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| TWN May News: Workshops, Screenings, Grants and More
Production Workshop For Immigrant/First-Generation High School Girls
NYWIFT will be producing a one-day production workshop taught by Third World Newsreel for girls in high school (juniors and seniors) who are immigrants or first-generation Americans.
This workshop will provide girls with the opportunity to use video as a tool to tell their own stories, through hands-on activities and group collaborations. Topics covered in this workshop include:
* Camera techniques
* Executing interviews
* Shot composition
* Other technical production skills.
By the end of this workshop, participants will have a basic understanding of the fundamentals of video production and will have completed a mini-documentary.
If you or someone you know would be an ideal candidate for this workshop, please email Elizabeth Estrada at info@nywift.org.
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CLAIMING OUR VOICE & JUDITH documentaries at the Workers Unite Film Festival
Claiming Our Voice shares the stories of Andolan, an organization founded and led by South Asian immigrant women low-wage workers as a means to support each other and collectively organize against exploitative work conditions. The film follows the women as they create, rehearse and refine acts for their first popular multi-lingual theater performance. Claiming Our Voice seeks to break community silence by allowing women to (literally) set the stage for how their stories will be told.
Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor is a short documentary that takes the audience on an intimate journey into the daily life of Judith, a street vendor from Guatemala who lives and works in New York City. Judith exposes the routine obstacles she and her fellow immigrant vendors face daily on the city's streets and reveals her own struggles and hopes as an immigrant worker, mother, activist, and community organizer.
Saturday, May 9, 2015, 5:00pm, CLAIMING OUR VOICE & JUDITH
Thursday, May 14, 2015, 8:30pm, JUDITH
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St
New York, NY, 10003
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| TWN Recommends
WHY WE RISE by Corrine Manabat at NYWIFT's Five-Part Screening Series -
Immigrant Women: Sharing Our Voices Through Film
Three brave young New Yorkers reveal what it's like to grow up without having legal immigration status. Their struggles and their strength are on full display as they come out of the shadows and into the light, fighting for a better life for themselves, for their families and for all immigrants. Corinne Manabat is a TWN Production Workshop alumna!
Thursday, May 7th, 5:30pm
The Ridgewood Public Library
20-12 Madison St,
Ridgewood, NY 11385
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Support Progressive Independent Media - Pam Sporn
Pam Sporn, director of CUBAN ROOTS/BRONX STORIES, is working on a new project about Detroit and she needs your help!
The resilient Detroiters in DETROIT 48202 trace the legacy of people who have been the backbone of Detroit's industry and culture for decades, who have worked hard for the vision of a city that might benefit all of its residents. It is an open-ended narrative that leads us to a Detroit that is at a crossroad. Will the resurgence of the city center on a highly visible, high tech and increasingly white downtown? Or, will it center on the vast stretches of neighborhoods that continue to deal with water shutoffs, tax foreclosures, poor transportation, and underfunded schools? Contribute here!
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| Film Grants & More
IFP Project Forum - RBC's Emerging Storytellers
For writers and writer/directors at the script stage, and web series creators in development and pre-production looking to connect with producers, funders, agents, digital distributors, and streaming platforms.
Deadline: May 1, 2015
more info
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IFP Project Forum - No Borders US Producers
For established narrative producers with partial financing in place looking to connect with financiers, distributors, sales agents and international partners.
Deadline: May 1, 2015/ International Producers: May 22, 2015
more info
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IFP Project Forum - Spotlight on Documentaries
For documentary filmmakers in production or post-production looking to connect with financing partners, broadcasters, distributors, and film festival programmers.
Deadline: May 1, 2015/ International Producers: May 22, 2015
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POV Call for Entries 2016
It's everyone's favorite time of year: the POV Call for Entries is now open! Films submitted to this open call will be considered for the 2016 broadcast season and beyond.
Deadline: June 15, 2015
more info
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The MacArthur Foundation 2015 Documentary Fund The fund seeks to support feature documentary films and interactive digital documentaries that combine engaging storytelling with in-depth journalism. Deadline: September 1, 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 New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Film Preservation Foundation and an anonymous donor of the Peace Development Fund, 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 and social justice issues. |
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