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New and Renewing Members
Spy Hop Productions (Salt Lake City, UT)
Renewing member Spy Hop Productions mentors young people in the digital media arts to help them find their voice, tell their stories, and be empowered to affect positive change in their lives, their communities, and the world.
Emily Strom (Lost Angeles, CA)
Emily is a senior media executive with fifteen years of diverse experience developing stories, curating content, building partnerships and creating social action strategy. She runs a strategy consulting agency
Alex Randall (Richmond, VA)
Alex is a media installation artist with a focus on motion graphics.
Linda Blackaby (San Francisco, CA)
Blackaby is an independent media arts curator, executive, and community engagement consultant working primarily with film exhibition programs, festivals, filmmakers and organizations.
Blaise Noto (Chapel Hill, NC)
Blaise is assistant professor of communications in the Department of Communications in the School of Visual, Performing, and Communication Arts.
Victoria Meglio (Allison Park, PA)
Victoria Meglio is a Business development Consultant working for Piper Creative,
Michael Williams (Woodbridge, VA)
Micheal Williams is an Executive Producer, Director, and Performer working for Canvas Studios Inc.
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Workshops, Festivals, Convenings
December 28,
International Profilm Festival (28 December 2018 Los Angelos, CA)
Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival (1 — 31 January Seattle, WA)
Palm Springs International Film Festival (3 — 14 January, Palm Springs, Fl)
St. Lawrence International Film Festival — SLIFF Online (7 — 31 January, Canton, NY)
Social Impact Media Awards (10 January — 6 February 2019 West Hollywood, CA)
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Job Bank
CEO: AIR (Boston, MA)
Operations Director (San Fransisco, CA)
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sound Design, Mixing, Post-Production and/or Film Scoring (San Fransisco, CA)
Creative Workforce Coordinator (Chicago, Il)
Technical Director (Brooklyn, NY)
President and CEO (Tampa, Fl)
Executive Director (Columbia, SC)
Human Resources Manager (New York, NY)
more jobs on the Job Bank
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Grants and Calls
Open Call: One Minute Story Film Festival
One Minute Story Film Festival is seeking applications for their festival dedicated to showcasing and promoting quality short form storytelling from filmmakers throughout the United States and internationally. Submissions must be 60 seconds or under. Deadline: December 26
2019 Screenwriting Contest Script Pipeline
Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition are offering awards of up to $25,000, script circulation, and Development assistance from their senior executives for a exceptional scrips. December: 31st
NEH Media Production Grants
NEH is seeking film and television projects that may be single programs or a series addressing significant figures, events, or ideas and draw their content from humanities scholarship. They must be intended for national distribution. The program welcomes projects ranging in length from short-form to broadcast-length video. Awards for production grants are up to $650,000. Deadline: January 10th
NEH Media Development Grants
Develoment grants ranging from $40,000 to $75,000 are available to documentaries that address topics in the humanities, through NEH Media Development Grants. Deadline: January 10
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Media Policy Watch
by Pris Genet
The Massachusetts federal court recently blocked the ability for Massachusetts' wiretap lab to apply to secretly filming the police. This is related to Massachusetts' history of punishing civilians for recording police officers. According to Slate, "In 2007, police arrested Simon Glik for filming officers as they punched a man on Boston Common. Prosecutors charged Glik under the wiretap law, known as Section 99, though a trial court dismissed the charges." With decentralized acts of civilians recording police brutality having created huge media focus and massive community mobilization, cases like this have a huge impact on the ability of marginalized communities to report on their experiences.
After a federal investigation into American Media Inc., the parent company of National Enquirer and US weekly has admitted that they participate in what Washington Press is calling "a journalistically dubious practice known as 'catch-and-kill' in order to help Donald Trump become president." They state that "federal prosecutors revealed [...] they had agreed not to prosecute American Media Inc. for secretly assisting Trump’s campaign by paying $150,000 to Playboy model Karen McDougal for the rights to her story about an alleged affair with Trump." and that later AMI "intentionally suppressed McDougal’s story until after the election."
According to an article published by The New York Times on December 2nd, three actors from Muslim countries managed to circumvent Trump's travel ban for the New York performance of the British play The Jungle. They were able to accomplish this through the aid of a number of high profile individuals according to the article, "Over several months, a coalition of celebrities (including Sting and Benedict Cumberbatch), religious leaders (the former archbishop of Canterbury) and politicians (the mayors of New York and London) joined forces in an effort to persuade the administration to grant the actors a waiver from the ban."
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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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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