Jeff Jarvis President's Lecture now online.

Creative Faculty member's film at the Berlinale

Congratulations to Joao Daniel Tikhomiroff for the Berlinale film festival screening of his new film, Besouro ("Beetle"), the biography of Brazil's most famous Capoeirista, Besouro Manganga.

Here's the Besouro trailer.

Joao Daniel directed the film, one of the largest productions in Brazilian history, which tells the story of Besouro's life and struggle to help free Brazil's ethnic African population from economic slavery in the 1920s. Besouro became a legendary master of the African-inspired fighting dance, which grew out of Afro-Brazilians' being unallowed to own weapons. With action director Huan-Chiu Ku (Kill Bill, Matrix) the film has spectacular stunt sequences and a soundtrack featuring Gilberto Gil, Rica Amabis, Tejo and other Brazilian stars.

Photo: Joao Daniel (left) at the Besouro premiere last night in Berlin with the film's stars Jessica Barbosa and Aílton Carmo

Last September Joao Daniel delivered a joint master class and President's Lecture at the Berlin School on the subject of Mixing -- the model he has developed for his company that spans advertising, TV and film production.

You can also watch Joao's Tent Talk on the subject with fellow Berlin School Creative Faculty member Tony Segarra.

Jeff Jarvis and Peter Guber - unexpectedly aligned

Two of the highlights of the recent USA module for the EMBA program were speaking appearances by Jeff Jarvis and Peter Guber.
One is a thought leader on the digital transformation and its affect on traditional media, especially print journalism. The other is a legendary Hollywood production company head, former studio boss and record label founder.

Our Faculty Director David Slocum listened closely to them and found some suprising similarities in their messages.

"For me, the crucial thread running through these shared ideas is a committed openness to change – in industries and institutions, in teams and in individuals, and perhaps most in the romantic ideas we tend to harbor about the individual leader or writer."

Read the whole post and David's list of parallels here.

One Minute of Silence for Haiti

Just sent to us from Alumn Alexander Jaggy.....

Dear Friends of the Berlin School

The horrible earthquake in Haiti made our agency come up with a simple idea of micro-donation. In cooperation with Caritas and Universal Music we launched:

One Minute of Silence for Haiti.

Download "One Minute of Silence for Haiti" on amazon.de. All proceeds go to Caritas for first aid and to help rebuild the country.

Just imagine what happens if "One Minute of Silence for Haiti" enters the charts and we well have 60 seconds of silence on the radio... ⎼

The link to the song:

http://bit.ly/bqgAqL

Thank you for sending this request to all your friends.

Please join our group on Facebook "One Minute of Silence for Haiti".

Thanks,

Alexander Jaggy