Connected: Time to Declare Our Interdependence? September 10, 2009

Favorite:

Tiffany Shlain, film director and founder of the Webby Awards, shows a trailer for Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence. "What we're really interested in looking at are the links between issues and how theres unintended consequences, and how things affect each other," she says of the film.

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Honored as one of Newsweek's "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is the founder and ambassador of The Webby Awards and an award-winning filmmaker. Tiffany's career is guided by a passion for unraveling complex ideas in unorthodox ways. Her work covers an array of topics, from the internet to politics to religion. She has directed eight films including "Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness," a Sundance Film Festival selection 2003 and broadcast on TV on The Sundance Channel. She studied film theory at U.C. Berkeley and film production at N.Y.U. In addition to her filmmaking, she continues to work on The Webbys and is invited to lecture on both her filmmaking and the web's affect on society.

Currently, she is working on a feature-length film, "Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence," set for completion in the winter of 2009. Her recent art installation, "Smashing," with artist and husband Ken Goldberg premiered in NYC at the Pulse Contemporary Art Fair this past spring. They have two children and live in Northern California.