4 Filmmakers/Storytellers and 4 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs (SASEs) attend a workshop at the Sundance Resort.
Four Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs gather at Sundance Institute Creative Producers Summit at Sundance Resort.
Four Sundance Filmmakers attend Skoll World Forum along with Documentary Film Program Director Cara Mertes and Sundance Executive Director Ken Brecher.
Sundance and Skoll issue a press release to announce 3-year, $3 million Stories of Change partnership. Activities include: • Creating a year-round network connecting social entrepreneurs and filmmakers centered on annual convenings at major events such as the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah and the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England. • Providing $1.2 million in film project grants to enable the seeding, development and creation of new films; expand the audience of documentary films concerned with social entrepreneurship. • Creating an online resource for social entrepreneurs and filmmakers to facilitate individual and community-level networking, collaboration and exchange of information, knowledge and expertise. • Presenting case studies to frame and shape how those working in social entrepreneurship and film/media approach creative concept development.
5 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs attend workshops and panels. 40 Documentary filmmakers participate in convening meetings presentations, dinners, discussions, panels & cultivation events at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
6 Sundance Documentary filmmakers attend. Cara Mertes moderates first Stories of Change panel at Skoll World Forum: “Storytelling in the Modern World,” a panel discussion with Sundance-supported filmmaker Annie Sundberg participating with Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneur William Strickland, author Walter Mosley, and humanitarian and author Dr. James Orbinski.
Sundance and Skoll announce $1.2 million in grants to create new documentary films exploring social entrepreneurship.
6 Documentary filmmakers and 4 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs attend a series of panels that underscore the connections between filmmakers and social entrepreneurs.
4 filmmakers pitch their projects at Good Pitch. This new format connects filmmakers with potential impact partners. Good Pitch session take place throughout the year, across the US and Canada and take the place of the "Fourth Convening."
Sundance and Skoll announce the first 5 Stories of Change grants for feature documentaries: "The Team" and "YouthBuild Documentary." 5 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs attend workshops and panels.
Stories of Change awards 5 development and production grants for feature films..
6 Documentary filmmakers attend. The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (DFP) worked with 12 social entrepreneurs during the Skoll World Forum through a workshop, meetings and panels. Cara Mertes, Director, DFP, announces a second round of Stories of Change production grants. Stories of Change film director Gayle Ferraro, whose documentary on Muhammad Yunus and Grameen America will be the first film completed in the series, joins Mertes on a panel to talk about the project.
6 Documentary filmmakers and 4 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs attend a series of panels that underscore the connections between filmmakers and social entrepreneurs at the Sundance Resort.
4 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs participate in “Focused Discussions” and a workshop with Media Advisors. "To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America" premieres at the Fest.
Gayle Ferraro's "To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America" screens theatrically in the U.S
3 Media Advisors attend and Cara Mertes delivers a presentation on Stories of Change partnership. Mertes also participates in panel: “Compelling Action: Social Change Media in the Age of Information Overload.”
4 Media Advisors and 4 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs attend the Summit at the Sundance Resort.
"The Team" premieres at International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA).
4 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs attend Storytelling & Impact Workshop and 3 working sessions with Media Advisors, 3 screenings, and a series of receptions and networking meals. Social Entrepreneurs, filmmakers, journalists and funders explore potential for film and story to accelerate efforts to address deforestation.
4 Media Advisors attend. Sundance workshop on how storytelling, technology and social media come together to create high-impact communications strategies that engage and activate your target audience. Stories of Change film "The Team" screens.
Production starts shooing in India, Jordan, and Kenya. Mona Eldaief Jehane Noujaim co-direct the film.
Stories of Change awards production grant to Partners in Health (PIH) Documentary.
Skoll and Sundance extend their partnership through 2013 with a $1 million grant.
19 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs attend a one-day Stories of Change Impact Workshop.
Celebrating the 5th anniversary of Festival Convenings: Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs from 4 organizations attend, each accompanied by an organization staffer. They participate in meetings, presentations, dinners, discussions, panels, targeted feedback “Mirror Sessions” with Sundance Institute Media Advisors and attend screenings. Jeff Skoll, Sally Osberg, Bunker Roy, Jehane Noujaim, Joia Mukherjee, and Kief Davidson participate in "Celebrating Stories of Change" panel with Cara Mertes.
During production trip to Rwanda for PIH Documentary, director Kief Davidson finds a story that he follows from Rwanda to Sudan. That footage becomes the Stories of Change short "Open Heart."
5 Media Advisors attend and Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs attend Mirror Sessions. Cara Mertes moderates "Storytelling for Impact" panel. Stories of Change announces upcoming 5-Day Impact Lab in Berkeley, CA and upcoming Requests for Projects for Impact Fund.
5 Skoll-Awarded Social attend an intensive residential lab. A team of filmmakers, media advisors, designers and team facilitators work with SASEs and their projects to design innovative tools and campaigns to maximize the impact of their work.
Stories of Change awards 8 Strategic Impact Grants for a total of $158,000.
"Rafea: Solar Mama" screens at Toronto International Film Festival.
"The Revolutionary Optimists" receives a $750,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to mount influencer screenings and show the film in slums in Africa to inspire the empowerment of other slum communities.
"Solar Mamas" (1-hour broadcast version of "Rafea: Solar Mama") broadcast as part of the global series "Why Poverty" that has a reach of 500 million viewers.
