Take Action

Make your own multimedia mashups, perhaps featuring people from your school or community or
exploring a current event or issue.
Offer a workshop on video editing that also explores the tensions between free culture, copyright laws and the ethics of digital sampling.
Create a fund and/or sponsor a showcase to support promising musicians in your community.
Host an intergenerational dialogue between grandparents and grandchildren to explore issues raised by life in the digital world, e.g., what is and isn't acceptable to share publicly; the differences between fame (or "likes") and accomplishment; and the qualities of in-person as opposed to screen-mediated interactions.
Invite successful working musicians to talk with youth audiences about what it takes to make it in the music business beyond a good voice or talent. What music skills are needed? How about business skills?

The film, which had a brief theatrical release last year, is a feel-good story for the age of viral video.

— Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

You couldn't ask for a more compelling doc subject than Shaw.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone

It's a lovely tale, even if it's not quite the Cinderella story you might expect.

— Stephanie Merry, The Washington Post

The astounding and thoroughly inspirational account of an artistic collaboration between an Israeli remix artist and an obscure, yet undeniably talented New Orleans-based vocalist he discovered half a world away, Presenting Princess Shaw puts talk-show fairy godmothers Ellen or Oprah to shame.

— Peter Debruge, Variety

This should go without saying, but these days it doesn't: Ido Haar's globe-straddling crowd-pleaser of a doc, Presenting Princess Shaw, showcases real footage of the key moments of the story that it's telling. That's a joy and a thrill.

— Alan Scherstuhl, L.A. Weekly