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Announcing the 2022 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows
BAVC Media is proud to welcome an exemplary group of 9 new Fellows for the 2022 year – a group of filmmakers who are working in realms beyond the traditional bounds of documentary form to ask urgent questions in captivating new ways. BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship is an artist development program that provides nonfiction filmmakers with critical mentorship, access to industry contacts, and structure for workshopping projects in an inclusive and collaborative environment. For the 2022 Fellowship, BAVC Media is awarding $10,000 in unrestricted funding to 9 filmmakers in addition to an immersive 8-month experience that includes intimate feedback [...]
November is the official month for Homelessness Awareness.
During the pandemic, increasing income inequality and cumulative housing instability have been dramatically exacerbated. These disparities are more pronounced in the Bay Area, a place of opportunity, but also of tremendous inequality and deprivation. So, this November, BAVC Media has partnered with Argo, a streaming platform and filmmaker community, and Hamilton Families, a non-profit organization that fights against homelessness in the Bay Area. Established in 1985, Hamilton Families is San Francisco’s leading service provider for families experiencing homelessness. Together with Hamilton Families, Argo has co-curated, Finding Home, a playlist that features three powerful documentaries that combat the biases of homelessness, as told by the persons [...]
