May 3, 2013 The New York Times- Online Video Woos Madison Avenue
May 1, 2013 RealScreen- Paltrow, Parker on tap for AOL originals
More top talent is entering the online original series sweepstakes, as seen in AOL’s content slate, announced at its NewFront presentation in New York City yesterday (April 30).
April 30, 2013 The Hollywood Reporter- AOL makes its pitch for ad money at an upfront-style event on Tuesday
At a NewFront presentation at the Skylight club in New York, AOL has announced 15 original series from the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow and Hank Azaria. Also on tap are Flat Out, a docuseries series featuring 17-year-old NASCAR prodigy Dylan Kwasniewski; Hardwired, by hosted by YouTube’s iJustine; and The Future Starts Here, from Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain about the evolution of technology and its effect on humanity.
April 30, 2013 Variety- AOL Bets on Star Wattage to Win TV Ad Dollars
AOL is tripling investment in original video programming this year with a slate of 15 new shows, many featuring brand-name entertainment personalities including Sarah Jessica Parker, Hank Azaria, Nicole Richie and Gwyneth Paltrow.
April 30, 2013 B&C- AOL Adds Series From Sarah Jessica Parker, Hank Azaria, Nicole Richie
AOL previewed 13 new original web series spanning topics of entertainment, food, style and more at its Digital Content NewFront event on Tuesday.
April 30, 2013 Seattle Pi- AOL Launches New Shows with Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow and Others
“We’ve focused on creating a common thread through all of our series on this slate, namely authentic voices, sharing remarkable stories,” Gabriel Lewis, head of AOL Studios, said in a statement. “Whether the voices are lighthearted, insightful, or inspirational, all of them are genuine and unique.”
April 30, 2013 TubeFilter- AOL Rolls Out Star-Studded Slate Of Original Series At Newfront
AOL‘s Digital Content Newfronts presentation, like many of the others to go down this week, featured a clear emphasis on star power and original programming. The site, which currently holds the 7th position in Comscore’s Online Video Rankings, unveiled 15 upcoming series and spilled the beans about new partnerships with companies like Nielsen and AXS TV.
May 1, 2013 Turnstyle- AOL Launches New Shows with Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow and Others
AOL is launching 15 new web series, including shows from such stars as Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Richie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Rocco DiSpirito, Anthony Anderson and Sofia Vergara’s younger sister, the company announced Tuesday.
April 26, 2013 Tribeca Film Institute- 5 Blow-Your-Mind Moments from TFI Interactive Day 2013
April 27, 2013 Good Magazine- Close Quarters: When Tech Companies and an Indie Film Studio Share a Workspace
In 2010, when a friend invited me to move my film studio to a funky refurbished pier in San Francisco with a gaggle of other tech start-ups, I responded with, “You had me at funky.”
April 24, 2013 PBS- Five Top Takeaways from Tribeca Film Institute’s Interactive Day
These same concepts drove keynote speaker Tiffany Shlain’s Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto, which focuses on using the cloud collaboratively and highlighting humanity’s universal connectedness. Branching out from Shlain’s 2012 feature documentary Connected, the ongoing series of cloud films created by her team have been comprised of internet submissions from all over the world.
April 21, 2013 The Wrap- Tribeca 2013: On ‘Interactive Day,’ It’s the Who-Needs-Film? Festival
“Film is the appetizer,” Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain said in her keynote address kicking off the day. “The discussion you have is the main course.”
Spring 2013 Documentary Magazine- Playback, by Tiffany Shlain
May 2013 MacLife- $50 iTunes Card: How would you spend 50 bucks on music, movies, books and more?
April 2013 San Francisco Magazine- San Francisco Magazine
April 19, 2013 Martschenko Markenberatung- Technology Shabbat – My weekly break from the art
Spring 2013 Good Magazine- Connectors
April 15, 2013 Fast Company- The Recommender- Reshma Saujani, Tiffany Shlain, David Noel and More on What They’re Loving this Month
Read the pdf here.
March 27, 2013 Red Tricycle- Moms Who Rock: Meet San Francisco’s Coolest Power Moms
San Francisco is home to the Golden Gate Bridge, foggy summers, amazing food and super savvy mamas rockin’ the business world. We decided that it’s about time to give major props to Bay Area moms who are kicking booty and taking names, whether it be on the techie front, the world of words, film, design and much more. Join us in throwing up the confetti in honor of these gals who are pushing the envelope and bringing brainstorms to life.
March 18, 2013 Variety- Tribeca Lines Up Talks for Digital Storytelling Conference
“Tribeca Film Institute, the nonprofit org affiliated with the Tribeca Film Festival, has set the slate for its upcoming TFI Interactive conference, a daylong event skedded during the upcoming 2013 fest.”
March 13, 2013 Apartment Therapy- My Tech Top 10 Tiffany Shlain Webby Awards
March 12, 2013 Filmmonthly- Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology
March 12, 2013 Movie Spirit- Connected: Tiffany Shlain explores love, death and technology
March 12, 2013 BWW Movies World- Tiffany Shlain’s Documentary CONNECTED Releases on DVD Today
March 12, 2013 Cinema Assassin- CONNECTED available today on DVD and all digital platforms
March 11, 2013 Film Snobbery- Interview with CONNECTED Director Tiffany Shlain
March 3, 2013 Brain World- Book Roundup
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March 3, 2013 Film Courage- How to Develop Moxie
March 1, 2013 Harvard Business Review- Tech’s Best Feature: The Off Switch
It’s Friday evening. The smells of rosemary chicken and freshly-baked challah fill the house. My daughters, 3 and 9, sigh as I gently detach the iPads from their laps. One by one, our screens are powered down. My husband, Ken, is usually the last holdout, in his office, madly scrambling to send out just one last email before the sun sets. Then he unplugs too. We light the candles, and sit down to a sumptuous meal…
Also posted on Huffington Post
February 25, 2013 Yahoo! News - Movies for the masses, straight to the Web
February 15, 2013 Inventor Spot - Tiffany Shlain Melds Collaboration & Cloudsourcing Into Cloud Filmmaking
“The new tools and technologies that enable video sharing have allowed me and my team at The Moxie Institute to embark on a whole new adventure that we call CLOUD FILMMAKING.”
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February 5, 2013 Film Courage - A Film Doesn’t Live Unless Someone’s Watching It
February 5, 2013 The Advocate - Connected With Love and Death in Our Age of Technology
“The film is emotional but also informative and fascinating. Connected offers viewers a chance to see and connect to Shlain’s collection of thoughts on life and death, love and family, technology and the world, and the connection between it all.”
February 4, 2013 Learnist: Sundance Success Story: Connected
February 1, 2013 Naked Salt- Women Empowerment: Tiffany Shlain
“I was personally captivated by her knowledge and talent to collaborate the influences of films with the connection of our human technology.”
January 28, 2013 Paste Magazine – Sundance 2013: An Interview with Tiffany Shlain
January 9, 2013 JobShadow – Interview with Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain: Read as Tiffany Shlain talks about her career as a Filmmaker.
January 9, 2013 David Seaman Hour! (Podcast) – Interview with Tiffany Shlain: The full, unedited version of The David Seaman Hour. Interviews with newsmakers and political commentary.
January 7, 2013 JobShadow – BRAIN POWER mentioned in GGI newsletter: “Honoring the lives of children lost in 2012
and dedicated to all youth… whose brains will grow strong in 2013.”
December 30, 2012 Filmmaking Stuff - Tiffany Shlain Talks Cloud Filmmaking: Tiffany Shlain stopped by Filmmaking Stuff to share ideas on marketing, distribution and Cloud Filmmaking.
December 29, 2012 Huffington Post - Cyborg Utopia: Downloading IQ, Uploading Apprehension: This anxiety associated with over-connecting is becoming a well-documented area of study — and something we are all trying to come to grips with. Filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards Tiffany Shlain led what many media savvy practitioners are now engaging in: a ritual and personal pledge to unplug from the connection weekly.
December 28, 2012 Fast Company - Follow This: 16 Twitter Stars To Add To Your Feed Now: Find Inspiration – Filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain is quirky, inspirational, and full of interesting facts.
