http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news en theresa@artsengine.net Copyright 2012 2012-05-01T15:12:24+00:00 http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/media_that_matters_shorts_part_of_in_the_life_media_transgender_film_video_/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/media_that_matters_shorts_part_of_in_the_life_media_transgender_film_video_/#When:20:14:03Z Last week, In The Life Media and Arts Engine cohosted an evening of transgender film and video shorts at the In The Life Media Studio in New York City. For those of you who were unable to join us, we now present an online version. Voilà: An online film festival exploring the transgender experience, gender identity, and personal stories from gender non-conforming young people. To watch now, click here or copy and paste the url “http://www.itlmedia.org/blog/entry/watch-an-online-festival-of-transgender-film-and-video-shorts” to your internet browser. Want to find out more about gender identity and expression? Here are different ways you can get involved and take action: Check out this website with information for LGBT youth Sign up for e-mail updates from In The Life Media Stand up against intolerance in schools and meet anti-LGBT bullying issues head on with GLSEN & ThinkB4YouSpeak Start support at home with Gender Spectrum Watch April’s episode of ”Becoming Me” If you’re interested in finding out more about these films, or hosting a screening of transgender film and video shorts with your group, please contact . Screenings 2012-04-30T20:14:03+00:00 http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/arts_engine_cinemagical_media_present_mindful_media_engagement_in_san_franc/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/arts_engine_cinemagical_media_present_mindful_media_engagement_in_san_franc/#When:15:12:24Z In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore the challenges and opportunities of engaging in active media citizenry in this digital age. Often, we plug in and tune out, eventually we find ourselves overwhelmed by social network streams and soundbytes. Join us for this media screening and workshop where we explore mindfulness and media engagement practices, resources, and tools that allow us to communicate in new and compassionate literacies. Event Information Mindful Media Engagement: From Passive Consumer to Compassionate Citizen Presented by Arts Engine & Cinemagical Media 5:30pm, Monday, May 14, 2012 Wix Lounge San Francisco 2601 Mission Street @ 22nd Street, 3rd Floor (above US Bank) San Francisco, CA FREE - RSVP required Program Curators & Workshop Leaders Kirthi Nath is a filmmaker, producer and educator committed to social benefit and celebrating how ordinairy people inspire extraordinarily change. She is the founder and lead creative producer at Cinemagical Media, a conscious media company. Kirthi is active in her personal filmmaking and currently working on a transmedia project about modern day mindfulness. Follow @kirthinath Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Theresa Navarro contributes over seven years of experience in production, programming, and public relations. She has collaborated with multimedia arts organizations and educational institutions in California and Hawai’i, and presented lectures and workshops across the country on community engagement and empowerment in the digital age. In 2011, she was featured as one of 15 Asian Pacific American Women Leaders for her work in promoting the media arts.  Follow @theresaxtine About the Organizations CINEMAGICAL MEDIA provides artistic, compelling, high quality video services for companies, non-profits and individuals who use media to inspire, instigate and further positive social change and promote healthy communities and human connections. Our expertise in media production covers a wide range from producing, filming, editing to distribution, and our background as artists with experience in social media and community engagement lends itself to producing media that is creative, heart-based and strategic. Connect: @hi_cinemagical.com // www.cinemagicalmedia.com ARTS ENGINE, Inc., a 501(3)(c) organization incorporated in the State of New York, supports, produces, and distributes independent media of consequence and promotes the use of independent media by advocates, educators and the general public. By fostering the production and use of independent film, video and new media, Arts Engine connects media makers and active audiences in order to spur critical consideration of pressing social issues. Arts Engine presents the Media that Matters festival, look out for it in your town. Connect @arts_engine // http://www.artsengine.net 2012-05-01T15:12:24+00:00 http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/5_23_eyes_on_the_fair_use_prize_mtm6_and_125_francos_blvd_at_harlem_stage_o/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/5_23_eyes_on_the_fair_use_prize_mtm6_and_125_francos_blvd_at_harlem_stage_o/#When:20:31:01Z Join Arts Engine and Harlem Stage on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 for a screening of the MTM short EYES ON THE FAIR USE PRIZE. Winner of the Fair Use Award, EYES is a cautionary tale about intellectual property - a hot button issue for any budding documentary filmmaker - and how it affected an award winning Civil Rights documentary. Our MTM short film