| TWN Mays News: Screenings, Workshops, Grants and More
Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 This documentary film explores a little-known chapter of Audre Lorde's prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German reunification. 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde's passing. 40 Brattle St.
Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA more info
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Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories at the Longwood Art Gallery
This documentary highlights the experience of a black Cuban American family, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe.
Thursday, May 24, 7:30 pm
Longwood Arts Gallery
1738 Hone Avenue,
Bronx, New York 10461
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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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The Princess Grace JustFilms Documentary Awards
These funds will be awarded to help support social justice documentary thesis projects of students in undergraduate/graduate programs and final projects of individuals participating in production programs at media arts centers. In this inaugural year of the grant, an emphasis is placed on filmmakers and films that focus on South Asian and Southeast Asian communities.
Deadline: Friday, June 1
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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
Yoruba Richen, director of Promised Land, received the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for her exceptional creative ability in the arts.
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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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