With support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Working Films announces Reel Aging: Real Change, an initiative that will tie compelling documentary films and transmedia projects that explore aging to ongoing policy work and grassroots campaigns supporting older populations globally.
This four-day residency will include eight to ten media teams who, after three days of meetings to sharpen their strategies, will present their projects to NGOs, funders, government agencies, activists, and policy makers. These regional, national, and global leaders in the field of aging will listen to proposals by the resident media teams, hoping in the end to find a film or media project that fits well with their on-the-ground efforts.
Hosted in Washington, DC in collaboration with the Center for Social Media at American University, this assembling should kick off a collaborative campaign between the media makers and the global NGOs and policy makers.
Sound like something for you? Working Films is seeking applications from media makers whose projects explore the aging experience. Your project may be in at any stage of production or distribution.
Applications are due by January 6, 2012.
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