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New Op-Ed in USA Today: We’re thrilled to share that USA TODAY published an op-ed by our President, Steven Olikara, spotlighting the powerful work of Bridge Entertainment Labs and the Better Together Film Festival to bring to life New American … Continue reading
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BEL in the Field In addition to behind the scenes work we are doing across entertainment, here are some highlights from our efforts to engage the storytellers with resources and tools to role model bridging behavior in their content and … 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 Episode “Lemons”: Creating empathy across divides * Media has the power to polarize – but it can also be used as a tool to create connection, understanding and empathy across deep divides. And in cultivating those things, entertainment media … Continue reading
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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
