The Whole Cinemagilah: A New Art Project by Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain for the National Museum of American Jewish History
Premiering at The National Museum of American Jewish History on Dec 14th
Cinema: A sequence of images wound onto a reel and unwound to tell a story
Magillah: A sequence of words wound onto a scroll and unwound to tell a story
Tiffany Shlain Directing New Film for Refinery 29
Announced today, actress Kristen Stewart will make her directorial debut as a filmmaker with a short film currently titled Water, and actress Gabourey Sidibe will make her directorial debut with a short film currently titled A Tale of Four Women. Additional filmmakers in the ShatterBox Anthology include: Academy Award nominee Jessica Sanders, Tribeca Film Festival Nora Ephron Prize winner Meera Menon, Webby Award founder and Emmy nominee Tiffany Shlain, Courtney Hoffman, Jessica Dimmock, Robin Cloud, Roja Gashtili, Julia Lerman, and Anu Valia. The first film debut backed by ShatterBox Anthology, Kitty, which is Chloë Sevigny’s directorial debut, will premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
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Tiffany Shlain Profiled in Gratitude Revealed
There’s a Goethe quote that Tiffany Shlain has had framed on her desk since she was a little girl:
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
On Being with Krista Tippet – Tiffany Shlain
When Tiffany Shlain thinks of her favorite quote from naturalist John Muir, she thinks of the internet: “When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you find it’s attached to everything else.”
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On The Block Radio
The Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker, and Webby Awards founder has received over 70 awards and distinctions for her films and work, including being named by Newsweek as “one of the women shaping the 21st Century.” Shlain’s films encourage us all to think about where we’re headed in our increasingly connected world. Like future On the Block Radio guest Douglas Rushkoff, she explores how technology is shaping us in new, and often unexpected, ways.
25 Documentary Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter
A couple of years back, we highlighted a number of documentary filmmakers to follow on Twitter, but given that we are living in what seems to be the heyday of nonfiction filmmaking, we felt it was high time for an updated list. It’s an eclectic and impressive group responsible for some of our favorite documentaries, including “The Crash Reel,” “The Act of Killing” and the “Paradise Lost” series.
Untitled Magazine: #GirlPower Issue 8
WHEN IT COMES TO EMPOWERING WOMEN, Internet pioneer and flmmaker Tiffany Shlain says that technology will “give them the tools to do whatever they want to do, whatever they dream of doing.” It’s strange that some people are still taken by surprise when girls express interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). But a percentage of our population still believes that applied science and technology should be, and have historically been male-centric felds. When in fact, women pioneered many of the ideas and technologies around which entire industries exist today.
Build Your Character (at Least for a Day)
Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker, on why we need more time to develop our inner selves.
USA Today: Web to Watch
BCBG: The New Guard
Top 10 Amazing (Recent) Findings on Character Strengths
As a tribute to the upcoming Character Day(link is external) which promotes the science of character strengths around the world, I’m sharing 10 recent research studies on VIA character strengths(link is external). Since the science of character strengths has exploded in the last decade and a half, we have gained plenty of new knowledge about these core positive qualities in human beings.
Project for Women: New Influencers
On September 18, 2015, the world will join Emmy-nominated filmmakerTiffany Shlain for Character Day- a day of thousands of events around the globe where people will simultaneously premiere short powerful and entertaining films, dive into resources from scientists, educators and media experts, and join an online Google Hangout exploring how to live meaningful, successful and purposeful lives in today’s 24/7 world. This event marks one of the dynamic and intricate ways Tiffany continues to capture and captivate her audience with meaningful observations, guidance, and conversations about how life in the technical world can be alive, innovative, purposeful, and grateful.
What Makes a Mensch? A ‘Digital Diva’ Wants to Know
“Our technology has exceeded our humanity,” Albert Einstein is said to have lamented.
But filmmaker Tiffany Shlain — who utilizes an online, collaborative process and distribution method she dubs “cloud filmmaking” — says it’s possible that technology, used correctly, can enhance our humanity.
CNET: Celebrating 20 Years of Tech
We’ve come a long way, baby. The Internet has become an infinitely more exciting place since The Webby Awards started back in 1997. It is now a place where short films can be used to spark global conversations.
Diversity in Action: Technology Through a Filmmaker’s Lens
The Times of Israel: US Filmmaker is Calling all Mensches
Have you ever wondered if you could scientifically become more of a mensch? Or do you want to be featured in a film by a renowned Internet innovator? Either way, Tiffany Shlain has you covered.
The award-winning Bay Area filmmaker — who is also known for founding the Webby Awards and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences — is making a Jewish companion film to her short “The Science of Character,” which delves into practical and scientific ways that we can all improve our character traits.
Looking into the future with Tiffany Shlain
San Francisco filmmaker Tiffany Shlain is so creative, so driven and so cutting-edge — Newsweek named her “one of the women shaping the 21st century” — that if she weren’t also such a warm and engaging person, she would make my head explode. And that scene would probably make it into one of her films, hopefully in animated rather than live-action format.
Mill Valley Filmmaker Documents her Dying Father’s Struggle to Finish his Last Book
Here’s What Tiffany Shlain—Webby Awards Founder and Digital Storyteller Extraordinaire—Uses to do Her Job
Tiffany Shlain knows a thing or two about our wired lives. Her AOL Originals series “The Future Starts Here”, which “explores what it means to be human in our increasingly connected world”, was nominated for a 2014 News and Documentary Emmy Award and is currently in the middle of its second season. She’s also the creator of the Webby Awards.
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Discover Where 21st-Century Humanity Stands in Series ‘The Future Starts Here’
“The Future Starts Here,” an online series with eight five-minute episodes, is packed with rapidly delivered information and kaleidoscopic animation. It explores ways humans can train their minds to attain social freedom and earthly awareness by using the powers of technology and media instead of being controlled by them. As the average human attention span keeps on getting shorter, “The Future Starts Here” presents itself like a red pill: realistic, therapeutic and easy to swallow.
‘The Future Starts Here’ Season Two, Episode Five: ‘TransBoom’, Watch It Now!
Who are we? How do we define ourselves? In the past this was something that on the surface appeared to be set in stone, but as the world has grown smaller our knowledge and understanding of who we really are has grown exponentially.
Future Starts Here: How Will Society Adjust To The ‘TransBoom’?
Tiffany’s producer and co-writer Sawyer Steele happens to be transgender. In this episode he joins Tiffany to share his transition story, as well as insights into where a shift toward a cultural acceptance of trans identities is coming from — the past, present, and potential future of trans.
Untangling Your Digital Life
Unplugging her devices for 24 hours on the weekend has “had a profound effect on my happiness,” says Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain.
THE FUTURE STARTS HERE
We all know and feel that science and technology are transforming how we work, love, and play. Our lives are being affected inside and out: how our brain works, how we communicate, connect and create, how we parent and politic, how we learn and heal and die, our lifestyle and culture. There are techno-utopians who think this is the be-all end-all and techno-dystopians who think this is simply the end. And then there are the wise explorers and explicators of the present who encourage us to think hopefully and responsibly about where we are headed.
Punk Rock Diplomacy
In this video, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, Tiffany Shlain, talks about her experiences with the U.S. State Department from the time she was a student ambassador in the Soviet Union to her more recent experiences with the American Film Showcase and the Virtual Cloud Filmmaking Salon doing crowd filmmaking to “foster understanding and tolerance around the world.”
We Wanna Be Friends With Local Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain
Hailed by Newsweek as one of the “women shaping the 21st century,” singled out by NPR on their list of “best commencement speeches, ever,” and hot off her recent Emmy-nomination, Tiffany Shlain is a local filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards, and author who we really want to be friends with.
Tiffany Shlain & The Case For Dreaming
Are Dreams a Theater to Solve our Problems?
Web to Watch: 5 Best Videos of the Week
Emmy-nominated documentary series The Future Starts Here returns for Season 2 on AOL. Webby Awards founder and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain takes a creative, personal and heartfelt approach to explaining ideas in the field of technology and science. The first four episodes are live now and cover everything from the science of dreaming toGoogle Glass.
Tiffany Shlain on Main Street, Park City
Tiffany Shlain’s ‘The Future Starts Here’ Debuts Season Two On AOL
Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, is back with more ruminations on how tech and science affect our lives. Season two of her artistic and fascinating The Future Starts Here series debuted on October 23, 2014, on AOL On.
Tiffany Shlain Explains it All
New Online Series Investigates the Science of Creativity
Over the past decade or so, designers are integrating technology into their work more than ever. Software such as the best iPad apps for designers has caused creatives to use technology for inspiration, creativity and productivity. ‘The Future Starts Here with @TiffanyShlain‘ is an Emmy-nominated series that explores how science and technology is influencing your creativity.
‘The Future Starts Here’ Season Two, Episode One: ‘A Case For Dreaming’
Why do we dream? Well, it’s not just to pass the time while you’re sleeping. In fact, the latest research suggests that the most important part of your day might be the hours you spend doing… nothing.
Season 2 of Emmy-Nominated ‘The Future Starts Here’ Premieres Today
The Emmy-nominated online series, The Future Starts Here, premiered today. Created by Webby Awards founder and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, the series documents what it’s like to be a person living in our modern, digital age, exploring the ways through which technology has affected the ways we interact with the world around us.
Tiffany Shlain Hopes to ‘Elevate What People Are Watching Online’
Second Season Of The Future Starts Here Debuts Online
The new season of the Emmy-nominated original seriesThe Future Starts Here is now live on AOL. The series is from Tiffany Shlain, a filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, who explores how technology and science affect daily life. Episodes will be released over the course of the next two months.
‘The Future Starts Here’ Season Two, Episode One: ‘A Case For Dreaming’
In this new series of her groundbreaking web show ‘The Future Starts Here‘, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards Tiffany Shlain takes us on an incredible journey through the science and research of dreams, from ‘The Default Mode Network’ which controls our unconscious hours, to the effects smartphones are having on our ability to turn off.
Photo Essay: ‘Future Starts Here’ New Season Premiere Screening
On October 22, 2014 in New York, a reception and premiere screening was held for the new season of filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s original series “Future Starts Here.” The new season is set to launch October 23, 2014 on AOL.
“The Future Starts Here” gets to return for Season 2!
Continuing her exploration of what it means to be human in an increasingly connected world, Webby Awards founder and acclaimed filmmaker Tiffany Shlain will kick off the second season of her Emmy-nominated AOL series The Future Starts Here with @TiffanyShlain on October 23rd, 2014.
Tiffany Shlain’s ‘The Future Starts Here’ Returns on AOL
Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain is back with season two of her forward-thinking series, “The Future Starts Here,” on AOL On (in the “tech” section).
AOL Webseries Premiere Party
The stars of AOL’s webseries casually strolled the red carpet in the open interior courtyard of the Palihouse Thursday evening.
Internet Mirrors Human Brain
When technology enables a truly global connected intelligence, the kind of insights we’re going to be able to have we cannot even imagine yet.” — Tiffany Shlain
What’s Essential to your Creative Process?
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Fall 2014 Premieres
Here’s your sneak peek at five AOL On Originals series premiering in October: Laugh Lessons with Kevin Nealon, season two of #Candidly Nicole, True Trans with Laura Jane Grace, My Hero with Zoe Saldana, and season two of The Future Starts Here with @TiffanyShlain!
AOL Sets Fall Premieres for Originals from Nicole Richie, Zoe Saldana and Others
AOL has set premiere dates for its fall 2014 slate of programming, including season two of reality series “#CandidlyNicole” starring Nicole Richie, “My Hero” from exec producer Zoe Saldana and “Laugh Lessons with Kevin Nealon.”
