In this session...
How can TV & Film protect human rights? Emmy® Tony® and Grammy® Award winning actor, director and advocate, Cynthia Nixon will join Human Rights Watch Executive Director Tirana Hassan to discuss the vital role of entertainment in advancing human rights and social justice. This conversation will discuss how we can bring human rights messaging, narratives, and values to mainstream pop culture, and the best ways to create responsible and nuanced stories that help expand audience’s worldviews and make positive narrative change.
What You'll Learn from This Session...
- How the entertainment industry's relationship with social justice has evolved, what the climate is like today; and understanding the role it plays in making change.
- How to create responsible and nuanced portrayals of the world, and popularize and socialize human rights messaging, narratives, values and stories in mainstream pop culture
- How to expand audience’s worldviews, and make positive narrative change through culturally significant, rights respecting storytelling
- Understanding how making commercial entertainment is not at odds with making human rights centered work
- The human rights narratives that need attention or shifting
