About the Campaign

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.

Impact Goal

Help shift the public discourse around race, mass incarceration, and criminalization.

STRATEGY

1
Increase awareness and generate organizational support for 13TH by designing a national community screening series.
2
Engage leading organizations working in criminal justice reform, mass incarceration and racial justice
3
Coordinate a post-screening discussion with Bryan Stevenson (Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative), Malika Saada Saar (Google's Senior Counsel of Human and Civil Rights), moderated by Michele Norris (Executive Director of The Race Card Project at The Aspen Institute)
4
Organize watch parties for Netflix premiere.

RESULTS

20
screening events across 17 communities with over 5,600 attendees
#Watch13th received over 22 million impressions
80
groups and individuals hosted watch parties

Other Campaigns

Increase awareness around Season 2 of THE PROBLEM WITH JON STEWART, and push for continued conversations and engagement around each topic, especially within social justice and social impact communities and implementing organizations.

Increase positive awareness and views of The Territory feature documentary; identify a diverse range of US based schools, communities and grassroots partners to drive organic support and equip them to host digital and IRL grassroots screening events and activations to engage and connect national and local organizations and audiences; empower audience engagement and education with social content and discussion materials; develop an impactful discussion guide and screening toolkit to support community education and pre and post screening conversations.

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