Season 2 Press Release
New York, NY (September 10, 2014) – Continuing her exploration of what it means to be human in an increasingly connected world, Webby Awards founder and acclaimed filmmaker Tiffany Shlain will kick off the second season of her Emmy-nominated AOL series The Future Starts Here with @TiffanyShlain on October 23rd, 2014.
Mill Valley Film Festival: Bay Area Documentarians on Full View
This year’s Mill Valley Film Festival has an unusual number of high-quality documentaries covering diverse topics. Following are mini profiles of the directors behind 10 of them.
The 50 Best Documentaries Streaming on Netflix 2014
One thing Netflix is quietly doing very well is streaming some of the best documentaries of the last few years. Nearly all of our favorite documentaries of 2013 are now available on the streaming service. But it’s not always easy finding the best of Netflix’s broad documentary selection. So here are our updated picks for the 50 Best Documentaries Streaming on Netflix in 2014.
AOL Video Gets Emmy Nomination for Original Content
AOL, Inc. announced this week that the AOL Original, “The Future Starts Here” by @TiffanyShlain, has been nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award in the category of New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle, Culture.
AOL, NY Times, and Ora TV Scoop Up Emmy Noms
AOL, meanwhile, will be competing against The Times’ in the New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle, and Culture category. The company’s “The Future Starts Here,” which was created and produced by filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain, explores what it means to be human in an increasingly “connected” world. AOL renewed the show for a second season earlier this year. It’s the company’s second Emmy nomination this year, following one for the Steve Buscemi-hosted “Park Bench” at the Primetime Emmys.
“The Future Starts Here” by @TiffanyShlain Nominated for Emmy® Award
NEW YORK–AOL, Inc. announced today that AOL Original “The Future Starts Here” by @TiffanyShlain has been nominated for a News And Documentary Emmy Award in the category of New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle, Culture. This is AOL’s second Emmy nomination, coming on the heels of its nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Short-Form Nonfiction Program for “Park Bench With Steve Buscemi.”
“The Future Starts Here” Season 2: Press Release
New York, NY (April 29, 2014) – Acclaimed filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain will continue her exploration of what it means to be human in an increasingly connected world when her critically acclaimed and hit AOL series The Future Starts Here by @tiffanyshlainreturns for a second season in October 2014.
Tiffany Shlain Readies Season Two on AOL, Verizon Sponsoring
How Being Curious Children Led Two Internet Pioneers to Innovation
Technology guru, author, and father of the term “virtual communities” Howard Rheingold and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, who co-founded the Webby Awards and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, are Internet pioneers in their own right. But they have one important thing in common: They ask provocative questions.
James Franco, Steve Buscemi to Star in AOL Series
Last year, AOL debuted series from such stars asSarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Ritchie. In 2014, it’s adding more talent to that roster with new shows from James Franco, Steve Buscemi and Zoe Saldana. The media company announced Tuesday a slate of 16 star-studded original shows scheduled to debut on the AOL On Network.
Interview with Ran Harnevo – President of AOL Video
Four of the 16 shows are returning as second-season re-commissions of some of the 15 shows AOL produced in its 2013 slate – iJustine’s Hardwired 2.0, Tiffany Shlain’s The Future Starts Here, Sarah Jessica Parker’s city.ballet and Nicole Richie’s #CandidlyNicole.
James Franco, Ellen DeGeneres to Produce Shows for AOL
AOL has ordered 12 new web series produced by a diverse group of A-list Hollywood talent, including James Franco, Steve Buscemi and Ellen DeGeneres. AOL unveiled its new slate of shows Tuesday at a presentation for advertisers in New York. In addition to the 12 new shows, it picked up four series for new seasons, including Tiffany Shlain’s “The Future Is Here” and “city.ballet,” executive produced by “Sex in the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker.
AOL Announces 16 Original Programs at the 2014 Digital Content NewFronts
“We are extremely proud to be delivering a slate of original programming that is reaching audiences on a global scale,” said Charles Gabriel, global SVP of video sales. “GroupM’s recognition of the value of this programming for their client portfolio in Canada is an exciting moment in media.”
AOL Lines Up Hollywood Producers for 2014 Originals Slate
AOL has unveiled its full slate of 2014 original web series, focusing on “inspiring stories” and comedy, tapping celebs and personalities like James Franco with big digital followings.
AOL Announces New Original Series for 2014
AOL Announces 16 Video Shows In 2014 NewFront Slate
Four of the 16 shows are returning as second-season re-commissions of some of the 15 shows AOL produced in its 2013 slate – iJustine’s Hardwired 2.0, Tiffany Shlain’s The Future Starts Here, Sarah Jessica Parker’s city.ballet and Nicole Richie’s #CandidlyNicole.
How Cloud Films Wants To Keep Movies Authentic In The Age Of The Selfie
The innovative film maker Tiffany Shlain isn’t a great fan of selfies. They are mostly two-dimensional, she told me at a FutureCast salon at the AT&T Foundry in Palo Alto. Rather than making us seem more authentic, Shlain says, they make us appear as if we are posing. But as a self-styled “cloud” filmmaker, she is producing films which invite people to film themselves and then be featured in her work.
US State Department Arts Diplomacy Newsletter
AOL Revamps Homepage To Highlight Video Content
AOL.com is getting a new look today. It’s not a dramatic change, but it brings one big addition to the homepage, a carousel of videos from AOL (which owns TechCrunch) and content partners like Condé Nast Entertainment, ESPN, E!, HSN, WWE, and The Wall Street Journal.
5 Daily Tech Stories That Filmmakers (and Film Fans) Must Read: Indie Web Series, Grants for Promising Media Projects and More
AOL renews Tiffany Shlain’s “The Future Starts Here,” Three Other Series for Second Season: “The Future Starts Here” follows filmmaker and Webby Awards winner Tiffany Shlain on a journey exploring what it means to be human in our increasingly connected world. The second season of “The Future Starts Here” will premiere in fall 2014. AOL also renewed “#CandidlyNicole”, starring Nicole Richie; the Sarah Jessica Parker-produced reality series “city.ballet.;” and Justine Ezarik’s tech series “Hardwired 2.0.” In their first seasons, these four AOL series combined received more than 75 million views.
AOL Happy Birthday Tweet
Renewed Series Sizzle Reel
AOL Renews Original Series
The company said it renewed ad deals for three of the returning shows with their first-season sponsors: Citi for “city.ballet,” a look at the life of New York City Ballet dancers, and Verizon for tech-themed shows “Hardwired” and “The Future Starts Here.” AOL is still seeking an advertiser for its most popular show, “#CandidlyNicole,” a short-form series reality based on Richie’s Twitter musings. VH1 is picking up a long-form version of “#CandidlyNicole”; on AOL, season two will feature original content separate from the VH1 series.
#Candidly Nicole, Hardwired, The Future Starts Here and City Ballet Streaming This Fall
Great news for #Candidly Nicole, Hardwired, The Future Starts Here and City.Ballet fans: You’ll be able to see more of these shows online this fall. AOL announced the renewal of the four Web series this morning. The shows collectively received 75 million views last season. They also did well on other platforms and on social media.
AOL Renews Four Web Series
AOL has renewed four of its original web series for second seasons on the AOL On network.
Returning to the digital video platform are #CandidlyNicole, starring Nicole Richie, based on her Twitter feed; city.ballet, a look at the world of the New York City Ballet from executive producer Sarah Jessica Parker; Hardwired 2.0, an examination of tech trends with host iJustine; and The Future Stars Here, a docuseries from Webby awards founder Tiffany Shlain.
AOL Announces Renewal of Four Original Web Series for 2014
AOL (NYSE: AOL) announced today that it will renew four of its original web series for The AOL On Network, the company’s premium video platform. Three of the shows returning for a second season bring back their first-season advertisers — with “city.ballet.” from executive producer Sarah Jessica Parker returning with Citi and popular technology-themed shows “Hardwired” and “The Future Starts Here” pre-selling to first-season sponsor Verizon.
5 Reasons You Need to Instill Values In Your Organization
If you’re interested in learning more about it, check out award-winning director Tiffany Shlain’s 8 minute film, The Science of Character. And, if you want to get serious about building a culture that lives its values, below are five reasons why a focus on virtues will accelerate your path forward.
Tiffany Shlain Receives Support From The Bezos Family Foundation For Her “Science Of Character”
Prize winning filmmakerTiffany Shlain producer of the ‘Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change’ series, has reportedly been the recipient of moral as well as financial support from the Bezos Family Foundation on the release of her latest short film entitled ‘The Science of Character.’
Natural Child World Profiles Tiffany Shlain
You won’t see this superhero mom in a cape and spandex tights, but her signature fedora and camera in hand, are just as recognizable. Award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of the Webby Awards, Tiffany Shlain, has taken the technology world by storm. Having been honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” it’s no surprise that Shlain was also invited to advise former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on the Internet and technology. Now Shlain has taken the ever-evolving discussion of technology on step further as she explores what it means to be human in the 21st Century in the clever and witty AOL original series, The Future Starts Here. We were able to catch up with Shlain to discuss the new series and how she juggles it all.
Web Advocate and Filmmaker Extraordinaire
Back in 1987, when most teenagers weren’t thinking about the Internet and the massive changes it would bring about just a few years later, Tiffany Shlain co-authored a proposal called “The United Nations Intelligence Communication Software,” It was about how “computers are going to help solve world peace,” she states. “It was very optimistic, young and naive. But it came from a hopeful place.” Just age 17 at the time, she was already thinking about the impact computers and digital communication would have on the billions of people inhabiting the planet.
The Gurus Speak
Among the experts who contributed to this project were some of the most prominent Internet analysts of our generation. Here we highlight the predictions of some of the people most deeply involved in shaping our digital present.
Paste Magazine Interview
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain is not only a friend of Paste, she’s also the director of one of our favorite documentaries ever at Sundance, 2011’s Connected. Before she began her career as a filmmaker, she created and ran the Webby awards. She’s also the daughter of the late Leonard Shlain, one of the most profound and provocative recent writers on the mind and art. She’s recently been pushing her work into some areas suggested by all of these links, and she recently sat down with us to tell us about it.
Mamalode Starter Series: Tiffany Shlain
“The Mamalode Starter Series is an exciting opportunity for us to share some of the amazing people we get to meet with our readers. Starting something takes enormous amounts of work, faith, help and community. Every week we will share with you another story of starting. So community of Mamalode, read up, get inspired and check out these wonder-folk.”
Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker – Get Naked with Susan Singer Teaser Ep. 2
“I was personally captivated by her knowledge and talent to collaborate the influences of films with the connection of our human technology.”
The Filmmaker Who’s Ditching Movie Theaters
In Digital Age, Where do Parents set Boundaries?
Once a week, Tiffany Shlain and her family take a break from electronic devices. She calls it a “Technology Shabbat.” Modeled after the Jewish day of rest, the idea is that Shlain and her family turn off computers, mobile phones and TVs, so they can focus on being present.
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Discusses Her Family’s ‘Technology Shabbat’ (VIDEO)
Keen On…The Future Starts Here: Why AOL Might be the New Hollywood Studio
AOL’s commitment to Shlain’s work is encouraging. They are, she told me, the new studio. And Shlain – with her ability to squeeze big ideas into short form video – represents the future of documentary filmmaking. As the founder of the Webby Awards, Shlain imported Hollywood to Silicon Valley. But in her current role as a video chronicler of digital culture, Shlain is exporting both Silicon Valley’s message and its medium back to the Hollywood studios.