December 20, 2012 Sunset Magazine – The unplugged home: LOOKING TO UNPLUG? Here’s what others are doing––and what you can try––from easy to hard-core.
December 18, 2012 Cinesource - Tiffany Shlain: Webmaster, Alt-Filmer or Philosopher: We are only going to see the true potential of the Internet when we see every one online who wants to be online contributing their perspectives, knowledge and wisdom.
December 16, 2012 Huffington Post: Artists Bring Healing After Recent Tragedy
Tiffany Shlain, Director of Connected The Film at Let it Ripple customized 2 beautiful videos for the Unify Movement. The first video was featured and described in Global Brain Global Heart, in which we explored the idea of humans acting as an immune-system that can help heal each other and the planet through deepening personal connections and conscious use the internet/technology.
December 16, 2012 Digital Hippos - Moxie Gives Good Brain: The similarites between a childs brain and the collective global brain of the internet. A lot of people are working on this project. Who?, Why everyone on the Net. Including you.
December 14, 2012 Scientific American - Nonprofits: Steal This Film For Your Own Purposes: Published from Fast Company: Don’t have the money to make a fundraising pitch for yourself? You can tailor this open-source one to your own needs.
December 13, 2012 GOOD - Connecting Broadly Won’t Replace the Importance of Connecting Deeply: How will the internet affect the human brain and human culture as a whole?
December 10, 2012 Heavy Chef - Why We Need to Get the World Online : Heavy Chef got the chance to chat to Tiffany about her views on how technology is impacting our lives and what the future holds for women in power over the next decade.
December 6, 2012 Film Courage: Weekly Technology Shabbat
December 2012 Marin Magazine - A Big Brain: Mill Valley’s Tiffany Shlain is premiering her latest film project and TED Book this month.
December 1, 2012 UC Berkeley - Tiffany Shlain posted on the Wall of Fame
November 30, 2011 Alice 97.3 FM Radio: Film critic Hooman Khalili does a movie review of Connected.
Podcast: Here
Radio spot: Here
November 28, 2012 Huffington Post: Impact - Global Brain, Global Heart: Comparing the growth of the global Internet with the evolution of a child’s brain is the perfect analogy to discuss the relationship between human consciousness and technology.
Nov. 26, 2012 Bloomberg TV - How do you make a movie in the cloud?: Cloud Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain talks about making movies in the cloud. She speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.”
November 26, 2012 SuperConsciouness - Using Mindfulness to Shape Our Global Brain: One of the core concepts behind SuperConsciousness is that we are inextricably connected with everything around us…
November 24, 2012 Oakland Tribune - Multimedia maven connects all the links: Cloud Filmmaking, a process (Tiffany) and her Moxie Institute film studio collaborators developed, invites people from around the world to submit photographic and video content.
November 23, 2012 Mercury News - Multimedia maven connects all the links: Imagining Shlain? Picture a human hub, exponentially spawning countless tendrils. Which is why the walls she constructs, at the start of a 90-minute interview one week after the Nov. 8 premiere of her new film and TED (electronic) book, “Brain Power,” suggest possibilities, not barriers.
November 21, 2012 IndieWire Women and Hollywood - Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks: The Parallels between Children’s Brains and the Global Brain of the Internet: The Internet, is, in many ways, an extension of our brains. An extension of us. And like us, these inventions can be both good and bad, and everything in between.
November 18, 2012 SFGATE: Tiffany Shlain: Net’s growth like brain - Just how far along is the Internet in its development? That’s one of the questions posed in the short film “Brain Power,” the latest production from Tiffany Shlain and the Moxie Institute, the film studio she founded.
November 18, 2012 Fast Company - Nonprofits: Steal This Film For Your Own Purposes: Tiffany Shlain, a filmmaker perhaps best known for the documentary Connected and for founding the Webby Awards, is turning into a fairy godmother for nonprofits in need of new ways to get out their messages. Her latest 10-minute film, Brain Power, could help childhood development-related nonprofits solicit donations, volunteers, and anything else they might need.
November 2012 Makers: Makers Profile Tiffany Shlain – Filmmaker
November 16, 2012 Film Threat - BYOD and “CONNECTED” with web pioneer and Director Tiffany Shlain: Tiffany Shlain comes to BYOD to bring her message of Inter-Dependence and discuss filming her family in her doc, “Connected.”
November 15, 2012 TED - From Neurons to Networks - BRAIN POWER: It’s short so it can be really juicy. Punchy graphics (love the animation representing the www), happy songs, quick fun clips of real people, all from a hippy, tree-hugging perspective on the comparison between a child’s brain and the internet.
November 15, 2012 TED: The Parallels between our highly wired minds and networks: Can we draw instructive parallels between the development of the human brain and the emergence of the electronic global ‘brain’ of the Internet?
November 15, 2012 Gen Connect - Tiffany Shlain’s Collaborative Model Boosts Nonprofits: So many nonprofits are doing important work, but they don’t have inspiring media, they don’t have the money to do it.
Nov. 14 2012 Upworthy - Which Is More Complicated, The ENTIRE Internet, Or One Child’s Brain?: The Internet is very young as a form of human interaction. It’s still in a phase of rapid growth and change. If the Internet were a human being, it would be a toddler. Both the Web and children are hugely shaped by our actions as adults.
November 14, 2012 Harvard Business Review: How the Internet is Shaping Our “Global Brain”
Blog Post by Director Tiffany Shlain - The South Africans have a beautiful philosophy called Ubuntu, which translates as “I am what I am because of who we all are.” This is a perfect way to think about the way a brain develops, influenced by its surrounding people and experiences….
November 14, 2012 CollabDocs - Cloud Filmmaking: Shlain has been developing a form of web-native filmmaking she has called “Cloud Filmmaking”. Nov 8th saw the release of her latest film, Brain Power. Shareable, on web and mobile.
November 14, 2012 Huff Post Parents - ‘Brain Power’ Film and TED Book Parallel the Mindful Growth of a Child’s Brain and the Internet: Blog Post by Director Tiffany Shlain - Last year, my team at the Moxie Institute and I created Let It Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change, a cloud filmmaking series that invites people from around the world to collaboratively create short films focused on the social, cultural and political issues that connect us as humans. We create custom versions of these films and donate them to nonprofit organizations working to inspire positive change in the world.
November 13, 2012 Huffington Post Education: Tell the Parents: Sir Ken Robinson, international expert on creativity and education, has said that “we are all born creative” but “creativity gets squeezed out of us” about the 4th grade… So what happens on the way from childhood to adulthood?
November 13, 2012 BYOD: “Connected,” with Web Pioneer and Director Tiffany Shlain
November 11, 2012 Paul Levinson’s Infinite Regress - Brain Power: From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Tiffany Shlain: Tiffany Shlain has done it again. The director of the acclaimed Connected and The Tribe movies has given us another slice of her vision that probes and provokes our understanding as it delights our senses and coaxes our smiles.
Nov. 10, 2012 Paste Magazine - Stream Tiffany Shlain’s New Film Free; TED Book Accompanies: Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and Internet pioneer, premiered her new short film and TED book, Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks, last night at NightLife at the Academy in San Francisco.
November 10, 2012 Disclose.tv - BRAIN POWER: FROM NEURONS TO NETWORKS
Nov. 9, 2012 Wired Magazine – Geek Dad: Brain Power Film and TED Book with Tiffany Shlain. How is a child’s developing brain like the internet? And how can both develop better?
November 8, 2012 Film Courage: @TEDBOOKS – ‘BRAIN POWER: FROM NEURONS TO NETWORKS’
Nov. 8, 2012 Brain World Magazine - TIFFANY SHLAIN ON MINDFULNESS, THE INTERNET & HER LATEST CREATION, “BRAIN POWER”. “What do you think is the fastest way to make change…by group consensus or by one person?”
Nov. 8, 2012 Grand Magazine - Cool Grandparents Get Ready for Cloud Film Making and Start with Engage. In just two minutes “Engage,” a short film, speaks loudly about humankind with scarcely a word.
Nov. 8, 2012 Eyes in - Short Film & TED Book Explores Brains & Technology: Created through a new global participatory filmmaking process that Shlain and her team at The Moxie Institute call Cloud Filmmaking, Brain Power explores connections — between neurons, networks, and people around the world.
