Moving Picture Institute
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| Founded | 2005 |
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| Founder | Thor Halvorssen |
| Focus | "Bringing the idea of Freedom to life." |
| Headquarters | New York, New York |
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Area served
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Worldwide, focusing on the United States |
| Method | film production, human rights advocacy |
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Key people
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Board of Directors: Georgia Hilton Harry Kloor Cecilia DeMille Presley Rob Long Evan Coyne Maloney Michael Mandaville John Papola Duncan Scott Charles Maynes |
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Revenue
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$1,849,143 (2013) |
| Website | www |
Board of Directors:
David Thayer, Chairman
Kevin Harper
Marc Leader
Michael J. Friedman
Rob Pfaltzgraff, Executive Director
Rebekah Mercer
The Moving Picture Institute (MPI) is an American non-profit organization and film production company founded in 2005 by human rights advocate Thor Halvorssen. Its current executive director is Rob Pfaltzgraff.
MPI produces and collaborates on both fictional films, and non-fictional, often documentary-style films. The subjects of MPI's films typically center on concepts like human rights and individual freedoms, and governmental waste and corruption. It uses its films as a medium through which these kinds of social and economic troubles are brought to public attention to shape public perceptions, and ultimately, to change society's values. As Halvorssen explains, "Put it this way: What Sideways did for Pinot noir, I want to do for freedom." Public exposure to freedom-oriented ideas, they contend, will contribute to the improvement of these important issues which they feel tend to be ignored by other traditional media outlets.
Central to the MPI's mission is the promotion of what it refers to as, "freedom-oriented" ideals, through the production of films, as well as the collaboration with and lending of assistance to filmmakers whose films effectively promote similarly freedom-oriented messages that the organization regards as basic human rights: freedom of speech, and of association, and the general conservation of individual rights and freedoms in a free-enterprise system.
The type of assistance that the Moving Picture Institute provides to other filmmakers varies based on the need of the filmmaker. It facilitates developing filmmakers through a major internship program, provides support to filmmakers with demonstrable capacity to succeed in the entertainment industry, and promotes narrative features, documentary features, and shorts that communicate its principles. MPI funds films from development through post-production; it also funds developing filmmakers and serves as an intern placement service.
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