will screen alongside the feature film, 125 FRANCO’S BLVD. Directed by Sia Kyorkor and Jacob Templin, this documentary looks at the legendary artist Franco the Great, who started painting murals on storefront gates in 1968. The film follows the conflict that arises when his street art is threatened by a new city law that will remove the famous painter’s 40 year old security gate canvas. Event Information Harlem Stage on Screen Presented in Partnership with the Black Documentary Collective & Media That Matters 7:30pm, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 The Gatehouse 150 Convent Avenue at West 135th Street New York, NY 10031 Ticket Information Members $8 General $10 Buy Tickets 2012-04-30T20:31:01+00:00 http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/4_21_mtm_films_with_venice_arts_kennedy_center_event_celebrating/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/4_21_mtm_films_with_venice_arts_kennedy_center_event_celebrating/#When:00:00:55Z In celebration of the Kennedy Center’s What’s Going On Now nationwide project, for which Venice Arts is the Southern California Youth Partner, we will host an Open Screen event featuring your videos exploring how the themes raised by Marvin Gaye’s seminal album continue to resonate today. The evening will also feature the final version documentary short “We Win or We Die,“which focuses on the Egyptian uprising and premiered in workshop form at Venice Arts Gallery last summer, as well as a selection of short films from Media That Matters. Join the celebration & showcase your talent! Submit your work by emailing Elysa at elysa@venice-arts.org. Event Information What’s Going On Now Media That Matters & Venice Arts in partnership with Kennedy Center 7:00-9:00pm, Saturday, April 21, 2012 1702 Lincoln Blvd. Venice, 90291 RSVP to Elysa at Events Calendar, Festival News, Screenings 2012-04-06T00:00:55+00:00 http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/rsvp_for_an_evening_of_transgender_film_and_video_with_in_the_life_media/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/rsvp_for_an_evening_of_transgender_film_and_video_with_in_the_life_media/#When:17:42:53Z Join Arts Engine and In The Life Media for an evening of transgender film and video. Featuring four shorts exploring the transgender experience, the evening will also include a lively discussion with special guests. Space is limited for this free event; to RSVP, visit the In the Life Media event page. BECOMING ME Produced by In The Life Media Eight families with transgender and gender non-conforming children ranging in ages from 5 to 25 share their stories. With the healthy development of their children at stake, parents must confront binary perceptions of gender, widespread transphobia and controversial parenting decisions. I’M JUST ANNEKE (MTM10) Directed and Produced by Jonathan Skurnik Anneke is 12-year-old tomboy who loves ice hockey. Everybody she meets assumes she’s a boy. The onset of puberty has created an identity crisis for Anneke. Does she want to be a boy or a girl when she grows up, or something in between? SLIP OF THE TONGUE (MTM6) Directed by Karen Lum Produced by Youth Sounds Factory Using slam poetry as a soundtrack, Slip of the Tongue is adapted from a spoken word poem by Adriel Luis looking at perceptions of beauty, ethnicity, and body image. I’M NOT A BOY (MTM7) Directed by Julie Joyce Produced by Listen Up! & Frame by Frame Fierce Julie Joyce is not a boy. She is more than just an intense, fast-talking New York City sixteen-year-old. She’s a trans-gendered youth who wants what all young people want to be heard and to have a positive space to live and grow. Event Information: An Evening of Transgender Film and Video Presented by Arts Engine & In the Life Media 6:30-8:30pm, Thursday, April 19, 2012 In the Life Media Studio 184 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor New York, Ny 10010 RSVP here IN THE LIFE MEDIA For twenty years, In The Life Media has been a leading media organization for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement. One of the nations most honored and influential LGBT groups, In The Life Media creates social and political change by examining issues critical to LGBT individuals and providing audiences with powerful ways to advance equality within, and beyond, their communities. Produced by In The Life Media, the Emmy-nominated series, IN THE LIFE, was the firstand remains the onlyLGBT newsmagazine on public television. IN THE LIFE is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, a Lambda Legal Liberty Award honoree, a Seigenthaler Award recipient from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and a Ribbon of Hope Award recipient from The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Events Calendar, Festival News, Screenings 2012-04-04T17:42:53+00:00 http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/free_screening_of_superstar_mtm7_and_jesse_owens_doc_at_harlem_stage/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/free_screening_of_superstar_mtm7_and_jesse_owens_doc_at_harlem_stage/#When:17:20:23Z Join us for a free screening of Harlem Stage on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 for a screening of the MTM short SUPERSTAR. Winner of the Emerging Voice Award, Superstar documents one young man’s quest to realize his dreams. Filmmaker Naiquan Green will be