Nov. 7, 2012 Venture Beat Media - Crowdsourcing is creating the cloud filmmaking revolution: The Internet and movie makers have collided, and the result is a cloud film-making revolution.
Nov. 7, 2012 ACM Computers in Entertainment: An Interview with Tiffany Shlain by Newton Lee on founding The Webby Awards, Connected, and “Cloud Filmmaking.”
Nov. 7, 2012 Documentary Magazine - American Film Showcase: ‘Connected’ in Cape Town: Documentary filmmaker and Webby Award Founder Tiffany Shlain travels to Cape Town, South Africa with the American Film Showcase.
Nov. 7, 2012 THNKR - The Internet & A Baby’s Brain: Documentary filmmaker and Webby Award Founder Tiffany Shlain explores the affect that media and technology have on our brains and human interaction
Nov. 5, 2012 THNKR - EPIPHANY Addicted to the Internet: Documentary filmmaker, Webby Award Founder: Tiffany Shlain. Epiphany is a series that invites impassioned thought leaders across all disciplines to reveal the innovative, the improbable, and the unexpected of their worlds.
Nov. 5, 2012 Natural Child World - Tiffany Shlain discusses her new short film, Brain Power, due for release this month. Each of the short films use Cloud Filmmaking technique, in which communities can be a part of the production by sending in their artwork and suggestions. The submissions will then possibly be added to the free customized version of the film that will be sent back to the community and organizations.
Nov. 1 2012 PopCulture Pirate - Virtual Mentor: Tiffany Shlain: I first met filmmaker and Webby Award-founder Tiffany Shlain at SxSW in Austin, TX where we shared a table at the Huffington Post’s Women’s Dinner…
November 2012 Peek Magazine - Perfect Day: Unplugged with Tiffany Shlain
Oct. 25, 2012: “Brain Power” film & TED Book release party tickets available
Oct. 23 2012 Cinema Assassin - INTERNET PIONEER TIFFANY SHLAIN TO PREMIERE FILM AND TED BOOK BRAIN POWER: FROM NEURONS TO NETWORKS: This release marks the first time a film and TED Book are released together.
Oct. 23, 2012 SF Examiner: Internet Pioneer Tiffany Shlain to Premiere Film and TED Book
Created through a new global participatory filmmaking process that Shlain and her team at The Moxie Institute call Cloud Filmmaking, Brain Power explores connections: between neurons, networks, and people around the world. The film and book will also be available worldwide via the web on Nov. 8, 2012.
Oct. 23 2012 GOOD - Election Day Is a Perfect Time to Think About Our Interdependence: The Fourth of July is about our Declaration of Independence from England 236 years ago, so what if Election Day, on November 6, could be a Declaration of Interdependence: to each other, to our country, to the world and us as a species?
Oct. 16 2012 Friends of Justice - Declaration of Interdependence: I recently came across this Call to Action video by Let it Ripple. Given that my work centers around restorative justice, I found the clip particularly compelling. What would it be to feel interconnected? What change would it create in our communities?
Oct. 16 2012 Press Democrat - Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain comes to SRJC’s Petaluma campus: Shlain’s last four films have premiered at Sundance Film Festival and her films have received 50 awards, including a “Disruptive Innovation Award” from the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.
Oct. 2 2012 Beez & Co - “For global change” … Let it Ripple!: … (Tiffany Shlain) appealed to the video users around the world to show the strength of the connection and the “interdependence” of human beings to engage in positive actions.
Sept. 25, 2012 Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog - Two great (free) ways to advance your cause
“My hero Tiffany Shlain has created an amazing new two-minute film with free customized versions for nonprofits all over the world.”
Sept. 22, 2012 Tribeca Future of Film: “Engage” With Cloud Filmmaking
“Following up on her “Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto,” filmmaker Tiffany Shlain introduces the second film in her “Let it Ripple” series—a uniquely collaborative process, from creation through dissemination.”
Sept. 22, 2012 Innovation Excellence: ENGAGE in Online Premiere – a cloud sourced film. ENGAGE is the latest 2 minute film in Let It Ripple – Mobile Films for Global Change.
Sept. 20, 2012 Memeburn: Check out ex-Webby boss Tiffany Shlain’s new cloud sourced film Following up on her “Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto,” filmmaker Tiffany Shlain introduces the second film in her “Let it Ripple” series—a uniquely collaborative process, from creation through dissemination.
Sept. 20, 2012 Gen Connect - ENGAGE: Tiffany Shlain’s New Cloud-Sourced Film (VIDEO): Highlighting a new genre of filmmaking called Cloud Filmmaking, Shlain employs user-submitted content to collaboratively create, translate and customize films.
Sept. 18, 2012 Tides Foundation: Tides Momentum Mixer The Art of Story Telling 
Sept. 9, 2012 Blip: John Snowden, Tiffany Shlain- Interdependency TMRTE 2012
Sept. 7, 2012 NorthJersey.com: Leonia gets ‘Connected’with film Focusing on the mind, the filmmaker referred to present topics such as the advancement and use of technology, the issue of pollution, health and some of the advances in modern science and how this has affected the evolution of human communication.
Sept. 5, 2012 breakfast @ tiffany’s fall 2012 newsletter
Sept. 4, 2012 Gen Connect - Celebrating Interdependence Day 2012 With Tiffany Shlain: Award-winning filmmaker premieres short, user-generated film about engaging in society at 2012 Interdependence Day celebration.
August 30, 2012 IndieWire: Highlight on Innovative Filmmaker and Internet Pioneer, Tiffany Shlain With the “Let it Ripple” series, Tiffany is paving the way for a new style of collaborative filmmaking she calls Cloud Filmmaking…
August 29, 2012 Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping with Tiffany Shlain of Let it Ripple Tom and Tony talk with Tiffany Shlain of Let it Ripple.
August 23, 2012 NY METRO PARENTS: A New film explores what technology is doing to our brains. The second film of the three-part series “Let It Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change” by Tiffany Shlain explores this question and offers guidance on how parents can best nurture their children’s minds.
August 2012 Columbia Journalism Review: 20 women to watch
A by-no-means-complete list of eXXcellent talents we’d bet on to map the future of the media business.
June 28, 2012 NAMLE: Ongoing Innovation and Collaboration from Tiffany Shlain and The Moxie Institute Team
Shlain’s dynamic work continues with many innovative projects including ongoing cloud-sourced, collaborative filmmaking through the Moxie Institute—
June 26, 2012 Foresight Engine: Announcing the Tiffany Shlain Award!!!
The Tiffany Shlain Award goes to the best use of using connections and creativity to create real positive social change. And the award goes to…
June 21, 2012 Tech Cocktail: Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain: “The Internet’s in its Toddler Years” Sometimes, Tiffany Shlain loves technology: after all, she’s the founder of the Webby Awards and cofounder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, whose goal is to help drive the progress of the Internet. But sometimes, she’s not so fond of it: she and her family take “technology shabbats” once a week to unplug from the blinking alerts and scrolling text of their digital gadgets.
June 18, 2012 Goodnet: Crowdsourced Videos Change the World
Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change is a series of short films created by two mega-powerful channels: the first is Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, who is the mastermind of Let it Ripple. The other is Cloud Filmmaking, which means creating films in a collaborative, digitally-networked effort.
*Also featured in the Good Directory on their site
Listen to the Podcast Tiffany Shlain is a multi-award winning filmmaker, her last four films premiered at Sundance, she is the founder of the Webby Awards, she is the co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, she delivered thekeynote commencement address at UCBerkeley, and she was honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century”.
June 12, 2012 Daily Maverick:Shlain on the job: Life before – and after – creating the Webbys
Tiffany Shlain is an internet evangelist. It comes through in everything she says. She is a true believer in the internet as a force for good, a force for social progress, a force for creativity, a force, even, for making us simply better as members of the human race. It’s uplifting stuff, though I’m tempted to ask her if she’s been on any News24 comment boards lately.
June 8, 2012 Memeburn: Ex-Webby boss Tiffany Shlain on how the Internet is revolutionising film For more than 15 years the Webby Awards, known as “the Oscars of the Internet”, have rewarded innovation online. Famous for their five-word acceptance speeches, the awards have honoured innovators like World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, and top online players such as Facebook, Wikipedia, and Pinterest.
