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Tiffany: So, when I was younger, I wanted to be a filmmaker, so
I wanted to go to film school. Mostly to get my hands on all of this expensive equipment.
I didn't go to film school, that's a whole other episode.
Today, everything's different. I mean, I was at this party recently,
and there was this very funny moment where everyone was whacking a pinata.
There was a couple of people filming on the camera,
but I was like that would be such a funny film.
Just then my 10-year-old daughter had just shot, edited, and was posting on the internet
the film as we were watching it.
I'm Tiffany Shlain. I'm a mother, filmmaker, I founded the Webby Awards,
and this series is about how the future doesn't start somewhere far off in the distance,
the future starts here.
Tiffany: What is the potential when everyone including my 10-year-old daughter,
has the tools to make and distribute things for the world.
I mean, we're in the middle of the biggest explosion and proliferation of
voices and creativity that humanity has ever seen.
We're living in a world where everyone can express themselves in new ways.
Anyone can make music, or film, or write an article, post photos,
the tools to create are becoming more and more available
to more and more of us. Every day people, all of us, art is everywhere.
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Tiffany: What can collaboration look like on a global scale?
My team and I dove into that idea and created something we call cloud filming.
It was us responding to the feeling of everyone wanting to be part of something
bigger than themselves. Everyone wanting to create.
We thought let's try to shape it. Let's try to curate it, and
make something together with voices and artwork from all over the world.
It was incredible. It exceeded every expectation we had.
We wrote a one page script call a Deceleration of Interdependent's and
posted it on the Fourth of July, and
just invited people to read on video and send
us artwork based on the script.
Hundreds of submissions poured in from everywhere
from Haiti, China, and every continent from all over the US.
I mean, we're creative beings, we need to express ourselves.
We want to be part of something larger than ourselves.
These cloud films that we're making are just a testament to not only
that we have the tools and the means, but
we can collaborate in all of these new ways.
This is just one example of creative collaborations.
There's so many more with inventions, fundraising, medical break-through's,
and making art. I used to direct where I'd be in one studio
with hundreds of people in one physical space.
Now, we're in our film studios in San Francisco, and
it's like we're directing people all over the world
who are part of this incredible cast of humanity.
Our history books have been telling the stories
of just a small handful for centuries.
When we look back at this time in history,
the stories going to be about the power of creative
break-through's that include all of us.
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