Film Impact

Laurie had years of impact experience including her work at Brave New Films, Why Poverty?, and most recently she ran the Global Impact Campaign for the Sundance Award-Winning film, Unrest which you can watch on Netflix or Amazon. The impact campaign won the 2019 hi5 award. Read the case study here.

Read the Sundance Institute Case Study on Unrest.

Unrest: Jennifer Brea is about to marry the love of her life when she’s struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her “it’s all in her head,” she turns her camera on herself and her community as she looks for answers and fights for a cure.

Laurie’s additional impact work includes organizing outreach and educational screenings for Brave New Films, particularly the film Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA where Laurie helped secure over 1,000 screenings of the film.

Laurie at the New York Film Academy Screening of Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA.

Laurie designed educational materials and organized screenings for dozens of films including:

Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, This is Crazy: Criminalizing Mental Illness, Racism is Real, and To Prison for Poverty