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| TWN June News: Screenings, Grants & More
The Other Side of the Water at DC Caribbean Filmfest
The Other Side of the Water follows a group of young immigrants who take this ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn. The documentary tells the story of an unlikely band that comes to speak for a larger community, and a music that manages to create a new meaning of home in the Diaspora.
Saturday, June 4th, 7:00 PM
DC Caribbean Filmfest
AFI Silver Theater
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Admission: $11
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Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê at AfroBrazilFest
This documentary tells the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. It depicts the homophobia that caused this murder and questions the lack of media coverage of the murder of a Black Gay teenager.
Monday, June 6, 6:00 PM
AfroBrazilFest - Documentary Film Festival
DC's Annual Afro-Brazilian and Cultural Heritage Festival
Washington, DC
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Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project at Harlem Stage
This documentary tells the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. It depicts the homophobia that caused this murder and questions the lack of media coverage of the murder of a Black Gay teenager.
Wednesday, June 15th, 7:30 PM
Harlem Stage
150 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
Admission: $10
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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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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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Latino Producers Academy
NALIP's 2011 Latino Producers Academy (LPA) is now accepting applications for the August program in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Documentary and Narrative projects will benefit from comprehensive skills development. Documentaries in post-production will have the opportunity to re-cut and score sequences with intensive mentoring on their rough cuts and completion plans.
Deadline: June 8th
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HBO-NALIP Documentary Contest
HBO has teamed with NALIP to find the next great Latino documentary film. They will award $10,000 to the winner of their 2011 Documentary grant. Applications are now being accepted.
Deadline: June 10th
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Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series 2011
Is now accepting submissions for narrative, documentary, experimental, animation, works-in-progress and shorts.
Deadline: June 10th
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Cinereach Summer 2011
Cinereach supports feature-length nonfiction and fiction films that are at the intersection of engaging storytelling, visual artistry, and vital subject matter. Grant amounts can range from $5,000 - $50,000 per project and can be awarded to support any stage of production, including research and development, production and post-production.
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: June 9th
Full Proposals Requested from Selected Applicants: August 1st
Full Proposal Deadline: August 17th
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Moving Image Fund
LEF New England launched the Moving Image Fund (MIF) in 2002 to support independent film and video artists creating new work. In its transition from a broader to a more defined funding strategy, LEF is currently focusing MIF support on documentary filmmaking. Through MIF, LEF provides funding across all phases of production, supporting films from the early risk-taking stage, through a film's completion.
Deadline: for Pre-Production Proposal June 10th
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NEH's Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities through documentary films. These projects are meant to spark Americans' engagement with the broader world by exploring one or more countries and cultures outside of the United States.
Deadline: June 29th
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POV Broadcast Season 2012
POV, public television's premier showcase for independent, nonfiction film seeks programs from all perspectives to showcase in its annual national PBS series in 2012. All subjects, aesthetic approaches and lengths are welcome.
Deadline: June 30th
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Minnesota Film and Video Grant
The 2011 Minnesota Film and Video Grant Program will award grants to emerging film and videomakers from Minnesota or New York City in the disciplines of experimental, narrative, documentary and animated film and video making. The Minnesota Film and Video Grant Program places emphasis on projects in their early stages of production. Projects in the post-production phase will also be considered.
Deadline: July 15th
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NEA Arts in Media Grant
Grants are available to support the development, production, and national distribution of innovative media projects about the arts and media projects that can be considered works of art. Grants generally range from $10,000 to $200,000.
Deadline: September 1st
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San Francisco Film Society Documentary Film Fund
The SFFS Documentary Film Fund will support riveting documentaries in postproduction distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters and an innovative visual approach. A total of $100,000 will be disbursed annually between 2011 and 2013 to documentary filmmakers nationwide.
Deadline: September 2nd
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| TWN Recommends
Women Make Movies Workshops:
Selling to Broadcasters: Getting Onto Primetime
Wednesday, June 8th at 6:30 PM
Fear of Fundraising: An Essential Overview of the Basics
Wednesday, June 22nd at 6:30 PM
Women Make Movies
Conference Room
462 Broadway, 5th Floor
New York, NY
Admission: $30
more info ------------------------------------------------------------ Jayce Salloum: history of the present (selected works 1985-2009) Vancouver-based Lebanese -Canadian media artist Jayce Salloum has had numerous exhibitions in North and South America, Europe, Japan and the Middle East. After 22 years living and working in San Francisco, Banff, Toronto, San Diego, Beirut, and New York, Salloum currently produces solo and collaborative work in his Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. With a focus on themes of personal and geopolitical migration and trans-national identity, he explores concepts of transition and dislocation. April 29 - July 17th Art Gallery of Windsor
401 Riverside Drive,
Windsor, ON N9A 7J1 more info
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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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organization dedicated to fostering the
creation,
appreciation, and dissemination of
independent media
by and about people of color.
phone:
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