Update Nov. 2, 2014 Talk about a greenlight! Excited to attend Elena's "PopUp Party" today screening her important 2015 documentary film (preview here). She'll be speaking at the 3PercentConference in S.F. tomorrow on "repicturing women" with Pam Grossman. Congrats on all, Elena!Eager to connect the dots on selling insecurity for profit and pushback on this global dynamic … [Read more...]
Shaping Youth Is Backing The Illusionists Film About Media’s Body Blitz
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: 12 billboards, Adonis-Complex, Amy-Jussel, beauty myth, Beauty Redefined, Body Blitz, body dissatisfaction, Body-Dysmorphia, Body-Fixation, CCFC, commodification, Dove Evolution, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, Early-Sexualization, Elena Rossini, Fat Hatred in Preschoolers, Fat talking tots, girls-self-worth, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, healthy media, indie films, IndieGoGo, IndieWire, influence of media, Jean Kilbourne, Kickstarter, Killing Us Softly, Lexie and Lindsay, massive media mindshift, Media Education, Media-Influence-Kids, media-literacy, objectification, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, poor body image, Positive Body Image, Project Raceway, Promoting Healthy Media Images, promoting positive body image, redefining beauty, rejecting media beauty ideals, self-funding, So Sexy So Soon, socioemotional health, Take Back Beauty, The Illusionists, The Illusionists Documentary, the perfect body, unattainable ideal, young filmmakers
“About Face” Body Image Benefit: America the Beautiful Movie
May 15, 2009 He’s baaaaaaaaaack! ‘Tell it like it is’ director Darryl Roberts of America The Beautiful is wrapping his last personal appearance on his U.S. screening tour to benefit two worthy Bay Area orgs promoting positive body image: About-Face.org (love their "don't fall for the media circus" tagline) and Beyond Hunger ("freedom from the obsession with food and weight) … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: About-Face, America the Beautiful, America the Beautiful documentary, America the Beautiful movie, Amy-Jussel, ATB, Beyond Hunger, Body Blitz, Childhood Matters, Darryl Roberts, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, eating-disorders, Eve Ensler, feminist, Feministing, femme, fundraising, Gerren Taylor, girls, girls self esteem, girls-self-worth, indie films, NAED, objectification, Positive Body Image, Reign-of-the-Girl-Child, Screen a movie make a difference, summer swimsuit shopping, teen-angst, thinspiration, YWCA