Instead of a Digital Detox, Why Not Take a Weekly Tech Shabbat?
In the past few years, the digital detox–a break for a fixed amount of time from cell phones, laptops, and all the other electronics that hog our brain capacity–has become trendy. There are digital detox summer camps, evening parties, and pricey retreats. But shelling out $400 for a weekend of disconnecting with other tech addicts is a bit extreme. Instead, why not try just taking a 24-hour break from electronics once a week?
Tiffany Speaks With Dr. Doty
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The Future Starts Here: Tiffany Shlain on “Cloud Filmmaking”
It was a dream to have the world premiere of my first feature documentary at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film was Connected, and one of the ideas I explored at the climax of the story was what I called “The Participatory Revolution,” the potential of so many people around the world having cameras in their hands at all times, connected to the Internet. So after the premiere, my team and I had an idea that we call “Cloud Filmmaking,” where we’d make a film together with all those people around the world. Over the last three years, we’ve released four of these “Cloud Films,” all putting the idea of the Participatory Revolution into action.
Why We Love Robots
Tiffany Shlain, award-winning filmmaker, speaker, and founder of The Webby Awards, introduces us to her husband, Ken Goldberg, a professor of robotics, to dive into the past, present and future of robots and why it is that humans are so fascinated with the most “human” of our technologies.
Directing Life with Tiffany Shlain
I met Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards and constant pusher of boundaries, on a breezy morning in SoHo in New York City. She looked stylish and authentic in her black and sunny yellow-striped poncho and hat. While we talked over hot cappuccino in the lounge of the Crosby hotel, she was fully present and attentive to our conversation despite the long line of press waiting to find out more about her new project, an AOL original series The Future Starts Here.
Jane of All Trades Tiffany Shlain Wows the Web…Again
It comes as no surprise that the talented Tiffany Shlain has, in just three weeks, garnered nearly 5 million views for her latest foray into filmmaking. Founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, forward thinker, voracious writer, sought after speaker, wife and mother of two, this 43-year-old visionary is apt to have people imagining she never slows down—but that couldn’t be farther from the truth.
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The One Type of Robot You Should Fear
Ken Goldberg, professor of robotics at UC Berkeley, thinks your fear of robots is unfounded.
Future Fun
Datebook Spotlight
5Qs with… Webby Awards Founder & Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain
To say that Shlain is an innovator is a slight understatement. In her career as a filmmaker and futurist, Shlain has released over a dozen films and received countless awards from a host of film festivals. She is a creator with an eye constantly towards the future as technology shapes it.
Tiffany on Panel at Imagine Science FF 2013 – Storyboarding Data
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BACK TO THE FUTURE: A Web Series Dissects our Digital Lives
Tiffany Shlain thinks you’re probably tech-stipated. “What’s that?” you ask? It’s when your various in-boxes and feeds are so clogged with messages and updates that you Just. Can’t. Get. Through. Them.
Tiffany Shlain on the Web, Women and Unplugging for Shabbat
Tiffany Shlain has a lot of ideas.
But until fairly recently, the 43-year-old founder of the Webby Awards was reluctant to own them on film. No longer — in her new web-series, “The Future Starts Here,” which premiered October 11 on AOL, Shlain is loud, proud and vocal about thoughts ranging from 21st century motherhood, to acceptable online etiquette (hint: Emails masquerading as the great American novel are a no-no.)
Digital Spotlight of the Day
Webby Awards founder and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain celebrated her first original series withAOL last week called The Future Starts Here. Shlain hosts the show, sharing her perspective on what it means to live in today’s overly-connected world.
Speaking with a Woman’s Voice: ‘The Future Starts Here’
Bitch Flicks was lucky enough to receive an invitation to the premiere of Tiffany Shlain’s new webseries The Future Starts Here in New York City last week, and your humble correspondent was lucky enough to be the one to attend it. Shlain is, as her series’ voiceover states, a mother, filmmaker, and founder of the Webby Awards, and The Future Starts Here is an AOL-produced miniseries about being human in the digital age.
Parenthood Remixed – Tiffany Shlain on her new film, ‘Motherhood Remixed’
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, the founder of the Webby Awards, mother, and filmmaker, has launched a new series on AOL called The Future Starts Here. One of the films in the series is called Motherhood Remixed, and it’s about the changing roles of mothers over the past century. Recently I sat down with Tiffany, who is also a good friend, for a conversation about the film and how the changing roles of mothers are affecting the shape of the 21st-century family.
The Future Starts Here
Now AOL is getting into the web series game with an AOL original series from Tiffany Shlain called The Future Starts Here. This 8 episode series is mostly about technology. Topics like information overload, tech etiquette, robots, and the creative process are included.
Tiffany Shlain Talks Technology Potential in New AOL Series
Vivian Van Dijk, Editor-in-Chief of EYES IN, attended the premiere film screening and launch party of Tiffany Shlain’s AOL Original Series, “The Future Starts Here” at the Crosby Hotel in Manhattan, on Thursday, October 10. Ms. Van Dijk was extremely impressed with the short films from Tiffany Shlain, all of which are now available to millions of viewers on AOL.
Watch: Do We Need a Break from Technology? The Answer, in Web Series ‘The Future Starts Here’
Writer, director, innovator and public speaker Tiffany Shlain is perhaps best known as the founder of The Webby Awards. Establishing an organization devoted to honoring the “best of the Internet” back in 1996, when CompuServe and AOL were still the major internet players and the majority of Americans had yet to get online, was an optimistic move and Shlain continues to exude optimism.
What to Watch – TV on the Web
Tiffany Shlain Explains Technobabble
San Francisco filmmaker, TED talker, and expert meme-inventor Tiffany Shlain is back to explain the yin and yang of technology, this time with a new web series, The Future Starts Here, about our co-evolution with tech. The series premieres this Friday, October 11th for the AOL On Network. Here she defines some of her latest go-to terms.
Why Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Has Given Up on Movie Theaters
Making an eight-episode series for AOL changed Shlain’s approach to releasing movies. Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker first and a technologist second. The co-founder of the Webby Awards went to film school, learned to edit movies by splicing actual film, and has made more than a dozen films in her life.
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain – Forging a Powerful Dialogue through Film
Video Friday: Return of the Robot Ape, Anki Drive Battle Mode, and Why We Love Robots
Enjoy these lighthearted and fun robotics videos while you can, because we’re slowly but surely creeping up onIROS and IREX. As of November third, it’s going to be all serious business, as we embrace insanity by attempting to bring you one of the world’s largest research robotics conferences and the world’s largest robot exhibition at the same time.
‘The Future Starts Here’ Screening in NYC
A general overview of the Aol On Original Series presents “The Future Starts Here” by Tiffany Shlain press screening>> at Crosby Street Hotel on October 10, 2013 in New York City.
Aol On Original Series Presents “The Future Starts Here” By Tiffany Shlain Press Screening
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain(L) and SVP Video, Aol. Co-Founder and CEO, 5min Media Ran Hernavo attends Aol On Original Series presents “The Future Starts Here”
“The Future Starts Here” Event Images
Future Starts Here
In 1996, before we had a real grasp of what “viral” would come to mean, Tiffany Shlain started a little thing called the Webby Awards and it quickly grew. Some 17 years later, having experienced success many times, Tiffany is embarking on a new adventure with her show, The Future Starts Here.
Shlain’s ‘Future’ debuts on AOL
Mill Valley filmmaker Tiffany Shlain will launch “The Future Starts Here,” a new web series about technology and innovation, starting Thursday, Oct. 10 on AOL On Network.
Tiffany Shlain’s The Future Starts Here Set for October 11
The Future Starts Here, a new AOL original series from Tiffany Shlain, Webby Awards founder and an acclaimed filmmaker in her own right, will bow on October 11, it was announced today.
The Future Starts Here, An AOL Original Series Created By Webby Award Founder & Acclaimed filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, Premieres October 11 at on.aol.com
Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker, futurist, Internet pioneer, and director of the award-winning film CONNECTED, will soon premiere her highly anticipated AOL Original Series titled TheFuture Starts Here.
Tech Overload Problems Can Be Solved By Unplugging
The problem? Never-ending access to many electronic information streams. The solutions? Focus. And turn the things off once in a while.
Product Roundup
From STEM To STEAM, Cloud Filmmaker Joined British Airways’ Innovators In The Clouds
Traveling with top-flight innovators is a heady experience under normal circumstances. However, when you conduct a think-tank 30,000 feet above terra firma, it’s a whole new ballgame. Such was the case when award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Webbie Awards, Tiffany Shlain took to the creative skies with 130 techie-elite from the Silicon Valley.
GOOD 100: Meet Tiffany Shlain, Changing the Way We Make Movies
British Airways to Host a Meeting of Innovators at 30,000 ft
British Airways announced today that Tiffany Shlain, Gavin Newsom, Gina Bianchini, Craig Newmark, and other notable names will join UnGrounded’s inaugural Innovation Lab in the Sky. The flight is set to depart San Francisco for London on June 12, 2013.
During the 11-hour flight, participants will aim to tackle the global STEM skills gap that is limiting our planet’s forward progress.
Tiffany Shlain Lands Innovation Lab in the Sky
Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker, Internet pioneer, and founder of the Webby Awards, was recently chosen by British Airways and its partners to participate in UnGrounded, the company’s inaugural Innovation Lab in the Sky.
British Airways to Host a Meeting of Innovators at 30,000 Feet
British Airways today revealed a selection of industry leaders and change agents set to take part in UnGrounded, the company’s inaugural Innovation Lab in the Sky. The group will work on global challenges at 30,000 feet, aboard a private British Airways flight from San Francisco to London on June 12, 2013. Confirmed participants include California Lieutenant Governor and entrepreneur Gavin Newsom, Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mightybell, and Craig Newmark, founder, craigslist and craigconnects.
Sarah Jessica Parker & iJustine at the AOL New Fronts
We are at the AOL New Fronts event in NYC where the topic of conversation is online digital content and what it takes to be a viral sensation! Someone who knows a little bit about that is iJustine, who chats with us as well as Sarah Jessica Parker, NFL star Ray Rice, NASCAR’s Dylan Kwasniewski, designer Jonathan Adler, and an authority on the subject, Webbys creator Tiffany Shlain! Hosted by Baruch Shemtov (@baruchshemtov).
2013 TFI Interactive: Tiffany Shlain Keynote
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, who is also the founder of The Webby Awards, kicked off this year’s TFI Interactive with the presentation of her “Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto.” In the video above she describes her new participatory way of making films collaboratively with people all over the world.
5 Moms To Check Out On Twitter
Tiffany is a woman who visualized her dream and went out and grabbed it.
New York Gets HardWired
Tiffany Shlain Explains How and Why Non-Profits and Others Can Crowdsource Film Production for Free
Tiffany Shlain, who has been a player in the Bay Area tech scene for over a decade and who directed the 2011 Sundance film “Connected,” is currently promoting her cloud filmmaking project, a way for organizations and others to get filmmakers all over the world to contribute to collaborative film projects on specific topics.
Online Video Woos Madison Avenue
NewFronts ’13: Paltrow, Parker on tap for AOL original
More top talent is entering the online original series sweepstakes, as seen in AOL’s content slate, announced at its NewFront presentation in New York City yesterday (April 30).
AOL Originals Will Feature Crowdfunding Show
AOL is launching 15 new web series, including shows from such stars as Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Richie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Rocco DiSpirito, Anthony Anderson and Sofia Vergara’s younger sister, the company announced Tuesday.