June 8, 2012 Cape Times: Feast of Films at Encounters Fast-paced, funny and full of pertinent flashes on contemporary ways of being, Tiffany Shlain meditates on the state of our technologised lives in Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology.
June 7, 2012: Big Think: Creativity in the Cloud: From the Big Bang to Twitter Watch the Interview: 
June 2, 2012 Daily Motion: Tiffany Shlain Discusses Her Film Connected
May 30, 2012 Co.Exist: Cloud Filmmaking: Using The Internet To Make Inspiring Films
In the age of YouTube, a moving video can be a powerful tool for raising awareness. But not all nonprofits have the ability to put together a good movie about their work. Let It Ripple can help with that, with a hand from the global community.
May 17, 2012 deniseleeyohn: tiffany shlain on connectedness For me, Tiffany Shlain is a source of great insight and hope on culture, communication, technology, and life, so I’m pleased to share my recent interview with her. Download the podcast
May 10, 2012 Cinovu: Heard of Cloud Filmmaking?
Seeing the opportunities of living in the age of collaboration, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain made a call-out for a ‘participatory revolution,’ which led to the creation of Cloud Filmmaking.
May 4, 2012 Oregon Live: A Tech Sabbath offers a chance to unplug, recharge
We have screens on our walls and screens on our desks. Screens in our laps and screens in our pockets and screens in our cars. Before long — if Google delivers the computers-inside-of-eyeglasses it’s been advertising — we’ll have screens on lenses before our very eyes.
April 18, 2012 Tribeca Film Festival: Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain talks cloudsourcing creativity and giving back in the age of collaboration
As a filmmaker who hardly shoots anything and is primarily into remixing and recontextualizing images, this explosion of online video was not only a much bigger candy store than I had ever dreamed of, it also completely changed the way I make films. The new tools and technologies that enable video sharing have allowed me and my team at The Moxie Institute to embark on a whole new adventure that we call CLOUD FILMMAKING.
April 16, 2012 SF Bay: More to Life Than Liking and Poking How can someone who wants to bring the Internet to every being with an opposable thumb think technology can be bad?
April 5, 2012 HomeGrown: A Declaration of Interdependence: a crowdsourced short film
A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE is a crowdsourced short film by the filmmakers behind the feature film CONNECTED (in theaters now, http://www.connectedthefilm.com).
April 3, 2012 Tribeca Film Festival: Who’s Shaking Things Up in 2012? Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards Honorees Announced
The Tribeca Film Festival, in association with renowned Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, is proud to announce the recipients of the third annualTribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by NYU Stern School of Business, on April 27.
March 23, 2012 San Francisco Chronicle: Exclusive Live Stream Event Top Visionaries, Scientists Explore Revolutionary Discoveries and Insights about Human Nature at First-Ever Being Human 2012 Event
March 15, 2012 Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Tiffany Shlain’s ‘Connected’ explores brain power, love Even Tiffany Shlain, maker of the movie “Connected,” unplugs once a week. She loves the power of technology but believes in boundaries. ”This ‘technology Shabbat’ that I do is very powerful. For a whole day we don’t have television, we don’t have phones, we just garden and fly a kite and we do all these other things,” said Ms. Shlain, a Mill Valley, Calif., filmmaker, wife and mother of daughters nearly 3 and almost 9 years old.
March 12, 2012 CU Independent: Movie Buff: “Connected” “Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology” presents an interesting view on technology, the brain and the way we connect with those around us. The International Film Series presented two screenings of “Connected” on Saturday and Sunday nights. The film focuses on technology and the way we interact as a result of the increasing technology.
February 29, 2012 WebProNews/technology: Pew Surveys Perceptions of How Always-On Technology Will Impact Generation Y *Director Tiffany Shlain quote in article*
February 23, 2012 Shift: Are you Connected? Brian Solis at #shiftSXSW In preparation for our upcoming #shiftSXSW event, we would like to highlight a few of our special guests, and, in their honor, address topics that are near and dear to them. We are kicking off our series of events with a discussion about social convergence and connectivity, and this conversation would not be complete without our featured panelist, Brian Solis…
February 17, 2012 genConnect: Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain: ‘Help Me Make a Film’ Are you a film lover? Here’s your chance to be part of a movie in the making…
February 15, 2012 Bay Area Citizen: Local Filmmaker to Become a US Film Ambassador
Local documentarian Tiffany Shlain’s 2011 film “Connected” will be one of the 29 films included in the US Department of State’s American Films Showcase. According to the official announcement last week, the project is “an international cultural diplomacy initiative that brings people together worldwide through film.”
February 9, 2012 The Electric Playground: Tiffany Shlain video Cameo
February 3, 2012 Business Wire: TedxBerkeley’s 2012 Theme “Innovation” Kicks Off Third Year at Zellerbach Hall Feb 4
15 ground-breaking thinkers, leaders and performers will cover a diverse number of global issues and topics, ranging from health and toxicity, politics in a new media world, robotics, machine learning, and mobile computing to the arts through life-changing film & storytelling, micro-finance, the gift-economy and “magic.”
Dec. 11, 2011 Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog: How about a video that stars your organization? The four-minute film, A Declaration of Interdependence, features a montage of videos and graphics submitted by people from around the world talking about our connections to each other…
December 14, 2011 Paste Magazine: The 20 Best Documentaries of 2011
November 26, 2011 Los Angeles Times: Patt Morrison Asks: Tiffany Shlain, wired in
November 18, 2011 Real Screen: IDA names winners of Creative Recognition Awards The hosts for the evening will be Josh Fox, whose work includes Gasland and Memorial Day; and Tiffany Shlain, whose newest doc is Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology. Shlain is also the founder of the Webby Awards and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. Read more: http://realscreen.com/2011/11/18/ida-names-winners-of-creative-recognition-awards/#ixzz1e6YM2k00
November 16, 2011 Geek Wire: It’s not a dirty word: In defense of the ‘conversation’ “I was stunned. As an early social media champion who loves few things more than to spark meaningful discussion through things I’ve written or passed along, the “conversation” inspires everything I do. It represents not just the breadth of exchange made possible by this revolution in connectivity, but also its highest ideal — ”
November 10, 2011 The New York Egotist: Maybe You Don’t Love Your iPhone, Or a Review of Tiffany Shlain’s “Connected” Even when you sneak off to the bathroom on a lunch date in order to check your email, you’re craving that chemical release of dopamine or oxytocin, not the smooth touch of a glass and plastic handheld body (however sensually pleasing that may be). But that’s just the beginning of the film. I won’t give away the rest.
November 10, 2011 Lilith: The Quest for Connection Tiffany Shlain’s newest film, “Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology,” explores the history of human interaction, and the hope that natural and technological connections don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
November 8, 2011 – Tavis Smiley interview with Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain (video)
November 2011 edition, Shambhala Sun: What Have We Become? (Q&A Tiffany Shlain)- download pdf Few of us are beyond the pull of the plugged-in life these days, and that includes filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, even though she’s as passionate about unplugging as she is about connecting and communicating.
October 26, 2011 Fast Company: Connected: How Technology Explains The World In her new film, Connected, Webby Awards founder and Internet philosopher Tiffany Shlain sees digital connection as the next step in harnessing our collective brainpower–as long as we don’t lose our ability to relate to each other.
October 26, 2011 Tribeca: Geoffrey Gilmore and Tiffany Shlain Discuss Connected
Tribeca’s Geoffrey Gilmore and director Tiffany Shlain discuss her newly released film Connected and its exploration of the social web that unites us all in the 21st century.
October 26, 2011 ieee Spectrum: Our Next Evolutionary Step? As creator of the Webby Awards—the Oscars of online videos—Tiffany Shlain has had a front-row seat to the Web’s power and the creativity unleashed when people with disparate points of view and from different cultures put their minds together.
