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  Do you know a budding film-maker who has something to say about Peace?

GPFF screens award-winning films from around the world but also welcomes & encourages new works worldwide as well as from local/regional film-makers - so spread the word!

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The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action—media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share. We pay particular attention to the evolution of documentary film and video in a digital era.
   
 

From time to time we link to other global organizations that share our vision of media as an agent of world benefit. At the dawn of the 21st century, a group of journalists gathered at the World Media Assembly in Sarajevo to discuss the business pressures on fraying news organizations. They produced the "Sarajevo Commitment," calling on all members of the media to make a pledge to integrity and public service. Its message still resonates today.

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What if young boys were imbued with a sense of empathy and fair play to counteract a culture that victimizes women? "Breakaway", an interactive video football game designed by students at the Emergent Media Centre of Champlain College in Vermont, hopes to accomplish just that.

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They talked about grizzly bears, river pollution and how disease thrives in places where the drinking water is laced with bacteria and most of the people don't have toilets.

The setting was Professor Joseph B. Treaster's classroom on "Reporting Global Environmental Issues," at the University of Miami, where he televideo conferenced international experts including Nobel Prize winner Steve Running into Miami from around the world using Skype and the university's high-tech equipment.

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The Vietnam Reporting Project is a journalism fellowship program designed to produce groundbreaking multimedia news coverage on the enduring environmental and health consequences of Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam.

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