AOL Adds Series From Sarah Jessica Parker, Hank Azaria, Nicole Richie
AOL previewed 13 new original web series spanning topics of entertainment, food, style and more at its Digital Content NewFront event on Tuesday.
AOL Bets on Star Wattage to Win TV Ad Dollars
AOL is tripling investment in original video programming this year with a slate of 15 new shows, many featuring brand-name entertainment personalities including Sarah Jessica Parker, Hank Azaria, Nicole Richie and Gwyneth Paltrow.
AOL’s Investment in Original Programming Takes Center Stage at Digital Content NewFront with Launch of New 2013 Video Slate
Groundbreaking filmmaker and Founder of the Webby Awards Tiffany Shlain explores, with humor and insights, humanity’s evolution with technology.
AOL makes its pitch for ad money at an upfront-style event on Tuesday
At a NewFront presentation at the Skylight club in New York, AOL has announced 15 original series from the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow and Hank Azaria. Also on tap are Flat Out, a docuseries series featuring 17-year-old NASCAR prodigy Dylan Kwasniewski; Hardwired, by hosted by YouTube’s iJustine; and The Future Starts Here, from Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain about the evolution of technology and its effect on humanity.
AOL Rolls Out Star-Studded Slate Of Original Series At Newfront
AOL‘s Digital Content Newfronts presentation, like many of the others to go down this week, featured a clear emphasis on star power and original programming. The site, which currently holds the 7th position in Comscore’s Online Video Rankings, unveiled 15 upcoming series and spilled the beans about new partnerships with companies like Nielsen and AXS TV.
AOL Launches New Shows with Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow and Others
“We’ve focused on creating a common thread through all of our series on this slate, namely authentic voices, sharing remarkable stories,” Gabriel Lewis, head of AOL Studios, said in a statement. “Whether the voices are lighthearted, insightful, or inspirational, all of them are genuine and unique.”
Close Quarters: When Tech Companies and an Indie Film Studio Share a Workspace
In 2010, when a friend invited me to move my film studio to a funky refurbished pier in San Francisco with a gaggle of other tech start-ups, I responded with, “You had me at funky.”
5 Blow-Your-Mind Moments from TFI Interactive Day 2013
The Tribeca Film Institute held its second annual Interactive Day on Saturday, welcoming visionary artists and innovators from across a range of media platforms to New York’s IAC Building and a stage in front of its 120-foot Video Wall.
Five Top Takeaways from Tribeca Film Institute’s Interactive Day
These same concepts drove keynote speaker Tiffany Shlain’s Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto, which focuses on using the cloud collaboratively and highlighting humanity’s universal connectedness. Branching out from Shlain’s 2012 feature documentary Connected, the ongoing series of cloud films created by her team have been comprised of internet submissions from all over the world.
Tribeca 2013: On ‘Interactive Day,’ It’s the Who-Needs-Film? Festival
“Film is the appetizer,” Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain said in her keynote address kicking off the day. “The discussion you have is the main course.”
Technology Shabbat – My weekly break from the Technology
San Francisco Magazine
San Francisco filmmaker, TED talker, and expert meme-inventor Tiffany Shlain is back to explain the yin and yang of technology, this time with a new web series, The Future Starts Here, about our co-evolution with tech. The series premieres this Friday, October 11th for the AOL On Network. Here she defines some of her latest go-to terms.
Moms Who Rock: Meet San Francisco’s Coolest Power Moms
San Francisco is home to the Golden Gate Bridge, foggy summers, amazing food and super savvy mamas rockin’ the business world. We decided that it’s about time to give major props to Bay Area moms who are kicking booty and taking names, whether it be on the techie front, the world of words, film, design and much more. Join us in throwing up the confetti in honor of these gals who are pushing the envelope and bringing brainstorms to life.
Tribeca Lines Up Talks for Digital Storytelling Conference
“Tribeca Film Institute, the nonprofit org affiliated with the Tribeca Film Festival, has set the slate for its upcoming TFI Interactive conference, a daylong event skedded during the upcoming 2013 fest.”
My Tech Top 10 Tiffany Shlain Webby Awards
It was an internet lifetime ago when Apartment Therapy was nominated in the “Best Lifestyle Website” category for a Webby Award, but we can still remember the thrill and honor of being recognized.
CONNECTED available today on DVD and all digital platforms
Have you ever faked a restroom trip to check your email? Slept with your laptop? Become so overwhelmed that you just unplugged from it all? In her feature directorial debut,CONNECTED: An Autoblogography About Love, Death and Technology, Internet pioneer and Webby Award founder Tiffany Shlain’s love-hate-love relationship with technology serves as the springboard for a thrilling exploration of modern life and our interconnected future.
Tiffany Shlain’s Documentary CONNECTED Releases on DVD Today
Have you ever faked a restroom trip to check your email? Slept with your laptop? Become so overwhelmed that you just unplugged from it all?
Connected: Tiffany Shlain Explores Love, Death and Technology
Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology
CONNECTED: an autobiography about love, death & technology is a fast-paced, eye opening film by Tiffany Shlain that explores the impact of technology and the world’s connectiveness to the Internet and other media that serves to make us more independent, when we should certainly be more interdependent on each other to solve the world’s problem.
Interview With CONNECTED Director Tiffany Shlain
How to Develop Moxie by Tiffany Shlain
Playback
Sometimes a documentary not only inspires you, but also gives you courage. I was inspired when legendary filmmaker Agnès Varda stepped in front of the camera to tell her own story.
Tech’s Best Feature: The Off Switch
It’s Friday evening. The smells of rosemary chicken and freshly-baked challah fill the house. My daughters, 3 and 9, sigh as I gently detach the iPads from their laps. One by one, our screens are powered down. My husband, Ken, is usually the last holdout, in his office, madly scrambling to send out just one last email before the sun sets. Then he unplugs too. We light the candles and sit down to a sumptuous meal.
Movies for the masses, straight to the Web
On Sunday night, American television sets will once again host the freakish masked ball known as the Oscars. Demigods will glide importantly down a synthetic staple-gunned red scroll, posing, balletically angled, while fielding questions about denim tuxedos and cocktail rings the size of iPhones. Later some of them, on the brink of hysteria, will accept gilded statuettes, and use the word “humble” to mean “proud.”
Tiffany Shlain Melds Collaboration & Cloudsourcing Into Cloud Filmmaking
“The new tools and technologies that enable video sharing have allowed me and my team at The Moxie Institute to embark on a whole new adventure that we call CLOUD FILMMAKING.”
Connected With Love and Death in Our Age of Technology
“The film is emotional but also informative and fascinating. Connected offers viewers a chance to see and connect to Shlain’s collection of thoughts on life and death, love and family, technology and the world, and the connection between it all.”
A Film Doesn’t Live Unless Someone’s Watching It by Tiffany Shlain
Sundance Success Story: Connected
“The story of how a small independent (really independent, not fake-studio-independent) film called Connected broke out at Sundance. This film will be available on VOD on 5th February 2013.”
Sundance 2013: An Interview with Tiffany Shlain
Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain made a splash in Sundance two years ago with her film Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology—see our review. We caught up with her this year to talk about her 2013 Sundance experience and the release of Connected on iTunes and other platforms.
Interview with Tiffany Shlain
David Seaman Hour! (Podcast) – Interview with Tiffany Shlain: The full, unedited version of The David Seaman Hour. Interviews with newsmakers and political commentary.
Interview with Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain
JobShadow – Interview with Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain: Read as Tiffany Shlain talks about her career as a Filmmaker.
BRAIN POWER – GGI Newsletter
George Greenstein Institute – BRAIN POWER mentioned in GGI newsletter: “Honoring the lives of children lost in 2012 and dedicated to all youth… whose brains will grow strong in 2013.”
Tiffany Shlain Talks Cloud Filmmaking
Tiffany Shlain stopped by Filmmaking Stuff to share ideas on marketing, distribution and Cloud Filmmaking.
Cyborg Utopia: Downloading IQ, Uploading Apprehension
This anxiety associated with over-connecting is becoming a well-documented area of study — and something we are all trying to come to grips with. Filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards Tiffany Shlain led what many media savvy practitioners are now engaging in: a ritual and personal pledge to unplug from the connection weekly.
Follow This: 16 Twitter Stars To Add To Your Feed Now
Find Inspiration: Filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain is quirky, inspirational, and full of interesting facts.
The Unplugged Home
Technology Shabbats.Who’s behind it: Tiffany Shlain. What it is: Powering down, usually from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday. Insight: “It’s definitely harder to make plans, and we have to print out our schedules the day before,” Shlain says, laughing. “Instead of sending 10 texts to coordinate, we just show up. If we’re late, there will be no cell phone call. It’s the way everyone used to do things.”
Tiffany Shlain: Webmaster, Alt-Filmer or Philosopher
We are only going to see the true potential of the Internet when we see every one online who wants to be online contributing their perspectives, knowledge and wisdom.
Moxie Gives Good Brain
The similarites between a childs brain and the collective global brain of the internet. A lot of people are working on this project. Who?, Why everyone on the Net. Including you.
Artists Bring Healing After Recent Tragedy
Tiffany Shlain, Director of Connected The Film at Let it Ripple customized 2 beautiful videos for the Unify Movement. The first video was featured and described in Global Brain Global Heart, in which we explored the idea of humans acting as an immune-system that can help heal each other and the planet through deepening personal connections and conscious use the internet/technology.
Nonprofits: Steal This Film For Your Own Purposes
Published from Fast Company: Don’t have the money to make a fundraising pitch for yourself? You can tailor this open-source one to your own needs.
Connecting Broadly Won’t Replace the Importance of Connecting Deeply
How will the internet affect the human brain and human culture as a whole?
Why We Need to Get the World Online
Heavy Chef got the chance to chat to Tiffany about her views on how technology is impacting our lives and what the future holds for women in power over the next decade.
Weekly Technology Shabbat
A Big Brain
Mill Valley’s Tiffany Shlain is premiering her latest film project and TED Book this month.
Tiffany Shlain posted on the Wall of Fame
Global Brain, Global Heart
“… She is the proof in the pudding concerning the work she is doing and its value to society as a whole.” – Jacob Devaney
Using Mindfulness to Shape Our Global Brain
One of the core concepts behind SuperConsciousness is that we are inextricably connected with everything around us…
How do you make a movie in the cloud?
Cloud Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain talks about making movies in the cloud. She speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.”
Multimedia Maven Connects all the Links
Cloud Filmmaking, a process (Tiffany) and her Moxie Institute film studio collaborators developed, invites people from around the world to submit photographic and video content.
Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks: The Parallels between Children’s Brains and the Global Brain of the Internet
The Internet, is, in many ways, an extension of our brains. An extension of us. And like us, these inventions can be both good and bad, and everything in between.
Nonprofits: Steal This Film For Your Own Purposes
Tiffany Shlain, a filmmaker perhaps best known for the documentary Connected and for founding the Webby Awards, is turning into a fairy godmother for nonprofits in need of new ways to get out their messages. Her latest 10-minute film, Brain Power, could help childhood development-related nonprofits solicit donations, volunteers, and anything else they might need.
Tiffany Shlain: Net’s Growth Like Brain
Just how far along is the Internet in its development? That’s one of the questions posed in the short film “Brain Power,” the latest production from Tiffany Shlain and the Moxie Institute, the film studio she founded.
BYOD and “CONNECTED” with web pioneer and Director Tiffany Shlain
Tiffany Shlain comes to BYOD to bring her message of Inter-Dependence and discuss filming her family in her doc, “Connected.”
Tiffany Shlain’s Collaborative Model Boosts Nonprofits
So many nonprofits are doing important work, but they don’t have inspiring media, they don’t have the money to do it.