October 24, 2011 BBC News: Documentary explores the effects of being wired (video)
October 24, 2011 Shockya: “Connected” Movie Review
A documentary snapshot of the blurry, ever-evolving intersection of the relationship between technology and human bonds and grander societal development, “Connected” is wonderfully emblematic of the ways that intelligent artists can use the medium of film to explore issues and ask questions in a manner that encourages and bolsters a pleasantly unsettled life of exploration and outreach in the minds and hearts of viewers.
October 19, 2011 TNW: Interview with Tiffany Shlain at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 (video) 
October 18, 2011 CNN: The Pros, Cons of being ‘Connected’ (video)
October 16, 2011 GigaOM: A documentary about addiction to technology that could save us Filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain opens her new documentary Connected with a personal confession: She once faked having to go to the bathroom during dinner so that she could check her email on her phone. For many web-addicted people, that might not be too shocking a reveal, but for her it was a wake-up call — one that comes close to capturing Connected in a nutshell.
October 14, 2011 Interview Magazine: Tiffany Shlain, the Talk of the Town Once dubbed by Newsweek one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” filmmaker Tiffany Shlain returns to shake things up on screens across the country and around the world.
October 14, 2011 This Week in New York: Review of CONNECTED: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology After working for two years on a film about global interdependence and connectedness in the internet age, award-winning documentarian Tiffany Shlain (Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, The Tribe, Less Is Moore) realized that she did not feel connected to her material.
October 14, 2011 Spirituality & Practice: Review of Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology Tiffany Shlain was honored by Newsweek as one of the “women shaping the 21st century.” She is a filmmaker, the founder of the Webby Awards (celebrating the best of the Internet), and co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
October 13, 2011 The High Bar with Warren Etheredge: Interview with Tiffany Shlain (video) 
October 13, 2011 NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly: Spotlight with Tiffany Shlain (video) 
October 13, 2011 Wild River Review: A Conversation with Tiffany Shlain: On Connectedness, Interdependence and the Ripple Effect Naturally, the founder of the Webbys (an awards series for the best of the Internet) would be acutely sensitive to technology’s role in defining what it is to be human in the 21st Century.
October 13, 2011 Daily News Gossip: Disconnected Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain is optimistic about our increasing technological connectedness, but even she advocates unplugging on a regular basis.
October 12, 2011 ABC: Connected: How Technology is Changing Us
October 12, 2011 NY Times Tech Talk: Interview with Tiffany Shlain
“Incredibly engaging! ..Like High Tech Terry Gilliam…So lively and so fun, I could not take my eyes off of it!”
October 11, 2011 The Jewish Week: A Declaration of Interdependence
Two years into making a full-length documentary, which will have its New York premiere Saturday night, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain realized what was missing.
“I watched all the footage” for the project, about what it means to be connected in the 21st century, “and saw that it was all about ideas, it was all about the head and not about the heart. I wasn’t exploring emotional connectedness.”
October 10, 2011 Works: Career & Money: Living the Dream: Tiffany Shlain
October 10, 2011 Twit: The Social Hour 29: “Connected” Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain
October 9, 2011 Talking Stick TV: Interview with Tiffany Shlain (video)
October 8, 2011: Seattle Post Intelligencer: People’s Critic Film Reviews: Q&A with Tiffany Shlain I sat down with filmmaker Tiffany Shlain to discuss her latest film Connected. Tiffany talks about connections, her day of “unplugging”, hope phones, and the good side of being connected.
October 7, 2011 The Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy: Making an ‘Autoblogography’ Guest Blog by, Tiffany Shlain I never intended to be in my own movie. I have made eight movies and have never made a “personal” film. But I will never forget sitting in the editing room after working on “Connected” for two years feeling that here I was making a film about what it means to be connected in the 21st century and I was not connecting to the material.
October 7, 2011 Gumption (Joe McCarthy’s ruminations on inspiration, aspiration and perspiration): Reflections on Connections: A Review of Connected, the Film
October 6, 2011 The Atlantic: ‘Connected’ Sheds Light on Our Addiction to Social Technology
Tiffany Shlain’s feature-length documentary Connected is an intensely personal exploration of what human connection means in our modern, technology-obsessed world. In anticipation of the film’s release in New York next week, she shares an excerpt that looks at how our brain chemistry compels us to reach for our gadgets 24-7.
October 6, 2011 Seattle PI: People Critic Film Reviews: Connected Tiffany Shlain explores connection and what it means in the 21st century.
October 4, 2011 Caseorganic/blog: A Short Interview with Tiffany Shlain on Connected: A Film about Love, Death and Technology (audio)
October 5, 2011 Jewish Journal: Craving Connection In ancient times, the rabbis probably couldn’t imagine that, one day, a Kol Nidre service would be broadcast live on something called the Web. Naturally, some would have shunned the implications of such a modernizing event for a tradition steeped in ancient mores and law. The new often threatens the old.
October 5, 2011 TribecaFilm.com(Future of Film Blog): Connected: Sometimes, It’s Good to Unplug When filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain set out to make her first feature, she wanted it to focus on “a brief history of everything in the universe.” After watching that first cut, she realized her signature humor was completely absent from the film. Almost on cue, life intervened and entirely rewrote her goals…
October 2011, Venice Magazine: Connected: Tiffany Shlain’s ode to the age of interdependence
September 30, 2011 IndieWire – Women & Hollywood: Guest Post: 10 Things I Have Learned Having Our Film CONNECTED In Theaters by Tiffany Shlain
September 30, 2011 Examiner.com: Film event:Tiffany Shlain discusses ‘Connected’ at ArcLight Hollywood Opening Friday at the ArcLight Hollywood is the documentary, “Connected” by Tiffany Shlain. Self-described as an autobiographical documentary that looks at technology through the lens of love and death, “Connected” traces what it means to be connected in the 21st century.
September 30, 2011 Laist: Pencil This In: Mindshare Screens ‘Connected’, The Movie, DJs Peter Bjorn and John
September 30, 2011 Hollywood Jesus: Connected: Starting Conversations with Tiffany Shlain Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker and artist. She is the Founder of The Webby Awards and co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. She met with a few reporters for a roundtable interview. These are excerpts from that interview.
September 29, 2011 NPR’s Marketplace: Connected: Looking at love, death and technology in the 21st century
Kai Ryssdal: It is, most of the time, great to be connected — to be able to reach somebody by text or get that nugget of information you need whenever you need it. The flip side, of course, is that other people can reach you, too. And there’s just so much information out there. Pretty much the definition of mixed bag.
September 29, 2011 Film Radar: Review of CONNECTED
Although her new documentary, Connected has an eye on the future, director Tiffany Shlain also knows there’s still wisdom to be mined from the past. “Nothing vast enters into the life of mortals free from a curse.” It’s hard to imagine how Sophocles would have reacted to the internet, but the quote from Antigone is effective in describing our species’ ever increasing dependence on technology.
September 29, 2011 The Huffington Post: The Life Out Loud: An Interdependent World In the opening segment of Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain‘s new documentary, Connected, she talks about sneaking off from lunch with a dear friend to use the bathroom, when secretly she just wants to check the text messages and emails on her phone. I’m sure we’ve all been in this situation in our lives, probably on a weekly basis!
September 29, 2011 Chip Chick: Connected the Movie Examines Love, Death and Technology Imagine a world without the Internet, and without cellular networks. Communication would be crippled. Keeping in touch would become dramatically more difficult. We wouldn’t know exactly when our Tweet-happy friend went to the store and bought oranges.
September 29, 2011 Interdependence Project: Interview with Tiffany Shlain (audio) Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, artist, founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute. Tiffany’s work with film, technology and activism has received 48 awards and distinctions and her last four films have premiered at Sundance.
September 28, 2011 Portable TV: Connected: An Autoblogography In a world that seemingly revolves around online activity, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain sets out to “untangle what interdependence and connectedness mean in terms of the history of the human species and moving forward” with her debut feature-length documentary, Connected.
September 27, 2011 Jewish Journal: Connections both technological and Personal Several years ago, San Francisco Bay Area filmmaker Tiffany Shlain was eating lunch with a friend when she felt the sudden urge to text-message and check her e-mail. So, like any tech addict, she faked needing to go the bathroom as an excuse to get up from the table.
