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Baldwin's Prophecy Directed by Richard Louissaint. Screening as part of How We Move: Black Dance in Film at Luminal Theater @ Richard Beavers Gallery
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New and Renewing Members
Arbo Radiko (Brooklyn, NY) is a multimedia production and archival consultation company run by Grammy-nominated artist Jocelyn Arem. Her work - at the intersection of the arts, archives, digital storytelling, social justice, and community action - has been featured in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, WNYC, People Magazine, Mojo, ABC Australia, the Tokyo Folklore Center, and GRAMMY week in Los Angeles.
Nandi Jordan (Los Angeles, CA) is a sociologist, and researcher, working as a qualitative and quantitative researcher for a range of entertainment, government, nonprofit and corporate clients.
Sarah Katz (Arlington, VA) is a Producer, Shooter, Assosciate Producer, and researcher, who has worked on news stories, educational material, and documentaries.
Marina Martinez-Bateman (Portland, OR)is a social media and digital marketing professional based in Portland, Oregon. Since 2007 she he has applied her community marketing model in highly successful, award-winning local and national campaigns.
Sherri McConnell (Baton Rouge, LA) is the President of McConnell & Associates consulting, a company that develops business strategies for public and private sector executive decision-makers in the creative economy, as well as being the Assistant to the Secretary of Louisiana Economic Development, and previously Executive Director of the Office of Entertainment Industry Development, a division of LED.
Margie Tor (Naples, FL) is the founder of MIRRORPHOTO, a company that brings fresh ideas from around the world, providing fashion makeovers, image branding, and event production.
Renewing Member!
Kasandra VerBrugghen
(Salt Lake City, UT) is the president of the board of directors for the ALLIANCE. She is also Executive Director of Spy Hop Productions, a youth media organization in Salt Lake City dedicated to empowering young people through the digital media arts.
Marjon Wolfe (Washington, DC) is the Ticketing Manager for Events DC's Sports and Entertainment division, and serves as the inaugural Hip Hop and Contemporary Music Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Job Bank
Communications and Media Associate (New York, NY) —due Wednesday, November 15
Staff Writer (Boston, MA)
—due Wednesday, November 22
Communications Specialist
(Orono, ME) —due Friday November 24
Open Until Filled
Neighborhood & Politics Beat Reporter/Editor, Real Chi Youth (Chicago, IL)
Criminal Justice Reform Beat Reporter/Editor
Communications Director, Appalshop, Inc. (Whitesburg, KY)
AMDOC POV Shorts & Streaming Producer (Brooklyn, NY)
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (New York, NY)
Assistant Professors of Math/Computer Science and New Media (Purchase, NY)
more jobs on the Job Bank
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New in the Resource Library
Have you checked out the ALLIANCE Resource Library yet? There you'll find story and design tools, cultural strategies, field research, and white papers that will deepen your understanding of innovation and shared practice across the field.
Collective Dreams and Desires: Intergeneration Insight on Civic Participation and Media Literacy
This case study, generated from the Pre-Conference Workshop on Civic Participation and Media Literacy at the 2017 NAMLE Conference is a meditation on the affordances of intentional creation of spaces and intergenerational dialogue around civic participation and media literacy
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Grants and Calls
Call for Entries: Taiwan Internation Documentary Festival
The Taiwan Internation Documentary Festival is looking for documentaries that are creative, relevant to social and human interests, and have a unique point of view. Filmmakers are encouraged to submit documentaries completed after December 1, 2015. A Taiwan Premiere is required, if not a Taiwanese film.
Deadline: Friday, November 8
Call for Applications: The Miller/Packan Film Fund
Applications for The Miller/Packan Film Fund grants, offering between $5,000 to $25,000 to feature-length non-fiction projects that address social issues and inspire others.
Call for Entries: CAAMFest:
The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is accepting submissions for CAAMFest. They are seaking work from Asian American Filmmakers to incite dialogue and community engagement around the ways Asian Americans are contributing to American identity and culture.
Late Deadline: Tuesday, November 28th
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From the Alliance Blog
By Kamal Sinclair
Reprinted from IMMERSE, https://immerse.news/
A prelude to the Making a New Reality series
In 2008 my life took a turn from the world of live performing arts and tangible visual arts to an increasingly more virtual engagement with arts and creativity. I went from a primarily analog world to a primarily digital one in a period of rapid innovation and fundamental changes to the human communication architecture. This personal journey has informed a long-form research project that I’ve been conducting with support from the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms program and will be publishing in the pages of Immerse over the next several months.
