Tiffany Shlain is an
American filmmaker and founder of the
Webby Awards.
Shlain founded the Webby Awards in 1996 and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 1998.[1] In 2006, she co-founded The Moxie Institute with her husband, UC Berkeley professor, Ken Goldberg.[2] From 2000 to 2003, Shlain made appearances on Good Morning America to discuss the Internet.[2] Shlain has been recognized by Newsweek as "one of the women shaping the 21st century."[3]
A daughter of Dr. Leonard Shlain (1937-2009), Tiffany Shlain studied film theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated as valedictorian in 1992. She later studied film production at New York University.[2] Shlain's films include The Tribe and Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, which have been selected for inclusion at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Rotterdam Film Festival.[2] The Tribe won Indiewire's Sundance Critics' Choice Award for 2006[4] and in October 2007 was the most-downloaded short film on iTunes.[5]
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