September 27, 2011 Daily News: Mill Valley’s Shlain Connects Head and Heart in Documentary AS A MILL VALLEY KID, Tiffany Shlain practically grew up in the Sequoia Theater, watching movies every weekend with her parents. So it meant a lot to her when her documentary, “Connected: An Autobiography about Love, Death and Technology,” opened with a splash in her childhood multiplex last weekend for a run that ends on Sept. 29
September 27, 2011 Benefit SF: One word to describe sf: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 
September 26, 2011 Women’s Media Center: Exclusive: Connected- Tiffany Shlain’s New “Autoblogography” Tiffany Shlain’s new movie, “Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology,” opens with her talking about going out to lunch with a friend whom she hadn’t seen for years, having a great conversation with her . . . and Shlain getting the urge to check her email. “I think that story was to represent how I’ve changed my behavior,” Shlain said. “Before it was like, ‘Oh, my God, that person is so rude.’ Now I have become that person, and I’m not alone.
September 25, 2011 Podomatic: Q&A Tiffany Shlain- Director, Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence podcast: click here to listen
September 23, 2011 12:21 PM CBS Techtalk: Tiffany Shlain on being “Connected”
(CBS) – The very idea of being wired to your gadgets and online 24/7 is so that you won’t miss anything. But consider, being super-wired, all the time, means you might be missing something even more significant: life. Depicted in her documentary “Connected,” Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards, wonders, “How much faster can it go until we can’t keep up?” Though Shlain understands all of the wonderful things technology has brought us, she also realizes the downsides.
September 23, 2011 Social Times: Filmmaker & Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain On Her Thought-Provoking Documentary “Connected” (interview) Have you ever found yourself faking a trip to the restroom to check your email on your phone or slept with your laptop? Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, is definitely guilty of sneaking off to a fake bathroom break to text, email and tweet and this habit has caused her to ask, “What have we become?” We are all so uber-connected these days that it can be overwhelming and so she set out to create a film about what it means to be connected in this day and age.
September 23, 2011 NBC Bay Area News: Interview with Tiffany Shlain
September 23, 2011 Vancouver Voice: Vlogumentary Connected is Shlain’s first feature doc about, well, technology, loss, love, connections and the Internet. It’s a big place, and she wants to talk about every aspect of it in 80 minutes. Made on a small budget and with a crew you could count on one hand, Connected is Shlain’s personal vlog (she calls it a autoblogography) of love, death and technology.
September 22, 2011 The Portland Mercury: #Evolution: Connected: How the Internet will Save the World AT FIRST GLANCE, Connected appears to be a documentary about the rapid pace with which the world has become networked with communication technology, and it is—but it’s much more than that, too.
September 21, 2011 Mill Valley Herald: Mill Valley Filmmaker launches ‘Connected‘ “Connected: An Auto blogography about Love, Death & Technology” may be Mill Valley filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s ninth film, but it’s her first to direct the lens on the deeply personal events of her own life….
September 19, 2011 The Huffington Post: ‘Connected’ Opening: Tiffany Shlain Explores Technology And Interdepndence (video) As San Franciscans (or really, as grown-up Americans), we like to consider ourselves independent: independent from our parents, our families, our hometown and each other.But in her new Sundance-approved film Connected, opening tonight, local filmmaker Tiffany Shlain asks, “Have you ever faked a restroom trip to check your email?”
September 19, 2011 Mill Valley Life: Get ‘Connected’ and change your perspective, thanks to Mill Valley director Tiffany Shlain
September 16, 2011 The Examiner: Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death — the bright side of technology One of the first theories discussed in this film is that with the invention of writing, men became dominant over women since writing changed the course of civilization.
September 15, 2011 The San Francisco Examiner: Tech advocate Tiffany Shlain tells engaging stories
September 15, 2011 TechCrunch: Keen On…Connected: The Movie About All of Us (TCTV)
September 15, 2011 The Daily Californian: A World Apart
When I entered the office space of Tiffany Shlain at Pier 38, which has the look of a pirate ship refurbished into a tech geek’s dreamland, she was on her iPhone, Bluetooth-in-ear. How apropos of her new documentary “Connected: An Autobiography About Love, Death & Technology,” a rumination on our attachment to 21st century tools of communication.
September 14, 2011 BoingBoing: Tiffany Shlain’s Connected, opening this weekend
September 14, 2011 Watermark: Tiffany Shlain: Talking connections and CONNECTED the Film 
September 13, 2011 Tree Hugger: Interview with Tiffany Shlain, Director of ‘Connected’ (Video) 
September 12, 2011 Variety: ‘Connected’ wins award
The Berlin Film Festival and the activist org Interdependence Movement have named Tiffany Shlain’s doc “Connected” the winner of the first Interdependence Film Prize for emerging filmmakers.
September 12, 2011 The Interdependence Movement: Tiffany Shlain on panel for the Symposium on Interdependence 
San Francisco Bay Guardian Film Listings September 20, 2011 September 13, 2011
September 7, 2011 Singularity Hub: From the Creator of the Webby Awards, A New Film About Our Addiction To All Things Digital
September 7, 2011 Noetic Now Journal: The Emerging Global Mind (article by Tiffany Shlain) Fifteen years ago I founded the Webby Awards. I was fascinated by how the Internet was connecting people all over the world in new and unexpected ways.
September 6, 2011 The Jewish Week: Film List “Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology, ” a new film by Tiffany Shlain, whose hilarious short “The Tribe” used the Barbie doll…
September 2, 2011 HollywoodStarsHoney.com: Tiffany Shlain Connected
September, 2011 Various Press Theatrical Listings
September 2011 Let’s Talk: ‘Connected’ Movie Review
September 4, 2011 Los Angeles Times: Fall Sneaks List
September 2, 2011 Pacific Sun: The Mensch Connection
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain says new technologies are permanently changing us- for the better…
September 2, 2011 Paul Levinson’s Infinite Regress: Review of Connected: A Triple Threat Movie by Tiffany Shlain
September 2011 7X7: Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain’s New Film “Connected” Questions How We Relate in the Age of Social Networking Filmmaker and early Internet adopter Tiffany Shlain is addicted to tweeting. “I’m a total junkie,” says the director of Connected, a new documentary about technology, family, and the way the Internet has changed how we think. download the PDF
August 28, 2011 SF Chronicle: Objects of Affection
August 26, 2011 Cinesource: Tiffany Shlain Saves the World
Known to many CineSource readers, Marin County’s Tiffany Shlain is an internationally renowned multi-media producer/writer/director, speaker, author, innovator, and new media leader. Just a partial list of her accomplishments is, well, intimidating.
August 17, 2011 TEDx NASA @ Silicon Valley: Tiffany Shlain- The Single Most Important Thing You Need to Know
July 28, 2011 Real Screen: Sundance expands Artist Services Initiative
In addition, the Institute has also entered into a deal with direct marketing firm Topspin Media to provide its filmmakers with direct marketing tools and fulfillment services.
Among the films to use these services will be a doc from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival: Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology, by director Tiffany Shlain, which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition section earlier this year.
July 27, 2011 indieWIRE: Sundance Institute Teams With Kickstarter in Three-Year Deal
July 22, 2011 SFExaminer.com: The 31st Annual SFJFF: Spotlight on the Bay Area Connections
June 29, 2011 San Francisco Magazine: San Francisco Magazine chooses Tiffany as ‘One of the Best’ of 2011 
June 29, 2011 Miami NewTimes: Hipster Batman and Other Picks for the Geek Film Festival Florida Supercon is this weekend, and this year, there’s a new addition: the Geek Film Festival. But with over four dozen films, it can be a pain to sift through them and decide which ones look good, so we’ve done the work for you.
June 22, 2011 indieWIRE: “Another Earth” Takes Audience Nod at Maui Film Festival Audience Award – Documentary Feature: Connected Mike Cahill’s “Another Earth” won the Audience Award for narrative feature, while Oren Kaplan’s “Hamill” took the nod for “independent feature,” while “Building Hope” won the doc category along with “Connected” and “Love Shines.” 18,000 people attended the event in Wailea, June 15 – 19.
May 6, 2011 Brian Solis: Revolution:Filmmaker and Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain joined me on the set of Revolution to discuss her new film, Connected.
