Films can change the world – why universities and film schools should teach impact strategies

By Liani Maasdorp, Senior lecturer in Screen Production and Film and Television Studies, University of Cape Town
Reina-Marie Loader, Principal Academic in Film Production, Bournemouth University

When was the last time a film changed the way you saw the world? Or the way you behaved?

Miners Shot Down (2014) countered mainstream media narratives to reveal how striking mine workers were gunned down by police at Marikana in South Africa. Black Fish (2013) made US theme park SeaWorld’s stock prices plummet. And Virunga (2014) stopped the British oil company Soco International from mining…

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