| TWN February News
Welcome back! In 2008 we celebrate
our 40th
Anniversary with a new website! Visit
www.twn.org and stay tuned as we add more
photos, video previews and a secure online
store where you can purchase titles from our
collection of over 450 documentaries, shorts
and experimental films and videos.
| TWN Workshops
The application deadline for the TWN
Film and Video Production Workshop has been
extended to Friday, February 1st, 2008 due to
a discrepancy in the original deadline.
This six month production workshop covers both
16mm and digital video production, from
preproduction to shooting and editing. Highly
selective, students meet in the evenings and
shoot on the weekends. Aimed at emerging
artists from communities of color, low income
and other marginalized groups, this workshop
is entering its 31st year! Graduates include
feature directors Grace Lee (The Grace Lee
Project), Alice Wu (Saving Face), Byron Hurt
(Beyond Beats and Rhymes) and many more. The
deadline for the 2008 session applications is
Friday, February 1st and classes start in
February. Letters of recommendation can be
mailed separately.
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more
| Film and Video Grants
NYSCA Funding for Individual
Artists
If you are interested in applying through TWN
for a New York State Council on the Arts
(NYSCA) grant for individual artists in Film,
Media and New Technology Production, you must
email workshop@twn.org by February 5th, 2008.
You will be sent a very simple questionnaire
to fill out for the application, which has to
be returned to us by February 25th, 2008. The
full proposal, sample and budget will be due
May 1st, but only if one has registered for
the first deadline.
Remember that artists cannot apply as an
individual directly - you must apply through
a non-profit organization as a fiscal
sponsor. If you do not receive a response or
confirmation email from
workshop@twn.org, please contact us again
either by email or at 212 947-9277 x 303.
Only emails received at workshop@twn.org will
be accepted for the NYSCA application.
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Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
Program
The Travel and Study Grant Program awards
grants to emerging creative artists. Funds
support periods of travel for the purpose of
study, exploration, and growth. Film and
video directors may apply. Application
deadline is February 13, 2008
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CAAM Open Door Completion Fund
Funds for projects in the final stages of
post-production. Funds must be the last
monies needed to finish the program and bring
it up to broadcast quality. Application
deadline is February 7, 2008.
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guidelines
| TWN Congratulates
Alex Rivera's Film Premieres at
Sundance
Alex Rivera, director of Why
Cybraceros? and
Papapapa,
presented Sleep Dealer, a sci-fi
feature film about immigration, at the
Sundance Film Festival. TWN congratulates
Alex Rivera on this well deserved
recognition.
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Tanaz Eshaghian's Documentary Premieres
at Sundance
Tanaz Eshaghian, director of I
Call Myself Persian and Najeeb
presented Be Like Others,
a documentary about the transsexual
counterculture in Iran, at the Sundance Film
Festival. TWN congratulates Tanaz Eshaghian
on this well deserved
recognition.
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IMPACT Repertory Theatre Nominated for Best
Original Song
IMPACT Repertory Theatre, directed and
co-founded by TWN's Production Workshop
Alumnus Jamal Joseph, received a Best
Original Song nomination for Raise It
Up. TWN congratulates Jamal Joseph on
this well deserved recognition.
TWN Recommends
Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen
A dynamic interactive exchange and space for
all women--especially of color--to express
themselves through art via Hip Hop.
February 16, 3-6 PM
O. Henry Learning Center School
New York, NY
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schedule
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Banished
on Independent Lens
From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns
and counties across America violently
expelled entire African American communities,
forcing thousands of black families to flee
their homes. A century later, these towns
remain mostly white. Banished tells
the story of three of these communities and
their black descendents, who return to learn
shocking histories. February 19 at 10 PM.
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schedule
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Black Public Media
Black Public Media is NBPC's online video
streaming and new media distribution
enterprise. At blackpublicmedia.org viewers
can watch download and listen to original new
media content, full-length streams of select
NBPC documentaries, and subscribe to a
variety of blogs, vodcasts and
podcasts.
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more
| TWN Thanks
TWN is supported in
part by The New York State Council on the
Arts, The New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs, The
National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford
Foundation, The North Star Fund, The Funding
Exchange, Manhattan Neighborhood
Network, as well as individual donors.
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TWN is a 501(c)3 nonprofit
organization dedicated to fostering the
creation,
appreciation, and dissemination of
independent media
by and about people of color.
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