Activism Within All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Favorite 

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Date: 

Nov 23 2023

Location: 

New York, NY

The new Oscar-nominated documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, focuses on world-famous photographer Nan Goldin, her life, her work, and the protests she led at museums that accepted funding from the Sackler family. Their company, Purdue Pharma, manufactured and unscrupulously marketed OxyContin. We'll talk with Goldin and director Laura Poitras.

External sources: 

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/07/1155063702/artist-activist-nan-goldin-filmmaker-l…
Posted by iws2010 on Apr 24 2023

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
With a large budget and significant activist involvement in its creation, this film is meant to set a permanent and large scale representation of the early stages of pharmaceutical companies and their exploitative nature when overprescribing patients.

Notes

Project gained traction through audience and critic outpour of support and spread of the deeply embedded secrets involving current day pharmaceutical companies and those in the past.