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    Why Social Impact Entertainment Is Ready for the Spotlight in Hollywood (Guest Blog)

    By Peter Bisanz | March 14, 2019 @ 4:52 PM

    ”Mass entertainment and deeper social messages are not mutually exclusive,“ writes Peter Bisanz, executive director of the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at UCLA TFT

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Peter Bisanz

Peter Bisanz is the executive director of the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at UCLA TFT. He was formerly the head of development and communications for the Global Knowledge Networks (GKN), the think tank to the World Economic Forum where global experts work to address the most pressing challenges facing the world today. Prior to joining the Forum, Bisanz was the founder and director of Entropy Films and the Beyond Our Differences Foundation, where he created socially relevant documentaries, films and education programs on global issues. In 2007, he was named one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders and currently serves on their advisory board. Early in his career, he worked at Paramount Pictures and later became vice president of development at the Ladd Production Company where he helped develop more than 40 projects including "An Unfinished Life" starring Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford and Jennifer Lopez, and the Oscar-nominated film "Gone Baby Gone" directed by Ben Affleck.
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