in attendance for the post-screening Q&A. Our MTM short film will screen alongside Laurens Grant’s feature, JESSE OWENS. Produced, directed and written by the team behind the Emmy-Award-winning documentary Freedom Riders (Laurens Grant and Stanley Nelson) bring you the story of the most famous athlete of his time, whose stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world. The film will premiere on the PBS series American Experience Tuesday, May 1 at 8:00pm… more info Event Information Harlem Stage on Screen Presented in Partnership with the Black Documentary Collective & Media That Matters 7:00pm, Wednesday, April 18, 2012 The Gatehouse 150 Convent Avenue at West 135th Street New York, NY 10031 RSVP at or call (212) 281-9240 ext. 19 or 20 Events Calendar, Festival News, Screenings 2012-04-02T17:20:23+00:00 http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/media_that_matters_the_black_documentary_collective_screening_at_harlem_sta/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/media_that_matters_the_black_documentary_collective_screening_at_harlem_sta/#When:15:52:20Z Join us at Harlem Stage on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 for a screening of the MTM short A Loud Color. Directed by Brent Joseph the film follows New Orleans native Louis Harding as he revisits the contributions of notable African Americans in his post-Katrina neighborhood. The film will screen along Shukree Tilghman’s feature More Than A Month. With More Than a Month, filmmaker Shukree Tilghman challenges the establishment by campaigning to end Black History Month! This often comedic cross-country documentary offers a candid look at race and power in “post-racial” America. The screening will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information and to purchase tickets please visit: harlemstage.org 2012-02-07T15:52:20+00:00 http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/upcoming_screenings_of_media_that_matters/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/upcoming_screenings_of_media_that_matters/#When:15:22:08Z January 16 - The Apollos (MTM 7) JCC Manhattan Presents Artists Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, January 16th 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. 2537 Broadway at 95th Street http://www.jccmanhattan.org/performances?page=cat-content&progid=25056 @JCCManhattan January 28 - MTM 11 Collection Saturday, January 28th 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Providence Inner City Arts Roots Cultural Center 276 Westminster St. Providence, RI. http://www.rootscafeprovidence.com/ @ProvidenceRoots 2012-01-13T15:22:08+00:00 http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/working_films_seeks_media_makers_addressing_aging_and_elder_rights/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/working_films_seeks_media_makers_addressing_aging_and_elder_rights/#When:21:36:15Z REEL AGING: REAL CHANGE March 23 - 27, 2012 Working Films, with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, announces Reel Aging: Real Change, an initiative that will tie compelling documentary films and transmedia projects that explore aging to ongoing policy work and grassroots campaigns supporting older populations globally. Applications are due by January 6, 2012.  Reel Aging: Real Change will begin on March 23, 2012 with a four-day residency where eight to ten media teams will sharpen their strategies for audience and community engagement. On Tuesday, March 27, the teams will present their projects to regional, national and global NGOs, funders, government agencies, activists, and policy makers – all leaders in the field of aging who have a track record of supporting elder rights, respect and health. The goal: to embed the film and media projects into on-the-ground efforts by the advocates in the room. Hosted in Washington, DC in collaboration with the Center for Social Media at American University, this day-long, strategic convening will launch a collaborative campaign between the participating media makers and the NGOs. We are seeking applications from media makers for participation in Reel Aging: Real Change. All nonfiction projects that explore the aging experience are eligible to apply, and applicants may be at any stage of production or distribution, from new and completed projects to works-in-progress. Application Deadline: January 6, 2012.   Registration Fee: NONE. This residency includes lodging, meals, and materials. Participants are responsible for covering their own travel; limited stipends are available.   Submission: Please complete application form online at workingfilms.org/reelaging   Please Help Spread the Word: Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues and share www.workingfilms.org/reelaging on Facebook and Twitter. 2011-11-21T21:36:15+00:00 http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/upcoming_mtm_11_screenings/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/news/upcoming_mtm_11_screenings/#When:19:12:14Z Don’t miss your chance to see the 11th annual Media That Matters collection on the big screen. November 12, 2011 3 p.m. Teaneck International Film Festival Davis, Saperstein & Salomon 375 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, NJ 07666 November 17, 2011 7:30 p.m. Dayton Access Television / Neon Movies 280 Leo St. Dayton, Ohio 45404 2011-11-11T19:12:14+00:00