Tiffany Shlain comes to BYOD to bring her message of Inter-Dependence and discuss filming her family in her doc, “Connected.”
Her work on the web founding the Webbys, and her “Digital-Hippie” philosophy is articulated clearly, as is the release and re-release of her films. She shines as a media presence on this full length interview.

Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, artist, founder of The Webby Awards, and co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and was recently the campus-wide commencement speaker for UCBerkeley.
Her films have been selected at over 100 film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and Rotterdam, have won 30 awards including Audience and Grand Jury Prizes, been translated into 8 languages, and been shown at museums including LACMA and Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. Tiffany’s films are a fusion of documentary and narrative and are known for their whimsical yet provocative approach to unraveling complicated subjects like politics, cultural identity, technology and science. Her films include Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness about reproductive rights in America, and The Tribe, an exploration of American Jewish identity through the history of the Barbie doll, the first documentary short to become the #1 on iTunes. She recently made, Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, about our addiction to technology and the importance of occasionally “unplugging,’ which was selected as finalist for Guggenheim Museum & Youtube’s YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video and for Sundance 2011.
Her feature documentary, Connected, premiered in the US Documentary Competition at Sundance 2011 and was selected by the US State Dept and USC for the 2012 American Film Showcase. She was the only director to have two films at Sundance in 2011. Connected had its theatrical run in the fall of 2011. The Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences recently acquired the script for Connected to be part of their permanent Core Collection. Her video art installation, “Smashing,” with artist and husband Professor Ken Goldberg, premiered in NYC at the Pulse Contemporary Art Fair.