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BEL in the Field 2025 BEL at the Hollywood Climate Summit: Moderated by Bridge Entertainment Labs CEO, Steven Olikara, movement leaders and storytellers dug into the why and how film and television can authentically capture the energy and electricity of … Continue reading
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SXSW 2025 Diverse Voices and Dialogues The SXSW Film Festival has long served as a meeting ground for cultural change-makers—a place where filmmakers, musicians, educators, and innovators build social capital with one another while celebrating each other’s visions of the … Continue reading
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SUNDANCE 2025 Celebrating Bold Storytelling! At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the air was charged with visionary energy and candid conversations. The festival loomed with uncertainty: The festival’s move to a new home, shifts in the political landscape, and film … Continue reading
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Content That’s as Good as Contact? Vicarious Intergroup Contact and the Promise of Depolarization at Scale Can just watching healthy political disagreement reduce polarization? A study conducted in 2024 says yes. Researchers tested the impact on participants of watching a … Continue reading
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Not Scary Movies – Our watch list for the pre-election weekend With Halloween and the election happening less than a week apart, we found it apropos to share a curated watch list to help you overcome the scaries. Grab that … Continue reading
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Can Popular Entertainment Save America? * Read the Bridge Entertainment Labs White Paper.
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Narrative Persuasion and Depolarization: Testing an episode of “The Conners” * An analysis on narrative persuasion and depolarization.
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Black-ish * An analysis of the question “Does watching “Lemons” an episode of Black-ish decrease toxic polarization?”
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How Do Media Portrayals of Cross-Party Interactions Affect Viewers? Investigating the Effects of Norms for and Content of Cross-Party Engagement * Social Test about how audience members’ views of political partisans may be shaped via norms that guide engagement across … Continue reading
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What’s Making Us Laugh: Event Recap On June 4th, 2024 entertainment industry professionals, comedians, and democratic reformers gathered together to discuss ‘What’s Making Us Laugh? What Role Does Comedy Play in Pulling Us Together – or Driving Us Apart?’ The … Continue reading
