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| TWN June News:  Screenings, Grants and More 

 



Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 at Frameline Film Festival
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.

Saturday, June 16, 4:00 PM  

Victoria Theatre

2961 16th Street  

San Francisco, CA  94103     

 
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Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness at Frameline Film Festival    

A documentary that connects the Lesbian and Gay Marriage Equality movement with the Black Civil Rights Movement.

  

Wednesday, June 20, 7:00 PM    

Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street
between Valencia and Guerrero
San Francisco, CA  94103

more info     

     

Friday, June 22, 7:00 PM

Victoria Theatre   

2961 16th Street  

San Francisco, CA  94103

more info   

          

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Third World Newsreel at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn

The Other Side of Water & Ebony Goddess: Queen of Il� Aiy�
Ebony Goddess:Queen of Il� Aiy� follows three women competing to be the carnival queen of Il� Aiy�, a prominent and controversial Afro-Brazilian group with an all-black membership.    


The Other Side of the Water follows a group of young immigrants who take Haitian Rara Music and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn.

  

Thursday, June 21, 10:00 PM
Union Docs
322 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
more info   
   

  

| 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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NYSCA Registration
TWN invites NYS based filmmakers interested in applying to the New York State Council on the Arts to email workshop@twn.org by June 1st. A questionnaire has to be filled out before TWN can register you, and then you will have till June 20th to submit the full application. The guidelines for submission are on the NYSCA website site and include specifics on proof of residency, as well as how to upload your samples.
TWN Registration: Deadline June 1, 2012
NYSCA Deadline: June 20, 2012
more info

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LPB's Public Media Content Fund
 

LPB's Public Media Content Fund is an open invitation to independent producers to submit proposals for a program, series or short web-based digital video 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 4, 2012
more info

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POV's Annual Call for Entries is Now Open!  

Films submitted to this open call will be considered for the 2013 season and beyond. 
Deadline: June 29, 2012   

more info

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2012 Chicken & Egg Pictures' Open Call

Chicken & Egg Pictures supports female or female/male partnerships directors of non-fiction feature, non-fiction short, hybrid, new media/multiple platforms, and other film genres.  

Deadline: June 29, 2012 

more info 

 

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UnionDocs Collaborative Program
The Union Docs Collaborative Studio (CoLab) is a one-year program for a select group of emerging media artists from the U.S and abroad.
Resident Rolling Application Deadline: June 30, 2012
Non-Resident Application Deadline: July 15, 2012
more info

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The Roy W. Dean Film & Video Grants

From the Heart Productions is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to funding films that are "unique and make a contribution to society"

Summer Deadline: June 30, 2012
Fall Deadline: September 30, 2012
more info 


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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.
more info

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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

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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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The rapid growth of the Spanish speaking community in the United States has marked a new phase in U.S. culture particularly in the audio-visual area, and the demand for professionals who can write in Spanish is continuously increasing. FUNAVE was created in response to the lack of Spanish-language training options for screenwriters and youth within the United States and is the first laboratory for the learning, development and research of audiovisual narratives in Spanish within the United States. 


FUNAVE's first initiative is FUNAVERANO, a series of four intensive workshops featuring prominent screenwriters and media professionals, as well as guest speakers. All the workshops will be held in Spanish at the historic Amster Yard building of the Cervantes Institute in Manhattan.

July 2-14
Live, Look, Listen, Tell: Course on Narratives & the Development of Documentaries

July 16-28

Tales in Movement, Stories in Time: Course on Film Script Writing

 

July 28-29

Convergent Creativity & Multiplatform Writing: Workshop on Transmedia Narratives and New Dynamics in Audiovisual Project Development

 

July 30-August 11

Serial Contents, Television Continents: Course on Project Creation and TV Fiction Script Writing

 

Third World Newsreel workshop alum receive a 5% discount on the registration fee!

 

| TWN Congratulates   



Congratulations to Ai-jen Poo, who was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine.

| TWN Thanks
TWN Funders
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.

 

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.
email: twn@twn.org
phone: (212) 947-9277

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