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Producer Newsletter Vol. 10 Issue 2
A list of opportunities for filmmakers to help increase the diversity of the media landscape.
Jason Ryle packs up the European Film Market (EFM) stand in Berlin.

Promoting Indigenous Cinema 
To Europe, Worldwide Audience
Vision Maker Media Executive Director Shirley Sneve (Rosebud Sioux) and Board member Maya Solis (Pascua Yaqui/Blackfeet) represented the United States at the European Film Market (EFM) as part of the Indigenous Cinema Stand in Berlin, Germany, Feb. 11-19. Solis works for the Native American and Indigenous Film Program at the Sundance Institute. Elizabeth Weatherford, Indigenous Media Initiatives and the founding director of the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, is the third American partner in these efforts to promote Indigenous cinema to European and worldwide audiences.

Organized by ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and the Canada Council for the Arts, this is the second year for 11 Indigenous media partners to share in this promotional effort. 

KIVALINA, a film produced by Gina Abatemarco and funded by Vision Maker Media, premiered at EFM as part of the Culinary Cinema program. KIVALINA is an observational portrait of an Inupiaq Eskimo people trapped on a disappearing island in Arctic, Alaska. Told with intimate access and cinematic imagery, the film explores the community's plight to survive in a landscape and a system that is failing them.

Prior to EFM, Sneve was in Paris, France, in meetings with museums and broadcasters to promote VMM films. Filmmaker Sylvie Jacquemin (Indians Like Us) and Sophie Gergaud, coordinator of a Native American festival in France, Festival Ciné Alter'Natif, helped coordinate Sneve's meetings.

"We have always been told that Europeans are fascinated with Native cultures, so that selling our films there should be easy," Sneve commented about her trip. "That may be true, but connecting the right film with the right buyer takes extensive research and time. We are working hard to make this investment pay off for Vision Maker Media documentaries."
Creative Capital Partnership = Free Webinars
Through a partnership with Creative Capital, Indigenous filmmakers are eligible to participate in the following webinars at no cost. A limit of 32 scholarships are available, so this offer is first come, first serve!

To apply for a webinar, email your name and your choice of webinar(s) to Georgiana Lee, Assistant Director of Vision Maker Media, (no later than 2 days before the webinar) at glee@netad.unl.edu.

Webinar: Producing & Funding Your Community Engagement Campaign
Presenter: Stephanie Bleyer
Date: Thursday, March 3, 7-8:30 p.m. (EST) Regular Price: $25 Free
Webinar: Social Media - How to Be Everywhere All the Time
Presenter: Brad Stephenson
Date: Monday, March 14, 7-8:30 p.m. (EST) Regular Price: $25 Free
Webinar: Kickstarter School
Presenter: Stephanie Pereira
Date: Monday, March 21, 7-8:30 p.m. (EST) Regular Price: $25 Free

Webinar: Seven Elements of Strategic Marketing
Presenter: Brian Tate
Date: Monday, March 28, 7-8:30 p.m. (EST) Regular Price: $25 Free
Sixth Biennial - March 11-13
Vision Maker Film Festival
It's coming soon! The Sixth Biennial Vision Maker Film Festival, March 11-13, 2016, in Lincoln, Nebraska. The festival showcases works by Native filmmakers. Join more than a dozen guest speakers involved with the showcased films.

Pricing
All Access Festival Pass - Only $25
(That's less than $1.50 per film!) - Available at 
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
Ticket prices for individual films: 
https://theross.org/movies/#tickets

Reception & World Premiere
March 11 Lincoln - A reception at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Van Brunt Visitors Center
(313 N. 13th St.) kicks off the three-day event.

Friday, March 11
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Reception and presentation of the Frank Blythe Award for Media Excellence to Peggy Berryhill (Muscogee). Hors d'oeuvres will be provided.

7 p.m. - Highly anticipated world premiere at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center of
Medicine Woman, a new one-hour PBS documentary produced by and about women that features historic and contemporary profiles of female healers, starting with
Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska.

Following the screening will be Q&A's with producers Christine Lesiak & Princella RedCorn (Omaha) and speaker Wehnona Stabler (Omaha).

Apply Now: March 18 Deadline
Native American Multimedia Internships 
The 2016 Vision Maker Media producer training will help filmmakers explore the strategic art of documentary storytelling in a way that ensures project completion and ultimate success. Using social media in the documentary film world and the development of ancillary materials to expand the impact of your film will be highlighted.Vision Maker Media is pleased to offer Public Media Internships to undergraduate or graduate students. With major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the purpose of the paid internships is to increase the opportunities for American Indian and Alaska Native youth in Public Broadcasting.

Location: Interns can be located at Vision Maker Media's offices at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, or at a Public Television station in the United States. Vision Maker Media will contact Public Television stations that are requested by interns to determine placement options.

(For assistance: 402-472-3522 or visionmaker@unl.edu)
Save the Date: June 8-12
VMM Producer Training to be Held in California
The 2016 Vision Maker Media producer training will help filmmakers explore the strategic art of documentary storytelling in a way that ensures project completion and ultimate success. Using social media in the documentary film world and the development of ancillary materials to expand the impact of your film will be highlighted.

Producers who are funded by Vision Maker Media will participate in this training, which will be held June 8-12, in Oakland, California. This year's training is held in partnership with ALLIANCE 2016, hosted by the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC). 

Filmmakers who want to attend the Vision Maker Media Producer Training can register for $200 per person. Contact Georgiana Lee for more details: glee@netad.unl.edu
Job Opportunities and Fellowships
Please see our website for a complete listing of job opportunities and fellowships.


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Film Festival Opportunities
Please see our website for a complete listing of film festival opportunities.

AFI Docs Film Festival
United States
Late Deadline: March 4, 2016
Extremely Shorts Film Festival
United States
Deadline: March 28, 2016
Montreal First Peoples Festival
Canada
Deadline: March 18, 2016
FirstGlance Film Festival
United States
April 15-17, 2016
Cross Video Days: Think Beyond TV
France
Deadline: March 21, 2016
United States
Deadline: April 22, 2016

Extremely Young Film Festival
United States
Deadline: March 28, 2016


             
Training and Other Opportunities
Please see our website for a complete listing of training and other opportunities.

LACDA International Juried Competition
United States
Deadline: Feb. 29, 2016
Sheffield Doc|Fest
United Kingdom
Deadline: March 16, 2016
The Horse Nation of Ochethi Sakowin 
United States
Deadline: April 8, 2016
Amsterdam
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Cinema in Industry (CINDY) Awards
United States
Deadline: March 31, 2016
 United States
Deadline: March 25, 2016
United States
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Deadline: March 31, 2016
Vision Maker Media
Producer Training
Oakland, California
June 8-12, 2016
  
Funding Opportunities
Please see our website for a complete listing of funding opportunities.

United States
United States/United Kingdom
Deadline: March 4, 2016
United States
Deadline: March 4, 2016

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