Bay Area Video Coalition

Applications are now open for the 2021 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship! Apply to be a 2021 MediaMaker Fellow and join a collaborative, community-driven cohort of eight first-and-second-time feature documentary directors from across the U.S. Together you will work through the stumbling blocks of your projects with additional support from mentors and experts from across the industry. Develop skills, build relationships, and gain insights that will continue to nourish your career and your craft long into the future. Fellows are also awarded $10,000, festival attendance, and future opportunities from BAVC as a program alum. The deadline is February 14 but we encourage you to apply early! Learn more and apply today: bavc.org/mediamaker

The @sfurbanfilmfest is right around the corner! Starting Saturday, February 13th SF Urban will be hosting two workshops in partnership with @somapilipinas and taught by BAVC's @keith.battle. Come learn the basics of storytelling and apply it as a tool to fight displacement! You will be surprised at how easy it is to become a storyteller and use storytelling methods to galvanize communities and government leaders around anti-displacement efforts. ... In Level 1 you’ll learn the basics of storytelling and in Level 2 you’ll participate in an advanced interactive workshop to create campaigns that will invigorate the community around SOMA Pilipinas Cultural Heritage District’s anti-displacement strategies! To learn more about our programs, check out their website: https://sfurbanfilmfest.com/2021/

BAVC is pleased to be co-presenting @SFJewishFilm's NEXT WAVE screening of @IFCFilms's "The Vigil" followed by a conversation with Writer-Director Keith Thomas and surprise cast members. Tickets at https://watch.eventive.org/jfi/play/5ff4dd9a9efad20063f03ee7 (California only) use promo code NEXTWAVE for $2 off

Do you have a collection of tapes that you don’t know what to do with? Are you worried that the ravages of time and obsolescence will destroy the cultural memory held on your tape media? Are you looking for information about how to preserve the tapes in your collection? BAVC’s Preservation Access Program is designed to provide artists, filmmakers, individuals, and small/midsized organizations with affordable digitization and preservation services. On Tuesday, February 2..., 5:00pm PST, you can join BAVC’s Preservation team for a virtual info night where we'll go over details about the program, and discuss the work that BAVC staff does to make sure that your materials are preserved with the best possible quality. We’ll also have tips for applying to our program and protecting your tapes from deterioration and damage. Afterward, we’ll be screening materials that have been digitized through the Preservation Access Program, so tune in to see some of our favorite images and sounds from around the country (and history)! RSVP here: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLScUningx0dl_lwbSJ/viewform The event will be streamed live on BAVC’s Twitch Channel. https://www.twitch.tv/bavcpreserve Anyone will be able to participate in the Q&A through the Twitch chat feature, but you’ll need to create a Twitch account first. If you have any questions about the event or the Preservation Access Program feel free to email us directly. See you there!

The ACLU of Northern California is currently seeking proposals from artists who may want to be our first-ever artist-in-residence! The 2021 residency will embe...d an artist or creative worker in an ACLU NorCal project for a year-long collaboration to bring art-based and creative strategies to the ACLU’s work and to engage impacted communities. This is a contract-position without traditional employment benefits. Artist will receive a $16,000 stipend, along with up to $10,000 for materials. For more information, visit: https://bit.ly/2Yh4zdU

@IFThenShorts & @hulu are looking for filmmaking teams with story-driven short documentaries! Up to $25k, yearlong mentorship, industry consults and MORE await nonfiction filmmakers in the first-ever If/Then Shorts x Hulu Short Documentary Lab! https://tinyurl.com/ifthxhulu

Join the conversation about how cultural memory is preserved, how and for whom archives make their collections accessible, and the impacts on contemporary documentary filmmaking. IT'S NOT LOST IN THE ARCHIVES, presented by BAVC and the Roxie, part of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival is totally free to participate, SATURDAY, JAN 30 1:00 PM - 02:30 PM Featuring stories from filmmaker Pedro Kos of Rebel Hearts, Stephen Gong, executive director of the Center for Asian American Me...dia, Pamela Vadakan with California Revealed, and moderated by Morgan Oscar Morel, Preservation Director at the Bay Area Video Coalition. RSVP here: https://village.festival.sundance.org//6003baa2784e080cfc1

