| TWN January News: Screenings, Workshop, Grants & More 
White: A Memoir in Color at the New York Jewish Film Festival
In this personal documentary, Joel Katz (TWN Board Member) explores what it means to be white in America through the story of his own family across generations. His father's role as a white professor at Howard University, a traditionally black college, during the civil rights era comes to bear on his and his wife's decisions about race and adoption. Original score by Don Byron.
January 12th, 2012 New York Jewish Film Festival Walter Reade Theater New York, NY Admission: $13 more info |
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| 2012 TWN Production Workshop - Applications now available!
The TWN Production Workshop is a unique "hands- on" program that provides practical skills and resources for emerging media makers. It emphasizes the training and support of people of color who have limited resources and access to mainstream educational institutions and traditional training programs.
The curriculum of this intensive four month program focuses on the pre-production, production and post production skills necessary to take a short project from conception to completion. Workshop members will participate in projects shot on digital video, gaining technical skills and experience and will be trained to edit using the non-linear Final Cut Pro system.
The workshop is time intensive and participants must be able to attend regular class meetings as well as meet the out-of-class demands of pre- production, production, and post-production. Prior video or related experience is recommended but not required; creativity, self-initiative, time and a collaborative spirit are. The selection to the Production Workshop is competitive and limited to 9 participants. An initial written application is required and a second round of applicants are selected for interviews. The cost of the 2012 workshop will be $600.
Past workshop grads include: Filmmaker and Columbia Film Department Chair Jamal Joseph, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker and professor, Renee Tajima-Pena, feature filmmakers Randy Redroad, Grace Lee, Alice Wu and many more! Past guest speakers include: producers Sam Pollard, Laurens Grant, Ann Bennett and Stanley Nelson; DPs Larry Banks, Mike Chin, Clifford Charles and AJ Fielder.
The deadline for applications is March 5th, 2012 and the course begins April 4th, 2012.
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| Film/Video Grants, Internships and More
TWN Seeks Graphic Design & Final Cut Pro Interns
If you have graphic design or Final Cut Pro 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. Send a cover letter and resume to dorothy@twn.org and distribution@twn.org.
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ITVS Open Call
Open Call provides completion funds for single nonfiction public television programs on any subject, and from any viewpoint. Projects must have begun production as evidenced by a work-in-progress video. Open Call funding is only available to independent producers who are citizens or legal residents of the U.S. and its external territories.
Deadline: Friday, January 13, 2012
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BAVC Mediamaker Fellows Program
The 2012 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows program is designed to engage artists in a year-long series of opportunities that support project development through professional mentorship in multiplatform and transmedia storytelling through emerging technologies, strategic social media, marketing, and fundraising.
Deadline: Monday, January 16, 2012
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Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant
This grant funds first time documentary makers for travel and accommodations at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 12-15, 2012. For four days, grant recipients will be given access to films, participate in master classes and be mentored by experienced filmmakers. TWO filmmakers will be chosen for the grant in its fifth year.
Deadline: Friday, February 3, 2012
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Sundance Creative Producing Fellowship and Lab
A year-long program designed to nurture emerging producers with project-specific support through Labs, grants, and long-term advisor relationships.
Deadline: Friday, February 10, 2012
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National Geographic Society's All Roads Film Project Seed Grants
The All Roads Film Project is a multimedia festival and grants program dedicated to providing a platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture storytellers from around the world. The objectives are to showcase works by these artists to promote knowledge, dialogue, and understanding with a broader global audience.
Deadline: 15th of each March, June, September, and December.
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Ford Foundation
Ford's Social Issue Film Funding Initiative will provide approximately $16 million through an open-application process to filmmakers and media makers around the world who are creating documentaries that address urgent social issues.
Deadline: Open
------------------------------------------------------------ Jerome Foundation 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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| TWN Congratulates
Congratulations to Corinne Manabat who is the new Executive Director of the Youth Media Institute in Seattle. Corinne is a TWN Production Workshop Alumna and director of the short documentary film Excuse My Gangsta Ways.
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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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