About Us

About the Festival

The Global Media Festival or GMF is an annual film and lecture series established in 2017 by faculty from Georgia Tech’s School of Modern Languages (ML). It has grown into an across-school and interdisciplinary event led by ML faculty with collaborators from School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), School of History and Sociology (HSOC), Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC), Brook Byers Ins􀀃tute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS), Center for Sustainable Communities Research & Education (SCoRE), GT Library, and China Research Center (CRC), among other community partners like the Carter Center and King Center. GMF focuses on sustainability themes and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across languages and cultures. It aims to foster a deeper understanding of pressing global sustainability issues and raise Georgia Tech’s profile as a global leader in the study and promo􀀃on of sustainability.

Although sustainability is a driving force behind many global agendas for the future, each society adopts and interprets sustainability according to its different cultural and linguistic resources. The Global Media Festival uses the study of media productions from different cultures around the world to compare how different societies adopt, implement, re-frame or defy sustainability. Throughout, we emphasize the culturally-specific conventions and protocols that each society adopts to respond to particular expectations, legacies, habits, and aspirations. We aim to educate viewers to become thoughtful global citizens by developing awareness of others’ needs and viewpoints.

The Global Media Festival supports Georgia Tech’s strategic vision for the 21st Century of educating “good global citizens” by providing an important global forum for discussing how societies around the world make key decisions in the present while imagining the future.

If you are interested in collaborating with the Global Media Festival or sponsoring any events, please contact Festival Director Jin Liu at jin.liu@modlangs.gatech.edu

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