Taxes eat your weekend... again? 💸

It doesn't have to be this way… View this email in your browser Tackle Tax Day with An Inconvenient Tax! Did you know that the average American spends 57 hours working on their taxes? Even Albert Einstein once wrote, "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." An Inconvenient Tax, a documentary from Moving Picture Institute-supported filmmakers Christopher Marshall and Vincent Vittorio, reveals how Congress uses our impossibly complex tax code to achieve political goals that have nothing to do with raising revenue.  Featuring economic experts, commentators, and political voices such as Steve Forbes, Mike Huckabee, Noam Chomsky, David M. Walker, and others, the film traces the evolution of the income tax through wars, economic booms and busts, and presidencies. Political favoritism, ineffective social programs, and economic manipulations all reveal the need for tax reform. As America faces an ever-growing financial crisis, this timely and engaging film transcends partisanship and offers Americans a chance to unite in a grassroots movement for change. Catch An Inconvenient Tax on Hulu, Amazon, or here. In other news: We the Internet TV, the Moving Picture Institute's comedy news channel, has been nominated for Best Film & Video – Variety category in the 21st Annual Webby Awards. Cast your vote online today to help We the Internet TV win the Internet's top honor! Voting ends April 20th. Calling all filmmakers! The Collaboration Filmmakers Challenge 2017 kicks off May 16th. This is a chance to win major prizes, including a $5,000 Feature/TV pilot development deal with Adi Shankar's Infinite Ammo Productions! Moving Picture Institute filmmakers will have their entry fee waived. Mama Rwanda, an MPI documentary from Laura Waters Hinson about entrepreneurial mothers in Rwanda, is now available for campus and community screenings! Email nicole@thempi.org to bring the film to your group. We are HIRING! Currently, we are looking for a Director of Major Gifts. Interested parties should email Steve.Ankney@roberthalfes.com for more information. The Moving Picture Institute is a modern-media production house and talent incubator that creates and supports high-impact film and video content designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom. Copyright © 2017 Moving Picture Institute, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: 375 Greenwich Street New York NY 10013 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

🏆 Vote Today—We’re Webby-Nominated! 🏆

Help us make internet history... View this email in your browser We the Internet TV Nominated for Webby Award! The Moving Picture Institute is proud to announce that our comedy news channel, We the Internet TV, has been nominated for Best Film & Video – Variety category in the 21st Annual Webby Awards.  Cast your vote online today to help We the Internet TV win the internet's top honor! The Best Film & Video – Variety category is one of the most coveted nominations in the Webby Awards. For this year's nomination, We the Internet TV beat out stiff competition from CBS, ABC, the Guardian, and Yahoo! News' The Katie Couric Interview, among others. The Webby Awards is the internet's most respected symbol of success. The 21st Annual Webby Awards received 13,000 entries from nearly all 50 states and 70 countries worldwide. Being nominated means We the Internet TV is one of the five best in the world in its Variety category (and among the top 9% of all work entered). From head writer Lou Perez: "In a world oversaturated with political comedy content, we've always believed the way to break through and be seen was to keep hammering home our unique and independent perspective on politics, culture, and life. This Webby nomination is a validation of something we've believed from day one: there is a bigger audience thirsting for our content." As a nominee, We the Internet TV is also eligible to win a Webby People's Voice Award, which is voted online by fans across the globe. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, and honored at a star-studded ceremony on Monday, May 15, 2017, in New York City. From now until April 20th, We the Internet TV fans can cast their votes at vote.webbyawards.com! In other news: Mama Rwanda, an MPI documentary from Laura Waters Hinson about entrepreneurial mothers in Rwanda, is now available for campus and community screenings! Email nicole@thempi.org to bring the film to your group. Calling all filmmakers! The 2017 Collaboration Filmmakers Challenge kicks off May 16th. This is a chance to win major prizes, including a $5,000 Feature/TV pilot development deal with Adi Shankar's Infinite Ammo Productions! Be sure to register before May 1st for early bird rates. We are HIRING! Currently, we are looking for a Director of Major Gifts. Interested parties should email Steve.Ankney@roberthalfes.com for more information. The Moving Picture Institute is a modern-media production house and talent incubator that creates and supports high-impact film and video content designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom. Copyright © 2017 Moving Picture Institute, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: 375 Greenwich Street New York NY 10013 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

🎥 “I learned things I would not have heard anywhere else.” 🎥

Read what our Film and Entrepreneurship Seminar attendees are saying... View this email in your browser The first night of MPI and FEE's Filmmaking and Entrepreneurship seminar. Another Year, Another Successful Filmmaking and Entrepreneurship Seminar!  In March, nearly 30 young creatives from around the world joined the Moving Picture Institute and FEE in Los Angeles for our fourth annual Filmmaking and Entrepreneurship Seminar. Aspiring filmmakers learned that they can make a living, and even change the world, by telling pro-freedom stories.  Learning directly from professional filmmakers in the Moving Picture Institute network, attendees explored how to break into the industry, make the most of their first Hollywood jobs, find and market to film audiences, and more. Though the seminar largely took place at the Moving Picture Institute's West Los Angeles office, attendees also enjoyed a studio tour and an off-site screening night of MPI's short films. Our attendees gave the seminar a average overall experience rating of 9.7/10. Here's what they had to say:  "I traveled all the way from Ecuador for this seminar, and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made." "I really loved discussing filmmaking with professionals in the filmmaking community. That's an opportunity I didn't get elsewhere, even in film school." "The Filmmaking and Entrepreneurship Seminar didn't just calm my fears [about making a living as a filmmaker], it gave me the tools to share my liberty-loving art with the masses, and I cannot express my gratitude enough." For more exciting opportunities at the Moving Picture Institute, check out our paid internship program! In other news: Called "entertaining and hard-hitting," We the Internet TV's newest mini-documentary, "Silence U Part 2: What Has Yale Become?," has been featured in the New York Times, the Daily Wire, Intellectual Takeout, and more! As Truth Revolt explained, "This documentary focuses on Yale, but it has implications for colleges nationwide." Mama Rwanda, an MPI documentary from Laura Waters Hinson about entrepreneurial mothers in Rwanda, is now available for campus and community screenings! Email nicole@thempi.org to bring the film to your group. Sidewalk Traffic, a new film from MPI filmmaker Anthony L. Fisher, is now available to rent. Charity Navigator, America's largest independent charity evaluator, has yet again awarded MPI a 4-star rating! We are HIRING! Currently, we are looking for a Director of Major Gifts. Interested parties should email Steve.Ankney@roberthalfes.com for more information. The Moving Picture Institute is a modern-media production house and talent incubator that creates and supports high-impact film and video content designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom. Copyright © 2017 Moving Picture Institute, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: 375 Greenwich Street New York NY 10013 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list