Creative Activists
- 1 Art/Media Type
- 2 Cause/Issue
- Addiction/Recovery
- American Wild Horse Preservation
- Breastfeeding
- Bullying
- Career
- Change
- Communicative Development
- Community
- Conscious Awareness
- Consciousness
- Cultural Development
- Domestic Abuse
- Economic Development
- Edu-Activism
- Education
- Emotional Regulation
- Empathy Education
- Empowerment
- Environment
- Farm Labor
- Female Inequalities
- Food
- Free Trade
- Global Awareness
- Health/Well-being
- HIV Criminalization
- Honeybees
- Human Rights
- Humanitarian Crises
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Rights
- Marketing
- Mind/Body Harmony
- Moms
- Motherhood
- Orphans
- Other Causes
- Positive Wealth Redistribution
- Poverty
- Relationships
- Sexuality
- Social Change
- Social Identity
- Social Justice
- Society
- Transformation
- Violence Reduction
- Women's Rights
- Youth
- 3 Region
- 4 CVF Involvement
- Dan Eldon Fellows
Aimee Schoof – Ama Yoga
Amalia Starr – Autism Independence Project
Amanda Whitis, Kelley Whitis & Summer Harlow – Linda’s Voice
Ann Haggart – Buyayear.org
Black Women: State of the Union
Charles Tsai – Social Creatives
Chip Hiden & Alexis Irvin – The Dream Share Project
Cynthia Young – Bluegreen Gallery
Dana Gluckstein – Tribes in Transition Education Fund
Daniela Kon – DEEDA Productions
Danielle Beinstein – Plooteau: The Purple World
David Chen – Symosphere, Bringing Humanity Together
Dr. Steve Wolf – Taming Your Anger for At-Risk Teens
Elischia Fludd – EOTO World
Elizabeth Wood Coldicutt – Tao Te Ching – A Photographic Journey
Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed & Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg- The Harbor Project
Eric Kabera – Rwanda Cinema Centre & Rwanda Film Institute
Erik Oberholtzer & Kristen Irving – Tender Greens Sustainable Life Project
Erin Heidenreich & Bristol Baughan – Uprise
Erin Levin – The African Children’s Choir Film
FELLOW: Jessica Mayberry – Video Volunteers
FELLOW: Roko Belic – HAPPY
FELLOW: Slater Jewell-Kemker – An Inconvenient Youth
FELLOW: Soiya Gecaga – We the Change Foundation
FELLOWS: Anneliese Vandenberg & Austin Peck, PhD – Village Beat
FELLOWS: Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci – Living on One
Gene Jimenez – 24 Peaces
Harold Bustamonte – One Love Vibrations
Hayden Bixby & Amy Eldon Turteltaub – Cura Orphanage
Jacob Devaney – Culture Collective
James Anaquad Kleinert – Wild Horses and Renegades
Jennifer Arnold – A Small Act & Hilde Back Education Fund
Jennifer Davidson & Chantal Molnar – Bottled UP!
Katherine Wintsch – The Mom Complex
Kyle Ruddick – One Day on Earth
Lacey Uhlemeyer – We Rise
Landfill Harmonic – Alejandra Nash & Juliana Penaranda-Loftus
Lara Long – DJ AM Memorial Fund
Marissa Roth – One Person Crying: Women & War
Max Joseph & Carlin Daley – Garden of Eden
Miguel Pinheiro & Pentti Turunen – mim’delo Project
Nancy Durrell McKenna – SafeHands for Mothers
Patricia Maresch & Gustavo Gelmini – Babies from Talavera
Richard Peters & Tony Pigott – Brandaid Project
Robert Rippberger – Visions for the Future
Saeed Taji Farouky – Tourist with a Typewriter
Sanjay Rawal – Food Chain
Sean Strub – HIV Is Not a Crime
Sheila J. Hardy – Limelight Project
Sister J SpiritVoice – The Honeybee Project
Steve Aoki – Steve Aoki Fund
Terry Merkle & Susan Blyth – Theatre for Humans
The BULLY Project
Wendy Selwyn & Lindsay Price – Sending the Orphans Back: The Haeja Price Story
Wendy Silvers – Million Mamas Movement
Zoe Tryon – One of the Tribe
Sanjay Rawal – Food Chain
There is more interest in food now than ever before, yet there is almost no interest in the hands that pick our food. This film aims to finally change a system that has resisted change for hundreds of years. From the dawn of our nation, we’ve relied on the most vulnerable people in America to harvest our food. While the [...]
Harold Bustamonte – One Love Vibrations
One Love Vibrations is a grassroots initiative dedicated to inspiring all of humanity into a more “consciously aware” world of multi-cultural-creative ideals, visions, traditions, solutions, and vibrations of positive thought. One Love Vibrations’ goals are the following: To help educate local, bio-regional, and global communities via constructive information on sustainable, economical, social, spiritual, and political alternatives to co-create a more [...]
Katherine Wintsch – The Mom Complex
The Mom Complex is a global think tank with the mission of uncovering powerful insights that will improve the lives of moms, everywhere. Upon realizing that 3 out of 4 moms believe marketers have no idea what it’s like to be a mother, Katherine envisioned and pioneered a new global devision of The Martin Agency called The Mom Complex. Utilizing [...]
Landfill Harmonic – Alejandra Nash & Juliana Penaranda-Loftus
Too many children in the world are born into lives with little or no hope. Our film reveals a mind-boggling inventive effort to change that – musical instruments made from trash. In the barrios of Paraguay, a humble garbage picker uses his ingenuity to craft instruments out of recycled materials – and a youth orchestra is born. Music arises and [...]
