| TWN November News: Laura Dottin Remembered
and our next Wednesday Night Workshops
IN MEMORIAM - LAURA DOTTIN
Laura Dottin, a member of the 2010 Production Workshop, passed away this last weekend after a long illness. Laura was truly a passionate and dedicated activist starting with her involvement with C.O.R.E. as a student during the sixties. She later became Vice Chairperson of Organization of Staff Analysis, a group that fought and won collective bargaining rights for workers, and worked with groups ranging from the African National Reparations Organization to the Brooklyn Neighborhood Improvement Association, and the African and Caribbean Resource Center. She began media work with WBAI-FM and had been documenting community activities and political struggles over the past several decades. Laura truly saw the interrelationship of media, computer technology, and the internet as a means and tool for political activity. To quote her, "I think every life is interesting and instructive - it is the storyteller who must capture the essence". Laura's compassion and love for other people was always evident and she will be missed.
A memorial will be held this Sunday.
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
2 PM
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(C to Lafayette or 2, 3, 4, 5, N, R, Q, or LIRR to Atlantic Ave)
TWN's Fall Wednesday Night Workshops Continue!
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TWN presents its seasonal series of walk-in seminars on production topics you need - from production planning and distribution, to new media production, sound recording and more. All classes are $20 ($10 for low income) unless otherwise noted. The workshops take place at Third World Newsreel. Register now by emailing workshop@twn.org.
Wednesday, Nov 3rd, 6:30 PM
New Media Production with Andreas Jackson
What do you have to do and learn to be New Media savvy, to build your film audience, to attract funders - and the pitfalls to avoid. ($20/10 low income)
Wednesday, Nov 10th, 6:30 PM
Getting Business Savvy with Your Production
Commerce, sales, the bottom line...the language of business and filmmakers. Learn business techniques that enhance your ability to get financing
for your production - how do investors view a project and how can you as a filmmaker give your production the competitive edge?
Led by Robin Moore, Business Analyst for Film and Media ($20/10 low income)
Wednesday, Nov 17th, 6:30 PM
Planning for Multiplatform Distribution and Marketing
Michelle Materre, both a marketing/distribution expert and a professor at the New School, will talk about how to approach the
marketing and distribution of your project - before you've even started shooting. Best practices, how-to's and why-to's and where to find the help you
need. ($20/10 low income)
Wednesday, Dec 1st, 6:30 PM
Master Class with Laurens Grant, Producer/Director
The producer of "FREEDOM RIDERS" and "LATIN MUSIC, USA" and the director/producer of "ROKIA: VOICE OF A NEW GENERATION" talks
about her work, how one becomes an award winning PBS producer and balancing producing work with her personal productions. FREE.
Pre-registration recommended.
All Classes held at:
Third World Newsreel
545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Flr
between 37th and 38th Streets
1, 2, 3, A, C, E to Times Square
212 947-9277 x 15
TWN Recommends
To Be Heard at DOC NYC, the new documentary film festival
This documentary follows three youth in the radical poetry writing workshop, Power Writing, who have a life changing experience. Directed by a team including former Newsreel member, Academy award winning filmmaker Deborah Shaffer. Screenings on November 6th and 8th. For more info on this film. For info on this new festival, DOC NYC which runs from November 3rd to 9th.
Shooting with Mursi at the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young. Made by a member of the Mursi tribe in Ethiopia, Olibui documents a candid portrait of his people as their land and way of life are being endangered by tourism and recreational game hunting. This screening is co-presented by TWN and the Center for Media, Culture and History, NYU.: Nov.12th at 6:30 PM. For more info see the Mead Festival page.
Upcoming Deadlines
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NYFA - Digital and Electronic Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship applications in this category are due November 30, 2010. You must be NYS based and over 25 years of age.
For more information, go to NYFA.
TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund Call for Entries
The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund is awarding $140,000 in grants of $10,000 - $40,000 to narrative features at any stage from treatment to completed film. The Fund seeks narrative projects of all genres (except science fiction or fantasy) that creatively address the role of science and technology in everyday lives, or that depict the lives of scientists, engineers, innovators and mathematician in new, but still accurate, ways.
Selected projects from eligible directors, screenwriters and producers will be highlighted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011. In addition to funding, TFI provides guidance, introductions and industry exposure to help move selected projects closer to completion.
Visit the Tribeca Film Institute for more information and to apply now!
Early Deadline: November 8, 2010
Final Deadline: December 8, 2010
| 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, the Asian Women Giving Circle,
Materials for the Arts, as well as individual
donors.
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phone:
212.947.9277
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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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