The Parallels Between our Highly Wired Minds and Networks
Can we draw instructive parallels between the development of the human brain and the emergence of the electronic global ‘brain’ of the Internet?
From Neurons to Networks – BRAIN POWER
It’s short so it can be really juicy. Punchy graphics (love the animation representing the www), happy songs, quick fun clips of real people, all from a hippy, tree-hugging perspective on the comparison between a child’s brain and the internet.
‘Brain Power’ Film and TED Book Parallel the Mindful Growth of a Child’s Brain and the Internet
Last year, my team at the Moxie Institute and I created Let It Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change, a cloud filmmaking series that invites people from around the world to collaboratively create short films focused on the social, cultural and political issues that connect us as humans. We create custom versions of these films and donate them to nonprofit organizations working to inspire positive change in the world.
Cloud Filmmaking
Shlain has been developing a form of web-native filmmaking she has called “Cloud Filmmaking”. Nov 8th saw the release of her latest film, Brain Power. Shareable, on web and mobile.
How the Internet is Shaping Our “Global Brain”
Blog Post by Director Tiffany Shlain – The South Africans have a beautiful philosophy called Ubuntu, which translates as “I am what I am because of who we all are.” This is a perfect way to think about the way a brain develops, influenced by its surrounding people and experiences.
Which Is More Complicated, The ENTIRE Internet, Or One Child’s Brain?
The Internet is very young as a form of human interaction. It’s still in a phase of rapid growth and change. If the Internet were a human being, it would be a toddler. Both the Web and children are hugely shaped by our actions as adults.
“Connected,” with Web Pioneer and Director Tiffany Shlain
Tell the Parents
Sir Ken Robinson, international expert on creativity and education, has said that “we are all born creative” but “creativity gets squeezed out of us” about the 4th grade… So what happens on the way from childhood to adulthood?
Brain Power: From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Tiffany Shlain
Tiffany Shlain has done it again. The director of the acclaimed Connected and The Tribe movies has given us another slice of her vision that probes and provokes our understanding as it delights our senses and coaxes our smiles.
Stream Tiffany Shlain’s New Film Free; TED Book Accompanies
Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and Internet pioneer, premiered her new short film and TED book, Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks, last night at NightLife at the Academy in San Francisco.
Brain Power Film and TED Book with Tiffany Shlain
How is a child’s developing brain like the internet? And how can both develop better?
Short Film & TED Book Explores Brains & Technology
Created through a new global participatory filmmaking process that Shlain and her team at The Moxie Institute call Cloud Filmmaking, Brain Power explores connections — between neurons, networks, and people around the world.
Cool Grandparents Get Ready for Cloud Film Making and Start with Engage
In just two minutes “Engage,” a short film, speaks loudly about humankind with scarcely a word.
TIFFANY SHLAIN ON MINDFULNESS, THE INTERNET & HER LATEST CREATION, “BRAIN POWER”
A long time ago, longer than I’d care to admit, I was sitting at a dinner gathering and my cousin Fred posed the question: “What do you think is the fastest way to make change…by group consensus or by one person?”
The Internet & A Baby’s Brain
Documentary filmmaker and Webby Award Founder Tiffany Shlain explores the affect that media and technology have on our brains and human interaction.
American Film Showcase: ‘Connected’ in Cape Town
Documentary filmmaker and Webby Award Founder Tiffany Shlain travels to Cape Town, South Africa with the American Film Showcase.
An Interview with Tiffany Shlain
An Interview with Tiffany Shlain by Newton Lee on founding The Webby Awards, Connected, and “Cloud Filmmaking.”
Crowdsourcing is Creating the Cloud Filmmaking Revolution
The Internet and movie makers have collided, and the result is a cloud film-making revolution.
Tiffany Shlain Discusses her New Short Film, Brain Power, Due for Release This Month
Each of the short films use Cloud Filmmaking technique, in which communities can be a part of the production by sending in their artwork and suggestions. The submissions will then possibly be added to the free customized version of the film that will be sent back to the community and organizations.
Addicted to the Internet
Documentary filmmaker, Webby Award Founder: Tiffany Shlain. Epiphany is a series that invites impassioned thought leaders across all disciplines to reveal the innovative, the improbable, and the unexpected of their worlds.
Makers Profile Tiffany Shlain – Filmmaker
Perfect Day: Unplugged with Tiffany Shlain
I travel to experience things I have never seen, felt, or tasted before. When I was 15, I snuck off to Paris during a student exchange arrangement in a suburb of France. There was nothing that was going to keep me from Paris. Nowadays, I sneak off to my home in Marin to disconnect – and reconnect.
Virtual Mentor: Tiffany Shlain
I first met filmmaker and Webby Award-founder Tiffany Shlain at SXSW in Austin, TX where we shared a table at the Huffington Post’s Women’s Dinner.
“Brain Power” Film & TED Book Release Party Tickets Available
Election Day Is a Perfect Time to Think About Our Interdependence
The Fourth of July is about our Declaration of Independence from England 236 years ago, so what if Election Day, on November 6, could be a Declaration of Interdependence: to each other, to our country, to the world and us as a species?
Internet Pioneer Tiffany Shlain to Premiere Film and TED Book
Created through a new global participatory filmmaking process that Shlain and her team at The Moxie Institute call Cloud Filmmaking, Brain Power explores connections: between neurons, networks, and people around the world. The film and book will also be available worldwide via the web on Nov. 8, 2012.
INTERNET PIONEER TIFFANY SHLAIN TO PREMIERE FILM AND TED BOOK BRAIN POWER: FROM NEURONS TO NETWORKS
This release marks the first time a film and TED Book are released together.
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Comes to SRJC’s Petaluma Campus
Shlain’s last four films have premiered at Sundance Film Festival and her films have received 50 awards, including a “Disruptive Innovation Award” from the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.
Declaration of Interdependence
I recently came across this Call to Action video by Let it Ripple. Given that my work centers around restorative justice, I found the clip particularly compelling. What would it be to feel interconnected? What change would it create in our communities?
“FOR GLOBAL CHANGE”… LET IT RIPPLE!
… (Tiffany Shlain) appealed to the video users around the world to show the strength of the connection and the “interdependence” of human beings to engage in positive actions.
Two Great (free) Ways to Advance Your Cause
“My hero Tiffany Shlain has created an amazing new two-minute film with free customized versions for nonprofits all over the world.”
ENGAGE in Online Premiere – a Cloud Sourced Film
ENGAGE is the latest 2 minute film in Let It Ripple – Mobile Films for Global Change.
“Engage” With Cloud Filmmaking
“Following up on her “Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto,” filmmaker Tiffany Shlain introduces the second film in her “Let it Ripple” series—a uniquely collaborative process, from creation through dissemination.”
ENGAGE: Tiffany Shlain’s New Cloud-Sourced Film (VIDEO)
Highlighting a new genre of filmmaking called Cloud Filmmaking, Shlain employs user-submitted content to collaboratively create, translate and customize films.
Check out Ex-Webby Boss Tiffany Shlain’s New Cloud SourcedFilm
Following up on her “Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto,” filmmaker Tiffany Shlain introduces the second film in her “Let it Ripple” series—a uniquely collaborative process, from creation through dissemination.
Tides Momentum Mixer The Art of Story Telling
John Snowden, Tiffany Shlain- Interdependency TMRTE 2012
Leonia Gets ‘Connected’ With Film
Focusing on the mind, the filmmaker referred to present topics such as the advancement and use of technology, the issue of pollution, health and some of the advances in modern science and how this has affected the evolution of human communication.
Breakfast @ Tiffany’s Fall 2012 Newsletter
Breakfast @ Tiffany’s is published each season with a collection of things we think you may find interesting.
Celebrating Interdependence Day 2012 With Tiffany Shlain
Award-winning filmmaker premieres short, user-generated film about engaging in society at 2012 Interdependence Day celebration.
Highlight on Innovative Filmmaker and Internet Pioneer, Tiffany Shlain
With the “Let it Ripple” series, Tiffany is paving the way for a new style of collaborative filmmaking she calls Cloud Filmmaking.
Bootstrapping with Tiffany Shlain of Let it Ripple
Tom and Tony talk with Tiffany Shlain of Let it Ripple
A New Film Explores What Technology is Doing to Our Brains
The second film of the three-part series “Let It Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change” by Tiffany Shlain explores this question and offers guidance on how parents can best nurture their children’s minds.
20 Women to Watch
A by-no-means-complete list of eXXcellent talents we’d bet on to map the future of the media business.
Ongoing Innovation and Collaboration from Tiffany Shlain and The Moxie Institute Team
Shlain’s dynamic work continues with many innovative projects including ongoing cloud-sourced, collaborative filmmaking through the Moxie Institute.
Announcing the Tiffany Shlain Award!!!
The Tiffany Shlain Award goes to the best use of using connections and creativity to create real positive social change. And the award goes to…
Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain: “The Internet’s in its Toddler Years”
Sometimes, Tiffany Shlain loves technology: after all, she’s the founder of the Webby Awards and cofounder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, whose goal is to help drive the progress of the Internet. But sometimes, she’s not so fond of it: she and her family take “technology shabbats” once a week to unplug from the blinking alerts and scrolling text of their digital gadgets.
Crowdsourced Videos Change the World
Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change is a series of short films created by two mega-powerful channels: the first is Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, who is the mastermind of Let it Ripple. The other is Cloud Filmmaking, which means creating films in a collaborative, digitally-networked effort.
Shlain on the Job: Life Before – and After – Creating the Webbys
Tiffany Shlain is an internet evangelist. It comes through in everything she says. She is a true believer in the internet as a force for good, a force for social progress, a force for creativity, a force, even, for making us simply better as members of the human race. It’s uplifting stuff, though I’m tempted to ask her if she’s been on any News24 comment boards lately.
Getting Connected with Cloud Filmmaking
Tiffany Shlain is a multi-award winning filmmaker, her last four films premiered at Sundance, she is the founder of the Webby Awards, she is the co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, she delivered thekeynote commencement address at UCBerkeley, and she was honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century”.
Feast of Films at Encounter
Fast-paced, funny and full of pertinent flashes on contemporary ways of being, Tiffany Shlain meditates on the state of our technologised lives in Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology.
Ex-Webby Boss Tiffany Shlain on how the Internet is Revolutionizing Film
For more than 15 years the Webby Awards, known as “the Oscars of the Internet”, have rewarded innovation online. Famous for their five-word acceptance speeches, the awards have honoured innovators like World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, and top online players such as Facebook, Wikipedia, and Pinterest.
Creativity in the Cloud: From the Big Bang to Twitter
What does it mean to be connected in the 21st century? Hope, interdependence, and possibly the creation of a new consciousness, says Tiffany Shlain.
Cloud Filmmaking: Using The Internet To Make Inspiring Films
In the age of YouTube, a moving video can be a powerful tool for raising awareness. But not all nonprofits have the ability to put together a good movie about their work. Let It Ripple can help with that, with a hand from the global community.
Tiffany Shlain on Connectedness
For me,Tiffany Shlain is a source of great insight and hope on culture, communication, technology, and life, so I’m pleased to share my recent interview with her.
Heard of Cloud Filmmaking?
Seeing the opportunities of living in the age of collaboration, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain made a call-out for a ‘participatory revolution,’ which led to the creation of Cloud Filmmaking.
A Tech Sabbath Offers a Chance to Unplug, Recharge
We have screens on our walls and screens on our desks. Screens in our laps and screens in our pockets and screens in our cars. Before long — if Google delivers thecomputers-inside-of-eyeglasses it’s been advertising — we’ll have screens on lenses before our very eyes.