Dr. Steve Wolf – Taming Your Anger for At-Risk Teens
Aiming to reduce violence and teach emotional intelligence as basic curriculum in modern education, Taming Your Anger for At-Risk Teens has now focused its attention on creating a film project. When asked by filmmaker Garrick Stoner if they wanted to create a film to teach whatever they found of value from Taming Your Anger to other teenagers like themselves, at-risk [...]
Eric Kabera – Rwanda Cinema Centre & Rwanda Film Institute
The Rwanda Film Institute dedicates a lot of its energy to the education of individuals in the field of filmmaking. Through our Kwetu Film School, we look to consistently breed the next generation of Rwandese filmmakers. This is an essential part of our overarching goal of the development of Rwanda culturally, economically, and communicatively through the growth of filmmaking as [...]
James Anaquad Kleinert – Wild Horses and Renegades
This project is an ongoing documentary series intended to empower the human spirit, mind, and body in a harmonious nature and to restore our diminishing wild horse population. The series is produced and directed by Emmy ® Award-winning filmmaker James Kleinert – Moving Cloud Productions – a multi-media organization that produces state of the art visual/audio programming. The dialogue in [...]
The BULLY Project
“Bully is a movie that will save kids’ lives.” – Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune The BULLY Project – a social action campaign inspired by the film BULLY – takes on the ambitious goal of building a powerful national movement to end bullying, improve school climate, and promote caring communities, focusing on engaging young people at the core of our work. To [...]
Erin Levin – The African Children’s Choir Film
Inspired by the singing of one small boy, Ray Barnett formed the first African Children’s Choir amidst Uganda’s bloody civil war in 1984. His goal was to show the world that Africa’s most helpless children have beauty, dignity, and unlimited ability with the power to break the cycles of poverty and hopelessness. 52,000 children later, Ray Barnett’s dream is becoming [...]
Robert Rippberger – Visions for the Future
There is a sense that the world must change. In 2011, people took to the streets in the now famous Arab Spring and again stateside with the Occupy movement. It showed a global hunger for ideas of revolution. Ideas for change. Visions for the future. Our project is an ongoing documentary series about visionaries who are out in the world [...]
Black Women: State of the Union
Black Women: State of the Union (BWSOTU) is a theatrical and community event that represents and celebrates black women as complex and resilient people. Through performance, visual arts, community events, and the media, BWSOTU promotes a greater understanding of black women’s significant contributions to the world. BWSOTU 2012 is scheduled for production in Los Angeles, along with accompanying events, such [...]
Ann Haggart – Buyayear.org
Buyayear.org represents just that – the chance to buy a year of life. The chance for one human being to celebrate a birthday, to feel the rain on their face, to hear music, to see their children grow another year. For an HIV positive individual in Africa, a year of medicine, a year of life, costs $300. Medicine is the [...]
Steve Aoki – Steve Aoki Fund
Label owner, DJ, producer, and fashion executive, Steve Aoki has always made it a point to take a proactive stance when it comes to social and humanitarian issues. Each year a new crisis arises, and there is always a need for humanitarian relief around the world. Steve Aoki will use his global influence to raise money for relief organizations dealing [...]
Wendy Silvers – Million Mamas Movement
The Million Mamas Movement (MMM) is dedicated to empowering mothers, building healthy families and communities, and creating a culture of peace. It is a grassroots, global movement to inspire and engage mothers and others to unify and exercise their innate maternal power through advocacy to create policies and programs that provide freedom and safety for children. Who better to lead [...]
FELLOW: Soiya Gecaga – We the Change Foundation
Soiya Gecaga is producing a documentary to feature the impact of We the Change, her foundation which runs a pre-school for orphans and vulnerable children in Mathare Slum, Kenya. We the Change has created its own innovative holistic intervention which provides the following 5 crucial components to nursery school care in a slum: Nutrition, Healthcare, Education, Counseling, and Play/Yoga. [...]
Danielle Beinstein – Plooteau: The Purple World
Plooteau: The Purple World is an online creative play space and sanctuary that allows for children aged 6-11 to express their creative selves, navigate their emotional landscapes, develop mindfulness and resilience, and deepen their empathy for both themselves and those around them, locally and globally. Danielle Beinstein is a graduate of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she concentrated [...]
Zoe Tryon – One of the Tribe
Guided by the understanding that we are all connected, part of one human tribe, that our actions impact not only ourselves but all with whom we share this earth, and that we all need to work together to truly flourish, One of the tribe connects indigenous and modern world peoples. By sharing the best of both worlds, all of us [...]
Jennifer Davidson & Chantal Molnar – Bottled UP!
Different from any other breastfeeding film, Bottled UP! showcases the innate wisdom of mothers, the remarkable competence of babies, and validates women’s personal power and authority as mothers. Most people have never seen the images and information we will include in our film. Bottled UP! also exposes the social programming that works against so many American mothers and derails their [...]
Nancy Durrell McKenna – SafeHands for Mothers
SafeHands for Mothers is an international charity, founded in 2003 and dedicated to reducing maternal and infant mortality. SafeHands’ focus is on education through the production of quality films and visual materials to support government and non-governmental training and advocacy programs in developing countries. Fourteen films have been made to date, each tackling a taboo subject such as fistula, child [...]
Sean Strub – HIV Is Not a Crime
HIV Is Not a Crime is a documentary about HIV criminalization, told through the voices and stories of people who have been subject to discriminatory prosecutions or heightened punishments because of their HIV+ status. Filmmaker Sean Strub, a longtime social justice activist and writer who has had HIV for more than 30 years, is the driving force behind HIV [...]

