Share the love and let’s dance.

We’re thrilled to share the love with you this Valentine’s Day.

Why?

Today is One Billion Rising, a call for one billion women and men to get up, walk out of their schools, offices and homes – and dance! Hundreds of events will dot the globe in an estimated 205 countries today, marking a day of action – and dancing – to protest violence against women and girls.

And we’ve certainly got our dancing shoes on today. During the filming of Girl Rising, we traveled around the world to meet hundreds of incredible girls and hear their stories. While setting up for interviews, we’d often ask if they liked to dance – and not only did they like to dance, but showed us how. Check out our Let’s Dance! video to see some of our favorite dance moves. If you look closely, you’ll even see some of the Girl Rising filmmakers and writers:

The movement is happening - both on the global dance floor and with the momentum leading up to the Girl Rising premiere on March 7th. With over 500 screenings in the works around the United States, it’s time to reserve your ticket. Find a screening near you and make sure to reserve your seat today.

January 28, 2013

Highlights from Sundance

Last week, in Park City, Utah, the 10×10 team revealed an exciting sneak peak of the Girl Rising documentary, kick-starting a week abuzz with anticipation about the film’s premiere on March 7th.

Morgan Spurlock at the Girl Rising preview at Sundance. For more photos, click here.

10 x 10 hosted a panel in which we discussed everything from the creation of our film to our innovative crowdsourced distribution model with Gathr films. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to our panelists, who all exhibited an extraordinary amount of passion and perspective throughout the discussion.

From left to right: Tom Yellin (Executive Producer of Girl Rising) Shelly Esque (VP of Corporate Affairs, Intel), Bonnie Benjamin-Pharris (Director at Vulcan Productions), Richard Robbins (Director of Girl Rising), and Sumathi (Su) Balasubramanian (Program Offer of Adolescent Girls at the United Nations Foundation), Holly Gordon (Executive Director of 10×10), Scott Glausserman (Founder & CEO of Gathr Films). For more photos, click here.

The panel was then followed by an incredible event in the evening, hosted by our strategic partner Intel, where we debuted our official trailer and screened the Peru chapter of Girl Rising to a packed house!

Packed house at the Girl Rising sneak peek preview. For more photos, click here.

Sundance was an enormous success for Girl Rising, which makes an insurmountable difference in our mission to increase awareness about global female empowerment and education through the narrative of nine inspiring girls. We couldn’t be more proud of Girl Rising, and all of the people involved in its making. The countdown to our theatrical release on March 7th has officially begun!

Freida Pinto speaking on behalf of Girl Rising. For more photos, click here.

Click here for more pictures, and check out a re-cap of our press coverage below:

iQ by Intel, Sundance 2013: How Intel Aims to Change the World Through Film

Seventeen, Must-see movie: girl rising!

Huffington Post, Gordon Brown, Girl Rising: 2013 and the New Power of the World’s Young Women: From Demure to Defiant

New York Times Carpetbagger Blog, Making a Film a Philanthropic Event

Indiewire, Sophia Savage, Watch: Trailer for Girl Empowerment Doc “Girl Rising” Narrated by Streep, Blanchett, Hathaway, Hayek, Moretz, Neeson & More

Hollywood Reporter, Daniel Miller, Sundance 2013: CNN Films Announces Three Documentaries,

Mediabistro, Chris Ariens, CNN is a Buyer at Sundance

CNN, CNN Films Announces Acquisitions Production Deals at Sundance

Deadline, Dominic Patten, Sundance: CNN Films Makes Buying Debut; Announces Trio of Documentaries

The Credits, A Q&A with Girl Rising Director Richard E. Robbins

PR Newswire, Girl Rising Releases Theatrical Trailer Following Film Preview at Sundance

AP, Sandy Cohen, `Girl Rising’ spotlights need for girls’ educationAFP, Glenn Chapman, Online crowd powers “Girl Rising” film debut

AFP (Spanish Version), Glenn Chapman, Audiencia virtual para potenciar el estreno de “Girl Rising” en Sundance

January 20, 2013

Girl Rising heads to Sundance

The 10×10 team is headed to the Sundance Film Festival this week for some special events and announcements.