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Jan 28, 2011 Hollywood Reporter: Energetic Connected: Upbeat about Internet Age
A personal yet universal story about the Internet Age, Tiffany Shlain‘s Connected: An Autoblography about Love, Death and Technology is a highly energized romp through a myriad of ideas about where the human race is headed.
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June 2011 Sundance Channel: Tastemakers Vignettes – Tiffany Shlain June 6, 2011 Q&A with Tiffany Shlain at: The Conversational Marketing Summit June 2, 2011 Variety: Paladin Stays ‘Connected’: Documentary to get fall release June 2, 2011 Screen Daily: Paladin Gets “Connected” for US June 2, 2011 Current TV: Paladin Acquires Sundance Doc “Connected”
June 1, 2011 indieWIRE: Paladin Acquires Sundance Doc “Connected”
June 1, 2011 IMDB: Paladin Acquires Sundance Doc “Connected” June 1, 2011 Fast Company Expert Blog: Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology May 31, 2011 John Battelle’s Searchblog: Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Declares Interdependence: The Internet is Changing How We Think May 31, 2011 Business Insider: Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Declares Interdependence: The Internet Is Changing How We Think May 29, 2011 Mill Valley Patch: Tiffany Shlain Stays Connected May 17, 2011: Director Tiffany Shlain on Discovery’s Curiosity.com May 16, 2011 Ross Dawson: A story about Connected: The film and why you must see it May 9, 2011 Fast Company hosts “Revolution” Interview: Brian Solis & Tiffany Shlain May 6, 2011 Brian Solis: Revolution: Filmmaker and Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain April 29, 2011 Forbes reviews exerpts of Connected: Finding beauty and hope at a personalized medicine conference April 20, 2011 Tribeca Film Fest “Future of Film Series” & PBS invite Tiffany to contribute her thoughts 10 Big Ideas for the Future of FIlm blog post by Shlain April 11, 2011 NPR’s RadioWest: Through the Lens with Tiffany Shlain April 7, 2011: New Media Age Keynote at MipTV April 6, 2011: Cannes Cretivity MipTV Keynote at Palais des Festival March 28, 2011: Tiffany to Keynote & Screen Connected at Cannes Palais des Festival MIP DOC Creativity March 2011 Soma Magazine: Tiffany Shlain Feb 25, 2011 NPR’s Sci Fri: Howl? 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Feb 23, 2011 Journal of Religion and Film: Report from Sundance 2011:US Documentary Competition Feb 10, 2011 Interdependence Project: Daily Connected?: Ashton Kutcher, Interdependence, Sundance and Thich Nhat Hanh Feb 4, 2011 Showbiz411 Video: Tiffany Shlain talks with Nicole Patrice Johnson about Connected Feb 4, 2011 Noetic Now: Transformational Films: A Genre on the Threshold Feb 3, 2011 Paste Magazine: The 10 Best Films From Sundance 2011 Feb 2, 2011 Paste Magazine: Sundance Documentary Reviews Feb 1, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Moviegoers React to Tiffany Shlain’s New Movie Feb 1, 2011 Grist Magazine: The Most Sustainable Cinema at Sundance 2011 Jan 31, 2011 The WIP: The Best of Sundance 2011 Jan 28, 2011 Hollywood Reporter: Energetic Connected: Upbeat about Internet Age Jan 28, 2011 Hollywood Reporter: Behind the Scenes of Sundance 2011 Photo Gallery Jan 28, 2011 The New York Times: Sundance Slideshow Jan 28, 2011 FilmMaker Magazine: Editor’s Note on Sundance 2011 Jan 28, 2011 Thelma Adams: Tiffany Shlain Connects: The Sundance Interview Jan 28, 2011 The Arty Semite: Q&A With Sundance Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Jan 27, 2011 SF360 interview with Tiffany: Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots Jan 26, 2011 Wired Magazine: Sundance doc Connected says Internet can Save the Planet Jan 25, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle highlights Sundance artists:Sundance Film Festival 2011 Portraits Jan 25, 2011 Women’s Media Center: Entirely Connected to Tiffany Shlain: More from Sundance 2011 Jan 25, 2011 Moviefone highlights Tiffany’s panel, “Your Brain on 2011: Technology and Human Evolution”: Scheduling Sundance, Day 6 Jan 24, 2011 Wired Magazine: Sundance Documentary Connected Champions Internet as Social Tool Jan 23, 2011 The Wall Street Journal writes about Connected: Tiffany Shlain Explains How We’re All Connected Jan 22, 2011 Women’s Media Center: Girl Bloggers Interview Tiffany about Sundance experience Jan 21, 2011 Huffington Post: Craig Newmark blogs about Connected Jan 21, 2011 Sundance In the Can Interviews Tiffany Shlain: In the Can on YouTube Jan 21, 2011 Sundance Film Festival Tribune Review: Connected Review Jan 21, 2011 Press Screen International: roco films international Boards Sundance Doc Connected Jan 21, 2011 SF360: Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts Jan 20, 2011 KPCW interviews Tiffany Shlain and other Sundance filmmakers: The Green Earth Jan 20, 2011 Filmmaker Magazine: Connected: an autoblogography about love, death & technology Jan 20, 2011 Variety Profile: Staying Connected — Shlain designs ‘kit’ to keep audiences talking Jan 20, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Q&A with ‘Connected’ filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Jan 20, 2011 Indiewire: Sundance Shorts 2011: Here’s the Best of the Best Jan 17, 2011 CineSource: Tiffany Shlain, Connected and Sundance Jan 4, 2011 Marin IJ asks Tiffany about her Thoughts on the Future: Peering into the Crystal Ball Dec 10, 2010 Sundance’s description of Connected Dec 6, 2010 Salt Lake Tribune Features Connected: Trailer of the Day: Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence Dec 1, 2010 Connected Accepted to Sundance: 2011 Sundance Film Festival Announces Film in Competition Nov 2, 2010 Extras from Marin Magazine Article: Meet Webby Awards Founder, Tiffany Shlain Nov 1, 2010 Marin Magazine Features Tiffany Shlain: Marinterview: Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain September 20, 2010 Washington Post features blog post on “Yelp”: Yelp! Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” Gets Updated for a Digital Generation September 20, 2010: Tiffany’s video “Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl” gets shortlisted into Guggenheim/Youtube competition. Film will play at Guggenheim Museums in Berlin; Bilbao, Spain, and Venice, Italy. New York Times: Highly Subjective Highlights From the Guggenheim YouTube Contest September 20, 2010 Huffington Post Article on the Guggenheim/Youtube film competition: Shlain’s film makes short list September 19, Director Tiffany Shlain Quoted in Article on Film Fundraising: Crowd-Fundraising for Causes Adds Up Fast July 19, 2010 Tiffany’s Radio Interview About Her Film Connected: Earthsky Clear Voice for Science Interview with Tiffany Shlain July 12, 2010 Article on the Effects of Social Network Gaming Quotes TIffany: More World of Warcraft Means… July 8, 2010 The Sydney Morning Herald Quotes TIffany on Social Networking: Twittering Our Way to a Peaceful Future June 22, 2010 Huffington Post Features Blog by Tiffany Shlain: My UC Berkeley Commencement Speech – What to Say? June 3,2010 Local Newspaper Remarks on Tiffany’s Speech at UC Berkeley: title=”http://www.marinscope.com/articles/2010/06/02/mill_valley_herald/news/doc4c06a4ed0f2b4779360448.txt” href=”http://www.marinscope.com/articles/2010/06/02/mill_valley_herald/news/doc4c06a4ed0f2b4779360448.txt”>Mill Valley Resident Inspires Cal Grads May 30, 2010 Filmmaker Magazine features Tiffany’s UC Berkeley Speech: Tiffany Shlain on Life, Death, Change, and Connection May 26, 2010 Australian Blog Bibliostructures writes about the speech: Tiffany Shlain’s Commencement speech at Berkeley May 17, 2010 A Call for “Moxie” and Compassion Marks Commencement: Director Tiffany Shlain’s UCB Commencement Speech May 15, 2010 Tiffany Listed Among Top College Commencement Speakers: Top Commencement Speakers of 2010 May 7, 2010 