Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S), a program of the USC Annenberg School’s Norman Lear Center, announces a call for entries for the 13th annual Sentinel for Health Awards. The deadline for all entries is June 15, 2012. The Sentinel for Health Awards, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
“Doc McStuffins” is a new animated show for the Disney Junior channel, and is it any wonder that it’s a big hit (check out all the rave comments from parents on Twitter—#DocMcStuffins) when it came right from the heart of executive producer Chris Nee? Nee created the show in response…
Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington will deliver a presentation at the Cause Placement 2012 conference titled “Entertaining Health: Inspiring Hollywood to Create Stories That Change Lives” in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 11. The conference, which connects entertainment and causes, will “offer new insights and strategy, and…
Check out our edited video report on the Storybus Tour that explored the NASA-JPL facility in Pasadena on Oct. 25, 2012, when Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington led a group of writers and producers on an exclusive look at how climate change is affecting…
Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington delivered the introductory remarks at a Sept. 28 premiere of three short films on drug and alcohol addiction and recovery, saying that they marked a departure from the dusty portrayals once so prevalent in the recovery community. “The films shown at…
HH&S Director Sandra de Castro Buffington was recently interviewed for a BBC News radio report on the impact that soap operas and serial dramas have had in changing the world, providing what the BBC News website called “educational entertainment—a blend of public service messages and melodrama—that has enraptured millions of…
The Vaccines and New Media “Film Festival” featured a keynote address by Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington on working with scriptwriters to create global health storylines. Her talk, presented March 16 in Washington, D.C., featured clips of TV storylines created with HH&S input, including vaccines on…
NBC’s Parenthood took first place in Primetime Drama (Major Storyline) at the 12th annual Sentinel for Health Awards ceremony, held Sept. 27 at the Writers Guild of America, West. The awards were presented on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and hosted by the Hollywood, Health & Society, a…
HH&S Director Sandra de Castro Buffington talked about the power of storytelling to change lives during an interview that’s included in the film Poor Consuelo Conquers the World, a documentary about entertainment that connects with audiences—in the form of soap operas, telenovelas and radionovelas—with the goal of bringing about global social…
The new issue of Written By, the magazine of the Writers Guild of America, West, has a good profile of Dr. Neal Baer, which talks about his advocacy for social change and his role in creating the Storybus Tour, the signature program of Hollywood, Health & Society that…