The JustFilm’s commission enabled me to intensively listen to a host of voices answering the questions: How do we provide robust support for those working to further equality through emerging media? and How do we ensure equality in the industries of emerging media?
read more at thealliance.media
Storytelling Matters features original and curated writing and photography about global story culture and innovation in order to facilitate conversation about the ethical and responsible use of creative technologies in community. If you have a story to share, let us know! creative@thealliance.media
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Media Policy Watch
by Megan A. Zebrowski
Earlier this month, president Trump Tweeted, regarding what he considered fake news coming from NBC, “at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License?” Democratic FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel Tweeted a reply, “Not how it works.” And included a link to a PDF of a FCC manual about the organization’s licensing regulations.
In addition, according to a Politico article a FCC official and telecom experts elaborated that, “the FCC doesn’t give broadcasting licenses to networks like Comcast-owned NBC. Rather, the agency licenses individual television stations, including stations owned by Comcast or affiliates that air NBC programming. And while a process exists for challenging a station's license renewal after an eight-year term, successful challenges are exceedingly rare.”
These statements correspond to remarks made by Trump endorsed FCC chairman Ajit Pai on September 15th at the Future of Speech Online Symposium in Washington DC, “On Twitter, for example, people regularly demand that the FCC yank licenses from cable news channels like Fox News, MSNBC, or CNN because they disagree with the opinions expressed on those networks. Setting aside the fact that the FCC doesn’t license cable channels, these demands are fundamentally at odds with our legal and cultural traditions.”
As the FCC continues to review the proposed merger between the Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media, critics of the deal continue to speak out. This includes the Coalition to Save Local Media, a coalition who’s members include American Cable Association, Dish Network, Common Cause, Public Knowledge, Herring Networks, NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association, the Competitive Carriers Association, Latino Victory Project, the Sports Fans Coalition, The Blaze and the Computer & Communications Industry Association. Recently, they made a three-point argument:
First, “Sinclair-Tribune’s promises of investing more in local news ring hollow given Sinclair’s history of gutting local newsrooms at stations they acquire and forcing their stations to air ‘must run’ segments produced at their Baltimore headquarters.”
Second, “consumers will have fewer choices and pay higher prices. Sinclair-Tribune has promised Wall Street it will jack up local TV fees charged to cable and satellite companies, and those higher costs will ultimately be borne by consumers.”
Third, “Sinclair-Tribune fails to explain how they plan to comply with current broadcast ownership rules. Just weeks ago, the top Sinclair executive said that the company did not plan to sell any local stations. The merger, as proposed, is illegal, and Sinclair-Tribune offers no specifics on how they will comply with the law.”
According to Variety, “Sinclair vowed to invest more in investigative reporting and to replace hours now devoted to infomercials with locally produced news and public affairs programming such as Tribune’s “Morning Dose” program.”
We want to hear from you. Are you concerned with any national media policy stories that are underreported? Are there any local stories in your area that need highlighting? Please let us know.
read more at thealliance.media
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Workshops, Festivals, Convenings
DOCNYC
Thursday, November 9th through Thursday, November16
New York, NY, NYC
The Genius of Marian, Presented by The Alliance
Monday, November 13th
Spokane, WA
SF Urban Film Fest
Monday, November 13th through Sunday, November 19th
San Francisco, CA
AFI FEST
Thursday, November 9th through Thursday, November 16th
Hollywood, CA
Calligraphy
Sunday, November 19th
Missoula MT
Private Violence, Presented by The Alliance
Monday, November 20th
Spokane, WA
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THE JOYS OF ALLIANCE MEMBERSHIP • Networked Web Portal—A robust website that visually showcases the impact stories of member organizations and individual artists serving marginalized and under-resourced communities across the country and around the world • Leadership Roundtables—Quarterly Creative Leadership Roundtables will be developed as a year-round participatory framework for peer-to-peer mentorship relevant to a range of arts and culture staff, from founders to mid-career leaders and next-gen emerging voices • Innovation Studio—A virtual and actual lab space to receive mentorship and support in the development of unique open source media/arts/tech initiatives, with an opportunity to present your ideas to funders and investors • Media Policy Action Hub—This very public action hub will aggregate breaking news, legislation and current campaigns in a live interactive map interface, focusing on issues like net neutrality, surveillance and human rights, censorship and free press • Global Artist Residency Program and Fund—To facilitate the most dynamic collaborations between artists, organizations and communities, The ALLIANCE will partner with trusted cultural exchange programs to design The ALLIANCE co-branded media arts residencies, with a companion fund to support collaborative projects between artists and NGOs • National Conference—Biennial gathering of the media arts and culture community
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