Inside Impact is a Virtual Reality (VR) film series by Matter Unlimited featuring stories of positive social impact from around the globe. Our goal is to increase empathy and drive action to better the condition of our ever-changing interconnected world.
EAST AFRICA
The first film, produced and directed by Felix and Paul Studios, takes you on a journey with President Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative for an unforgettable first-hand look at their efforts in action in Kenya and Tanzania.
Watch President Bill Clinton present Inside Impact: East Africa in his opening remarks at the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting
STORIES
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Solar Sister
President Clinton meets a Solar Sister entrepreneur in rural Karatu, Tanzania, who uses a solar panel on her roof to charge a generator that provides her house with power. She also sells solar-powered lights, cookstoves, and other environmentally friendly goods, to increase her income and benefit her community. In 2012, Solar Sister committed to expanding its network of women entrepreneurs by scaling their programs from Uganda to Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria. As of September 2015, Solar Sister had trained 2,000 entrepreneurs, 750 of which were in Tanzania.
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Charge
Viewers join a class at the Farasi Lane School in Nairobi, Kenya, as a trained and equipped by Discovery Learning Alliance (DLA) uses innovative tools and techniques to engage her students about malaria prevention. The school is part of the 2014 CHARGE commitment - of which DLA is a partner - co-chaired by the No Ceilings initiative and the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Today, CHARGE is a collaboration of more than 40 companies, civil society organizations, companies, multilaterals and governments to improve secondary education learning and leadership opportunities for young women and girls. This collective effort has committed over $800 million dollars to reach 14 million girls over five years.
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Starkey Hearing Foundation
President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton join a hearing aid fitting in Nairobi as part of the Starkey Hearing Foundation’s 2010 commitment to fit more than one million hearing aids to people in need this decade. They are ahead of their goal, having provided more than 200,000 hearing aids this year alone.
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In May, 2015, President Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative took a journey to East Africa to explore their commitments to the area. Documenting the experience along the way were a team of creative agencies, storytellers, filmmakers and technologists from Matter Unlimited, Felix and Paul Studios and M ss ng P eces.
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A boy from Tanzania experiences VR for the first time.
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The crew.
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The crew watches the monitor and discusses the shot at the Solar Sisters location.
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Our video village was inside this truck when we filmed the Gikomba Market in Nairobi, Kenya.
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A group of students at the Farasi school in Kenya.
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Navigating the alleyways of the Kibera slums with all of our camera equipment.
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Executive Producer Robert Holzer from Matter Unlimited with Directors Paul Raphael and Felix Lajeunesse.
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Hanging out near our set in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Robert Holzer from Matter Unlimited helps a girl at the Farasi school experience VR for the first time.
It’s clear that future of impact is becoming a reality in Africa.President Clinton
In Virtual Reality… the viewer is there – they are no longer part of the obstruction, the camera. When people within the virtual reality world look at the viewer, it feels very personal.Felix and Paul, Filmmakers
SCREENINGS
See the VR Experience as it goes on tour to festivals around the country and events around the world.
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9/23/15 - 9/25/15
Oculus Connect
Los Angeles, CA
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9/27/2015
Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
New York, NY
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10/07/2015
Future Of Storytelling
New York, NY
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10/22/2015
PopTech
Camden, ME
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11/13/2015
Summit At Sea
Miami, FL
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11/18
Social Innovation Summit
San Fransisco, CA
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3/5 - 3/6
Social Enterprise Conference
Harvard University
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3/15/2016
SXSW
Austin, TX
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4/19/16
eMERGE Americas
Miami, FL
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4/19/2016
Tribeca Film Festival
New York City, NY
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6/7/2016
THREAD at Yale University
New Haven, CT
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6/9/2016
Sustainable Brands Conference
San Diego, CA
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6/7/16 - 6/9/16
AICP Base Camp
New York City, NY
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7/2/2016
Habitas
Los Angeles, CA
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Inside Impact / East Africa is produced by Felix & Paul Studios In Association with M ss ng P eces For the Matter Unlimited Inside Impact Project Featuring The Clinton Global Initiative Executive Producer President Bill Clinton Executive Producer Robert Holzer Producer Stéphane Rituit Directed by Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael Creative Direction Robert Holzer Jake Kahana Felix Lejeunesse Paul Raphael Associate Producer Ari Kuschnir and Bryan Mochizuki Account Managing Director and Agency Producer Alexandra Gordon VR Cinematography and Post-Production Felix & Paul Studios Sound Headspace Studio
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