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| TWN November News: Screenings, Workshops, Grants & More!
Harvest of Empire at the Brava Theatre Center in San Francisco
While immigration is one of America's most fiercely controversial issues, little is understood about the growing Latino presence in the U.S. This excellent new documentary reveals the direct correlation between centuries of U.S. armed intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean and today's immigration crisis. Adapted from the popular new book written by award-winning journalist Juan González of radio and television's Democracy Now!, the film by Wendy Thompson-Marquez and Eduardo López - in conjunction with director Peter Getzels and editor Catherine Shields - vigorously details the social conditions and U.S. government actions (overt and covert) that led inexorably to millions of Latino families to flee their homelands, triggering an unprecedented migration that is transforming America's cultural and economic landscape.
Monday, November 12 at 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street (at York St.)
San Francisco, CA
$10 advance, $12 door
more info
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 Audre Lorde -The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 at the Siren Nation Film Festival 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde's passing, the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist. Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 explores a little-known chapter of the writer'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. Sunday, November 18th, 4pm Siren Nation Film Festival
2522 SE Clinton
Portland, Oregon 97202
more info ----------------------------------------------------  Marriage Equality at the Spokane GLBT Film Festival This short documentary interweaves archival footage and photos with contemporary interviews to illuminate events surrounding the pivotal Massachusetts state constitutional convention on same sex marriage. At the center of our story is Massachusetts Representative Byron Rushing, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement who took the campaign for same sex marriage into African American communities. He directly challenged many religious leaders, and advocated for same sex marriage as a Civil Rights issue on par with the liberation movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Rushing, a heterosexual man of strong faith, has spent a lifetime championing the causes of the underserved, overlooked and oppressed. Sunday, November 4, 1PM Riverpoint EWU Auditorium
Phase I Classroom Building,
668 North Riverpoint Blvd.,
Spokane, WA 99202
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| TWN Wednesday Night Workshops - the Fall 2012 Edition
Besides its intensive TWN Production Workshop, TWN also sponsors a walk-in series of workshops on various production topics. All are either sliding scale or free, and will be presented at various locations this semester. The series starts soon and seats are limited - so register now by emailing workshop@twn.org.
Wednesday, November 7th at 6:30 PM - A Master Class with Byron Hurt
The award-winning filmmaker, Byron Hurt, a TWN workshop alum, will talk about the making of his new film, Soul Food Junkies. Cosponsored with the Media and Communication Arts Department and the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at City College, and the Black Documentary Collective. This event will take place at City College. NAC Building 1-202.
Free, but RSVP required, seating is very limited!
Wednesday November 14th at 6:30 PM - Preserving Your Masters and Originals - How Are You Going to Save Them?
Members of the Activist Archivist Group will talk about what filmmakers need to consider when thinking about preserving their materials for future access - what will you do with your film, Umatic 3/4", VHS, DVs - and even the files you shoot now? Plus - what does an activist archivist do?
Location - DWU, 10 West 37th Street Suite 4W (see below)
Upcoming Workshops:
- Production Planning Part Two - Your Transmedia Production in more Depth with Ann Bennett
- Sound and Camera: what's next?
Register now by emailing workshop@twn.org.
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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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Tribeca Film Institute Latin America Media Arts Fund
The TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund provides grants, professional guidance and an entrance into the US industry to documentary, animation, or hybrid feature-length films from innovative film and video artists living and working in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America.
Deadline: November 5, 2012
more info
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Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund
The Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund provides grants and guidance to exceptional filmmakers with character-driven nonfiction works-in-progress that sit outside of the social issue landscape. By supporting work that engages in unexplored perspectives, the fund aims to help take audiences into someone else's environment and spotlight the journey of the individual.
Deadline: November 5, 2012
more info
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America's Media Makers: Development and Production Grants
The Division of Public Programs at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities funds radio, television, and digital projects in the humanities that are intended for public audiences.
Deadlines: January 9, 2013, and August 14, 2013.
development grants
production grants
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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 ------------------------------------------------------------ ITVS International Initiative The International Initiative was created to give U.S. audiences access to international stories and voices on American television and new media platforms. International funding is only available to independent filmmakers who are neither U.S. citizens nor residents of the U.S. Deadline: Open more info |
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| TWN Recommends
Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue Symposium
Yari means the future in the Kuranko language of Sierra Leone, and Ntoaso means understanding and agreement in the Akan language of Ghana. The Organization of Women Writers of Africa is once again presenting an international symposium of women writers from Africa and its diaspora to be held in Accra, Ghana, West Africa May 16-19, 2013.
more info
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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. 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. |
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