IFC Sustainability Virtual Exchange Wrap-Up

Just go through the wrap up from our IFC Virtual Exchange 2020. I was one of the executive producers and we shared lessons learned with colleagues.

Creating the event was a thrilling experience: pulling together 80 speaks, over 100 video segments, production teams on three continents. The response has been overwhelming: 6,000 + participant viewers from 140 countries, 35M social media impression. Here’s the recap video and our core team with a Tik Tok flower gag.

11 July, 2020

Abdellatif Kechiche: Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Listening/Watching
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: 491 Days, Prisoner Number 1323/69

Reading
“‘Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”

–DaShanne Stokes

Quote of the Week

27 June, 2020

April Blair, Warner Bros. Television Distribution: All American

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Jackie Sibblies Drury: We Are Proud To Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - 1915

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“It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.”

–James Weldon Johnson

Quote of the Week

13 June, 2020

DeMane Davis, Eric Oberland, and Lena Cordina, Netflix: Self Made

Listening/Watching
Michel Foucault: The Foucault Reader

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“Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.”

–Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can’t Wait

Quote of the Week