Filming in Guatemala

Intent on spreading good ideas and positive media around the globe, Actuality Media is kicking off a three-country Central America summer tour just a week after becoming a Certified B Corporation^TM and just two weeks before finding out if the company will be honored by Go Abroad as an innovative new program in the study abroad field.

The Summer Outreaches start with a return to Guatemala, filming for the first time in the mountain city of Quetzaltenango – a city full of nonprofits, social entrepreneurs and other changemakers that will no doubt herald many return visits in years to come. Afterwards the staff head to Costa Rica for the first time to meet up with new crews looking to film eco-centered changemakers. Last of the summer will be a return to Nicaragua for the first outreach in León, a once war-torn northern city.

Though Actuality Media is happy to embody a drive to change the world with international outreaches and other programs, the organization has gone a step further to become a  Certified B Corporation^TM. B Corporations are a new kind of company which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems; companies that meet higher standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. As of January 2012, there are over 515 Certified B Corporations from over 50 industries, representing a diverse multi-billion marketplace, and we are glad to join their ranks.

While the Actuality Media staff are on the ground in Guatemala, they will be eagerly awaiting news at the end of May from the GoAbroad Innovation Awards ceremony at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators Annual Conference in Houston, Texas. Actuality Media is currently honored to be listed amongst several other great programs as finalists in the Innovative New Program – Internship category.

Actuality Media is a social enterprise that creates positive media. Actuality Media outreaches take top students to developing communities around the world to produce short documentaries that tell stories that matter about changemakers working to solve chronic social problems. For more information visit www.actualitymedia.org.

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Actuality Media is a for-impact organization that takes media students on outreaches to developing communities around the world. On the ground, students work in crews to research, write, shoot and edit a short documentary that tells the story of a changemaker who is working in new ways to combat chronic social problems. Actuality Media’s motto: “Make movies. Change the world.”

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