- Source: Moving Picture Institute
The Moving Picture Institute (MPI) is an American non-profit organization and film production company founded in 2005 by Thor Halvorssen, who was also one of the producers for some of their movies. Its current president is Rob Pfaltzgraff.
Mission and purpose
The Moving Picture Institute has stated its aim is to be "a production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom." For that it says, it will 1) launch filmmakers' careers through grants and classes and 2) produce original content in-house.
MPI produces and collaborates on both fictional films and non-fictional, documentary-style films. MPI's films typically center on topics such as human rights and individual freedoms, governmental waste and corruption.
MPI's states its films typically center on concepts such as human rights and individual freedoms, and governmental waste and corruption. Halvorssen said to the NYT, the role as movie mogul aligns with his other activities, "A film can reach a lot more people than a white paper [...] What Sideways did for Pinot noir, I want to do for freedom."
Major productions
MPI is involved in the production and promotion of the following narrative and documentary films:
References
External links
Moving Picture Institute
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Hammer & Tickle
- Miss Virginia (film)
- The Beloved Cheater
- Gentle Julia (film 1923)
- The Dawn of Understanding
- Reggie Mixes In
- Flora Finch
- Sabu Dastagir
- How Brown Saw the Baseball Game
- The Great Leap; Until Death Do Us Part
- Moving Picture Institute
- Film
- Indoctrinate U
- Miss Virginia (film)
- MPI
- Niles Fitch
- Moving Picture Experts Group
- 2081 (film)
- Patricia Clarkson on screen and stage
- Battle for Brooklyn