On Monday January 21st, we’ll be hosting a panel to discuss how 10×10 is breaking new ground by activating a network of strategic partnerships to produce our major motion picture, Girl Rising, and drive social change. In the evening our strategic partner, Intel, will host a very special event where we’ll have a sneak peak at one of the chapters of Girl Rising and we will reveal our official Girl Rising trailer. With special guests Freida Pinto and Edwidge Danticat.

Follow us on Facebook, @10x10act on Twitter, and @10x10act on Instagram for live updates during the events! Get ready to be inspired by a film about changing the world…one girl at a time.

#WhereisGirlRising #Sundance2013

December 17, 2012

Girl Rising is here!

We are proud to announce that Girl Rising, the film at the center of the 10×10 campaign, will be released on the eve of International Women’s Day – March 7, 2013.

Girl Rising, from Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins with voice performances by Meryl Streep, Priyanka Chopra, Alicia Keys, Kerry Washington, Selena Gomez and other acclaimed actors, journeys around the globe to witness the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world.

Check out the film teaser:

Girl Rising spotlights the stories of unforgettable girls born into unforgiving circumstances. It puts a face on the 66 million girls around the world who only dream of going to school.

What’s so exciting about the release of Girl Rising is that we are putting the POWER IN YOUR HANDS to screen the film at your local movie theater. Our partner, on-demand theater distribution platform Gathr, makes it easy for you to do so – by becoming a Movie Captain:

Go to Gathr.us/films/Girl-Rising and click on the “Gathr a Screening” button.
Fill out the short form, including your contact information, as well as the date, time, and screening location.
If we can grant your screening request, you’ll be notified by email, and you’ll receive a link to your screening page.
Recruit your friends, family and colleagues to join you at the screening. You can share news about it – and fill seats – by participating in our #WhereIsGirlRising social media campaign

Once enough people express support for your screening on Gathr, the screening is “tipped” and voila! You have an amazing movie on its way to you – and a theater filled with friends eager to see Girl Rising.

This is a beautiful and important film – one that stands on its own as great cinema. Yet it also carries a powerful message: if we educate girls, we can change the world.

Collective action can lead to powerful change. So join us and Gathr a Girl Rising screening.

#WhereIsGirlRising – make it your city!

November 15, 2012

Azure Antoinette speaks on International Day of the Girl

In honor of Thanksgiving, we bring to you Commissioned Poet and Writer Azure Antoinette. Azure, a 10×10 Global Ambassador, gave a passionate and inspiring performance at our campaign launch last month, held at the Paley Center on the first International Day of the Girl.

We are releasing it here, for the world to see:

She reminds us to dream big and be thankful for what we have – including the ability to inspire change. She beautifully articulates the importance of educating girls, which can help secure a better world for us all.

Azure is a notable force in the arts and women/girl empowerment world. She founded an arts-in-education program that provides custom poetry workshops for teen girls, teaching them how they can impact the world around them. Named among Forbes Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, she is someone worth hearing – and sharing!

Watch, get inspired, and share this video with friends so they can become part of the growing 10×10 movement to educate girls and change the world.

November 9, 2012

Shabana Basij-Rasikh speaks on International Day of the Girl

Last month, on the eve of the International Day of the Girl, 10×10 brought together an inspiring group of women to share their stories, celebrate the girl, and officially kick off the 10×10 campaign. Today, we’re unveiling one of those talks from a courageous young woman named Shabana Basij-Rasikh:

Shabana recounted her story for 10×10 coincidentally on the day after the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan. Shabana was just six years old when the Taliban took power in her native Afghanistan and banned women and girls from school. Still, she managed to get an education by dressing as a boy and attending a secret school.

She went on to study at Middlebury College, where she graduated at the top of her class. Shabana is now Managing Director of SOLA (School of Leadership, Afghanistan), a nonprofit that helps exceptional young Afghan women access education worldwide and jobs back home.

Please take a few minutes to watch and share her incredible story.