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Talks Cloudsourcing Creativity and Giving Back in the Age of Collaboration
As a filmmaker who hardly shoots anything and is primarily into remixing and recontextualizing images, this explosion of online video was not only a much bigger candy store than I had ever dreamed of, it also completely changed the way I make films. The new tools and technologies that enable video sharing have allowed me and my team at The Moxie Institute to embark on a whole new adventure that we call CLOUD FILMMAKING.
More to Life Than Liking and Poking
How can someone who wants to bring the Internet to every being with an opposable thumb think technology can be bad?
A Declaration of Interdependence: a Crowdsourced Short Film
A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE is a crowdsourced short film by the filmmakers behind the feature film CONNECTED (in theaters now, http://www.connectedthefilm.com).
Who’s Shaking Things Up in 2012? Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards Honorees Announced
The Tribeca Film Festival, in association with renowned Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, is proud to announce the recipients of the third annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards.
Exclusive Live Stream Event
Top Visionaries, Scientists Explore Revolutionary Discoveries and Insights about Human Nature at First-Ever Being Human 2012 Event.
Tiffany Shlain’s ‘Connected’ Explores Brain Power, Love
Even Tiffany Shlain, maker of the movie “Connected,” unplugs once a week. She loves the power of technology but believes in boundaries. “This ‘technology Shabbat’ that I do is very powerful. For a whole day we don’t have television, we don’t have phones, we just garden and fly a kite and we do all these other things,” said Ms. Shlain, a Mill Valley, Calif., filmmaker, wife and mother of daughters nearly 3 and almost 9 years old.
Movie Buff: “Connected”
“Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology” presents an interesting view on technology, the brain and the way we connect with those around us. The International Film Series presented two screenings of “Connected” on Saturday and Sunday nights. The film focuses on technology and the way we interact as a result of the increasing technology.
Pew Surveys Perceptions of How Always-On Technology Will Impact Generation Y
“A key differentiator between winners and losers will be winners’ capacity to figure out the correct attention-allocation balance in this new environment. Just as we lost oral tradition with the written word, we will lose something big in the coming world, but we will gain as well. “As Sophocles once said, ‘Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse,’” noted Tiffany Shlain, director of the film Connected and founder of the Webby Awards.
Are you Connected? Brian Solis at #shiftSXSW
Shift: Are you Connected? Brian Solis at #shiftSXSW
In preparation for our upcoming #shiftSXSW event, we would like to highlight a few of our special guests, and, in their honor, address topics that are near and dear to them. We are kicking off our series of events with a discussion about social convergence and connectivity, and this conversation would not be complete without our featured panelist…
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain: ‘Help Me Make a Film’
Are you a film lover? Here’s your chance to be part of a movie in the making.
Local Filmmaker to Become a US Film Ambassador
Local documentarian Tiffany Shlain’s 2011 film “Connected” will be one of the 29 films included in the US Department of State’s American Films Showcase. According to the official announcement last week, the project is “an international cultural diplomacy initiative that brings people together worldwide through film.”
TedxBerkeley’s 2012 Theme “Innovation” Kicks Off Third Year at Zellerbach Hall Feb 4
15 ground-breaking thinkers, leaders and performers will cover a diverse number of global issues and topics, ranging from health and toxicity, politics in a new media world, robotics, machine learning, and mobile computing to the arts through life-changing film & storytelling, micro-finance, the gift-economy and “magic.”
Where are the First-Person Women Documentaries
With Tiffany Shlain’s personal documentary Connected wrapping up its theatrical run, Doc Soup Man Tom Roston asks why the best known first-person documentarians are men.
The 20 Best Documentaries of 2011
Last year we pondered whether 2010 might have been the greatest year ever for documentary films. 2011 has proven a worthy successor, spearheaded by the long-awaited return of the director of possibly the greatest documentary ever (Steve James), a crossover from a BAFTA-award winning director of narrative film (Asif Kapadia), and new works by some of the acknowledged masters of the form (Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Martin Scorsese, James Marsh). There even emerged, seemingly out nowhere—but actually in the works for eight years—a new masterpiece by a previously completely unknown auteur (Robert Persons). Here’s our judgment on the very best documentary films of 2011.
How about a video that stars your organization? The four-minute film, A Declaration of Interdependence
The four-minute film, A Declaration of Interdependence, features a montage of videos and graphics submitted by people from around the world talking about our connections to each other…
Patt Morrison Asks: Tiffany Shlain, Wired in
Like one of those faster-than-light particles that’s gone before you can see it, filmmaker and tech innovator Tiffany Shlain zips from the virtual to the real and back again.
IDA names winners of Creative Recognition Awards
The hosts for the evening will be Josh Fox, whose work includes Gasland and Memorial Day; and Tiffany Shlain, whose newest doc is Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology. Shlain is also the founder of the Webby Awards and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
It’s Not a Dirty Word: In Defense of the ‘Conversation’
“I was stunned. As an early social media champion who loves few things more than to spark meaningful discussion through things I’ve written or passed along, the “conversation” inspires everything I do. It represents not just the breadth of exchange made possible by this revolution in connectivity, but also its highest ideal — ”
The Quest for Connection
Tiffany Shlain’s newest film, “Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology,” explores the history of human interaction, and the hope that natural and technological connections don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Maybe You Don’t Love Your iPhone, Or a Review of Tiffany Shlain’s “Connected”
Even when you sneak off to the bathroom on a lunch date in order to check your email, you’re craving that chemical release of dopamine or oxytocin, not the smooth touch of a glass and plastic handheld body (however sensually pleasing that may be). But that’s just the beginning of the film. I won’t give away the rest.
Tavis Smiley interview with Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain
A filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and Aspen Institute fellow, Tiffany Shlain was honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century.” Her films—known for their approach in unraveling complicated subjects—have been selected by more than 100 festivals and won some 30 awards. Shlain also lectures on the Internet’s influence on society and co-founded The Moxie Institute, which uses new ways to create and distribute socially-minded films, such as her newest, Connected.
Our Next Evolutionary Step?
As creator of the Webby Awards—the Oscars of online videos—Tiffany Shlain has had a front-row seat to the Web’s power and the creativity unleashed when people with disparate points of view and from different cultures put their minds together.
Connected: How Technology Explains The World
In her new film, Connected, Webby Awards founder and Internet philosopher Tiffany Shlain sees digital connection as the next step in harnessing our collective brainpower–as long as we don’t lose our ability to relate to each other.
“Connected” Movie Review
A documentary snapshot of the blurry, ever-evolving intersection of the relationship between technology and human bonds and grander societal development, “Connected” is wonderfully emblematic of the ways that intelligent artists can use the medium of film to explore issues and ask questions in a manner that encourages and bolsters a pleasantly unsettled life of exploration and outreach in the minds and hearts of viewers.
Documentary Explores the Effects of Being Wired
Interview with Tiffany Shlain at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
The Pros, Cons of Being ‘Connected’
Review of Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology
Tiffany Shlain was honored by Newsweek as one of the “women shaping the 21st century.” She is a filmmaker, the founder of the Webby Awards (celebrating the best of the Internet), and co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Review of CONNECTED: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology
After working for two years on a film about global interdependence and connectedness in the internet age, award-winning documentarian Tiffany Shlain (Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, The Tribe, Less Is Moore) realized that she did not feel connected to her material.
Tiffany Shlain, the Talk of the Town
Once dubbed by Newsweek one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” filmmaker Tiffany Shlain returns to shake things up on screens across the country and around the world.
A Conversation with Tiffany Shlain: On Connectedness, Interdependence and the Ripple Effect
Naturally, the founder of the Webbys (an awards series for the best of the Internet) would be acutely sensitive to technology’s role in defining what it is to be human in the 21st Century.
Interview with Tiffany Shlain
Interview with Tiffany Shlain
“Incredibly engaging! ..Like High Tech Terry Gilliam…So lively and so fun, I could not take my eyes off of it!”
A Declaration of Interdependence
Two years into making a full-length documentary, which will have its New York premiere Saturday night, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain realized what was missing.
Interview with Tiffany Shlain
People’s Critic Film Reviews: Q&A with Tiffany Shlain
I sat down with filmmaker Tiffany Shlain to discuss her latest film Connected. Tiffany talks about connections, her day of “unplugging”, hope phones, and the good side of being connected.
Reflections on Connections: A Review of Connected, the Film
Watching the recent Seattle premiere of Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology, a documentary directed by Tiffany Shlain, I experienced a cascading and interconnected series of thoughts and emotions evoked by this loving tribute to the intellectual and emotional influence that her late father, Leonard Shlain, had on his family and the world at large.
Making an ‘Autoblogography’
I never intended to be in my own movie. I have made eight movies and have never made a “personal” film. But I will never forget sitting in the editing room after working on “Connected” for two years feeling that here I was making a film about what it means to be connected in the 21st century and I was not connecting to the material.
People Critic Film Reviews: Connected
Tiffany Shlain explores connection and what it means in the 21st century.
‘Connected’ Sheds Light on Our Addiction to Social Technology
Tiffany Shlain’s feature-length documentary Connected is an intensely personal exploration of what human connection means in our modern, technology-obsessed world. In anticipation of the film’s release in New York next week, she shares an excerpt that looks at how our brain chemistry compels us to reach for our gadgets 24-7.
Connected: Sometimes, It’s Good to Unplug
When filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain set out to make her first feature, she wanted it to focus on “a brief history of everything in the universe.” After watching that first cut, she realized her signature humor was completely absent from the film. Almost on cue, life intervened and entirely rewrote her goals…
A Short Interview with Tiffany Shlain on Connected: A Film about Love, Death and Technology
I recently had the opportunity to interview Webby Awards co-founder Tiffany Shlain on her new award-winning feature documentary “Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology”
Connected: Tiffany Shlain’s Ode to the Age of Interdependence
Pencil This In: Mindshare Screens ‘Connected’, The Movie, DJs Peter Bjorn and John
Happy Rosh Hashanah! If you’re not celebrating and going out tonight, we found a few things for you to do tonight. At Breadbar in Century City, the No Tomatoes! truck pulls up for the Hatchi Truck Series; a party at the Pleasure Chest; there’s a preview of Connected the film at Mindshare and the Singafest Film Festival opens.
10 Things I Have Learned Having Our Film CONNECTED In Theaters by Tiffany Shlain
1. CUTTING YOUR OWN TRAILER
Don’t try this. Very dangerous. When you are running at full speed to complete your film on your way to your premiere, don’t fool yourself that you have the perspective to cut your own trailer…
Interview with Tiffany Shlain
Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, artist, founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute. Tiffany’s work with film, technology and activism has received 48 awards and distinctions and her last four films have premiered at Sundance.
Connected the Movie Examines Love, Death and Technology
Imagine a world without the Internet, and without cellular networks. Communication would be crippled. Keeping in touch would become dramatically more difficult. We wouldn’t know exactly when our Tweet-happy friend went to the store and bought oranges.
The Life Out Loud: An Interdependent World
In the opening segment of Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain‘s new documentary, Connected, she talks about sneaking off from lunch with a dear friend to use the bathroom, when secretly she just wants to check the text messages and emails on her phone. I’m sure we’ve all been in this situation in our lives, probably on a weekly basis!
Review of CONNECTED
Although her new documentary, Connected has an eye on the future, director Tiffany Shlain also knows there’s still wisdom to be mined from the past. “Nothing vast enters into the life of mortals free from a curse.” It’s hard to imagine how Sophocles would have reacted to the internet, but the quote from Antigone is effective in describing our species’ ever increasing dependence on technology.
