The Center for Innovative Media
Welcome to the Center for Innovative Media!
The Center for Innovative Media produces innovative documentary and public affairs programming. Through teaching, practice and citizen interaction the Center invites creativity, inspires technological innovation, and invites debate across social and media platforms. From politics to pop culture, the CIM aims to provoke and inform through exploration of contemporary issues.
CIM is producing an array of diverse and groundbreaking original projects including Planet Forward and the theatrically-released documentary film, “The Matador.”
Engage with CIM Projects
The Matador -- Co-Directed by Nina Gilden Seavey
Planet Forward -- Director/Host, Frank Sesno
About Us:
The Center for Innovative Media is a chartered center of The George Washington University at the School of Media and Public Affairs. In a media environment where what happens today is already yesterday’s news, the CIM was founded to cultivate all the energy, innovation and potential of new media. Aimed at finding new and exciting ways to express creative vision, the CIM is an environment for training, production, public affairs programming and film-making where professionals and amateurs alike engage in all the social, cultural and political issues of our time.
Guided by directors Nina Gilden Seavey and Frank Sesno, The Center for Innovative Media regularly produces initiatives that define cutting-edge, contemorary documentary and public affairs programming.
Current Projects:
The Documentary Center
In Production:
The Matador
4th and Goal
A Short History of Sweet Potato Pie and How it Became A Flying Saucer
The Open Road, America looks at Aging – A Documentary Center Film Production is
In Education:
The International Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship Program ,
Institute for Documentary Filmmaking
In Community Engagement
Docs-In-Progress
Women in Film and Video Professional Development Seminars
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Public Affairs Project Initiatives
Planet Forward capitalizes on the desire for greater civic engagement and fosters the opportunity for citizens from diverse backgrounds and perspectives to engage directly with experts and decision-makers regarding the future of energy. Facilitated by digital, broadcast and social media, Planet Forward will advance the UCG platform by creating an opportunity for citizens and experts to connect beyond simply creating content for the website and show by instead creating, shaping and facilitating a platform for citizens and experts to engage in response to the show and to one another. Planet Forward takes advantage of online technology and creates a new model of programming to further opportunities for informed discussion on crucial energy issues. The program will feature original content, aggregated material from a consortium of colleges and universities, organized around the addressed themes. The television program will be produced and filmed on campus, interacting with the George Washington University audience. Students will learn and contribute at all levels of the program.
Planet forward is The Public Affairs Project’s cornerstone project, currently in development. In partnership with Public Agenda, based in New York, Nebraska Educational Television, Sunburst Creative, and the George Washington University, the program launches in the spring of 2009.
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THE CONVERSATION SERIES
Lights, Camera, Talk: From inside 'The Beltway'
The Public Affairs Project at the George Washington University’s School of Media and Public affairs convenes events that focus on media, public policy, and culture.
Events have included conversations with former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos, CNN Founder and Philanthropist Ted Turner, former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, and moderator of PBS's Washington Week and the 2004 and 2008 Vice Presidential Debates, Gwen Ifill.
In September 2008, The Public Affairs Project hosted a conversation with five former Secretaries of State. Secretaries Madeline Albright, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Henry Kissinger, and Colin Powell participated in one of the major foreign policy events of the political season. Hosted by Public Affairs director Frank Sesno and CNN’s international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, the event was taped and broadcast on CNN and was distributed on public radio by American Abroad Media.
Our Washington, DC location allows us to attract a rich roster of guests with professional accomplishments in political and international communication, journalism, government, and the private sector. This, along with the highly engaged student body, provides an opportunity to hear compelling and an unusually diverse array of topics relevant to media and public affairs. You’ll hear from premier experts—the best in the field.
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Who we are:
Co-directors for CIM include:
Nina Gilden Seavey – Director, The Documentary Center
Frank Sesno – Director, The Public Affairs Project
Contact Us
Nina Gilden Seavey, Co-director
Frank Sesno, Co-director
The George Washington University
805 21st Street NW, Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20052
(202)994-6787 voice
(202)994-5806 fax