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Hollywood Signs is the documentary that celebrates autograph collecting, collectors, and our obsession with celebrities. It focuses on autograph dealing, the history of the autograph, autograph conventions, celebrities' point of view, and, of course, the folks whose lives revolve around autographs. Hollywood Signs is a love letter to a world with characters you definitely don't see every day.
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YOU CAN'T KILL MEME follows a filmmaker’s three year descent into the anonymous internet underworld, tracking the spread of an insidious strain of extremist occult magic. While investigating the influence of online misinformation on the 2016 election, the filmmaker infiltrates the shadowy corners of Internet forums 4chan and Reddit. There, she learns of the book Memetic Magic, a field manual for conjuring “thought viruses” capable of sowing...
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"Mickey Hayward dreams of writing stories that matter. She has a flashy media job that makes her feel successful and a devoted girlfriend who takes care of her when she comes home exhausted and demoralized. It’s not all A-list parties and steamy romance, but Mickey’s on her way, and it’s far from the messy life she left behind in Maryland. Despite being overlooked and mistreated at work, it seems like she might finally get the chance to prove...
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Twenty-one year old Ben is following his TV-obsessed Dad to explore how television consumption has evolved from one generation to the next. Television used to bring people together. Does television now fragment us as a culture? Nominated for Best Documentary at **New York City International Film Festival**, **Los Angeles CineFest**, and **WorldFest Houston**.
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From Willie Nelson to Wilco, Ray Charles to Radiohead, A SONG FOR YOU: AUSTIN CITY LIMITS offers the ultimate backstage pass and front row seat to 40 years of incredible music from the longest running music show in TV history. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the **Nashville Film Festival.** "*This stem-to-stern look at the institution centered in the "Live Music Capital of the World" traces the...
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Documentary tracing the development and production of the mini-series '"Lonesome Dove" (1989), from Larry McMurtry's novel of the same name. Stars Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, among others, described the circumstances of filming, and director Simon Wincer comments on the adaptation of the novel. Others from the crew, including wranglers and stuntmen, describe some of the difficulties of this massive project.
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A Pope John Paul II lollipop. An Elvis Presley shower curtain. A Princess Diana teacup. These are just some of the countless pieces of memorabilia that these pop culture icons’ most devoted fans collect and cherish – but why? Director Annie Berman, explores the deep veneration and legacies of the Pope, the Princess, and the King. Over the course of 20 years, Berman profiles these figures’ biggest fans and makes numerous pilgrimages to Vatican...
11) Art of the Prank
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This documentary is about New York artist Joey Skaggs, the godfather of the media hoax. Famed for such media fictions as the Celebrity Sperm Bank, the Cathouse for Dogs, the Fat Squad, and Portofess, all reported as fact by prestigious journalists, he's one of America's greatest living satirists. When Skaggs decides to pull off the most demanding hoax of his career, filmmaker Andrea Marini gets a unique view into the mind of this most unconventional...
12) Darkon
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The 2006 cult-hit documentary DARKON covers an epic war raging through the realm of Darkon (an American LARP). Skip Lipman, a suburban stay-at-home dad leads his rebel army in a monumental quest to topple a mighty empire and lead the Realm to new era of liberty and glory. A beloved adventure in the quirky imaginations of suburban Americans, DARKON investigates the LARPers lives in the game and out of the game offering insight into our complex relationship...
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When the world-renowned cultural and political theorist Stuart Hall died in 2014, he left behind an unfinished 300,000-word memoir. In this interview with MEF Executive Director Sut Jhally, Bill Schwarz talks about the challenges of preparing the final published book, detailing his negotiations and conversations with the disembodied words of an author who cherished dialogue above all else.
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Over the past three decades, speedrunners have been collaboratively digging for secrets, working to uncover mind-blowing shortcuts and glitches which are used to streamline their runs. Running with Speed follows top runners, from the past and present, of gaming franchises that are pillars in speedrunning: Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid. World records in these retro classics are especially revered. The series culminates at the...
15) A Brony Tale
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Canadian voice-over artist, Ashleigh Ball, has been the voice of numerous cartoon characters. However, when she was hired as the voice of Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash on the 4th generation installment of Hasbro’s ‘*My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*’ series, she had no idea she was about to become an internet phenomenon and voice celebrity among a very unique type of fan, the Bronies. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Nominated...
16) Brand new you
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What do popular television makeover programs like What Not to Wear, The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Swan tell us about how to look and feel? What do they tell us about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? This new film based on Katherine Sender's book The Makeover explores these questions against the backdrop of American ideals of self-invention and upward mobility. Asking what it means to be an authentic...
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"Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media whores, and vainglorious figures of our time. His scalpel opens their lives, careers, and always equivocal endgames with the same vividness and wit he brought to his disemboweling of the former president. These brilliant and biting profiles form a mesmerizing portrait of the hubris, overreach, and nearly inevitable self-destruction of some of the most famous faces from the Clinton era through...
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Take a close look at the machinations of misinformation, and how it can be used in conjunction with our natural cognitive biases to lead us astray. Learn about the role of reality distortion, the "Barnum effect," selective recall, and confirmation bias in misinformation, and how techniques like "Label to Disable" and "Care before You Share" can help.
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Visual images have been selected, edited, reframed (even manipulated) before they reach us, often in ways designed to elicit an emotional response. Explore the impact of reuse and mislabeling, photo selection effect, and deliberate alteration or forgery to affect how we see and feel about an image. Then, employ Label to Disable to diffuse the threat of visual misinformation.
20) Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy: Episode 5,Countering Fakes and Stereotypes in Media
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How do fake information and stereotypes combine to produce an especially damaging type of misinformation? Fake information, including fake social media accounts, fake chat messages, and fake reviews, can infiltrate our electronic lives. See how stereotypes can magnify the damage done by fake information, and consider the difficult questions presented by the human tendency toward bias.
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