The 2001 GLOBAL GOALS CONFERENCE at Cannes, France will be an interactive "goal-storming" session conducted by NYU Professor Jeremy Wiesen on:

1. Can the American movie industry's focus on "action" movies be attributed to factors outside the industry's control, such as:
   
   
1. Children’s easy access to "action" T.V. programs
2. U.S. parenting habits, such as limited intellectual discourse
3. Structure of movie "deal-making"
4. Competency in digital special effects
5. Lack of art film houses and festivals
   
   
2. Can films play a role in the following global challenges:
   
   
1. Peer pressure and peer bullying have surfaced as major causes of adolescent wrongdoing and adult problems.
2. Dramatic extentions to human lifespan can be achieved through greater public funding.
3. In the U.S. a new isolationism has witnessed and permitted genocidal massacres in the 1990s in Eastern Europe and Africa.
4. Small, polarized, vocal groups exert disproportionate influence over foreign policy in most countries whether despotic or democratic ("the squeaky wheel gets the most oil").
   
   
3. Can global business organizations be more responsive to "constituencies?"
   
   
4. Other significant global issues of interest to participants.

The Global Goals Institute is an unaffiliated non-profit organization that seeks innovative solutions to important and unaddressed world problems. GGI has held conferences in 2001 in Palm Beach, Florida and New York City (see attached news reports).
 

For time and place CONTACT:

JEREMY WIESEN at Hotel Renoir, 7, rue Edith Cavell
Tel: 4 92 99 62 62
Fax: 4 92 99 62 82
Email: Renoir@worldnet.fr
 

THE GLOBAL GOALS INSTITUTE is an unaffiliated organization whose purpose is to generate innovative solutions to important and unaddressed world issues that are not represented by an effective constituency.  GGI was founded by Dr. Christian Kling and Professor Jeremy Wiesen of NYU’s Stern School of Business, a Board Member of the Hamptons International Film Festival who was Chairman and Co-CEO of Financial News Network (acquired by CNBC). Funding is provided by a private foundation.  Materials are Copyright THE GLOBAL GOALS INSTITUTE.