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| TWN February News: Production Workshop, Screening, Film Grants & More!
TWN 2014 Production Workshop - Application Due Now!
Starting its 37th year, the Third World Newsreel (TWN) Production Workshop provides an exceptional low cost "hands-on" training program with practical skills and resources for emerging filmmakers. This intensive 4-month program supports and trains filmmakers,prioritizing people from communities that historically have been marginalized, and with limited economic resources or access to mainstream educational institutions or training programs. With training in technical and storytelling tools to create fiction or documentary projects, the TWN Production Workshop take participants from pre-production, production to post-production, making a short 10-minute video project from conception to completion.
The 2014 Applications are due February 3rd, 2014.
The Production Workshop starts March 5th, 2014.
This partially subsidized workshop is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
Deadline: February 3, 2014
application and more info
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l TWN Evening Workshops and More
Slavery by Another Name Film Screening and Talk with Film Director Sam Pollard
This fascinating feature documentary challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The documentary recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, trapping them in a brutal system that would persist until the onset of World War II. Slavery by Another Name premiered at Sundance and aired on PBS in 2012.
Director Sam Pollard will speak after the film screening. Pollard, who directed Eyes on the Prize, I'll Make Me a World and The Blues, is also the highly acclaimed editor of Spike Lee's When the Levee's Broke, 4 Little Girls, Girl 6, Clockers and many other films. He is a professor at NYU and currently finishing a film about August Wilson for PBS. Pollard will talk about the making of Slavery by Another Name, and his approach to documentary production. Free, RSVP required.
Cosponsored by: Documentary Forum@CCNY, the MCA Department, the Black Studies Program, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, Third World Newsreel and the Black Documentary Collective.
Wednesday, February 26, 6:30 PM
City College of New York
Shepard Hall Room 291
259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street
#1 to 137th or A, B, C, D to 145th street
RSVP to: Workshop@twn.org
This is the first of TWN's winter/spring series of evening seminars and events! Stay tuned for more!
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NYC's First Home Video Day! Free Event!
DCTV, Activist Archivists and Third World Newsreel will host the first New York City Home Video Day to highlight the importance of saving VHS and miniDV memories. Families, community groups, individuals and artists are being asked to bring their VHS and miniDV tapes - old, but perhaps personally important videos - to show them and learn how to save these images. This free event is open to all - and refreshments are being provided.
Archivists will be on hand to inspect tapes and advise on ways to keep the content of these videos alive for future generations, and tapes will be projected on DCTV's large screen to share. Throughout the day, local community groups and artists will show some of the work from their own collections, alongside the home videos of all those willing to participate. Inspired by Home Movie Day and the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, this event is also meant to highlight the importance of family and community media images as historical documents for future generations.
Saturday, March 1st, 1-6 PM
DCTV
87 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor
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| Film Grants and Programs
NALAC Fund for the Arts
This is a national grant program open to US-based Latino working artists, ensembles and small to mid-sized Latino arts organizations that demonstrate artistic excellence in pursuit of social justice through the arts.
Deadline: February 6, 2014
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The Fledgling Fund
The Fledgling Fund is a private foundation driven by the passionate belief that film can inspire a better world. How does this happen? With thoughtful plans designed to move audiences from passive viewers to motivated citizens who are ready to act.
Deadline for Initial Letter of Inquiry: February 7, 2014
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NYFA's 2014 Artists' Fellowships
Grants are awarded in 15 artistic disciplines, with applications accepted in five categories each year. Since the awards began in 1985, NYFA has awarded over $27 million to over 4,400 artists.
Deadline: February 10, 2014 at 11:59 p.m.more info------------------------------------------------------------ Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant ProgramThe Travel and Study Grant Program awards grants to emerging artists who create new work, rotating the eligible disciplines in alternating years. The eligible disciplines for 2014 are dance, film and video, and literature, including choreographers, film and video directors, and writers of poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and spoken word. Deadline: February 24, 2014more info
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Vision Maker Media's Public Media Content Fund
With funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Vision Maker Media Public Media Content Fund will award support to projects with a Native American theme and significant Native involvement that ultimately benefits the entire public media community.
Deadline: March 10, 2014
more info
------------------------------------------------------------ Bridging Cultures through Film: International TopicsThe Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics program supports documentary films that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities. These projects are meant to spark Americans' engagement with the broader world by exploring countries and cultures outside of the United States. Proposed documentaries must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship. Deadline: June 11, 2014 for Projects Beginning January 2015
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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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| 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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