The 89th Academy Awards was political, entertaining, and for the most part well-executed, with the exception of the Best Picture blunder that will forever be remembered in Oscar history.

“So many of the thesis films being made at USC are evidence that MISC has helped to move the needle in student awareness of social issues” - Michael Taylor, Executive Director USCMISC

The curation and analysis of health data may lead to new ways of treating diseases, USC researchers say in public awareness film.

The USC MISC production Big Data: Biomedicine, the first in a series of films commissioned by the National Institutes of Health, premiered in Washington, DC this week.  Additional screenings for policy makers at the White House are scheduled for later this month.

Why is it that a film about the struggles of an interracial couple in Virginia in 1958 feels so timely in 2016? 

"As filmmakers we have the ability to reach a lot of people with our ideas and as filmmakers for whom social change issues are important, we have an obligation now more than ever to express those ideas with clarity and conviction."

Read how director, Robin Hauser, is effectively causing change with her documentary about the underrepresentation of women in the tech industry.

This fall, social change finds its way to our screens.  Snowden, Seed: The Untold Story, Speechless, Deepwater Horizon, the 13th, Birth of a Nation.   How successful do you think they were at addressing the issues?  

The Bridge@USC, an institute committed to converging knowledge across disciplines has pledged to contribute funding to student film projects with a science component, starting with the stories produced by the "Making Media for Social Change" class co-taught by Jeremy Kagan and USC MISC director Michael Taylor.