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Meet Amber Pope and Law Buddy
Amber Pope came to the University of California, Santa Cruz wanting to be an accountant but soon realized that her Economics major wasn’t adding up. Looking for summer opportunities in line with her switch to Sociology, Pope applied to BAVC Media’s Bridges Fellowship on the recommendation of one of her professors.
2012 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
Six social issue documentary teams were selected to develop interactive web, mobile, multimedia, and game projects at BAVC Media's 2012 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies from from October 12 - 19, 2012 in San Francisco. Projects included stories from local, national, and international producers on a wide range of social justice topics including homelessness, immigration, economic justice, educational opportunity, democracy and human rights. Producers Institute 2012 was presented in partnership with ITVS and Mozilla. Additional support wass generously provided by the Adobe Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Fledgling Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Wyncote Foundation. Venue sponsors included [...]
Lost Treasures from Bay Area Art Archives
BAVC Media received funding from the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation to support a unique, collaborative effort to digitally preserve and exhibit seminal Bay Area audiovisual works that would otherwise be lost forever. BAVC Media's Preservation department worked with graduate students in California College for the Arts' Curatorial Practice program to assess hundreds of audiovisual assets from the archives of four iconic Bay Area art institutions — Southern Exposure, Headlands Center for the Arts, SF Cinematheque, and Intersection for the Arts — selecting 40 key pieces that have now been digitally preserved. Spanning the genres of experimental film, visual arts, literature, performance, music, and educational programs, the artists and works [...]
Preserving Dance Heritage
In 2007, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC) embarked on The Dance Heritage Coalition Dance Preservation and Digitization Project (DHC DPDP), an ambitious project to preserve and make accessible vital dance documentation, rare performances, and other notable works of America’s dance legacy. As the nation's sole non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and making accessible America’s dance legacy materials, the DHC encourages, initiates, and develops collaborative projects among the dance communities, library and archival fields, scholarly institutions, and individuals in four essential areas: access to materials; the continuing documentation of dance employing both [...]