Tiffany Shlain on being “Connected”
The very idea of being wired to your gadgets and online 24/7 is so that you won’t miss anything. But consider, being super-wired, all the time, means you might be missing something even more significant: life.
Q&A Tiffany Shlain- Director, Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence
Interview with Tiffany Shlain
Filmmaker & Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain On Her Thought-Provoking Documentary “Connected” (interview)
Have you ever found yourself faking a trip to the restroom to check your email on your phone or slept with your laptop? Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, is definitely guilty of sneaking off to a fake bathroom break to text, email and tweet and this habit has caused her to ask, “What have we become?” We are all so uber-connected these days that it can be overwhelming and so she set out to create a film about what it means to be connected in this day and age.
#Evolution: Connected: How the Internet will Save the World
AT FIRST GLANCE, Connected appears to be a documentary about the rapid pace with which the world has become networked with communication technology, and it is—but it’s much more than that, too.
Mill Valley Filmmaker launches ‘Connected’
“Connected: An Auto blogography about Love, Death & Technology” may be Mill Valley filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s ninth film, but it’s her first to direct the lens on the deeply personal events of her own life.
Tech Advocate Tiffany Shlain Tells Engaging Stories
Local filmmaker Tiffany Shlain presents a loving account of her final months with her father — surgeon and author Leonard Shlain (“The Alphabet Vs. The Goddess”) — and a brainy, breezy spin through tech-communications history in “Connected: An Autobiography About Love, Death, and Technology.”
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death — the Bright Side of Technology
One of the first theories discussed in this film is that with the invention of writing, men became dominant over women since writing changed the course of civilization. Writing is a left brain activity and men are more left brain oriented than women. Right brain activity, which is more prominent in women, generally, concerns imagery. It is only appropriate that this film, directed and co-written by a woman, Tiffany Shlain, would be rampant with images, visuals demonstrating almost every word of dialogue.
‘Connected’ Opening: Tiffany Shlain Explores Technology And Interdepndence
As San Franciscans (or really, as grown-up Americans), we like to consider ourselves independent: independent from our parents, our families, our hometown and each other.But in her new Sundance-approved filmConnected, opening tonight, local filmmaker Tiffany Shlain asks, “Have you ever faked a restroom trip to check your email?”
Keen On…Connected: The Movie About All of Us (TCTV)
One of the most interesting movies of the year launches tomorrow. Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology is the work of the award-winning filmmaker Tiffany Shlain and it deals in both a personal and idealistic way with the impact of digital connectivity on all of us.
Tiffany Shlain’s Connected, Opening This Weekend
My friend Tiffany Shlain’s new documentary feature film, Connected, opens in select theaters starting this Friday. The film is a lovely and moving meditation on technologies of connection as told through a transformative year in Tiffany’s own life in which she she lost her father, remarkable author and true Renaissance man Leonard Shlain, to a brain tumor, and gained a daughter.
A World Apart
When I entered the office space of Tiffany Shlain at Pier 38, which has the look of a pirate ship refurbished into a tech geek’s dreamland, she was on her iPhone, Bluetooth-in-ear. How apropos of her new documentary “Connected: An Autobiography About Love, Death & Technology,” a rumination on our attachment to 21st century tools of communication. Read more
Interview with Tiffany Shlain, Director of ‘Connected’ (Video)
That we humans are all ever-increasingly connected with one another [as cell phones and the internet foster still-further-reaching institutions, as global trade networks continue to expand, etc] is beyond dispute. What the sum total impact of this dizzying array of newfangled connections will be is, on the other hand, entirely disputed.
‘Connected’ Wins Award
The Berlin Film Festival and the activist org Interdependence Movement have named Tiffany Shlain’s doc “Connected” the winner of the first Interdependence Film Prize for emerging filmmakers.
From the Creator of the Webby Awards, A New Film About Our Addiction To All Things Digital
Good documentaries ask tough questions. Director Tiffany Shlain wants to know: how much internet is too much internet? Or maybe: have our digital lives started to over power our physical lives? Shlain has a self-professed love/hate relationship with technology.
Film List
“Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology, ” a new film by Tiffany Shlain, whose hilarious short “The Tribe” used the Barbie doll…
Fall Sneaks List
Review of Connected: A Triple Threat Movie by Tiffany Shlain
Just saw Tiffany Shlain’s new documentary Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology via private online screening. I saw an earlier version about a year ago, and was well impressed both times.
Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain’s New Film “Connected” Questions How We Relate in the Age of Social Networking
Filmmaker and early Internet adopter Tiffany Shlain is addicted to tweeting. “I’m a total junkie,” says the director of Connected, a new documentary about technology, family, and the way the Internet has changed how we think.
Various Press Theatrical Listings
NY Times
SF Chronicle
San Jose Mercury News
Splendora Blog
Oregon Live.com
Objects of Affection
The trailer for “Connected: An autobiography about love, death and technology” – which will be released in Bay Area theaters on Sept. 16 – begins with writer-director Tiffany Shlain talking to the camera about sneaking away from lunch with an old friend to check her phone for e-mails.
Tiffany Shlain Saves the World
Known to many CineSource readers, Marin County’s Tiffany Shlain is an internationally renowned multi-media producer/writer/director, speaker, author, innovator, and new media leader. Just a partial list of her accomplishments is, well, intimidating.
Tiffany Shlain- The Single Most Important Thing You Need to Know
Sundance Expands Artist Services Initiative
Among the films to use these services will be a doc from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival: Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology, by director Tiffany Shlain, which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition section earlier this year.
Sundance Institute Teams With Kickstarter in Three-Year Deal
The Sundance Institute is throwing its support and name recognition behind online crowdfunding source Kickstarter with a three-year deal to serve as the program’s creative funding collaborator.
Hipster Batman and Other Picks for the Geek Film Festival Florida Supercon
Florida Supercon is this weekend, and this year, there’s a new addition: the Geek Film Festival. But with over four dozen films, it can be a pain to sift through them and decide which ones look good, so we’ve done the work for you.
“Another Earth” Takes Audience Nod at Maui Film Festival
Audience Award – Documentary Feature: Connected Mike Cahill’s “Another Earth” won the Audience Award for narrative feature, while Oren Kaplan’s “Hamill” took the nod for “independent feature,” while “Building Hope” won the doc category along with “Connected” and “Love Shines.” 18,000 people attended the event in Wailea, June 15 – 19.
Revolution: Filmmaker and Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain joined me on the set of Revolution to discuss her new film, Connected.
June 2011
June 2011 Sundance Channel: Tastemakers Vignettes – Tiffany Shlain
June 6, 2011 Q&A with Tiffany Shlain at: The Conversational Marketing Summit
June 2, 2011 Variety: Paladin Stays ‘Connected’: Documentary to get fall release
June 2, 2011 Screen Daily: Paladin Gets “Connected” for US
June 2, 2011 Current TV: Paladin Acquires Sundance Doc “Connected”
June 1, 2011 Indiewire: Paladin Acquires Sundance Doc “Connected”
June 1, 2011 IMDB: Paladin Acquires Sundance Doc “Connected”
June 1, 2011 Fast Company Expert Blog: Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology
May 2011
May 31, 2011 John Battelle’s Searchblog: Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Declares Interdependence: The Internet is Changing How We Think
May 31, 2011 Business Insider: Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Declares Interdependence: The Internet Is Changing How We Think
May 29, 2011 Mill Valley Patch: Tiffany Shlain Stays Connected
May 17, 2011: Director Tiffany Shlain on Discovery’s Curiosity.com
May 16, 2011 Ross Dawson: A story about Connected: The film and why you must see it
May 9, 2011 Fast Company hosts “Revolution” Interview: Brian Solis & Tiffany Shlain
May 6, 2011 Brian Solis: Revolution: Filmmaker and Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain
April 2011
April 29, 2011 Forbes reviews exerpts of Connected: Finding beauty and hope at a personalized medicine conference
April 20, 2011 Tribeca Film Fest “Future of Film Series” & PBS invite Tiffany to contribute her thoughts 10 Big Ideas for the Future of FIlm blog post by Shlain
April 11, 2011 NPR’s RadioWest: Through the Lens with Tiffany Shlain
April 7, 2011: New Media Age Keynote at MipTV
April 6, 2011: Cannes Cretivity MipTV Keynote at Palais des Festival
March 2011
March 28, 2011: Tiffany to Keynote & Screen Connected at Cannes Palais des Festival MIP DOC Creativity
March 2011 Soma Magazine: Tiffany Shlain
February 2011
Feb 25, 2011 NPR’s Sci Fri: Howl? More Like Yelp!