Learn how to tell your own story through video, music, animation, game design and coding using high-quality equipment and software in a supportive, collaborative environment! If you are between the ages 14-17, you are eligible to join Next Gen, BAVC’s FREE after school youth program - winner of the 2017 San Francisco Magazine Best After School Program and the 2016 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards. Fall 2020 kicks off on September 22 *online*... Apply today: https://bavc.tfaforms.net/321294

Join BAVC for a Facebook Live conversation about the Bay Area’s documentary community, presented by DOC NYC. Tune in this Friday, October 30 at 1:00-1:45 pm PST / 4:00-4:45 pm EST to share questions and comments. https://www.facebook.com/DOCNYCfest/ + Now through Saturday, Oct. 31, get $3 off tickets for any of the festival films featured in Road Tripmore than two dozen titles! Visit the docnyc.net Road Trip page, click on any film title with an asterisk, and use code ROADTRIP when checking out!

Very proud to see two BAVC supported films honored with Critics Choice Documentary nominations: Congratulations to the Crip Camp team on sweeping the Critics Choice Awards nominations with six including Best Documentary, Best Directing, Best Historical Doc, Best archival Doc, and Best Editing! Congratulations to 2018 BAVC MediaMaker Elizabeth Lo and the 'Stray' team (Magnolia Pictures + Dogwoof) for your First Documentary Feature nomination!

BAVC co-presents the San Francisco Bay Area stop this Friday (along with Berkeley FILM Foundation & SFFILM) 4:00-4:45 ET / 1:00-1:45 PT on FB Live: https://www.facebook.com/DOCNYCfest Guests include: Amanda Salaz (SFFILM), Abby Ginzberg (Barbaraleefilm), Rebecca Richman Cohen (Racing Horse Productions Weed & Wine), Dana Nachman (IFC Films Dear Santa), and Ines Hofman Kanna (Landfall Documentary)

Belly of the Beast is a The New York Times Critic's Pick for what to watch this weekend! In virtual cinemas starting today, including Roxie Theater here in San Francisco.

50 YEARS OF FABULOUS: The Imperial Council Story makes its Virtual Cinema debut October 23, complete w/ Imperial Council Celebrity Drag Preshow & a Post-screening Panel Discussion w/ the filmmakers & members of the Imperial Council. Get tickets here: https://bit.ly/2I3XYyG Frameline, ROXIE, The GLBT Historical Society 50 Years of Fabulous: Virtual Theatrical Release

The United Nations Association Film Festival starts TOMORROW. Join us from Oct 15-25 to celebrate THE POWER OF EMPATHY through documentaryfilms that highlight humanrights issues, including environmentalism, racism, health, women's issues, universal education, war, and peace. Check out the films and get your ticket today: https://lnkd.in/gQCfwF3

A new study from Center for Media & Social Impact featuring the BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship supported film "Always In Season," highlights the important role documentaries play in shaping the national conversation about race. From IndieWire: https://www.indiewire.com//documentaries-conversation-on-/ Read the full report here: https://cmsimpact.org//breaking-silence-documentaries-can/ Key takeaways...... At a time of escalating media distrust, and expanding partisan divides and news deserts, viewers saw documentary storytelling as trustworthy and credible. Documentaries are reporting critical stories on racial violence and other social issues that local and national media are overlooking. Documentaries are effective community building tools and are helping people build a sense of shared community solidarity. Documentary-based community events are disrupting cultures of silence, provoking change, and helping people to create new communities. Documentaries are planting seeds of further learning, further action, and further self-awareness. In her Foreword (https://cmsimpact.org//breaking-silence-docume/p/foreword/), Director Jacqueline Olive says... "I see Always in Season as a vital tool for the process of reimagining the future. It is important to openly and comprehensively explore what justice and reconciliation can look like for the future in ways that let the past inform us and a deeper understanding of the present inspire radical institutional change moving forward. I am heartened that this study finds that Always in Season is helping communities to break down cultures of silence around racial violence. Not only has the film encouraged people to speak out and become more conscious about lynching and related issues of racism, it has also provoked people to actively confront them in many ways."

