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Tiffany Shlain |
Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker & Founder of The Webby Awards
Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. A celebrated thinker and catalyst, Tiffany is known for her ability to illuminate complex ideas in culture, science, technology and life through her unique films, dynamic talks, and innovative projects.
She delivered the campus-wide keynote commencement address at UCBerkeley and her films and work have received 50 awards and distinctions. Her last four films premiered at Sundance, including her 2011 acclaimed feature documentary, “Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology,” which The New York Times hailed as “Examining Everything From the Big Bang to Twitter,” and the US State Department just selected as one of the films to screen at embassies around the world to represent America in their 2012 American Film Showcase.
She is currently working on a new film series which is paving the way for a new kind of collaborative filmmaking she calls CLOUD FILMMAKING. The series, titled “Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change,” will include twenty short 4-minute films about important aspects of life. The first film, “A Declaration of Interdependence,” with music by Moby, has been translated into 65 languages and she is currently creating free customized versions of the film for any nonprofit.
The next film in the series that Tiffany and her film studio are in production on is “Brain Power,” which explores the best way to nurture young children’s brains as well as the global brain we are creating via the Internet. Tiffany is a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the advisory board of M.I.T.’s Geospatial Lab. She is receiving a “Disruptive Innovation Award,” at The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival for her work.
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