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  • HFPA

HFPA-World Bank Global Forum: Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls Through Edutainment

After a very successful start of the collaboration between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and the World Bank this past July, where the panelists included Sharon Stone, Madeline Di Nonno and Christopher Bailey, among others, we are proud to announce that the second part of what will become a series is taking place today, December 8. The topic of today’s discussion is “Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls Through Edutainment.
  • Industry

Global Challenges Require Global Solutions: Can Content Creators Make a Difference?

It’s almost 70 years since the term ‘edutainment’ was created by Walt Disney to describe True-Life Adventures, a series of short and full-length documentaries released between 1948 and 1960. Edutainment has been in place for centuries before that though nowadays vital issues are discussed not only through books, but via films, television, museum exhibits, games, social media platforms, and even in Metaverse via various special projects in VR and AR.
  • HFPA

The HFPA And World Bank Announce Global Forum Panelists on Edutainment

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and the Narrating Behavior Change Program of the World Bank announced the panelists participating in the first in a series of Global Forums focused on the growth of edutainment programming around the world and the use of entertainment media with educational objectives. Educational entertainment programming was first coined by Walt Disney in 1954, but its roots go all the way back in history with writers using literary devices to convey meaning and to educate on important issues of the day.