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Tiffany Shlain's Premieres Short Film on How Humans Wrestled with the Question of How to Live Life with Meaning and Purpose A week ago, Tiffany Shlain and her Let it RiPPLE Film Studio launched a screening for their new short film on their fourth Character Day.  Character Day  is a global event for people to screen films on the topic of science as it relates to character development.  Their 11 minute short film   30,000 Days!  explores the 3,000 year history of humans wrestling with the question of how to live life with meaning and purpose. 30,000 days is the amount of days you will be on this earth.  Check it out!

What a great place to interview a film-maker but in a green screen room at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking . We caught up with Sawyer Steele of the Moxie Institute , writer and editor of the Sundance premiered and film-festival award winning movie  " Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology   " at the Transbay Film Festival. He discusses how they have brought the movie all over the world and how they create tools to encourage discussions around films are captured. Sawyer also discusses disruptive film distribution and the SF film-making scene. His insights are really inspiring.

Greg Viloria aka @SocialGreg interviews Andre "Champagne" Patrick, Executive Director of the just announced Transbay Festival. The Transbay Festival hopes to create Innovation, Entertainment and Community with their event focussing on Media, Interactive and Social. In this interview, Andre explains the vision for this inaugural event. The event already has the closing night with  " Let It Ripple : Mobile Films for Global Change", an ongoing Transmedia Project by The  Moxie Institute , which really began with Tiffany Shlain's film, " Connected : An Autoblogography About Love, Death, & Technology ."  Tiffany Shlain, is an acclaimed director and known as the Founder of the Webby Awards. Here is the link to the press release  announcing the event.