Online Experiment set for Commencement Speech at UCB: Call for submissions from the Graduates of 2010 May 4, 2010 Forbes Includes Tiffany with Commencement Speakers Across U.S.: Forbes Reports on 2010 Commencement Speeches April 27, 2010 Tiffany’s Icon-O-Cast Podcast on Design of a Global Network: Icon-o-Cast: Connections and Mutations in the Network April 22, 2010 Harvard Gazette: Film As Social Change : Review of Panel March 19, 2010 Huffington Post Blog by Tiffany Shlain: About New Film Yelp and Connected and Unplugging March 19, 2010 NY Times Blog: A New Take on the Old Sabbath Ritual of Unplugging March 22, 2010 JESNA.org: Tiffany honored for Jewish Women in Education by JESNA March 19, 2010 Huffington Post: National Day of Unplugging. March 19, 2010 Beliefnet.com Blog: National Day of Unplugging: a Sabbath from Technology March 18, 2010 CBS News: CBS Katie Couric talks about new film “Yelp” March 18, 2010 San Francisco Chronicle: In support of “revisiting the present tense,” Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg, high-tech royalty (she created the Webbys; he’s a robotics prof at UC Berkeley), have created “Yelp,” a two-minute takeoff of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” March 17, 2010 Boing Boing: Sneak peak at new feature by Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg March 12, 2010: Tiffany posts new Spring 2010 Newsletter…check it out here: March 10, 2010: New blog about creator of Barbie posted January 27th, 2010 Tiffany, featured speaker at Planned Parenthood event: Love & Politics, Planned Parenthood Style! « East Bay Young Democrats Jan 24th, 2010 Stranger than Fiction Film Blog: Sundance Report Day 1 January 2010 ModernLuxury.com: Q&A: Tiffany Shlain Goes From Webby Awards to Film | San Francisco January 2010 Foreign Policy Magazine: Clinton Dines With Top Tech Executives October 2009: Showing sneak peak excerpts of the new film Connected at: SF FIlm Society Cinema By the Bay at the Clay Theater on Oct 17th Slide Ranch Benefit on Oct 23rd October, 2009: Tiffany set to speak at The Mill Valley Film Festival September 2009: Tiffany speaks at The Idea Festival about upcoming film Connected June 16, 2009: An Article highlighting of all the distribution work on The Tribe Summer, 2009 CurrentTV: Ken Goldberg on “Respectful Cameras.” May 28th, 2009: Electra Shlain Goldberg is born.* May 13, 2009 Marin Independent Journal: Dr. Leonard Shlain, author and surgeon, dies of cancer May 12, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle: Author/Surgeon Leonard Shlain counts Gore and Bjork as Fans May 11, 2009: Tiffany Shlain’s father, Leonard Shlain passes away. See tribute film May 9, 2009: Tiffany featured in People of the Screen web film by Jess Hemerly at Institute of The Future May 1st, 2009: Tiffany honored at Four Seasons by Partners Ending Domestic Abuse for creating socially conscious films. March 11th, 2009: Smashing Art Installation Acquired at Pulse Art Fair March 10th, 2009 Bruno David Gallery: The Tribe exhibits at Bruno David Gallery *Reviews for art show Jan 4, 2009 Filmmaker Magazine: Highlights five case-studies by Scott Kirsner including Tiffany Shlain December 19, 2008 Conference Report of The Conversation: The Future of Cinema, Games and Online Video: New Tools, New Distribution, New Rules” co-hosted by Tiffany in October 08 at UC Berkeley December 8th, 2009: ITVS Case studies by Scott Kirsner. Tiffany’s The Tribe included December, 2009: Tiffany Shlain & Ken Goldberg’s Art Installation Smashing selected at Pulse Contemporary Art Fair NYC March 09 December, 2009 The Financial Post, Toronto, Canada: Films & The Web: The New World Order November, 2008 San Francisco Film Society: Selects Tiffany and her new feature documentary for a 6 month film residency November, 2008 The Book of Life Audio Podcast: Tribalism with Tiffany and others November, 2008 Fresh DV Podcast: Interview with Tiffany Shlain October, 2008 YouTube’s Screening Room: Features The Tribe September, 2008: The Moxie Institute launches What’s Your Issue? Aug 30, 2008 BBC: Tiffany hosts BBC’s “Real Cities” about San Francisco July 25th, 2008 New York Times: Datebook: Chicago, San Francisco and Singapore Other highlights include a performance-documentary by Tiffany Shlain… June 5, 2008 Business Week: Indie Filmmakers Hit Their Target June 7, 2008: Art Installation “Smashing” to open with the San Francisco Jewish Museum May 23, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle: Tiffany’s Performance with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Triennial art exhibition: Bay Area Now 5 *Read Description of Show May, 2008: The Tribe wins it’s 13th Award May 1, 2008: Tiffany set to speak at The Tribeca Film Festival April, 2008 Indie Filmmaker Magazine: The Distribution Frontier April 9, 2008 CNN: Mobile Screens Seek Portable Content January 27, 2008 Sundance Institute releases “Live @ Sundance interview” with Tiffany Shlain, Jason Silverman from Wired Magazine and David Straus from withoutabox.com On The Download Jan 25, 2008 Sundance Institute iTunes Podcast: Go It Alone: Digital Distribution for the Indie Filmmaker Jan 19, 2008 Huffington Post: First Person Artist: Barbie As The Ultimate Muse Jan 18, 2008 USA Today: Social, work lives collide on networking websites Dec 14, 2007 The South China Post: Specials/Style/Career Women: Top of Their Game November 2007 The Hollywood Reporter: Alternative Distribution Pushes Dealmaking in New Directions Nov. 2, 2007 Variety: Studios Digital Dilemma Oct 22, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle Front Page Datebook: Web Delivers New Audience to Short Films *Descriptive Feature on the DIY landscape and Tiffany’s work with the internet and film Oct. 26, 2007 Jewish Telegraph Agency: Tribe Poised to Hit #1 on iTunes Oct 23, 2007 New York Times: Facing Competition, iTunes Revs Up Its Film Section Oct 26th, 2007 Jewish Telegraph Agency: Tribe poised to hit #1 on iTunes Sept 14, 2007 Daily EM: Tiffany Shlain at Idea Festival: Interdependence and Colony Collapse Disorder Sept 14, 2007 EthanZuckerman’s Blog from The Idea Festival: Idea Festival: Tiffany Shlain’s Web of Ideas Sept 2007 Center for New Words: Tiffany Shlain on the Art of Creating Sept 1, 2007 Jewlicious: Tribe the Film on Itunes June 30, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle: Tuning Out Technology Spring 2007 Jewish Film World: Tiffany Shlain: Filmmaker Extraordinaire March 8, 2007 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Short ‘The Tribe’ stands out among festival offerings 2007: Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain were asked to participate in artist Lincoln Schatz Video Cube Art Installation. March 10, 2007 The Morning Call, Pennsylvania: ‘The Tribe,’ a short film starring Barbie… Summer 2007 Jillian Burt’s Blog: A Declaration of Interdependence: a new film by Tiffany Shlain’s January 22, 2007 Biz Journal: Upcoming Idea Festival features Tiffany Shlain October 15, 2006 60 Minutes Australia: Lights! Camera! Whatever… September 25, 2006 Pew Internet/Elon University: Contribution to the Future of the Internet in 2020 Study Summer 2006 Lifestyles Magazine: Tiffany Shlain: Creative Trailblazer Sept 2006 San Francisco Chronicle: Trendsetter: Tiffany Shlain June 13, 2006 BBC: The 10th Annual Webby Awards Photos May 27, 2006 The Jerusalem Post: A Jewish girl in a Barbie World May 12, 2006 The Marin Independent Journal: Such a Nice Jewish Doll May 27, 2006 San Francisco Magazine: Breakout at Tiffany’s February 14, 2006 South China Morning Post: Webby Awards Founder Predicts Trends January 20, 2006 The Sundance Insider: Short Shot: The Tribe November 30, 2005 BBC: Net Thinkers Look to Web’s Future June 8, 2005 The New York Times: Accepting a Webby? Brevity, Please CNN Highlights of the 2005 Webby Awards: Video Clip YouTube: The Webby Awards Trailer The Early Years: 1996 to 1999
