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FESTIVAL NEWS
Meet Our Partners!
Each year Media That Matters™ partners with organizations committed to providing the world with quality media, that matters. Meet our 11th annual partners and check out the exciting events and projects they are working on.
BAVC
The Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC (pronounced “bay-vac”), is a nonprofit media arts center founded in 1976 by a coalition of media makers and activists who wanted to find alternative, civic-minded applications for a new technology - PortaPak video. BAVC’s continuing mission is to inspire social change by enabling the sharing of diverse stories through art, education and technology. BAVC does this by annually serving 5,000 independent media artists, including low-income_students, adults in the industry, social issue documentary filmmakers, San Francisco cable access producers, and 600 community members.
BAVC’s Next Gen programs empowers teens by providing access and training in audio, video and new media in order so the next generation gain industry standard skills, become confident storytellers, gain college readiness skills, engage with their community and social justice practices, and increase opportunities for their future career goals. Check out the following web native shorts BAVC Next Gen has recently produced:
Cultivating Community
Inspire USA
History In These Streets
Creative Growth
Center for Social Media
The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action—media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share. We pay particular attention to the evolution of documentary film and video in a digital era, as well as promotion of best practices in fair use for creative communities. Save the date February 10 and 11, 2012 for our seventh annual Media That Matters conference in Washington, D.C., co-presented by Arts Engine. Visit the Center’s website to see video from past conferences and read our Pull Focus series for insights from world-renowned social documentary filmmakers.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous
support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as members of the public.
For more information, visit Creative Commons.
For three days from 16-18 September 2011, the Creative Commons Global
Summit, Powering an Open Future, will bring together the CC community
in Warsaw, Poland, to engage strategically on the future of our shared
commons, to renew and further build CC’s vital community, to
collaborate on mutual projects and initiatives, and to celebrate our
successes as we head towards the end of our first decade together. For
more information, visit
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Global_Summit_2011 and follow
#ccsummit2011 on social media.
Docurama Films
Docurama Films is dedicated to making critically acclaimed and cutting-edge documentaries available digitally and on home video. In 1999, New Video launched Docurama Films with the release of the first feature documentary on DVD, D.A. Pennebaker’s Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back. Over a decade later and a line of over 250 award-winning and highly acclaimed documentary titles, Docurama continues its mission to unearth and release the great classic documentaries of the last fifty years while spreading the word about filmmakers who are taking the form to new heights. The Docurama catalog features a wide span of titles from varying genres including the arts, history/politics, environmental, ethnic interest, LGBT, music, and socio-cultural as well as theatrical fan-favorites like The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hilland Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides. Highly anticipated releases in 2010 include the screwball comedy The Yes Men Fix the World, the empowering music celebration Soundtrack for a Revolution and the crowd-pleasing Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg.
For more information, visit Docurama Films
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading organizations dedicated to defending a protecting Human Rights. Through the Human Rights Watch Film Festival we bear witness to human rights violations and create a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference. The film festival brings to life human rights abuses through storytelling in a way that challenges each individual to empathize and demand justice for all people.
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival takes place in New York, London and in over 40 other sites across North America and beyond through our Traveling Film Festival. To bring the Human Rights Watch Film Festival to your town, please visit: http://www.hrw.org/iff/traveling-festival
We are currently accepting film submissions for our New York (June 2012) and London (March 2012) festivals. Our deadline is December 10, 2011. To submit your feature length film, please visit: http://www.hrw.org/iff/submissions
The National Association for Media Literacy Education
The National Association for Media Literacy Education is a nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to expand and improve the practice of media literacy education in the United States. NAMLE has drafted the Core Principles of Media Literacy Education, a blueprint for media literacy education and implications for practice, as a first step in the development of measurable outcomes and benchmarks for U.S. schools and publishes the Journal for Media Literacy Education.
For more information, visit www.NAMLE.net.
