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Don Cheadle’s “Envision” Keynote Address on Sustainability and Activist Filmmaking

by Dan Schoenbrun on May 2, 2012 in Production

Actor Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) delivers the closing keynote address from Envision 2012: Stories for a Sustainable Future.

Here, he discusses his career, issues of sustainability, and the merits of social issue filmmaking.

Envision 2012 was presented by IFP, the United Nations Department of Public Information, and the Ford Foundation on 4/17/12.

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