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Reel Impact Festival

  • Impact Hub Oakland 2323 Broadway Oakland USA (map)

Join us for an extraordinary afternoon focusing on marketing, branding, communication, and storytelling, as well as celebrating social entrepreneurs and impact organizations through filmmaking, intimate conversations and connecting with Bay Area change-makers.

We will explore how mission-driven organizations (for-profit and not-for-profit) use strategic marketing, and short videos to spread positive messages, drive change, and achieve strategic goals.

You will be inspired by and network with social impact leaders who have driven change by fighting against some of the world's biggest challenges in innovative ways.

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

5:45pm: Opening Panel “Creating Social Change through Storytelling”

6:30pm: RIF Screening Round I.

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 

7:00 PM: Networking break

7:30 PM: RIF Screening Round II.

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 

8:00 PM: Screening De-brief Session: The Power of Storytelling 

8:20 PM  Award Ceremony

8:30pm: Closing Remarks + Reception with GetEmpowered!

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See our growing guest list:

Ace Johnson, iVisionary Academy / Amanda Flores-Witte, Kenneth Rainin Foundation / Andrea Steiner, Sequoia Wealth Management / Andreas Freund, DiveIn / Andrew Molina / Angela Tsay, Oaklandish / Angie Mertens, ONE WORLD / Anna Shneiderman, Ragged Wing Ensemble & The Flight Deck / Anuj Saigal, Reconnecting Labs / Anushka Khemka, Bay Area Green Tours / Allan Moskowitz, Transformative Wealth Management / Anoop Nagendra, Connectivity Capital / Ayana Ivery, Impact Hub Oakland / Ben Matranga, Connectivity Capital / Bonnie Coberly, ONE WORLD / Brian Storm, MediaStorm / Brian Thomas, Connectivity Capital / Carli Kyles, Go Girls! Oakland / Carolina Miranda, Cultivating Capital / Carson Kelly, Benevolently / Catherine Berman, CNote / Chef Chew, Something Better Foods / Christie Goshe, Tiny Oak Media / Chris Librie / Colleen Kavanagh, Zego Foods / Courtney Gonzales, Community Vision / Dancy Fu, Philanthropy University / Daniel Enking, Everflux / Darren Heath, Bay Area Medical Academy / David Cooper, Montcalm Capital / David Jackson, Impact Hub Oakland / Dianna Tate, ICA Fund Good Jobs / Edmund Zheng, Position2 / Elana Yonah, Southern Africa Trust / Elle Rustique, TipGenie / Elizabeth Burger, Social Venture Circle / Eric Medrano, Project Equity / Eric Quick, The Town Kitchen / Frank Connolly, LumenFarm / Gabriel Diamond, Skoll Foundation / Gene Finley IV, Founder, Chocolate Chip Media / Hannah Francis, FishWise / Isa Nakazawa, Youth Speaks / Ivellisse Morales, bombilla / Jackie Emerson, actress (The Hunger Games, The Well), recording artist, TEDx Speaker / JJ Harris, TechBoogie / John Montgomery / Judy Tan, Purely / Jake Schoneker, Youth Beat / Jennifer Cooper, Flow Therapies / Jessica Eastling, Better Ventures / Jill Lindenbaum, Roomily / Joanne Butcher, Filmmaker Success / Julia Fry, puretergent / Juliias Ellis, Design for Earth / Kai Nortey, Kube Nice Cream / Katie Powers, Kuli Kuli / Kayla Leduc, RSF Social Finance / Keely Stevenson, Weal Life / Kim Nash, Equity Community Builders / Kristin Hull, Nia Impact Capital / Laina Greene, Angels of Impact / Lara Mendel, The Mosaic Project / Lamvien Tran, PeopleShores / Laura Docherty, Fairware / Laura Jacobsen, Stanford / Laughlin Silvestri, Nia Impact Capital / Lisa Curtis, Kuli Kuli / Livia Campos de Menezes, ONE WORLD / Lori Bonn, Bonn Ventures / Lorri Zimmer / Luke Mertens, Atlassian / Lynn Johnson, Spotlight:Girls / Maya Pope-Chappell, LinkedIn / Natasha Deganello Giraudie, Micro-Documentaries / Niema Jordan, Radical Media LLC / Mackenzie Brewster, Impossible Foods / Maria Corona, California Green Business Network / Marissa LaMagna, Bay Area Green Tours / Mark Adams, Equinix / Matt Kreutz, Firebrand Artisan Breads / Maya Pope-Chappell, LinkedIn / Megan De Trane, KR Foundation / Megan Mirro, Creative Growth / Megan Morrice, EQIS / Michelle Pan, Red Bay Coffee / Michelle Thimesch, CrowdFund Main Street / Nana Kofi Nti, 510 Media / Nicole Jones, TechSoup / Nicole M., Strategy Squad / Nina Horne / Pamela GustavaCurry / Paul Shepherd, Picture Rythm Studios / Paul Lynch, Cage Free Productions / Peter Ferris, Equinix / Philip Verghese, Position2 / Precious Stroud, Black Female Project / Priyanka Khole, ONE WORLD / Rajiv Parikh, Position2 / Renata Gomez, Social Venture Circle / R. Terese May, Securities America / Sabiá Pinheiro, GetEmpowered! / Saila Kariat, Wavefront Pitctures / Sanjiv Parikh, Position2 Sara Bergamaschi, UNHCR / Sara Guillermo, IGNITE / Scott Saslow, ONE WORLD / Shakira Refos, CA Film / Shriti Bhandari, In Pursuit of Pictures / Simonida Cvejic, Bay Area Medical Academy / Steve Havill, Conscia Ventures / Todd Kilpatrick, Position2 / Tomy Lorsch / Stealth Mode Venture / Tushar Prabhu, Position2 / Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, Social Venture Circle / Vinod Narayan, PenPositive

Earlier Event: October 30
Innovations in Corporate Social Impact: Startups, Risk-Taking & Profitable Social Impact
Later Event: April 30
ONE WORLD Virtual Impact Summit 2020