Open Heart screens in NYC, L.A. and San Francisco to qualify for Academy Award in the Documentary Short Subject category. The screenings produce immediate impact: • Medical equipment manufacturer Philips donates a $100,000 portable echocardio machine sent to Rwanda in January 2013. • A heart valve manufacturer explores delivering free valves, or valves at a greatly reduced price to Rwanda, significantly increasing the number of emergency heart surgeries per year. • Head of the Cardiology department at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam (who attended an IDFA screening) coordinates with Rwandan cardiologist Dr. Emanuel to raise funds for treatment of heart disease in Rwanda.
"Poor Consuelo..." screens at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. Special seminar follows screening, “Beyond Entertainment: Storytelling for Social Change,” organized by "Poor Consuelo..." director Peter Friedman and led by leaders in the field of Entertainment-Education.
"The Revolutionary Optimists" premieres at the International Film Festival of India in Goa with Social Entrepreneur Amlan Ganguly.
International Documentary Association nominates "Open Heart" for IDA Award in the Short Documentary category.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates "Open Heart" for an Oscar for Best Documentary Short.
• 4 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs, each accompanied by an organizational staffer, and 4 Media Advisors participate in Mirror Sessions, attend screenings and panel discussions, and a few participate in evaluation interviews. • "The Revolutionary Optimists" receives a $25,000 Hilton LightStay Sustainability Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
After screening the film in India, Salim and Shika, the young activists featured in the film, and Prayasam, the non-profit organization led by Social Entrepreneur Amlan Ganguly, succeed in bringing a clean water project to their community. Wendy Levy, Senior Consultant for the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, delivers 21 Google Smart Phones to the children/community workers of Prayasam. These young activists will use the phones to collect data for a scalable multi-platform public health initiative called Map Your World, an innovative project that will help track and eliminate communicable diseases among slum-dwellers in India, and support the residents’ campaign for better public health and social services.
"The Revolutionary Optimists" opens in theaters in select cities and screens at UNICEF with Q&A with Shikha and Salim, the children in the film, Amlan Ganguly, and filmmakers. The UN Foundation presents the film at the “Shot@Life” Advocates Summit in Washington, DC, and the uses the film to anchor global vaccination campaigns implemented at the grassroots level. Ashoka, the Washington, DC-based social entrepreneur-support organization is promotes the film by hosting a screening and a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers. Tribeca Film Institute Education Program presents the film to NYC schoolchildren in special screenings with the Prayasam team and the filmmakers. Melinda Gates interviews Salim and Shika for TEDx. Salim, Shika and Amlan Ganguly attend a screening at the Global Vaccine Summit Abu Dhabi, UAE.
4 Media Advisors and 2 Sundance staffers meet with 12 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs for 1-hour Mirror Sessions. Sundance participates in 1 panel discussion and leads 1 workshop. "Rafea: Solar Mama" screens and is followed by Q&A with filmmaker Mona Eldaief.
4 Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs (SASEs), 4 SASE Staffers, and 4 Media Advisors Attend the 7th SOC Convening at the Sundance Film Festival.
Four Sundance Institute Media Advisers Accompany Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Staff to Skoll World Forum for a Series of Meetings, Screenings, and Workshops with SASEs.
"Open Heart" Producer Cori Shepherd Stern creates "Rooster Says: Child Heart Care" an ancillary PSA in produced Kinyarwanda.The PSA is produced to accompany community-based screening of "Open Heart" and is set to premiere in Rwanda in September 2014.
The short film "Stand with Sanju" is the centerpiece of a campaign to end child slavery in the rug industry by 2020. The project is a collaboration between SOC Media Advisor Nicole Newnham and Goodweave's social entrepreneur Nina Smith, and emerged from the 2012 SOC Convening at Skoll World Forum. News of the film and campaign is picked up by CNN's "The Freedom Project."
Academy Award-Nominated Stories of Change Film "Open Heart" screens in Mareba, Rwanda, the village where Angelique, the films main character lives.
The Stories of Change Convening returns to the Sundance Resort after a 4 year absence. Four Skoll-Awarded Social Entrepreneurs, each accompanied by a senior staffer, and four Media Advisors meet in a lab-like setting to collaborate on finding meaningful stories to advance the work of these global change-makers.
Skoll Foundation awards Sundance Institute a $2.5 million grant to expand Stories of Change. The initiative will expand to include feature film and new media artists as well as documentary filmmakers. Over the past seven years, Stories of Change has supported 66 social entrepreneurs, 50 documentary filmmakers and storytellers, 11 documentary films, 11 multi-platform media projects, and 20 convenings, workshops, and labs.
Stories of Change hosts "Speaking Truth To Power," a thought-provoking panel discussion and reception at 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
he Stories of Change Convening at the 2015 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship was an intensive series of workshops, meetings, presentations and discussions about storytelling and its relationship to the work of social entrepreneurs – innovative change-makers who are confronting the world’s most pressing problems. Sundance filmmakers and digital platform storytellers included: Nicole Newnham, Cori Shepherd Stern, Dawn Porter, and Anjali Nayar, along with Institute staffers Anne Lai (Feature Film Program), Kamal Sinclair (New Frontier), and Documentary Film Program Senior Institute Consultant Wendy Levy. The Skoll Awarded Social Entrepreneurs came from: Apopo, International Bridges do Justice, and WITNESS.
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