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| TWN May News: Workshop, Screenings, Grants and More
TWN Spring Evening Workshops Starts May 3rd, 2011!
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.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 6:30PM
Kick (Start) Me
Roddy Bogawa speaks on using crowdsourcing to fundraise, and all the effort (and "killer rewards") needed to make it work. Having raised raised more than $20G Kickstarter in forty-five days for his new film Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis he should know! Bogawa's work Some Divine Wind, Junk and I Was Born, But... have screened in dozens of film festivals, gallery and museum venues including Sundance, MoMA and the Whitney Biennial. He is also a professor in media arts at New Jersey City University. ($20/10 low income)
Tuesday, May 10th, 6:30 PM
Sound Recording: Tips for Better Results and New Gear
An intro to getting decent sound and a look at some of the more popular mixers, hard drive recorders and radio mikes. Whether working with the 5D, the 900 or your tiny FS200. Facilitated by JT Takagi, recordist/filmmaker with gear courtesy of Professional Sound Services. ($20/10 low income)
Stay tuned for more! - Production Planning, Marketing and Distribution and a Master Class with Sam Pollard!
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
RSVP and info - email workshop@twn.org
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| TWN Screenings
The Other Side of the Water at Festival International de Louisiane...Soirées du Cinema
The story of an unlikely band that comes to speak for a larger community, and the Haitian music that manages to create a new meaning of home in the Diaspora. Talk-back with band members of DJA-Rara following screening.
Friday, April 29th, 2:30PM
Acadiana Center for Film & Media (ACFM)
700 Lee Ave
Lafayette, LA 70501
Admission: Free
more info
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| Film/Video Grants and More
JustFilms
JustFilms focuses on film, video and digital works that show courageous people confronting difficult issues and actively pursuing a more just, secure and sustainable world. A documentary grant funded by the Ford Foundation.
Deadline: An ongoing open application process
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Resist Funding for Social Change
Resist funds organizations that are actively part of a movement for social change and demonstrate an understanding of the connections among oppressions.
Deadlines: April 1st, June 3rd
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Women In Film Foundation's Film Finishing Fund
Provides cash and in-kind production services to deserving filmmakers needing help to complete their film projects. The only program of its kind in the industry, the projects submitted have a broad range of subject matter and are judged by a committee of top industry professionals.
Deadline: April 29th
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IFP's Film Week Call for Entry - Emerging Narrative A talent pool which identifies up-and-coming U.S. writers and writer/directors. It is the section which focuses on the discovery of 25 new projects in development and new voices on the independent scene.
Deadline: May 6th
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TFI New Media Fund
The Tribeca Film Institute, in partnership with the Ford Foundation'sJustFilms initiative, has announced the launch of the TFI New Media Fund. The fund will provide support and funding to nonfiction, social issue film projects that integrate film with content across newer media platforms - from video games and mobile apps to social networks and micro-blogging.
Deadline: May 25th
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MacArthur Foundation Documentary Films Grant
MacArthur supports U.S.-based independent documentary filmmakers for the production and distribution of social-issue documentary films intended for a broad audience. The Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives program is accepting proposals for 2011 documentary film grants on an ongoing basis until June 1, 2011. Decisions will be made and announced in September 2011.
Deadline: June 1st
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LPB's Public Media Content Fund
An open invitation to Independent producers to submit proposals for a program, series or short web-based digital video projects (no longer than 20 minutes) on any subject that relates to or is representative of Latino Americans that is appropriate for Public Television and/or one of its platforms.
Deadline: June 6th
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| TWN Recommends
The New Black (working title) at Harlem Stage
A documentary-in-progress by Yoruba Richen, uncovers the complicated and often combative histories of the African-American and LGBT civil rights movements. Specifically the film examines homophobia in the black church and reveals the Christian right wing's strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda.
May 4th at 7:30 PM
Harlem Stage
150 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
Admission: $10
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2011 New York Indian Film Festival
North America's oldest and most prestigious destination for feature films, documentaries, and shorts from and about the Indian subcontinent.
May 5th - 8th
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013
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War Don Don at Anthology Film ArchivesRebecca Richman Cohen's remarkable debut film begins at the end of a decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone which has left a population devastated by mass murder, rape and savage disfigurement. Now, in the capital city of Freetown, United Nations soldiers guard a heavily fortified building known as the Special Court.
Monday, May 9th at 7:30 PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
New York, NY
Admission: $9
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Artist and Influence Spring 2011
Interviews with Black, Latino and Asian filmmakers, actors, musicians, sculptors, photographers, animators, choreographers, singers, and painters, provide new information about the role of minority groups in the development of American arts.
Michael Simon, Visual Artist May 15th at 2PM
Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
491 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Admission: FREE (no admission after 2:30 PM)
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Women Make Movies Workshops
Transmedia, Why Do Funders Think It's Important?
Monday, May 2nd at 6:30 PM
Navigating the International Film Festival Circuit
Wednesday, May 25th at 6:30 PM
Selling to Broadcasters: Getting Onto Primetime
Wednesday, June 8th at 6:30
Women Make Movies
Conference Room
462 Broadway, 5th Floor
New York, NY
Admission: $30
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| TWN Congratulates
Loira Limbal, our TWN Workshop Alumna, for having a baby boy and Konrad Aderer, another TWN Workshop Alumnus, for having a baby boy as well. Congratulations! A. Sayeeda Clarke for her film White which is now being featured on futurestates.tv. Byron Hurt, a TWN Workshop graduate for his New York Emmy Award nomination for his television show Reel Works with Byron Hurt Renee Tajima-Pena, a TWN workshop alumna, who was just awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship for 2011 in Film-Video. . |
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| 2011 New Releases
TWN's new catalog is available online! Featuring thirteen independent films made by and about people of color, our new catalog includes titles from Haiti, Brazil, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, China, Turkey and the United States. Click the link below to download the PDF version.
Download catalog
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| TWN Thanks
TWN is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Ford Foundation, the North Star Fund, the Funding Exchange and the Asian Women Giving Circle, 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.
phone:
(212) 947-9277
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