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...Your distribution method seems unique. Have you gotten calls from Hollywood types to help them market their own films...
...People are accepting that this is an activism tool that can help create change. It's not a distribution system that maximizes profit, so it wouldn't work for Hollywood. Think about it: every house party we hold requires just one person to buy a DVD because we're not charging anyone to watch the film at people's homes. Hollywood is not running to embrace a model for social change. I'm not sure anybody's found a way to monetize...
...therapy, researchers from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology's Robotic Life Group looked to the animatronic teddy bear that keeps Haley Joel Osment's robot-boy company in the movie AI. The researchers have been working since 2005 to engineer an interactive health care teddy bear, with advice from Hollywood's Stan Winston Studio, the engineers behind AI's "Teddy," according to MIT student researcher Dan Stiehl...
...small Hollywood studio, Williams and directors from other Case media institutions created three films for the IVR-Cave: two for speech therapy patients about ordering food at a McDonald's counter and drive-through, and a third for speech pathology students, about diagnosing a child with a communication disorder and better communicating themselves with the parents. Each film contains multiple branch points, where a therapist can choose how the scenario will proceed depending on the patient's response. For example, if the patient is acting up, the McDonald's employee may go and get the manager, while if the customer...
...last month of plotting to detonate explosives aboard flights between Britain and the U.S. Inspired by the U.S. civil-rights movement, Peirce first made headlines by securing the release of falsely imprisoned i.r.a. suspects. She spoke to Time's Jessica Carsen about law, justice and her portrayal in a Hollywood movie. What are the greatest threats to human rights today? The clear willingness of governments who have a history of considering that rights are entrenched and inalienable, to redefine for themselves what a right is from their own political perspective. And, even more disturbingly, to attempt to avoid compliance with...