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| TWN October News: Workshops, Screenings, Film/Video Grants & More
| TWN Fall 2013 Media Workshops - Register Now!
Thurs, Oct 10, 6:30 PM, Planning your Transmedia Production with Ann Bennett
Ann Bennett is a documentary producer, most recently for Through a Lens Darkly and a transmedia producer for the community engagement initiative, Digital Diaspora Family Reunion. This workshop includes tips and techniques for your social media plan and configuring your doc for various media platforms. Location: Domestic Workers United, 10 West 37th Street, Suite 4WCosponsored by Domestic Workers United Sliding Scale: $10-20 Thurs, Oct 17, 6:00 PM, Jesse Owens Screening and Director Laurens Grant
Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, became the most famous athlete of his time, winning 4 Gold Medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, infuriating the Nazis. But when he returned to the United States, he still faced racism. Laurens Grant, who directed this Emmy nominated documentary, is the award winning producer of Freedom Riders and is also making Rokia: Voice of a New Generation, on the West African singer-songwriter Rokia Traore. Location: School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st, 1st FloorCosponsored by the School of Visual Arts SocDoc program FREE but RSVP required Wed, Oct 23, 6:30 PM, Editing and Directing - Master Class with Sam Pollard
Sam Pollard is the award winning director of numerous documentaries, from the Eyes on the Prize series to The Blues, to Slavery by Another Name. He is also the acclaimed editor of such films as Venus & Serena, When the Levees Broke, Pete Seeger, Girl 6 and Clockers. Pollard will show clips and talk about his work and how to navigate the media industry. Location: City College, 160 Convent Ave, Room TBDCosponsored with the Media & Communication Arts Department and the Documentary Forum of City College of New York FREE but RSVP required Wed, Oct 30, 6:30 PM Legal Issues for the Indie Filmmaker: Fair Use and E&O
David Morrison, Executive Director of the Indie Film Clinic at Cardozo Law School, along with filmmaker and lawyer S. Casper Wong go over issues dear to the heart of indie filmmakers - what can you use as "Fair Use" - and new issues have come up! Plus -what and why do we have to deal with E&O, and what does the Indie Film Clinic do? Location: 25 West 43rd Street, 10th Flr, Room 1000Cosponsored with Asian American Women Media Makers FREE but RSVP required Wed, Nov 6, 6:30 PM Distribution & Marketing: Before You Shoot - Roselly Torres
Roselly Torres is the Director of Distribution and Marketing at TWN (Third World Newsreel), and previously worked at LAVA (Latin America Video Archives). She will talk about what filmmakers need to be working on before they shoot their project, and preparing to distribute and market one's film. Location: Third World Newsreel, 545 Eighth Ave, Suite 550 (38th st)Sliding Scale $10-20 Plus in November- Camera/Edit Tech Tips: Issues in HD workflows - stay tuned! To Register: Email workshop@twn.org.
| TWN Screenings
Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 at Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival
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. Lorde mentored and encouraged Black German women to write and publish as a way of asserting their identities, rights and culture in a society that isolated and silenced them, while she challenged white German women to acknowledge and constructively use their white privilege. This documentary contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz's personal archive, including stunning images of Audre Lorde off stage
Saturday, October 12, 9:50 PM
Kumble Theater
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
1 University Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Harvest of Empire Educational Film Tour
Based on the groundbreaking book by award-winning journalist Juan González, HARVEST OF EMPIRE takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nation's cultural and economic landscape.
October 2, 2013
HALO Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri
October 3, 2013
Esperanza College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 9, 2013Suffolk County Community College, Brentwood, New York October 14, 2013Texas Association of Students for Bilingual Education, Kingsville, Texas October 17, 2013Edmund Burke School, Washington, DC October 27, 2013 West Valley College, Saratoga, California
October 28, 2013
National Association of International Educators, Atlantic City, New Jersey
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| Film/Video Grants
The Women's Film Preservation Fund
The Women's Film Preservation Fund, founded by New York Women in Film & Television, seeks proposals for the preservation or restoration of American films, from any era, in which women have held significant creative positions, including, but not limited to, writer, director, producer, editor and performer.
Deadline: October 1st, 2013 more info
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Queens Arts Fund
This grant is intended to fund individual visual, literary and performing artists in the creation of new work, culminating in a public event that must be accessible to the general public of Queens County. Visual artists working in fiber, folk arts/traditional, graphics, media arts - film/video, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture are encouraged to apply, as are composers, choreographers, playwrights, non-fiction and fiction literary artists, poets and spoken word artists.
Deadline: October 10, 2013
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Black Public Media's Digital Media Arts Fellowship
Are you a producer looking to develop an interesting web interactive idea? Got your own web series idea, but need the time, resources, and mentorship to develop it? The Digital Media Arts Fellowship is a 6-12 week immersive trans-media mentoring program designed to provide emerging producers of African descent a foothold in new/multi-platform careers in the digital arts. The program assists young producers in shaping web/multi-platform ideas by providing limited financial support, mentorship and access to professional equipment.
Deadline: October 10, 2013
more info------------------------------------------------------------ Soros Justice Media FellowshipThe Soros Justice Fellowships Program's Media Fellowships support writers, print and broadcast journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices proposing to complete media projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, and catalyze change on important U.S. criminal justice issues. Deadline: October 23, 2013more info------------------------------------------------------------
Frameline Completion Fund
The Frameline Completion Fund provides grants to emerging and established filmmakers. This program seeks to provide a much-needed source of financial contributions to artists who often struggle to secure funding to complete their works. Submissions are being accepted for documentary, educational, narrative, animated or experimental projects about LGBTQ people and their communities. Grants up to $5,000 are available for films that represent and reflect LGBTQ life in all its complexity and richness.
Deadline: October 31, 2013
more info ------------------------------------------------------------ Ford FoundationFord'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
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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
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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 and the Funding Exchange, 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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