Shows
Cinema of ChangeJeanette Milio: Financing your FilmJeanette 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.
2019-08-2750 min
Cinema of ChangeDaniel Ragussis on Ideology and RadicalizationColumbia Graduate Daniel Ragussis directed Imperium (2016), staring Daniel Radcliffe, which 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 views of other white supremacists groups and tries to give the viewer a better understanding of them. By drawing from Michael German's real life FBI cases, the portrayals of the plain neighbor next door having unsuspecting views are true to life. On this episode of the podcast Ragussis talks about what drove him to create the film...
2019-08-1451 min
Cinema of ChangeChance Morrison: Content ResponsibilityChance 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.
2019-07-2647 min
Cinema of ChangeStacy Traub: The Impact When Writing a Modern SitcomThis week on the Cinema of Change podcast we're talking with writer and show-runner Stacy Traub. Stacy Traub has worked as a writer and show-runner on shows like, Glee, Trophy Wife, The Real O'Neals, and Black-ish.
2019-05-2949 min
Cinema of ChangeMark Litwak: Filmmaking Pitfalls in Deal-Making and DistributionWelcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. This episode is an interview with entertainment attorney Mark Litwak called, "Filmmaking Pitfalls in Deal-Making and Distribution." Mark Litwak is a veteran entertainment attorney. As a Producer's Representative, he assists filmmakers in arranging financing, marketing and distribution of their films. Litwak has packaged movie projects and served as executive producer on such feature films as "The Proposal," "Out Of Line," "Pressure,"...
2016-10-0355 minCinema of ChangeJoshua Oppenheimer: Why Filmmakers Shouldn't Chase ImpactWelcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer was born in 1974 in Austin, Texas. He is a two-time Oscar-nominated American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Oppenheimer has a Bachelor of Arts-degree summa cum laude in filmmaking from Harvard University and a PhD from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts in London. Oppenheimer spent 12 years in Indonesia and...
2016-09-1423 minCinema of ChangeGlenn Sparks: Is Media Impact Real?Welcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world.
Glenn Sparks wrote one of the most used textbooks for media studies titled: Media Effects Research: A Basic Overview. Over the past 30 years, Glenn has become one of the foremost experts in how media effects individuals and society. In his career in academia, his lectures took him around the world from Canada to Ethiopia. We are pleased to have him join...
2015-11-2638 minCinema of ChangeNicholas Paige: The French New Wave and a Look to the Future Welcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Professor Paige teaches at the UC Berkeley French Department and has published a number of papers and books focusing mostly on seventeenth and eighteenth-century French literature and culture. What makes him so unique to us is that he is on of the foremost experts on the French New Wave - and the magazine that came with it, the "Cahiers du Cinema."...
2015-08-1541 minCinema of ChangeLee Mun Wah: How Cinema Challenges our Perspective on Race Welcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. For more than 25 years he was a resource specialist and counselor in the San Francisco Unified School District. He has produced several documentaries discussing the impact of race relations in America. His list of works includes Last Chance for Ed...
2015-07-1543 minCinema of ChangeLinda Williams: What Really Are Filmmakers Up To?Welcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world.
Linda Williams is a professor in the Film and Rhetoric departments at UC Berkeley. She teaches courses on pornography, melodrama, and “body genres.” In 1989 she published a study of pornographic film entitled Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible (second edition 1999). More recently she published Screening Sex (Duke, 2008), a history of the revelation and concealment of sex at the mov...
2015-06-1530 min
Cinema of ChangeChris Temple: Mobilizing People Around Film Cinema of Change is a magazine and community, and you can join the conversation at cinemaofchange.com. We are dedicated to exploring the power of cinema and its ability to create change in the world. Join us for Mobilizing People Around Film with our guest Chris Temple. From living in a Syrian refugee camp to surviving on a dollar a day as a radish farmer in Guatemala, Chris and his co-founder Zach are pioneering a new style of documentary filmmaking. The vision for their non-profit "Living on One" is to use immersive storytelling to raise awareness and ins...
2015-05-1641 min
Cinema of ChangeCourtney Spence: Empowering Social StorytellersWelcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Join us for Empowering Social Storytellers with our guest Courtney Spence. Courtney Spence is an enrepreneur and storyteller. She founded Students of the World as an undergraduate at Duke University, and for the last 15 years has worked to support storytellers looking to make an impact in the world. In this episode we ask Courtney, what can you do starting...
2015-04-1042 min
Cinema of ChangePhilip Zimbardo: The Psychology Behind a Cinema of ChangeWelcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Join us for The Psychology Behind a Cinema of Change with our guest Philip Zimbardo. Professor Zimbardo was born in 1933 and taught Pyschology at Yale, NYU and Stanford University. In 1971, he conducted the world famous Stanford Prison Experiment where 24 students were put into a mock prisoner and guard situation for a week. The experiment escalated to such a degree that it had to be...
2015-01-241h 15