Ignite Lasting Change with Community Film Events

Thank you once again for your continued support of SIMA! We’re excited to share our most recent updates from each of our programs with you.

SIMA Awards:

Congratulations to the SIMA 2020 Finalists! Stories from 34 countries move onto the final round of the 8th annual Social Impact Media Awards. Representing the most cutting edge social-issue filmmaking of our time, these finalists bring us face-to-face with our most pressing global issues. Winners will be announced February 7, 2020. 

SIMA Classroom: 

Designed as a fast track to global citizenship education, SIMA Classroom takes students on a journey from empathy and critical thinking to action. Over 1,950 educators, 51,230 students and 300 institutions globally are already using the platform.  

Selected from the finalists and winners of the annual Social Impact Media Awards, SIMA Classroom is a global, ever-current and expansive streaming platform presenting the gold standard of social-issue cinematic storytelling. It provides access to a carefully curated collection of over 168 award-winning short documentaries and Virtual Reality films with learning resources and participatory skill-building lesson plans. 

This month we want to celebrate we are scaling our impact through partnerships! Together with Participate we hosted the SDGs Film Festival for the Teach the Global Goals Community of Practice inspiring 1000+ students to learn about SDGs on a human scale and advocate for a global challenge they care about by creating a screening campaign in their classroom. We are also delighted to partner with the Ban Ki Moon Center and UNESCO-APCEIU  to offer a curated selection of SIMA impact films as part of the course: Becoming Global Citizens for a Sustainable Society.Together we have empowered more than 3,600 global citizens so far!

Last but not least, we are proud to announce that our lesson plans are now aligned to the International Baccalaureate Programme, designed to prepare students to succeed in a world where facts and fiction merge in the news, and where asking the right questions is a crucial skill that will allow them to flourish. 

SIMAx:

Local leaders around the globe keep screening SIMA impact films to activate their communities around issues that matter. From a co-working space in Singapore or a german non-profit to a college in the U.S, extraordinary stories such as Girl-Hearted, Voices from the Sea, Kayayo, Megalonyo and Dancing the Revolution are not only opening people’s hearts and minds, but inspiring actual change. 

SIMA's Fiscal Sponsorship:

Supporting projects at the intersection of creativity and social impact we have added new projects to our Fiscal Sponsorship Program including The Youth Vote, a feature documentary in development that explores the current political system in the United States and how it prevents many young people from participation.

SIMA Staff Pick:

We are giving audiences a barrier-free entry to experiencing social impact cinema.  

For this month we are featuring Forced, directed by Pep Bonet and produced by Line Hadsbjerg. This film takes you into the streets of Dhaka, where children form part of the visual landscape: an integrated part of the workforce, they work because society accepts their fate and survival dictates their limited choices. In the underworld of the brothels, behind closed doors, girls share their testimonies of having to work as sex slaves, bought and sold by brokers, shamed by society, with no escape.

As always, thank you for your invaluable contributions to helping us scale social impact through visual storytelling worldwide.

With warmth and gratitude from the SIMA Team.

Links:

• SIMA Studios