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| Upper Left: Tiffany Shlain, Linda Kruse, Laura Wainer (Founder SF WebFest) Upper Right: Tiffany Shlain being interviewed by Linda Kruse Bottom: The Many Women participating in SF WebFest 2015 |
Last week at the SF WebFest I had the pleasure to introduce and host the Q&A with the Festival Centerpiece: Tiffany Shlain. Tiffany was the ideal choice to be the Centerpiece of the Festival and someone I was really looking forward to meeting and interviewing. She has done so much and is really making a huge difference in the world. A wonderful role model and an ideal person to highlight on my blog.
She is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards. She led the San Francisco-based 501c3 team of "Let it Ripple". She has had four films premiere at Sundance, has won over 70 awards, and has had 3 films selected by The U.S. State Department to screen at embassies around the world to foster dialogue across borders.
ABOUT LET IT RIPPLE
LET IT RIPPLE'S mission is to use film, technology, discussion materials, and live and virtual events to engage people in conversation and action around complicated subjects that are shaping our lives, and updating these topics through an engaging, accessible, 21st century lens. Over the past ten years, Tiffany and her team has created and distributed 28 films, engaged over 50 Million people in dialogue, and created a new way of making films called “Cloud Filmmaking,” where they make films collaboratively with people all over the world and offer free customized versions of the films to thousands of schools and nonprofits to help further their reach.
ABOUT DIRECTOR TIFFANY SHLAIN
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As an author her work explores the intersections of humanity, technology, science, and culture. Tiffany's films and work have received over 65 awards and distinctions, including a Disruptive Innovation Award from Tribeca Film Festival. Four of her films have premiered at Sundance, including Connected, which was hailed by The New York Times as “exploring everything from The Big Bang to Twitter.” Tiffany is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow.
AOL ORIGINALS
Her AOL Originals series THE FUTURE STARTS HERE has received over 40 million views and was nominated for an Emmy Award in the new category, New Approaches to Art, Lifestyle, and Culture.
FUN FACT
While an advocate of the power of technology, she and her family are known for turning off all screens every week for 24 hours. They are on their 6th year of this weekly ritual, which they call their “Technology Shabbats.”
Follow on twitter: @tiffanyshlain
Follow on twitter: @tiffanyshlain
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