[applause] All right, let's start. uh when we talk about like content matters for shaping social behavior, it means that uh in my talk next 15 minutes probably we're going to talk about content which is the most interesting part right now for uh every person who is exposed to entertainment and definitely we will talk about society social change norms stuff like that. So think about 30 years back '90s Bangladesh experienced number of public health issues which was really really critical to manage and that ma ...

[Applause] There's an African proverb that says, "If you know someone's story, you cannot harm them. " I feel that in my three decades as a filmmaker, a media educator, and a public television producer, director, and executive producer, I've tried to harness the empathy machine that is cinema to center our shared humanity. But in over a century of moving image media, it's done as much damage and destruction as it has good. This can be seen in a range of work from Hollywood's first feature film, 1915's The B ...