcoming months.</p> <p>We just launched our newest collection on June 2. Media That Matters, with its teacher-friendly curriculum, is a great way to introduce our country’s youth to new and inspiring points of view. A trusted guide of the media that matters, Arts Engine can play a significant role in the education of our youth. </p> <p>This June we also had the premiere of Arts Engine’s own media that matters. PUSHING THE ELEPHANT premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. A Peer2Peer donation will help us get PUSHING THE ELEPHANT screened in more venues so that Rose’s story can be seen by all. Work to affect change and join this year’s fundraising campaign!</p> <p><strong>Thank you in advance for joining us in our annual Peer2Peer Campaign for Media That Matters. After you’ve made a donation, please share that you’ve done so with your friends on <a href="http://facebook.com" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>. We appreciate it!</strong></p><p> <p style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Published on June 07</p> </div> <div class="default_slot"> <h3><a name="20473"></a><a href="/news/items/pushing_the_elephant_human_rights_watch_premiere" style="color:#670000;">PUSHING THE ELEPHANT Human Rights Watch Premiere!</a></h3> <p><p><em>Pushing the Elephant</em>, Arts Engine’s next Big Mouth film, will premiere at the <a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/pushing-elephant" target="_blank">Human Rights Watch Film Festival</a> on June 12-14, 2010. Both a portrait of a powerful woman and an intimate portrayal of the refugee experience, <a href="http://www.artsengine.net/pushing_the_elephant/" target="_blank"><em>Pushing the Elephant</em></a> takes us on a journey from the cul-de-sacs of suburban Phoenix towards peace in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Rose Mapendo lost her family and home to the ethnic violence that engulfed the DRC, yet she emerged advocating peace and reconciliation. After helping numerous victims to recover and rebuild their lives, there is one person Rose must still teach to forgive—her daughter Nangabire.</p> <p>We have come a long way since April 2007 when we went to JFK Airport to film Nangabire’s joyful and tearful arrival in the U.S. Please join us at Lincoln Center to meet Rose in person and see the results of our three years of work. </p> <p><a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/new-york" target="_blank">Tickets</a> go on sale May 20 at <a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/new-york" target="_blank">http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/new-york</a>. Buy yours now, before they sell out! </p><p> <p style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Published on May 19</p> </div> <div class="default_slot"> <h3><a name="20458"></a><a href="/news/items/arts_engine_welcomes_steve_mendelsohn_as_new_executive_director" style="color:#670000;">Arts Engine Welcomes Steve Mendelsohn as New Executive Director</a></h3> <p><p>After a competitive process and thorough search, the Board of Directors of Arts Engine has chosen Steve Mendelsohn as its new Executive Director. Mendelsohn will succeed Katy Chevigny who will move into a new role as Co-Founder & Senior Director. </p> <p>Eliza Byard, Arts Engine Board Chair, said, “Steve comes to Arts Engine with a wealth of diverse experience. We all look forward to working closely with him to move Arts Engine forward. His extensive knowledge of the media arts field, locally, nationally and internationally, will be a great asset for Arts Engine’s mission as the organization continues to drive change by connecting media, technology and community.”</p> <p>Prior to joining Arts Engine, Steve was the Executive Director of FilmAid International, which helps refugees create films and videos on vital issues including health, human rights, protection of women and girls, repatriation information, and more. The films are screened for the communities in large outdoor nighttime events and in smaller focused workshops during the day. Before FilmAid International, Steve was the Executive Director of Project Rebirth, a nonprofit organization based in downtown Manhattan, whose mission is to document the entire reconstruction of the World Trade Center site through a feature-length documentary film and an installation in the Memorial Museum at Ground Zero. From 2002 to 2005, Steve was the Executive Director of Manhattan Neighborhood Network, the nation’s largest nonprofit public access cable television network. Prior to that, Steve was a General Manager at Razorfish, an Internet design and consulting company, and he also worked at Nurun, a French Canadian Internet consulting firm. Steve also worked for a decade with American Express in a variety of marketing roles. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.</p> <p>About the new role for Chevigny, Byard said, “We are extremely lucky to have Katy remain in a senior management role at Arts Engine. Katy’s new role will enable her to continue as a champion of our mission and also devote more time to filmmaking.”</p> <p>Over the past decade, Arts Engine has grown from a small documentary production company to an innovative and dynamic social-issue media organization. Eight feature-length documentaries by Arts Engine’s production arm, Big Mouth, have been created since 1997, winning prestigious awards, gaining national recognition, and, as was the case with the Emmy-nominated film <em>Deadline</em>, reaching audiences in the millions. <em>Arctic Son</em> and <em>Election Day</em>, our most recent Big Mouth films, were broadcast by P.O.V., public television’s premiere showcase for independent, non-fiction film. MediaRights.org now has over 20,000 members worldwide, more than 7,000 films in an online database searchable by issue, and reaches hundreds of thousands of people every year. Media That Matters, one of the internet’s earliest online video sites, has a nine-year legacy celebrating short-form, social-issue media. And the adoption of DocuClub, a recent Arts Engine addition, continues a fifteen-year mainstay for the New York City documentary community. </p><p> <p style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Published on May 11</p> </div> <div class="default_slot"> <h3><a name="20442"></a><a href="/news/items/docuclub_in_may" style="color:#670000;">DocuClub in May!</a></h3> <p><p>For our May DocuClub, we will be screening a rough cut of <em>DeAf Jam</em> by Judy Lieff. The screening will take place on Wednesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. <br /><a href="http://www.mediarights.org/docuclub/screenings/docuclub_on_wednesday_may_19_7_p.m">Read more.</a> </p><p> <p style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Published on May 03</p> </div> <div class="default_slot"> <h3><a name="20335"></a><a href="/news/items/our_new_facebook_fan_page" style="color:#670000;">Become Our Fan at Our New Facebook Page!</a></h3> <p><p>We at Arts Engine began our tour of Facebook early on, creating a profile as a pseudo-human long before “fan pages” existed. Reaching our 5000 friend allotment that Facebook permits, we have finally made our foray into fan pages. 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