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Micki Krimmel (aka Mickipedia) is well known in the Web 2.0 space for her work in online community, social activism and her popular website and videoblog The Mickipedia Show. She is an expert in social media and online community and a vocal advocate for the free and open sharing of information via the web.
Micki has consulted for various technology startups and media companies to build sustainable communities for authentic conversation and engaged participation. She recently worked as Director of Community for Revver.com, a ground-breaking online video sharing service and the first of its kind to share revenue with video creators. Previously, Micki built and managed the Interactive Department at Participant Productions, a film production company founded with the express mission to engage audiences in movements for social change. While at Participant, Micki created the media company’s first online activist community at Participate.net and led the interactive media efforts for An Inconvenient Truth as well as Participant’s other award-winning films.
Micki frequently speaks at conferences and festivals for web industry professionals. Micki’s writing has been published in the acclaimed book, Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, .net Magazine, SXSW World and countless online publications.
Before making the leap to the web, Micki received an undergraduate degree in Film Production from Boston University (with a minor in Philosophy) and worked extensively in film production and post-production. She is currently working on several web video shows in various capacities: host, writer, & director.
Micki lives with her boyfriend and the cutest dog in the world in the best city in the world, Los Angeles, CA. Micki Krimmel (aka Mickipedia) is well known in the Web 2.0 space for her work in... more
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Marshall Herskovitz (born February 23, 1952, Philadelphia) is an American film director, writer and producer, and currently the President of the Producers Guild of America. Among his productions are Traffic, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond, and I Am Sam. Herskovitz was a creator and executive producer of the television shows Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, and Once and Again, and also wrote and directed several episodes of all three series.
He frequently collaborates with Edward Zwick, with whom he runs the film and television production company The Bedford Falls Company, named for the fictional town in the classic film It's A Wonderful Life.
Zwick and Herskovitz' most recent project was the original broadband series Quarterlife which debuted online through MySpace and a dedicated webpage where it garnered enough views to be picked up by NBC.
Herskovitz attended Brandeis University.
Since May 2005, he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.Marshall Herskovitz (born February 23, 1952, Philadelphia) is an American film... more
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Mark Pellington (born March 17, 1962) is an American film director.
Pellington was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He directed The Mothman Prophecies, a 2002 film starring Richard Gere dealing with mysterious deaths[1] foretold by a strange red-eyed flying creature, Mothman, as well as Arlington Road in 1999 starring Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges.
Pellington has also worked with such musical artists as Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, U2, and Bruce Springsteen. He has also made cameo appearances in The Mothman Prophecies, Almost Famous, and Jerry Maguire. He directed the landmark mini-series The United States of Poetry for PBS in 1995. It won the INPUT (International Public Television) Award in 1996.Mark Pellington (born March 17, 1962) is an American film director.
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Pallotta received a degree in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. There, he met Richard Linklater and began his film career as an actor and production assistant on Linklater's directorial debut, Slacker (1991). After working on numerous films and commercials, Pallotta wrote, directed and produced his first film, The High Road (1997). He also produced several of Bob Sabiston's animated projects including: Roadhead (1999), which received the Best Animation award at the Aspen Film Festival; a series of interstitials for MTV; Snack and Drink (1999), a three-minute short about an autistic child in a 7-Eleven store, which is now part of the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art; and Figures of Speech (2000), a series of interstitials for PBS.
He then connected his animation experience with Linklater in Waking Life (2001). Waking Life was the first independently financed and produced computer animated feature. The film was subsequently nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Picture.
Pallotta also directed the first machinima produced music video, In the Waiting Line (2003), using the animation engine from the Quake 3 video game, and the rotoscoped MTV "Breakthrough Video" Destiny (2002), both for the band Zero 7. The Microsoft Research and Development team recognized Pallotta for his "penchant for innovation" where he helmed an interactive project based on Jonathan Lethem's novel Amnesia Moon (2004), which was an experiment that was not released to the public.
He then returned to the film industry with his frequent collaborator, Linklater, to produce A Scanner Darkly (2006) based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick and starring Keanu Reeves.Pallotta received a degree in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.... more
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Filmmaker and political activist Robert Greenwald is the director/producer of "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" (2006), an expose of what happens when corporations go to war; as well as "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" (2005), detailing the retail giant's assault on families and American values; and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" (2004), about the right-wing opinion factory known as Fox "News." Millions of viewers have seen these films via grassroots "house parties" and independent online DVD sales, a groundbreaking method of alternative distribution.Filmmaker and political activist Robert Greenwald is the director/producer of... more
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lack of interest in these videos is starting to mess with us. don't make us do crazy things.lack of interest in these videos is starting to mess with us. don't make us do... more
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Workbook Project's goal is to create a free resource for content creators that will become a user contributed repository of information. The concept is part of an ?open source social experiment? called the workbook project. It?s a simple concept, the workbook is meant to be spread and edited. Meaning that content creators can add their own info, war stories, advice etc. We?re hoping that the workbook can grow as a resource. We?re building it with an open source ?client side? wiki called tiddlywiki that can be saved to the desktop, edited and then uploaded again.Workbook Project's goal is to create a free resource for content creators that... more
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Current TV has partnered up with 'From Here to Awesome', a new discovery and distribution festival launching in April, 08 @ venues across the globe (seriously... we're talking France, UK, Israel, Australia, Mexico, Canada and the US here).
Here's what they say:
Have you made a film you think the world should see? FROM HERE TO AWESOME is a discovery and distribution festival that might be the perfect system to get your film blasted to audiences in theaters, living rooms, online and via mobile phones.
All filmmakers are welcome to be a part of the festival. There are NO submission fees, and filmmakers retain their rights while receiving revenue directly from the distribution outlets. A wide range of major promotional partners and distribution platforms are on board. All we need now is your film. Please submit ASAP to give the festival?s audience time to vote your film into the April Showcase.
FHTA was founded by DIY filmmaking pioneers Lance Weiler (The Last Broadcast, Head Trauma), Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters) and M dot Strange (We Are The Strange).Current TV has partnered up with 'From Here to Awesome', a new discovery and... more
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