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| TWN November News: Screenings, Workshops & Grants 
Bad Friday New York Premiere at Reggae Culture Salute For many around the world, Jamaica conjures up images of pristine beach vacations with a pulsating reggae soundtrack. The country, however, also has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, and the population is actively grappling with legacies of Western imperialism, racial slavery, and political nationalism - the historical foundations of contemporary violence in Jamaica and throughout the Americas. Bad Friday focuses on a community of Rastafarians in western Jamaica who annually commemorate the 1963 Coral Gardens "incident," a moment just after independence when the Jamaican government rounded up, jailed and tortured hundreds of Rastafarians. It chronicles the history of violence in Jamaica through the eyes of its most iconic community, and shows how people use their recollections of past traumas to imagine new possibilities for a collective future. Saturday, November 5th
Reggae Culture Salute
Nazareth HS
475 E 57th Street
Brooklyn, NY more info ------------------------------------------------------------ Clandestined at the Chicago Filipino American Film Festival
Third World Newsreel is pleased to announce the Chicago premiere of Clandestined, directed by former workshop student Claro de los Reyes. In this narrative short, a young man finds out that there are some things in life too hard to escape. Sunday, November 6, 4:00 PM The Portage Theater 4050 N. Milwuakee Avenue Chicago, IL 60641 more info |
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| Film/Video Workshop, Grants, Internships and More
TWN Evening Workshops 2011 - Master Class with Stanley Nelson - November 30th
TWN in collaboration with City College will host a talk with the prolific and award winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson, producer/director/writer of FREEDOM RIDERS which just won 3 Emmys. In a program that will be held at City College, Stanley will show clips from his works, talk about his work process, how he got into the media field, and what inspires him. FREE but RSVP required.
November 30, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Shepard Hall, City College of New York
138th Street and Convent Avenue. (Room tbd)
To RSVP - Email workshop@twn.org
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TWN Seeks Web Design Interns
If you have web design experience, live in New York City and need to add more credits to your resume, please apply to our internship program at Third World Newsreel. We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who are interested in enhancing our webpage. Send a cover letter and resume to dorothy@twn.org and distribution@twn.org.
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ITVS Diversity Development Fund (DDF)
The Independent Television Service (ITVS) seeks applications to this year's Diversity Development Fund (DDF)! Please note that this year, the DDF deadline has changed - the new deadline is FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH, 2011.
On November 1, 2011 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET Program Manager Karim Ahmad will be taking your questions LIVE on Beyond The Box, the ITVS blog.Please RSVP using Eventbrite and save the date:
The DDF provides up to $15,000 in research and development funding to independent producers of color to develop single documentary programs for public television. Projects should speak to the ITVS mission to serve under-served audiences with programs that take creative risks, explore complex issues, inspire dialogue and express points of view seldom seen on commercial or public television.
Funded activities may include travel, research, script development, preliminary production for fundraising/work-in-progress reels, or other early phase activities.
The Diversity Development Fund supports: Producers that identify themselves as belonging to one or more of the following communities: African American, Arab American, Asian American, Latino/Latina, Native American/Native Alaskan and Pacific Islander; Single documentaries or creative genre combinations; and Projects that have not yet begun production.
Deadline: November 11th, 2011
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New York Foundation for the Arts
Artists' Fellowships are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use.
Deadline: December 16, 2011
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Ford Foundation
Ford has announced its Social Issue Film Funding Initiative. A total of approximately $16 million will be given through an open-application process to filmmakers and media makers around the world who are working to create documentaries that address urgent social issues.
Deadline: Open
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------------------------------------------------------------ Jerome Foundation Is accepting New York City Film and Video Program Applications. Grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to individual film and video artists living in New York City who work in the genres of experimental, narrative, animation, and documentary production. Deadline: Open 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.
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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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