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.
Read MoreWhile white allies have historically played a role in cultivating social progress, why does Hollywood keep creating storylines that showcase the white male liberator?
Read More“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
Read MoreThe curation and analysis of health data may lead to new ways of treating diseases, USC researchers say in public awareness film.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreWhy is it that a film about the struggles of an interracial couple in Virginia in 1958 feels so timely in 2016?
Read More"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."
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Read how director, Robin Hauser, is effectively causing change with her documentary about the underrepresentation of women in the tech industry.
Read MoreThis 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?
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe Pamoja Project premiered at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in August and the film has currently been accepted to screen at over ten festivals both nationally and internationally. Nominated for Best Documentary Film and best New England Filmmaker at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, the feedback so far has been wonderful.
Read MoreThe 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which aired on ABC Sunday evening, was a stark contrast to this year’s Academy Awards, a note that host Jimmy Kimmel pointed out repeatedly throughout the night.
Read MoreDigital data is being collected all over the world very quickly and has increased in quantity faster than anyone expected. The organization and sharing of this data is crucial to the ongoing work of biomedical research and in many ways the future of medicine depends on it.
Read MoreFriday afternoon on the eve of Halloween, while much of campus decked their halls with cobwebs and UV paint, Eric Norwine and his father, Mark, greeted people outside the USC School of Cinematic Arts Ray Stark Family Theatre for Odyssey of the Mind, the University’s first ever Mental Health Awareness Festival.
Read MoreSince October 2014, The Pamoja Project has raised over $30,000 dollars in production funds, packaged over $150,000 of in-kind donations...
Read More"Needed: U.S. Visas for Our Afghan Interpreters" by Spencer Chase, National Review Online
Read MoreThe School of Cinematic Arts will offer a new minor in media and social change starting in the fall of 2015.
Read MoreThe USC Media Institute for Social Change, Variety and unite4:good will unite leaders to discuss the entertainment industry's role in fueling positive social change.
Read MoreUSC-MISC and Director Audrey Emerson to present "The Pamoja Project"
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that we will award $5,000 to one USC SCA Graduate Student with...
Read MoreUSC Media Institute for Social Change (USC-MISC) is a 501c3 nonprofit at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Entertainment media has a profound impact on individual knowledge, behavior and society in general. USC-MISC understands media’s powerful role in the development of culture in society and seeks to support and foster emerging writers, filmmakers and media professionals who play a vital role in shaping public opinion and transforming society for the positive. We make the films that change lives.
