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2024 MediaMaker Fellows Attend IDA Getting Real Conference
Last month, several BAVC Media staff members attended IDA's Getting Real, a biennial conference designed for and by documentary practitioners and focused on the business and art of nonfiction storytelling. At the conference, Brittney Réaume, BAVC Media’s Associate Director of Artist Development; Dawn D Valadez, Director of Youth & Artistic Development; and Jin Yoo-Kim, Co-Director of the MediaMaker Fellowship 2024 hosted this year's MediaMaker cohort for their first convening of the year! They gave us some of the highlights and takeaways from their trip. BAVC MediaMaker Fellows Attend IDA Getting Real Conference The 2024 cohort brought so much thoughtfulness into [...]
Meet the 2024 MediaMaker Fellows
BAVC Media is excited to announce the latest cohort to take part in its longstanding documentary film fellowship program. Participants in the 2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funding, mentorship, industry access, feedback sessions, and workshops during an immersive 9-month experience. This year’s fellows are: Jamal Ademola (Ellas Vinieron de Las Nubes / They Came From the Clouds), Chelsi Bullard (Unfiltered), Caron Creighton (Wood Street), Julia Hunter, Patrick G. Lee (Untitled KQT Project), Ivan MacDonald (When They Were Here), Khai Thu Nguyen (The Full Thao), Pallavi Somusetty (Coach Emily). Learn more about the fellows and each of [...]
Announcing the 2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows
BAVC Media is excited to announce the latest cohort to take part in its longstanding documentary film fellowship program. Participants in the 2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funding, mentorship, industry access, feedback sessions, and workshops during an immersive 9-month experience. This year’s fellows are: Jamal Ademola (Ellas Vinieron de Las Nubes / They Came From the Clouds), Chelsi Bullard (Unfiltered), Caron Creighton (Wood Street), Julia Hunter, Patrick G. Lee (Untitled KQT Project), Ivan MacDonald (When They Were Here), Khai Thu Nguyen (The Full Thao), Pallavi Somusetty (Coach Emily). The program will feature two intensive convenings in [...]
Celebrating the 2023 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows
Last month we sent our 2023 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows out with a bang, we can hardly believe it's over! On Wednesday, February 28, after 10 months together, 7 exceptional filmmakers previewed their works in progress to a live audience in San Francisco at the KQED Headquarters and virtual viewers across the country. The culminating event for the 2023 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows began with words from BAVC Media Executive Director Paula Smith Arrigoni, 2020 Fellow Colette Ghunim, and Fellowship Co-Director’s, Dawn Valadez and Jin Yoo-Kim. Each fellow then pitched their project and shared a new clip, demonstrating the progress they've made [...]
BAVC Media at Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference
In November 2023, BAVC Media hit the road to Tulsa, Oklahoma for the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference. At the conference, we hosted a poster presentation on our national survey project, Mapping the Magnetic Media Landscape We also moderated the roundtable discussion: Revisiting the Magnetic Media Crisis A Decade After the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan. Over 60 people attended the round table discussion from organizations large and small. Find out what participants said about their challenges, ideas, and solutions to magnetic media preservation, at our recap here: MMML-AMIA Roundtable Summary If you have a magnetic [...]
BFFs at SXSW: MediaMaker Fellowship World Premieres
In a candid conversation, filmmakers, friends, and MediaMaker alum, Robie Flores and Contessa Gayles, offer unique insights into each other's projects ahead of their premieres at SXSW. We asked them both to reflect on their collaborative friendship, which began in 2013 at the NYU Journalism Documentary Film Program they both attended for graduate school, and the deeply personal narratives they’re bringing to the festival. Robie's film, The In Between, follows the return to her hometown Eagle Pass on the Texas/Mexico border, wanting to turn back time. She collides with unruly experiences of adolescence – quinceañeras, Rio Grande river excursions, teen makeovers [...]
BAVC Media Announces the 2024 Preservation Access Program
Through the Preservation Access Program (PAP), BAVC Media proudly provides museum-quality transfers and preservation services at a reduced rate. Interested in participating in this round of the Preservation Access Program? Fill out the application, the deadline for submitting is Thursday, March 7th, 2024. We'll be holding a virtual informational event on February 28th, 2024 at 10am PST on Zoom to discuss the program, application tips, and preservation techniques. Sign up here to attend. History of Media Preservation at BAVC Media Since 1994, BAVC Media has served as the nation’s hub for the preservation of culturally significant and community-based media, ensuring [...]
Join Us at the AME Institute Bay Area Pop-Up February 23
Calling all educators! The AME Institute is coming to San Francisco for a one-day-only pop-up on Friday, February 23 to help you get an inside look at the Bay Area's creative industries and learn how you can prepare your students for careers in the creative economy. Our afternoon workshops, in partnership with CAFILM Education, will teach you how to develop and implement a plan for connecting your students' work to local community access television and film festivals, learn best practices for archiving and preserving your student's work, and leverage BAVC Media and other community resources to support your student's success. [...]
Provisions: Impact Filmmaking with Maya Cueva and Leah Galant
PROVISIONS is a series from BAVC Media, featuring interviews, advice, and insights into the creative process from our mediamaking community. The documentary On The Divide tells the stories of three Latinx individuals living in McAllen, Texas. Despite their differing viewpoints, they share an unexpected connection—the last abortion clinic on the U.S./Mexico border. We spoke with directors Maya Cueva and Leah Galant about the process, challenges and rewards of creating a documentary with social impact. You can watch On The Divide here. This interview was conducted in August 2023 and has been edited for length and clarity Documentary has a long [...]
An Interview With BAVC Media’s Media Specialist: Clay Go
Tell us a little bit about yourself (career, hobbies, anything you’d like us to know). My name is Clay. I’m a San Francisco native and a California College of the Arts graduate. I’m passionate about filmmaking and storytelling so I hope to do more directing in the future. Narrative filmmaking is what I really want to do but documentaries are interesting to me as well. Outside of work, I love going to the gym, watching movies and obscure video essays as well as playing video games. When did you first cross paths with BAVC and what about the organization’s mission [...]
