April 26, 2013 Tribeca Film Institute- 5 Blow-Your-Mind Moments from TFI Interactive Day 2013
April 24, 2013 PBS- Five Top Takeaways from Tribeca Film Institute’s Interactive Day
These same concepts drove keynote speaker Tiffany Shlain’s Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto, which focuses on using the cloud collaboratively and highlighting humanity’s universal connectedness. Branching out from Shlain’s 2012 feature documentary Connected, the ongoing series of cloud films created by her team have been comprised of internet submissions from all over the world.
April 21, 2013 The Wrap- Tribeca 2013: On ‘Interactive Day,’ It’s the Who-Needs-Film? Festival
“Film is the appetizer,” Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain said in her keynote address kicking off the day. “The discussion you have is the main course.”
Nov. 26, 2012 Bloomberg TV - How do you make a movie in the cloud?: Cloud Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain talks about making movies in the cloud. She speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.”
Fast Company: Nonprofits: Steal This Film For Your Own Purposes
Tiffany Shlain, a filmmaker perhaps best known for the documentary Connected and for founding the Webby Awards, is turning into a fairy godmother for nonprofits in need of new ways to get out their messages. Her latest 10-minute film, Brain Power, could help childhood development-related nonprofits solicit donations, volunteers, and anything else they might need.
Cinesource - Tiffany Shlain: Webmaster, Alt-Filmer or Philosopher: We are only going to see the true potential of the Internet when we see every one online who wants to be online contributing their perspectives, knowledge and wisdom.
Huffington Post: Impact - Global Brain, Global Heart: “… She is the proof in the pudding concerning the work she is doing and its value to society as a whole.” – Jacob Devaney
Makers: Makers Profile Tiffany Shlain – Filmmaker
Harvard Business Review: How the Internet is Shaping Our “Global Brain”
Blog Post by Director Tiffany Shlain
The South Africans have a beautiful philosophy called Ubuntu, which translates as “I am what I am because of who we all are.” This is a perfect way to think about the way a brain develops, influenced by its surrounding people and experiences….
Upworthy - Which Is More Complicated, The ENTIRE Internet, Or One Child’s Brain?: The Internet is very young as a form of human interaction. It’s still in a phase of rapid growth and change. If the Internet were a human being, it would be a toddler. Both the Web and children are hugely shaped by our actions as adults.
Brain World Magazine: TIFFANY SHLAIN ON MINDFULNESS, THE INTERNET & HER LATEST CREATION, “BRAIN POWER”. “What do you think is the fastest way to make change…by group consensus or by one person?”
Wired Magazine – Geek Dad: Brain Power Film and TED Book with Tiffany Shlain. How is a child’s developing brain like the internet? And how can both develop better?
Tribeca Film Festival: Who’s Shaking Things Up in 2012? Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards Honorees Announced
The Tribeca Film Festival, in association with renowned Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, is proud to announce the recipients of the third annualTribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by NYU Stern School of Business, on April 27.
Los Angeles Times: Patt Morrison Asks: Tiffany Shlain, wired in
SFChronicle - Tiffany Shlain: Net’s growth like brain: Just how far along is the Internet in its development? That’s one of the questions posed in the short film “Brain Power,” the latest production from Tiffany Shlain and the Moxie Institute, the film studio she founded.
The Atlantic: ‘Connected’ Sheds Light on Our Addiction to Social Technology
Tiffany Shlain’s feature-length documentary Connected is an intensely personal exploration of what human connection means in our modern, technology-obsessed world. In anticipation of the film’s release in New York next week, she shares an excerpt that looks at how our brain chemistry compels us to reach for our gadgets 24-7.
ABC: Connected: How Technology is Changing Us
Tribeca Future of Film: “Engage” With Cloud Filmmaking
Following up on her “Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto,” filmmaker Tiffany Shlain introduces the second film in her “Let it Ripple” series—a uniquely collaborative process, from creation through dissemination.
Innovation Excellence: ENGAGE in Online Premiere – a cloud sourced film.
ENGAGE is the latest 2 minute film in Let It Ripple – Mobile Films for Global Change.
BBC News: Documentary explores the effects of being wired (video)
Blip: John Snowden, Tiffany Shlain- Interdependency TMRTE 2012
IndieWire: Highlight on Innovative Filmmaker and Internet Pioneer, Tiffany Shlain
With the “Let it Ripple” series, Tiffany is paving the way for a new style of collaborative filmmaking she calls Cloud Filmmaking…
Tech Cocktail: Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain: “The Internet’s in its Toddler Years”
Sometimes, Tiffany Shlain loves technology: after all, she’s the founder of the Webby Awards and cofounder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, whose goal is to help drive the progress of the Internet. But sometimes, she’s not so fond of it: she and her family take “technology shabbats” once a week to unplug from the blinking alerts and scrolling text of their digital gadgets.
Goodnet: Crowdsourced Videos Change the World
Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change is a series of short films created by two mega-powerful channels: the first is Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, who is the mastermind of Let it Ripple. The other is Cloud Filmmaking, which means creating films in a collaborative, digitally-networked effort.
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Filmerz: Getting Connected with Cloud Filmmaking - Listen to the Podcast
Tiffany Shlain is a multi-award winning filmmaker, her last four films premiered at Sundance, she is the founder of the Webby Awards, she is the co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, she delivered thekeynote commencement address at UCBerkeley, and she was honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century”.
Big Think: Creativity in the Cloud: From the Big Bang to Twitter
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Co.Exist: Cloud Filmmaking: Using The Internet To Make Inspiring Films
In the age of YouTube, a moving video can be a powerful tool for raising awareness. But not all nonprofits have the ability to put together a good movie about their work. Let It Ripple can help with that, with a hand from the global community.
Tribeca Film Festival: Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain talks cloudsourcing creativity and giving back in the age of collaboration
As a filmmaker who hardly shoots anything and is primarily into remixing and recontextualizing images, this explosion of online video was not only a much bigger candy store than I had ever dreamed of, it also completely changed the way I make films. The new tools and technologies that enable video sharing have allowed me and my team at The Moxie Institute to embark on a whole new adventure that we call CLOUD FILMMAKING.
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May 10, 2012 Cultural Weekly: Cloud Filmmaking: A Manifesto
Tribeca Film Festival: Who’s Shaking Things Up in 2012? Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards Honorees Announced
The Tribeca Film Festival, in association with renowned Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, is proud to announce the recipients of the third annualTribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by NYU Stern School of Business, on April 27.
Bay Area Citizen: Local Filmmaker to Become a US Film Ambassador
Local documentarian Tiffany Shlain’s 2011 film “Connected” will be one of the 29 films included in the US Department of State’s American Films Showcase. According to the official announcement last week, the project is “an international cultural diplomacy initiative that brings people together worldwide through film.”
Paste Magazine: Nite of the good one percent: Filmmakers pack DGA for IDA Documentary Awards
The High Bar with Warren Etheredge: Interview with Tiffany Shlain (video)
NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly: Spotlight with Tiffany Shlain (video)
Tavis Smiley interview with Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain (video)
Marin Magazine - A Big Brain: Mill Valley’s Tiffany Shlain is premiering her latest film project and TED Book this month.
Venture Beat Media: Crowdsourcing is creating the cloud filmmaking revolution: The Internet and movie makers have collided, and the result is a cloud film-making revolution.
