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REACT to FILM (RtF) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that showcases the best documentary films to activate young people around critical social issues. (RtF tax-exempt status granted under rule 501c3, effective October 15, 2010.)

History
REACT to FILM was co-founded by Coralie and Dennis Paul. After a chance meeting in Los Angeles in 2004 with director Zana Briski, Dennis and Coralie organized a screening at SoHo House (where they were founding members) for her film Born into Brothels to ask press/influencers to REACT to this film and help Zana raise funds to build a school for the children profiled in the film. This was the birth of the REACT to FILM Influencer/Press Screening Series, which was formalized prior to the couple hosting the New York premiere of Food, Inc. in June 2009, with best-selling author and executive producer Eric Schlosser present for a Q&A moderated by Coralie. This series has since expanded from New York to Washington DC, Los Angeles and Miami. The REACT to FILM Influencer /Press Series presents the best documentary films to an intimate, influential audience to encourage them to take action on critical social issues. Directly following each screening, REACT to FILM facilitates a Q&A discussion forum between the audience and the film's director/producer to explore the power the audiences' actions can have on the presented issue.

High School Program
Realizing that the press and influencers could only do so much to drive for social change, in early 2011, REACT to FILM brought on board Lindsey Jacobson, a community organizer based in Seattle, WA to help create and direct an intensive high school education program. The high school education program seeks to integrate the films that are showcased into the curriculum at public high schools, with the goal of creating the next generation of social activists. From a single school pilot in the spring of 2011 at the Kingsbury public charter school in Washington, DC, the RtF High School Program has now been accepted by leading school networks such as Achievement First and KIPP and is being taught in six public schools in Boston, New Haven, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Washington. More high schools are being added. The RtF High School Program integrates RtF’s roster of award-winning documentary films into curriculum by showing a film related to the students' course work in conjunction with visual organizers, REACTion activities, group projects and homework assignments. REACT to FILM works with the teachers and students throughout implementation of the module to help the students plan an action campaign to make a difference on the issue. Modules culminate in a student led presentation to the larger school community, urging action on the issue.

College Action Network
During the spring of 2011, REACT to FILM added Dahlia Graham to help create and direct the new RtF College Action Network to take the RtF films onto campuses to call collegiate youth to action on critical social issues. The RtF CAN launched on September 21, 2011 at the American University in Washington, DC with a pre-release screening of Danfung Dennis’ “Hell and Back Again”. Subsequent screenings followed over the course of several days at various colleges where 25 RtF CAN chapters have been established, with the goal being to raise awareness for veterans issues and then ask civilian students to volunteer with their local campus veterans group, to help narrow the gap between the 1% of the US population that serves in the military, and the remaining 99%, a gap that is particularly pronounced at colleges across the country. In this manner, the RtF College Action Network is taking RtF’s call-to-action approach to America’s collegiate youth by informing them about a current, critical social issue, providing a forum for stimulating dialogue on their campuses, and then enabling the RTF CAN Chapter Leaders to facilitate social action, so students can improve the world around them.

Board Members
REACT to FILM board members are influential business people, professors, artists, activists and filmmakers.

Board of Directors

 * Nik Apostolides, Secretary
 * Colter van Domelen
 * Tiffany Liston
 * Coralie Charriol Paul, President
 * Dennis Paul, Chairman

Film Advisory Board

 * Danfung Dennis
 * Zana Briski
 * Josh Fox
 * Lee Hirsch
 * Susan Norget
 * Madeleine Sackler
 * Eric Schlosser
 * Ku-Ling Siegel
 * Charles Thompson
 * Lucy Walker

Education Advisory Board

 * Brooke Carnot
 * Elsa Crowley
 * Professor Meredith Martin
 * Peter Saunders
 * Professor Howard Weinberg
 * Mieka Wick

Business Advisory Board

 * Dan Cogan
 * Sarah Holbrooke
 * Stephanie Hubbard
 * Jo Infantolino
 * Dini von Meuffling
 * Sam Raeburn
 * Charles Rockefeller
 * David Rothschild
 * Jasper van Santen
 * Lily Johnson White

Documentary Films Showcased

 * Born into Brothels (HBO/Cinemax Documentary, 2004)
 * The Flute Player (Over the Moon Productions, 2003)
 * Food, Inc. (Magnolia Pictures,2008)
 * End of the Line (Docurama, 2009)
 * Let’s Talk About Sex (Fine Line Features, 2010)
 * Gasland (New Video Group, 2010)
 * Countdown to Zero (Magnolia Pictures, 2010)
 * The Lottery (Varience Films, 2010)
 * Wasteland (Arthouse films, 2010)
 * Hell and Back Again (Docurama Films, 2011)
 * Buck (Sundance Selects, 2011)
 * The Last Mountain (Dada Films 2011)
 * Poster Girl (Portrayal Films Production, 2011)
 * Living for 32 (Cuomo Cole Productions, 2010)
 * Hot Coffee (HBO Documentary Films, 2011)
 * Miss Representation (Girl’s Club Entertainment, 2011)
 * The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (Goldcrest Films, 2011)
 * The Interrupters (Kartemquin Films, 2011)
 * The Greater Good (BNP Pictures, 2011)
 * Jesus Was a Commie (Cinco Dedos Películas, 2011)
 * Vlast (Power) (MercuryMedia International, 2010)