Hey San Francisco! Uptima Business Bootcamp, a local cooperative business accelerator is currently offering a free 6-weeks long business course to San Francisco-based artists, musicians and freelancers. The application deadline is this Friday, October 16th! If you think that you would benefit from this, the link to apply is here: https://uptimabootcamp.com/modules/freelancer-course

An epic, enchanting road movie that travels seamlessly through time. @filmmakermag As riveting as it is stunning an ambitious and unflinching portrait of contemporary Mexico. @thefilmstage los cineastas hicieron un increible trabajo al tejer una historia de ficcion con lo que esta sucediendo hoy en dia. - @milenio ... Rodrigo Reyes has crafted a poetic and beautiful film, that carries a consistent vision throughout. 499 successfully implements hybrid form and delivers a parable that parallels situations in today’s world. - @hotdocs_ Jury statement TOMORROW, Tuesday, October 13th "499" Director Rodrigo Reyes will be talking with Miguel Novelo exploring participatory storytelling, interactivity, hybrid filmmaking forms, and questions of memory and belonging. BAVC and Cineola are excited to be bringing together two Bay-Area-based Mexican filmmakers who are both experimenting with media forms to discuss their work, their processes, and their ideas with YOU. Don't forget to RSVP! Link in bio. #expandedcinema #documentaryfilm #indiedoc #experimentalfilm #indiefilmmakers #freeevent #onlineevents #virtualreality #interactivity #hybriddocumentary #docufiction #colonialism #colonialismo #BayAreafilm #mexicanfilm #latinxfilm #rodrigoreyes #miguelnovelo #499 #lamarea #BAVCTownTalks #BAVCmediamaker See more

An epic, enchanting road movie that travels seamlessly through time. Filmmaker Magazine As riveting as it is stunning an ambitious and unflinching portrait of contemporary Mexico. The Film Stage los cineastas hicieron un increible trabajo al tejer una historia de ficcion con lo que esta sucediendo hoy en dia. - Milenio... Rodrigo Reyes has crafted a poetic and beautiful film, that carries a consistent vision throughout. 499 successfully implements hybrid form and delivers a parable that parallels situations in today’s world. - Hot Docs Jury statement TOMORROW, Tuesday, October 13th "499" Director Rodrigo Reyes will be talking with Miguel Novelo exploring participatory storytelling, interactivity, hybrid filmmaking forms, and questions of memory and belonging. BAVC and Cineola are excited to be bringing together two Bay-Area-based Mexican filmmakers who are both experimenting with media forms to discuss their work, their processes, and their ideas with YOU. Don't forget to RSVP! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/town-talks-expanded-cinema-tic

Join us this coming Tuesday, October 13, at 5:00pm PST / 8:00pm EST, on Zoom where Miguel Novelo, director of 'La Marea,' will be in discussion with '499' director Rodrigo Reyes. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/town-talks-expanded-cinema-tic

We are excited to bring to our community, The One Heart Sweetgrass Virtual Film and Arts festival; celebrating and amplifying the talents of Native storytellers..., filmmakers, and musicians through three core themes: Sovereignty, Storytelling, and Spirituality. Sovereignty: Friday, October 16th @ 6pm | Acting Workshop with Lily Gladstone facebook.com/events/659458481653858 Storytelling: Friday, October 23rd @ 7pm | One Heart Short Films Screening facebook.com/events/1621751284669518 Spirituality: Friday, October 30th @ 7pm | Sweetgrass Concert facebook.com/events/3433068520074204 Featuring: Tony Louie (Colville Confederated Tribes), Shanon Hale (Three Affiliated Tribes), Julia Keefe (Nez Perce), The Wanderers (Spokane Tribe), Daisy Chain (Haida/Pacific Islander) We hope that like a braid of sweetgrass signifying spiritual healing and peace, One Heart is able to provide space for virtual gathering that both heals and sends peace out into our communities. We look forward to sharing these events with you! These three events are FREE because accessibility to the arts is vital to the continuance of the arts, but we could not do any of this without our sponsors and support from community members like You. If you are interested in making a donation to One Heart please go to https://oneheartfestival.org/donate/ Your donation, large or small, ensures our continuance as an arts organization and the ability to bring more to the community for years to come. We at One Heart look forward to seeing the 16th, 23rd, and 30th!

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