Oscars Recap 2017: Wins, Gaffes & #OscarsSoMale
/The 89th Academy Awards was political, entertaining, and for the most part well-executed, with the exception of the Best Picture blunder that will forever be remembered in Oscar history.
Read MorePioneers On-screen: Resilience, Empowerment, and White-washing in Hidden Figures
/While white allies have historically played a role in cultivating social progress, why does Hollywood keep creating storylines that showcase the white male liberator?
Read MoreUSC Thesis Films Tackle Issues Onscreen
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“So many of the thesis films being made at USC are evidence that MISC has helped to move the needle in student awareness of social issues” - Michael Taylor, Executive Director USCMISC
Read MoreBig data could be the new hope for the future of health
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The curation and analysis of health data may lead to new ways of treating diseases, USC researchers say in public awareness film.
Read More'Big Data: Biomedicine' premieres in DC; screens at White House
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The USC MISC production Big Data: Biomedicine, the first in a series of films commissioned by the National Institutes of Health, premiered in Washington, DC this week. Additional screenings for policy makers at the White House are scheduled for later this month.
Read MoreLoving: a quiet power for social change
/Why is it that a film about the struggles of an interracial couple in Virginia in 1958 feels so timely in 2016?
Read MoreTaylor: We must remember our vision and pursue it with renewed conviction
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"As filmmakers we have the ability to reach a lot of people with our ideas and as filmmakers for whom social change issues are important, we have an obligation now more than ever to express those ideas with clarity and conviction."
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Code: Debugging the Gender Gap; an Effective Argument for Social Change
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Read how director, Robin Hauser, is effectively causing change with her documentary about the underrepresentation of women in the tech industry.
Read MoreSocial Change on Screen - Fall 2016
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This fall, social change finds its way to our screens. Snowden, Seed: The Untold Story, Speechless, Deepwater Horizon, the 13th, Birth of a Nation. How successful do you think they were at addressing the issues?
Read MoreScience and Art converge at The Bridge
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The Bridge@USC, an institute committed to converging knowledge across disciplines has pledged to contribute funding to student film projects with a science component, starting with the stories produced by the "Making Media for Social Change" class co-taught by Jeremy Kagan and USC MISC director Michael Taylor.
Read MorePamoja Project International Premiere
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The Pamoja Project premiered at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in August and the film has currently been accepted to screen at over ten festivals both nationally and internationally. Nominated for Best Documentary Film and best New England Filmmaker at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, the feedback so far has been wonderful.
Read MoreEmmy's reflect a changing industry
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The 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which aired on ABC Sunday evening, was a stark contrast to this year’s Academy Awards, a note that host Jimmy Kimmel pointed out repeatedly throughout the night.
Read MoreNIH funding Partners USC MISC & USC Keck for Big Data project
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Digital data is being collected all over the world very quickly and has increased in quantity faster than anyone expected. The organization and sharing of this data is crucial to the ongoing work of biomedical research and in many ways the future of medicine depends on it.
Read MoreMISC & Saks Talk Mental Health→
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Friday afternoon on the eve of Halloween, while much of campus decked their halls with cobwebs and UV paint, Eric Norwine and his father, Mark, greeted people outside the USC School of Cinematic Arts Ray Stark Family Theatre for Odyssey of the Mind, the University’s first ever Mental Health Awareness Festival.
Read MoreA message from Pamoja Project's Audrey Emerson
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Since October 2014, The Pamoja Project has raised over $30,000 dollars in production funds, packaged over $150,000 of in-kind donations...
Read MoreNATIONAL REVIEW Profiles USC-MISC's The Interpreter
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"Needed: U.S. Visas for Our Afghan Interpreters" by Spencer Chase, National Review Online
Read MoreSchool of Cinematic Arts Introduces New Minor→
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The School of Cinematic Arts will offer a new minor in media and social change starting in the fall of 2015.
Read MoreVariety and unite4:good Join USC-MISC to Present conference4:change
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The USC Media Institute for Social Change, Variety and unite4:good will unite leaders to discuss the entertainment industry's role in fueling positive social change.
Read MoreUSC-MISC and Michael Taylor Partner with Documentary Film “THE PAMOJA PROJECT”
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USC-MISC and Director Audrey Emerson to present "The Pamoja Project"
Read More$5,000 USC-MISC Scholarship for SCA Graduate Students Available Now!
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We are happy to announce that we will award $5,000 to one USC SCA Graduate Student with...
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