Ninth Street
Ninth Street Independent Film Center is a San Francisco nonprofit media arts center designed to support media arts projects—from world-renowned international film festivals to individual media artists. Providing below market rent, and shared resources, Ninth Street also creates collaborative program opportunities through exhibitions and youth media education. Sharing resources to save on costs, programming has been designed to meet the needs of our partners, thus providing better services to our respective communities.
For more information, visit Ninth Street
The Paley Center
“The Paley Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. Drawing upon its curatorial expertise, an international collection, and close relationships with the leaders of the media community, the Paley Center examines the intersections between media and society. The general public can access the collection of nearly 150,000 programs covering almost 100 years of television and radio history, including news, public affairs programs and documentaries, performing arts programs, children’s programming, sports, comedy and variety shows, and commercial advertising. and participate in programs that explore and celebrate the creativity, the innovations, the personalities, and the leaders who are shaping media. Previously known as The Museum of Television & Radio, the Paley Center was founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, a pioneering innovator in the industry.”
On Thursday, October 20, 2011 The Paley Center’s Education Department will present Docu-Jam 2011 with DCTV.
Come see outstanding documentaries produced by young people across the country.
The eleventh Annual Docu-Jam is a unique youth documentary showcase presented by The Paley Center for Media, in association with Downtown Community Television Center in New York, as part of its PALEYDOCFEST2011. Selected short documentaries are screened at PALEYDOCFEST2011, and will become part of the Center’s permanent collection. The screenings will be followed by an informal Q&A.
Free to Members; included with general admission.
In association with Downtown Community Television New York
For more information, visit The Paley Center
POV
Produced by American Documentary, POV is American television’s longest-running showcase for independent documentary storytelling, premiering 14-16 films each year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has brought more than 300 acclaimed documentaries to public television audiences across the country.
POV films are known for their intimacy, their unforgettable storytelling and their timeliness, putting a human face on contemporary social issues. POV films have won every major film and broadcasting award including 23 Emmys, 13 George Foster Peabody Awards, 10 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Awards, three Academy Awards and
the Prix-Italia
Each year, POV’s Community Engagement Department produces over 500 community screenings of POV films in all 50 states. If you’re interested in organizing a POV screening join our Community Network at www.pbs.org/pov/outreach/.
This year, POV piloted Project VoiceScape a partnership with Adobe Youth Voices, PBS Foundation and POV a program to mentor today’s best young documentary filmmakers. The young filmmakers who won production grants are now competing for the 2011 Project VoiceScape Audience Award. Watch the films and vote for your favorite before 9/30! http://www.pbs.org/pov/voicescape
Rooftop Films
Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization whose mission is to engage and inspire diverse communities by showing movies in outdoor locations, producing new films, teaching filmmaking to young people, and renting low-cost equipment to artists and non-profits. At Rooftop Films, we bring underground movies outdoors
But Rooftop Films is more than a film festival. We are a community. We are a collective collaboration between filmmakers and festivals, between audience members and artists, between venues and neighborhoods. Our goal is to nurture a vibrant independent filmmaking community not only by exhibiting the work of low-budget filmmakers but also by providing essential support systems for those who otherwise have none. Rooftop Films is keeping this vital mode of filmmaking alive and well in New York City and beyond.
For more information, visit Rooftop Films
Shooting People
Founded by filmmakers for 60 filmmaker friends, Shooting People started in the belief that the best way to get independent films made and out into the world was to learn from others doing it themselves. And to share ideas, collaborators, knowledge picked up from shoots and other film experiences back in return. Now, 13 years on, with 38,000 members and over 200 new crew and cast joining every week, this core principal remains the same and as important as ever.
Independent filmmaking can be a pretty tough business. But it’s also a pretty exciting business right now. And Shooters are doing great things; creating distinctive bold films that are breaking out, defying old paradigms to find new audiences, trying out fresh-fangled cameras and aesthetics, creating alternate models for funding and exploring different ideas to create sustainable careers.
