Tiffany Shlain

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Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, director of the Moxie Institute, and founder of The Webby Awards.

"Tiffany’s recent film, “The Tribe” (Sundance, Tribeca, Rotterdam Film Festival Selections), explores American Jewish Identity through the history of the Barbie doll. Her previous films include: "Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness” (Sundance Selection 2003), a powerful exploration of women’s rights in America. As a director for both theater and film she has worked with actors including Peter Coyote, Harrison Ford and Alan Cumming. Her work appears on The Sundance Channel and The Documentary Channel. She was an artist-in-residence this fall at The Headlands Center for the Arts. As director of The Moxie Institute, a think tank and media company, she creates, develops and distributes films and discussion programs about social issues using new approaches and emerging technologies.

10 years ago Tiffany founded The Webby Awards, the leading international honors for websites. Under her leadership, The Webby Awards have become a global institution and industry bellwether, attracting entries from more than 40 countries and all 50 states. She has evolved the annual ceremony into a major cultural event thanks to its famous five-word speeches, her original films and an eclectic roster of guests that has included Al Gore, Prince, internet pioneer Vinton Cerf, journalist Thomas L. Friedman, satirist Rob Corddry from The Daily Show, Google founders, Ariana Huffington and artist Bill Viola. In 1998, Tiffany co-founded The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, which today has 550 members and serves as The Webbys’ judging body. The 11th Annual Webby Awards will be in June, 2007 in New York City.

Tiffany lectures on her filmmaking and the internet’s role in reshaping popular culture, business, and society. Tiffany has appeared on 60 Minutes, ABC, CNN, and NPR and is invited to speak at conferences and institutions including Stanford, Sundance, MIT, IBM and Apple’s in store theater. Her work has been profiled in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The International Herald Tribune. Newsweek magazine honored her as a "Women Shaping the 21st Century."

Tiffany was awarded The Victoria Award for ethical leadership by The Woodhull Institute in NYC. She was a member of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s transition team and has served on the Board of Governors for The Commonwealth Club of California from 2000 to 2006.

Fascinated with technology since high school, Tiffany co-wrote a proposal for an organization called Uniting Nations in Telecommunications & Software (UNITAS) in 1987, which led to her serving as a student ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1988. Tiffany is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley (1992) where she was selected as a valedictorian speaker and received the highest honor in art, The Eisner Award, for her filmmaking. She studied film theory at UC Berkeley and film production at NYU. She lives in Northern California with her husband, artist and professor of robotics at UC Berkeley Ken Goldberg, and their daughter, Odessa Simone." (From http://tiffanyshlain.com/Bio/Home.html, with permission of author)



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