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Creative Advisor Shaandiin Tome works with fellow Kyle Bell on the set of his Native Filmmakers Lab project 'Spirits'.
Grants and Calls
Sundance Native Filmmakers Lab
Four U.S Based Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native emerging film artists and one Canada-based First Nations, Métis, and Inuit filmmaker have the opportunity to participate in Sundance's May 2022 Native Lab. Applicants must submit a narrative feature or episodic pilot script to be considered.
Deadline: December 13th, 2021
Black Boy Writes/Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative
Mike Gauyo, writer for HBO's Insecure and Netflix Ginny and Georgia has partnered with training platform Stage 32 to offer the Black Boy Writes & Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative. Winners of this screenwriting competition will be offered access to a monthly Writers Roundtable with industry professionals as well as workshops, industry meetings, and free web-based training from Stage 32. To enter, participants must provide a half hour to our pilot script and a biography.
Deadline: December 15th
Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab
Documentary filmmaking teams with a feature-length non-fiction film in post-production are invited to submit to the Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab. The eight-day lab -- hosted at a residential retreat in the Sundance Mountain Resort -- will provide a space for teams to screen rough cuts in front of industry professionals as well as be provided with presentations on the art of editing and directing documentary films.
Deadline: January 18th, 2022
National Endowment for the Humanities Media Projects Program
The NEH is offering multiple grants awarded to organizations creating radio programs, podcasts, short documentary films related to the A More Perfection Union: America at 250 Initiative, long-form documentary films, and documentary film series. Projects should "engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways." Applicants seeking Development funding are eligible for up to $75,000 and those seeking Production funding may be awarded up to $700,000. The program also offers Chairman's Special Awards that could provide up to $1,000,000 for "projects of exceptional significance, audience reach, and complexity."
Deadline: January 12th, 2022
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Media Policy Watch
President Biden announced his Presidential Initiative for Democratic Renewal during last Wednesday's virtual Summit for Democracy. In the Fact Sheet published last week, Biden announced a number of initiatives including an International Fund for Public Interest Media, support for a global Defamation Defense Fund for Journalists, the establishing of a Journalism Protection Platform, and increased support of the Media Freedom Coalition. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was quoted by CNN last week stating "These new efforts will come atop the $236 million dollars President Biden has requested in the 2022 budget to support independent media around the globe a more than 40% increase on the amount allotted in 2020."
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is facing extradition to the United States from the United Kingdom where he has been incarcerated since 2019. The legal battle for the U.S. government to extradite Assange is the result of an alleged violation of the Espionage Act due to his publishing of classified internal documents from former U.S. Army Intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning including video evidence of a U.S. Military helicopter killing two journalists purportedly mistaken for insurgents. The extradition process "began in May 2019 but was delayed several times partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Persuaded by the defense team’s arguments that the extradition of Assange would be oppressive due to his risk of suicide, a British judge ruled against the extradition on January" according to Eloise Barry in Time. However, following a recent hearing at the British High Court ruling that Assange should be extradited, he will be turned over to the US unless overturned by the Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Chris Hedges expressed his dismay at the verdict against Assange in an opinion piece published by Salon on Tuesday stating "Assange committed empire's greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption, and innumerable war crimes. [...] Empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds." Assange's brother said in an interview with Breaking Points this week "This is going to kill him [...] the pressure on him is so great that eventually, he will crumble". As the burden of the appeal mounted, Assange suffered a minor stroke that he is currently recovering from according to both his brother and his partner Stella Morris as reported last week.
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Job Bank
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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 • 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
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