For more information, visit Shooting People
SOCDOC
The MFA program in Social Documentary Film at the School of VISUAL ARTS provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals of non-fiction filmmaking, as well as an immersion into the critical and analytical
processes necessary to conceptualize and develop film projects with content of significant social relevance. This program represents the convergence of journalism, social activism and the art of filmmaking.
For more information, visit SOCDOC
Tribeca Film Institute Youth Programs
Since 2005, TFI has utilized the power of film to help harness and direct the energy, vision and promise of New York City’s middle and high school students. Through a broad range of programming, students have the opportunity learn more about film and to use film to think about their own lives, stories, communities and careers. Program offerings include the Tribeca Film Fellows, Summer Arts Institute, and Tribeca Youth Screening Series programs.
For more information, visit Tribeca Film Institute Youth Programs
World Savvy
World Savvy prepares the next generation of leaders to thrive as responsible global citizens in the 21st century. We are a national leader and model for promoting and developing global competency in K-12 teaching and learning, through the provision of high quality global education programs and services. We support systemic change in K-12 education to provide every student in every classroom with the content knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to be leaders and changemakers in their diverse communities, locally and globally. The services we provide include: 1) Youth Engagement: World Affairs ChallengeTM and Media & Arts Program offer dynamic academic and media & art programming for middle and high school youth; 2) Professional Development for educators; 3) Customized Consulting for schools and educational/cultural institutions; and 4) Educational Resources for educators across disciplines.
Upcoming events:
Sustainable Communities Professional Development Institute for Educators
Join World Savvy for our Sustainable Communities Institute to explore the political, environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions of sustainability from a local to a global level. This two day workshop will model a variety of interactive teaching and learning strategies to connect with Common Core Standards and engage diverse students in an examination of issues such as sustainable development, energy, food, water, transport and design on a local, national and global scale. We invite middle and high school social studies, science, math, language and creative arts teachers, school administrators, non-profit leaders working with youth, and graduate students interested in global education to join us. All attendees qualify for FREE participation in our Media & Arts Program or World Savvy Challenge.
New York City – October 11-12
San Francisco Bay Area – October 17-18
Minneapolis-St. Paul – October 20-21
Working Films
Linking nonfiction film to cutting edge activism. Working Films brings the persuasive, provocative and personal narratives in independent documentary films – vividly illustrating the struggles and triumphs of our lives – to long-term community organizing and activism. Our services include comprehensive social-issue documentary campaign management, intensive and grounded residencies for filmmakers on engagement and non-traditional distribution, strategy meetings with leading NGOs and activists that tie their commitment to your film, and consultation on social media and websites delivering authentic “take actions” for audiences. We are a unique link between independent media makers, community organizers and the audiences who need to see your movie.
Now in our eleventh year, we remain committed to using film to support a less cynical, less toxic, more equitable and joyous world. Working Films is headquartered in Wilmington, NC with satellite offices in New York and London.
For more information, visit Working Films
Upcoming related Working Films events:
Good Pitch San Francisco
Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, in partnership with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
September 27
San Francisco, CA
Meet & Greet with Gen Silent filmmaker Stu Maddux
September 29 at 7pm
Wilmington, NC
Story Leads to Action at the 92Y Tribeca
Co-hosted with Chicken & Egg Pictures
Semper Fi: Always Faithful with Tony Hardmon and Rachel Libert
October 20 at 7pm
200 Hudson Street, New York City
Good Pitch Europe
Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, in partnership with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
October 25
London, United Kingdom
DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival
What Happens When the Tea Party Joins Your Party?
Panel discussion centered on The Greater Good
November 4 at 2:30pm
IFC Center, New York City
Reel Food: Residential Workshop
Co-hosted with Chicken & Egg Pictures and the Fledgling Fund
November 5 – 9
Oakland, CA
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Published on September 16, 2011
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