[mission]
The Institute for Cinematic Arts, Inc., offers educational and cultural arts programming that empowers individuals and communities to tell impactful stories via video media. We believe in the power of moving images to elevate audiences, foster community, and create opportunity.
Our mission is to leverage the power of the moving image to empower the next generation of visual storytellers and to build community and opportunity with innovative media.
[programs]
We offer educational programming—workshops, seminars, and intensives—that help individuals learn to tell impactful stories through video.
IMMERSIVES
Engaging, interactive experiences combining video and performance to transport participants.
EDUCATION
Hands-on learning for creative visual storytelling with practical experience and expert guidance.
INCUBATOR
Supporting emerging festival organizers with resources, mentorship, and funding.
EXPO
A platform for emerging visual storytellers and creative expression.
[team]
We are change makers and status quo-rejectors who have spent our lives and careers fostering community, through nonprofits and social entrepreneurship.
[ethos]
CORE VALUES
Our core values—Transparency, Accountability, Efficiency, and Impact—led us to create ICA. They inform everything we do and how we do it.
12 PRINCIPLES
At ICA, we embrace twelve principles that guide our organizational behavior:
Do the right things the right way for the right reasons.
Share your successes; own your failures.
Growth requires change.
If you don’t know, ask.
Mistakes are forgivable, as long as they’re new.
Challenge assumptions.
The best idea wins.
Data begets information; information begets knowledge; knowledge begets insight; insight begets wisdom; wisdom begets impact.
Never stop learning.
Hire for values; train for skills.
Celebrate diversity.
If you can’t be replaced, then you can’t be promoted.