Clik here to view.
Announcing Winner of UT Film Challenge!
We asked all participants to slap CAN stickers around during production and post! So, last Thursday we announced the winner of the CAN 5-Day Film Challenge at UT. I was excited to be one of three...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CAN Students on KUT 90.5
If you missed it last week, here’s the interview with KUT host Nathan Bernier and CAN students Skylar Moran and Emily Ng. Thank you, KUT, for helping to share our story!
View ArticleClik here to view.
RECAP: A Place at the Table | CAN Showcase
I ended the final day in my undergraduate career at the University of Texas at Austin on the highest note possible. The CAN showcase was a night to remember! It was full of brilliant and moving work...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Day of Fasting
To feel pure hunger, I decided to fast for a day. As someone who eats every meal and needs breakfast to function, I knew this challenge was going to affect me throughout the day. This hunger would be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 300 Project With Stanford Student, Jasmine Park
Jasmine Park is a student at Stanford, the social media coordinator for the CAN chapter in Palo Alto, AND she’s producing a really amazing Social Action Project on hunger. Basically, she’s awesome....
View ArticleClik here to view.
RECAP: Bay Area Film Challenge
The first ever CAN Bay Area Film Challenge (BAFC) has come to an end, and we could not be more excited about the beautiful and inspiring short documentaries vying for the prize. Seven teams...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UT SAP Portfolio Takes the Prize
During the spring semester, CAN students from the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University worked to create multimedia portfolios, or Social Action Projects (SAPs), exploring the issue of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Congratulations Team TomorrowLand!
Congratulations to Team TomorrowLand for winning the CAN Bay Area Film Challenge! Seven teams from universities in the Bay Area, including Team TomorrowLand from Stanford, embarked on an exciting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet the Winning CAN Chapter for #VoteSAP
Congratulations to the Austin chapter of CAN for winning the Social Action Project contest on TakePart.com! You can find the final videos here, here, and here! Get to know the members of this awesome...
View ArticleClik here to view.
#FounderFriday – Binh!
#FounderFriday is upon us, and we are happy to introduce Binh Ngo, a Students of the World summer intern from the University of California, San Diego! We asked her one fundamental question: “What makes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Media reflections: Founder Eric Evans from SDSU!
Everyone has a story, but there are not enough storytellers. As we move into an age of global social communication, it seems only natural that we would move into an age of greater social understanding....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet Duke’s Founder & Citizen of the world
I grew up in Nairobi, NY, Washington DC, Houston, Naples, Geneva, before finally arriving in Durham three years ago. Since I spent most of my childhood out of the States, I missed out on a lot of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
#FounderFriday – Meet Brett
“As a young boy, I could not sleep unless I watched Barney and was extremely jealous of the kids always singing and laughing with him (don’t lie, you felt the same way!). From that point my goal in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet the Bloom Film Challenge Judges
MEET THE JUDGES Remi Abioye, Filmmaker Remi is a SOW alum (University of Michigan) and filmmaker, currently living in NYC and working with Big Fish Entertainment. Kadrian Alvarenga, Marketing Manager,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Welcome to the Bloom Film Challenge
Our first round of judging is now complete. Congratulations to our five remaining finalists, listed here in no particular order: 1. Taking Choice (Unsilenced, Stanford University) 2. Freestyle Dreams...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet the Bloom Film Challenge Filmmakers!
Connor Adams University of Texas at Austin Stefan Allen University of Texas at Austin Tayo Amos Stanford University Priyanka Arunkumar University of California, Berkeley Justin Arwood Southwestern...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SOW Media Ambassadors at the SF Film Festival
After successful SOW Media Ambassador programs at SXSW in Austin, TX and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC, we are proud to announce our two newest SOW Media Ambassadors. Reaa Puri and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pride Month Call for Entries
In honor of Pride Month, Students of the World and pivot are curating a series of short films from our filmmakers across the country that celebrate the culture, history, resiliency, and diversity of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Upcoming Opportunity for NYC Student Filmmakers
Attention New York City-based students: SOW is looking for student filmmakers to capture an upcoming event hosted by the 4As on June 4th. The full-day gathering is dedicated to finding solutions to end...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Harvesting Hope is Now Airing on pivot!
SOW filmmaker Nelson G. Navarrete’s 2-minute documentary film, Harvesting Hope, will air Saturday, May 24, 2014 on pivot in conjunction with Richard Ray Perez’s Cesar’s Last Fast. Harvesting Hope is a...
View Article
