The Reel Impact Festival explores how motion picture is used to spread messages, drive change and achieve commercial goals for social impact organizations. The festival is focused on short films and “promo reels” that social impact organizations- both for profits and not for profits- leverage as part of their strategic communications.
Join us for an extraordinary day focusing on marketing, branding, communication, and storytelling, as well as celebrating social entrepreneurs and impact organizations through filmmaking, intimate conversations and networking with like-minded people.
Join us for two events:
1) The Reel Impact Workshops: an afternoon of hands-on interactive media training sessions to build your brand and tell your story (more info on the workshops below)
2) The Reel Impact Festival: an evening of curated video reels, inspiration and networking
**Tickets available for workshop training and festival, or just for the evening festival.
For more information visit our website: Reel Impact Festival.
***Check out our video about RIF***
AGENDA
1:30pm: Reel Impact Workshops & Power Sessions - Round I: interactive, hands-on sessions to help entrepreneurs scale their business (includes Reel Workshop ticket & Reel Impact Festival ticket)
Workshop A) Digital Path to Revenue. Part 1: Creating the Digital Marketing Strategy.
Host: Tushar Prabhu , Director Organic Marketing, Position2
This session will focus on how to create a digital marketing strategy across multiple channels to drive revenue and achieve business goals.
Workshop B) Your Smartphone Can Create Great Videos! Part 1: Host: JJ Harris, Videographer, TechBoogie
Learn the basics on creating compelling videos with your mobile phone & editing your video. (Note: will be continued in Round II for same participants)
Workshop C) Maximizing & Financing Your Business Impact: What’s Your Investor Story? Host: Dianna Trembly, Director of Acceleration, ICA Fund Good Jobs & Carolina Miranda, Founder, Cultivating Capital
Through this interactive session, we’ll explore the different kinds of impact businesses can have, how to access the capital you need to grow your business, and how to tell your impact story to capital providers.
Workshop D) Building an entrepreneurial Mindset for Black & Brown entrepreneurs. Host: Nana Kofi Nti, Co-Founder, 510Media & Ace Johnson, Founder, iVisionary Academy
This session will empower participants to freely produce solutions that advance their community, and generate ideas that enhance their personal vision. Learn the 5 key steps of storytelling that will turn every conversation into a captivating narrative of how you turn your dreams into a reality each day.
3:00pm: BREAK
3:30pm: Reel Impact Workshops & Power Sessions Round II: interactive, hands-on sessions to help entrepreneurs scale their business (includes Reel Workshop ticket & Reel Impact Festival ticket)
Workshop A) Digital Path to Revenue. Part 2: Executing the Digital Strategy. Host: Philip Verghese, Sr. Director, Demand Solutions Architect, Position2
Part II of the Workshop will focus on how to execute on your strategy, nurture your lead gen lists and achieve higher ROI.
Workshop B) Your Smartphone Can Create Great Videos! Part 2: Host: JJ Harris, Videographer, TechBoogie
Learn the basics on creating compelling videos with your mobile phone & editing your video. (Note: same participants from Round I)
Workshop E) Video Distribution - How to get your video stories seen by more people than you ever have before. Host: Natasha Deganello Giraudie, Independent Filmmaker & Founder, Micro-Documentaries
Great videos that no one sees don’t create impact! That's why figuring out your distribution plan, and allowing for resources, may be more critical than your production budget. In this workshop, you'll learn how.
Workshop F) Differentiating the Doppelgangers – Storytelling 101: Impact Edition Host: Paul J. Lynch, Founder & CEO, Cage-Free Productions
This hands-on and interactive workshop introduces Human-Centered Production™ (HCP). HCP pairs human-centered design with the storytelling process (production). Building a culture of storytelling increases engagement, advances the transfer of institutional knowledge, and builds relationships by accelerating trust.
5:00pm: Reel Impact Film Festival Registration & Green Carpet Reception (Reel Impact Festival only ticket)
Social entrepreneur & film maker, branding experts & storyteller booths
5:30pm: RIF Kick Off "Celebrating Stories that move" with David Jackson, CEO, Impact Hub Oakland; Kristin Hull, Founder & CEO, Nia Impact Capital; and Angie Mertens, RIF Co-founder & Impact Festival Director, ONE WORLD
RIF emcee: Lynn Johnson, Co-Founder & CEO, Spotlight:Girls
5:45pm: Opening Panel “Creating Social Change through Digital Storytelling”
Gene Finley IV, Founder, Chocolate Chip Media
Jackie Emerson, actress (The Hunger Games, The Well), recording artist, TEDx Speaker
Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, Executive Director, Social Venture Circle
Moderated by Lynn Johnson, Co-Founder & CEO, Spotlight:Girls
6:30pm: RIF Screening Round Introduction. The top 13 nominated 2019 RIF videos will be screened (out of 200+ video submissions). Hosted by Livia Campos de Menezes, Reel Impact Festival Programmer, ONE WORLD
7:10 PM: Networking break
7:30 PM: Screening De-brief Session: The Power of Storytelling
Maya Pope-Chappell, Senior News Editor, Video Producer, Storyteller, LinkedIn
Niema Jordan, Story Producer, Producer, Radical Media LLC
Moderated by Angie Mertens, RIF Co-founder & Impact Festival Director, ONE WORLD
8:00 PM Award Ceremony
- Maya Pope-Chappell, Senior News Editor, Video Producer, Storyteller, LinkedIn
Niema Jordan, Story Producer, Producer, Radical Media LLC
Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, Executive Director, Social Venture Circle
Angie Mertens, RIF Co-founder & Impact Festival Director, ONE WORLD
Kristin Hull, Founder & CEO, Nia Impact Capital
David Jackson, CEO, Impact Hub Oakland
8:30pm: Closing Remarks + Reception with GetEmpowered!