Feb 23, 2011 Journal of Religion and Film: Report from Sundance 2011: US Documentary Competition
Feb 10, 2011 Interdependence Project: Daily Connected?: Ashton Kutcher, Interdependence, Sundance and Thich Nhat Hanh
Feb 4, 2011 Showbiz411 Video: Tiffany Shlain talks with Nicole Patrice Johnson about Connected
Feb 4, 2011 Noetic Now: Transformational Films: A Genre on the Threshold
Feb 3, 2011 Paste Magazine: The 10 Best Films From Sundance 2011
Feb 2, 2011 Paste Magazine: Sundance Documentary Reviews
Feb 1, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Moviegoers React to Tiffany Shlain’s New Movie
Feb 1, 2011 Grist Magazine: The Most Sustainable Cinema at Sundance 2011
January 2011
Jan 31, 2011 The WIP: The Best of Sundance 2011
Jan 28, 2011 Hollywood Reporter: Energetic Connected: Upbeat about Internet Age
Jan 28, 2011 Hollywood Reporter: Behind the Scenes of Sundance 2011 Photo Gallery
Jan 28, 2011 The New York Times: Sundance Slideshow
Jan 28, 2011 FilmMaker Magazine: Editor’s Note on Sundance 2011
Jan 28, 2011 Thelma Adams: Tiffany Shlain Connects: The Sundance Interview
Jan 28, 2011 The Arty Semite: Q&A With Sundance Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain
Jan 27, 2011 SF360 interview with Tiffany: Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
Jan 26, 2011 Wired Magazine: Sundance doc Connected says Internet can Save the Planet
Jan 25, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle highlights Sundance artists: Sundance Film Festival 2011 Portraits
Jan 25, 2011 Women’s Media Center: Entirely Connected to Tiffany Shlain: More from Sundance 2011
Jan 25, 2011 Moviefone highlights Tiffany’s panel, “Your Brain on 2011: Technology and Human Evolution”: Scheduling Sundance, Day 6
Jan 24, 2011 Wired Magazine: Sundance Documentary Connected Champions Internet as Social Tool
Jan 23, 2011 The Wall Street Journal writes about Connected: Tiffany Shlain Explains How We’re All Connected
Jan 22, 2011 Women’s Media Center: Girl Bloggers Interview Tiffany about Sundance experience
Jan 21, 2011 Huffington Post: Craig Newmark blogs about Connected
Jan 21, 2011 Sundance In the Can Interviews Tiffany Shlain: In the Can on YouTube
Jan 21, 2011 Sundance Film Festival Tribune Review: Connected Review
Jan 21, 2011 Press Screen International: roco films international Boards Sundance Doc Connected
Jan 21, 2011 SF360: Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Jan 20, 2011 KPCW interviews Tiffany Shlain and other Sundance filmmakers: The Green Earth
Jan 20, 2011 Filmmaker Magazine: Connected: an autoblogography about love, death & technology
Jan 20, 2011 Variety Profile: Staying Connected — Shlain designs ‘kit’ to keep audiences talking
Jan 20, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Q&A with ‘Connected’ filmmaker Tiffany Shlain
Jan 20, 2011 Indiewire: Sundance Shorts 2011: Here’s the Best of the Best
Jan 17, 2011 CineSource: Tiffany Shlain, Connected and Sundance
Jan 4, 2011 Marin IJ asks Tiffany about her Thoughts on the Future: Peering into the Crystal Ball
December 2010
Dec 10, 2010 Sundance’s description of Connected
Dec 6, 2010 Salt Lake Tribune Features Connected: Trailer of the Day: Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence
Dec 1, 2010 Connected Accepted to Sundance: 2011 Sundance Film Festival Announces Film in Competition
November 2010
Nov 2, 2010 Extras from Marin Magazine Article: Meet Webby Awards Founder, Tiffany Shlain
Nov 1, 2010 Marin Magazine Features Tiffany Shlain: Marinterview: Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain
September 2010
September 20, 2010 Washington Post features blog post on “Yelp”: Yelp! Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” Gets Updated for a Digital Generation
September 20, 2010: Tiffany’s video “Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl” gets shortlisted into Guggenheim/Youtube competition. Film will play at Guggenheim Museums in Berlin; Bilbao, Spain, and Venice, Italy. New York Times: Highly Subjective Highlights From the Guggenheim YouTube Contest
September 20, 2010 Huffington Post Article on the Guggenheim/Youtube film competition: Shlain’s film makes short list
September 19, Director Tiffany Shlain Quoted in Article on Film Fundraising: Crowd-Fundraising for Causes Adds Up Fast
July 2010
July 19, 2010 Tiffany’s Radio Interview About Her Film Connected: Earthsky Clear Voice for Science Interview with Tiffany Shlain
July 12, 2010 Article on the Effects of Social Network Gaming Quotes TIffany: More World of Warcraft Means…
July 8, 2010 The Sydney Morning Herald Quotes TIffany on Social Networking: Twittering Our Way to a Peaceful Future
May 2010
May 30, 2010 Filmmaker Magazine features Tiffany’s UC Berkeley Speech: Tiffany Shlain on Life, Death, Change, and Connection
May 26, 2010 Australian Blog Bibliostructures writes about the speech: Tiffany Shlain’s Commencement speech at Berkeley
May 17, 2010 A Call for “Moxie” and Compassion Marks Commencement: Director Tiffany Shlain’s UCB Commencement Speech
May 15, 2010 Tiffany Listed Among Top College Commencement Speakers: Top Commencement Speakers of 2010
May 7, 2010 Online Experiment set for Commencement Speech at UCB: Call for submissions from the Graduates of 2010
May 4, 2010 Forbes Includes Tiffany with Commencement Speakers Across U.S.: Forbes Reports on 2010 Commencement Speeches
April 2010
April 27, 2010 Tiffany’s Icon-O-Cast Podcast on Design of a Global Network: Icon-o-Cast: Connections and Mutations in the Network
April 22, 2010 Harvard Gazette: Film As Social Change: Review of Panel
March 2010
March 19, 2010 Huffington Post Blog by Tiffany Shlain: About New Film Yelp and Connected and Unplugging
March 19, 2010 NY Times Blog: A New Take on the Old Sabbath Ritual of Unplugging
March 22, 2010 JESNA.org: Tiffany honored for Jewish Women in Education by JESNA
March 19, 2010 Huffington Post: National Day of Unplugging.
March 19, 2010 Beliefnet.com Blog: National Day of Unplugging: a Sabbath from Technology
March 18, 2010 CBS News: CBS Katie Couric talks about new film “Yelp”
March 18, 2010 San Francisco Chronicle: In support of “revisiting the present tense,” Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg, high-tech royalty (she created the Webbys; he’s a robotics prof at UC Berkeley), have created “Yelp,” a two-minute takeoff of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”
March 17, 2010 Boing Boing: Sneak peak at new feature by Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg
March 12, 2010: Tiffany posts new Spring 2010 Newsletter…check it out here
March 10, 2010: New blog about creator of Barbie posted
January 2010
Jan 27th, 2010 Tiffany, featured speaker at Planned Parenthood event: Love & Politics, Planned Parenthood Style! « East Bay Young Democrats
Jan 24th, 2010 Stranger than Fiction Film Blog: Sundance Report Day 1
Jan 2010 ModernLuxury.com: Q&A: Tiffany Shlain Goes From Webby Awards to Film | San Francisco
Jan 2010 Foreign Policy Magazine: Clinton Dines With Top Tech Executives
June – October 2009
October 2009: Showing sneak peak excerpts of the new film Connected at: SF FIlm Society Cinema By the Bay at the Clay Theater on Oct 17th Slide Ranch Benefit on Oct 23rd
October, 2009: Tiffany set to speak at The Mill Valley Film Festival
September 2009: Tiffany speaks at The Idea Festival about upcoming film Connected
June 16, 2009: An Article highlighting of all the distribution work on The Tribe
Summer, 2009 CurrentTV: Ken Goldberg on “Respectful Cameras.”
January – March 2009
March 11th, 2009: Smashing Art Installation Acquired at Pulse Art Fair
March 10th, 2009 Bruno David Gallery: The Tribe exhibits at Bruno David Gallery *Reviews for art show
Jan 4, 2009 Filmmaker Magazine: Highlights five case-studies by Scott Kirsner including Tiffany Shlain
December 2008
December 8th, 2008: ITVS Case studies by Scott Kirsner. Tiffany’s The Tribe included
December, 2008: Tiffany Shlain & Ken Goldberg’s Art Installation Smashing selected at Pulse Contemporary Art Fair NYC March 09
December, 2008 The Financial Post, Toronto, Canada: Films & The Web: The New World Order
December 19, 2008 Conference Report of The Conversation: The Future of Cinema, Games and Online Video: New Tools, New Distribution, New Rules” co-hosted by Tiffany in October 08 at UC Berkeley
November 2008
November, 2008 San Francisco Film Society: Selects Tiffany and her new feature documentary for a 6 month film residency
November, 2008 The Book of Life Audio Podcast: Tribalism with Tiffany and others
November, 2008 Fresh DV Podcast: Interview with Tiffany Shlain
October – May 2008
October, 2008 YouTube’s Screening Room: Features The Tribe September, 2008: The Moxie Institute launches What’s Your Issue?
Aug 30, 2008 BBC: Tiffany hosts BBC’s “Real Cities” about San Francisco
July 25th, 2008 New York Times: Datebook: Chicago, San Francisco and Singapore Other highlights include a performance-documentary by Tiffany Shlain…
June 5, 2008 Business Week: Indie Filmmakers Hit Their Target
June 7, 2008: Art Installation “Smashing” to open with the San Francisco Jewish Museum
May 23, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle: Tiffany’s Performance with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Triennial art exhibition: Bay Area Now 5 *Read Description of Show May, 2008: The Tribe wins it’s 13th Award
May 1, 2008: Tiffany set to speak at The Tribeca Film Festival
January – April 2008
April, 2008 Indie Filmmaker Magazine: The Distribution Frontier
April 9, 2008 CNN: Mobile Screens Seek Portable Content
January 27, 2008 Sundance Institute releases “Live @ Sundance interview” with Tiffany Shlain, Jason Silverman from Wired Magazine and David Straus from withoutabox.com On The Download
Jan 25, 2008 Sundance Institute iTunes Podcast: Go It Alone: Digital Distribution for the Indie Filmmaker
Jan 19, 2008 Huffington Post: First Person Artist: Barbie As The Ultimate Muse
Jan 18, 2008 USA Today: Social, work lives collide on networking websites
2007
Dec 26, 2007 The Ideas Festival: The Creative Process of Filmmaking (iTunes podcast episodes 13&14)
Dec 14, 2007 The South China Post: Specials/Style/Career Women: Top of Their Game
November 2007 The Hollywood Reporter: Alternative Distribution Pushes Dealmaking in New Directions
Nov. 2, 2007 Variety: Studios Digital Dilemma
Oct 22, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle Front Page Datebook: Web Delivers New Audience to Short Films *Descriptive Feature on the DIY landscape and Tiffany’s work with the internet and film
Oct. 26, 2007 Jewish Telegraph Agency: Tribe Poised to Hit #1 on iTunes
Oct 23, 2007 New York Times: Facing Competition, iTunes Revs Up Its Film Section
Oct 26th, 2007 Jewish Telegraph Agency: Tribe poised to hit #1 on iTunes
Sept 14, 2007 Daily EM: Tiffany Shlain at Idea Festival: Interdependence and Colony Collapse Disorder
Sept 14, 2007 EthanZuckerman’s Blog from The Idea Festival: Idea Festival: Tiffany Shlain’s Web of Ideas
Sept 2007 Center for New Words: Tiffany Shlain on the Art of Creating Sept 1, 2007 Jewlicious: Tribe the Film on Itunes
June 30, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle: Tuning Out Technology
Spring 2007 Jewish Film World: Tiffany Shlain: Filmmaker Extraordinaire
March 8, 2007 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Short ‘The Tribe’ stands out among festival offerings
2007: Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain were asked to participate in artist Lincoln Schatz Video Cube Art Installation.
March 10, 2007 The Morning Call, Pennsylvania: ‘The Tribe,’ a short film starring Barbie…
Summer 2007 Jillian Burt’s Blog: A Declaration of Interdependence: a new film by Tiffany Shlain’s
January 22, 2007 Biz Journal: Upcoming Idea Festival features Tiffany Shlain
2006
October 15, 2006 60 Minutes Australia: Lights! Camera! Whatever…
September 25, 2006 Pew Internet/Elon University: Contribution to the Future of the Internet in 2020 Study
Summer 2006 Lifestyles Magazine: Tiffany Shlain: Creative Trailblazer
Sept 2006 San Francisco Chronicle: Trendsetter: Tiffany Shlain
June 13, 2006 BBC: The 10th Annual Webby Awards Photos
May 27, 2006 The Jerusalem Post: A Jewish girl in a Barbie World
May 12, 2006 The Marin Independent Journal: Such a Nice Jewish Doll
May 27, 2006 San Francisco Magazine: Breakout at Tiffany’s
February 14, 2006 South China Morning Post: Webby Awards Founder Predicts Trends
January 20, 2006 The Sundance Insider: Short Shot: The Tribe
2005
December 19, 2005 NextBook: Barbie, Daughter of Ruth
November 30, 2005 BBC: Net Thinkers Look to Web’s Future
November 28, 2005 Oy Mendele!: The Tribe, Wal-Mart
June 8, 2005 The New York Times: Accepting a Webby? Brevity, Please
CNN Highlights of the 2005 Webby Awards: Video Clip
Good Morning America Segments
For a period of time Tiffany was the On-Air Internet Expert and was interviewed in the studio in NY with Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer sharing with the world how the Internet was going to change their lives.
GMA: Tiffany Shlain on Job Hunting: Making the Most Out of Your Search (Dec 2000)
GMA: Tiffany Shlain on Net Beliefs: A Website with a Spiritual Following (Dec 2000)
GMA: Tiffany Shlain on Search Engines: When Pounding the Keyboard Won’t Help (Oct 2000)
GMA: Ask Tiffany Shlain: Tell Her What You Want to do with the Net (Sept 2000)
GMA: Tiffany Shlain, Internet Expert: Find Out What Your Paycheck Should Look Like (Sept 2000)
GMA: Tiffany Shlain, Internet Expert: Find Out How to do it on the Net (Sept 2000)
GMA: Tiffany Shlain on Taxes: Doing Taxes Online Can Save Time and Money (March 2000)