Third World Newsreel has been training emerging filmmakers of color for almost 40 years. Its longstanding Production Workshop has nurtured hundreds of award winning filmmakers, all making media that examines social issues and represents the lives and voices of diverse communities. Its Evening Seminars bring films, directors, producers and production technicians to broad groups of filmmakers and community audiences; and its Community Media workshops train local community groups to produce their own media. Alongside its training programs, Third World Newsreel is a distributor of educational media including the groundbreaking Harvest of Empire on Latinos in America and Gideon's Army on public defenders in the South. In addition, the organization is working to preserve the Third World Newsreel Archives, which contain some of the most provocative and revealing film documentation of American movement history during the late 1960s and 1970s.

Third World Newsreel is pleased to have the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and NEA Chairman Jane Chu as it continues to nurture the next generation of filmmakers of color working on social issue media.

For more information on projects included in the NEA grant announcement, go to arts.gov. 

For more information on Third World Newsreel, go to twn.org or find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Stay tuned for our next set of workshops and seminars!