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Our NOVAC: Empowering Community Storytellers Block at @neworleansfilmfestival is just two weeks away! Use code NOVACWORKS to get a free ticket to our screening! Ticket link in our linktree. **To find our block, Search for the film you want to see, for example ISHAK, select the showtime, then select ORDER TICKETS. Enter NOVACWORKS in the discount code field.** Our block features our Community Filmmaker Cohort documentaries ISHAK and THE BUZZ OF ST. ROCH, behind-the-scenes footage from our Youth Summer Camp with @coolcooperative, and select NOVAC Virtuous Videos. We are REELLY happy to celebrate our community filmmakers. Come on out and celebrate them with us. #empoweredstorytellers #novacistheplug #NOFF2024 #documentaries

It’s time for #mondaymotivation and we are motivated by our Born Digital students sharpening their skills in our Photoshop After-School program! We are so proud of them and can’t wait for them to earn their professional certification and show off their portfolios at the End of the Semester Showcase. Stay tuned for the save-the-date announcement. #empoweredstorytellers #novacistheplug #borndigital #photoshop

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#mondaymotivation Episode 2: Archiving. Got analog? We got you! From Betamax to Hi8 to everything in-between, let us archive your analog media into digital. Contact Gene, our lead archivist at gene@novacvideo or visit https://buff.ly/3XEQ01Y for more information. #empoweredstorytellers #novacistheplug #archiving

#mondaymotivation has us feeling like our Workforce Development program gets you trained and ready to work. Check out the highlights from our four day training in partnership with @illuminationtraining. This program is funded in part by a grant from Delta Regional Authority, Louisiana Entertainment and Film New Orleans, Office of Cultural Economy and in partnership with Illumination Training . #empoweredstorytellers #novacistheplug #setlifeisthebestlife #illuminationtraining

Please join us at NOVAC this Wednesday, July 31st from 6-9 PM for our “Archiving Workshop: Digitizing Analog Media” with NOVAC’s resident archivist, Gene Fredericks! $25 for NOVAC Members $30 for General Admission Register at the link in our linktree! This beginning class is intended for those who want to convert tapes using NOVAC’s digitizing facility. The analog to digital conversion class will provide a general technical overview and a hands-on practical demonstration of the processes needed to convert analog tape based media into digital computer files. The workshop will cover: * Digitization vs compression (uncompressed files and compressed files) * Why analog tapes need to be digitize ASAP * Brief history of the media recording methods used to capture sound and light * Overview of tape based formats * Explain difference between analog & digital recording * Media prep inspection and evaluations * System set up - media flow and signal stabilization requirements (TBC) * Explain how Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) work * And much more! Instructor Bio: Gene Fredericks has worked in all areas of media for over 50 years. He made 8mm films as a boy, worked as a Kinescope operation at age 18, was a TV Editor, Director and Producer at 25. He went on to be involved in the production of numerous independent documentaries and industrial and commercial productions. His work has received several awards and his personal art projects are in collections and archives. He continues to do personal art projects and documentaries. He has also been a technologist, software developer and system design engineer, building video-conferencing networks, digitizing facilities and media streaming services. Currently he is digitizing the NOVAC video tape archive with over 3000 tapes dating back to the 1970’s. #empoweredstorytellers #novacistheplug #digitalarchiving

Please join us at NOVAC on Tuesday, July 23rd from 6-9 PM for “Self Financing Your Short Film” with director Logan Jackson (@iamloganjackson)!  This will be a step by step process of how to self fund your short film, from conceptualizing the idea to adapting it into a shootable script, the power of a shoot date and creating your project with what and who you have available. Featured video: Logan Jackson’s director reel.  The workshop will explore:  * Crafting your script as a blueprint for self budgeting * How to schedule effective shoot dates for cost efficiency * Maximizing your resources * Preparing your film for festival submissions * Budgeting for post production * And more! $25 for NOVAC Members $30 for General Admission Register at the link in our linktree! Instructor Bio: Logan Jackson is an African-American-Creole filmmaker, writer, and artist. An emerging voice who is originally from New Orleans, LA. He received the Emerging Director Award from the prestigious Oscar Qualifying American Black Film Festival in 2020. He has worked with multiple award-winning crew members including Emmy award-winning cinematographer Will Turner and Oscar nominated musical composer Gavin Brivik. His latest short film, MY HERO, has received national and international acclaim, with screenings at more than 50 film festivals worldwide. His follow up short film, LEONETTY, premiered at the 2023 SXSW film festival where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Award, and subsequently went on to screen at dozens of Oscar Qualifying Festivals picking up multiple awards and nominations. Selected for the Directors track for Film Independent Project Involve, there he directed the short film THE BLUEST HOUR. Jackson was recently selected for both the Warner Bros. Discovery TV Directing program and the NBCU TV Directing program. #empoweredstorytellers #novacistheplug #filmmakerworkshops

We are so proud to share our official NOVAC produced NBCUniversal commercial for Prospera which will be airing on NBCUniversal platforms! Last December, our Creative Services team traveled to Florida as part of the @nbcuniversal Creative Impact Lab. Within the lab, NBCUniversal provides grants to nonprofit creative agencies like NOVAC that employ apprentices from underrepresented communities. They commissioned us to develop marketing assets for NBCU’s portfolio of nonprofit partners who become clients of the Lab. Throughout the process, NBCU employee volunteers provided creative feedback to our apprentices, enhancing their learning experience and helping to prepare them for future careers in the industry. Final assets created in the Lab will be featured across the networks and platforms of NBCUniversal and Comcast, providing nonprofit clients with powerful exposure to help them scale and meet their funding goals. We were honored to produce a commercial for Prospera (@prosperausa). Prospera is an economic development, nonprofit organization specialized in providing bilingual assistance to Hispanic entrepreneurs trying to establish or expand their business. In our commercial, we highlighted Prospera’s client Kazumi Garden (@kazumigarden.official), a family-run Kokedama business.  Our NOVAC apprentices were New Orleans emerging filmmakers Elvira Castillo @elviramichelle_ (Director), A’mya McKnight @amya.mcknightt (Cinematographer), and Harley King @harlworm (Editor). #novacistheplug #empoweredstorytellers #collaboration

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We are incredibly humbled by your generous outpouring of love and support during our GiveNOLA Day early-giving campaign. Thus far, 115 people have donated $12,545. That's 50% of our $25,000 goal. There are less than 24 hours left to help our tiny but mighty non-profit reach the finish line. We still need you! All raised funds support our Community Filmmaker Cohort. Watch the above reel that features creative and impactful documentaries created by past years' Cohorts and imagine what they can create with your donation! Donation link in our linktree! You can give until 11:59 PM TONIGHT! Featured films in the video: (in order of appearance) - "Homecoming" (2023 Cohort film) directed by Fred Olaleye (Featuring NOVAC archival footage) - "Once Upon a Time in New Orleans: Sacred Rhythms" (2022 Cohort film) directed by Julie Holman - "Homeless NOLA" (2022 Cohort film) directed by Viviana Elena de la Rosa - "People Are Trees" (2022 Cohort film) directed by Ashley Jones - "Ode to Oda Benga" (2022 Cohort film) directed by Jill Campbell (2022 New Orleans Film Festival: Audience Award Winner Louisiana Documentary Short) - “SOUTH BODY” (2023 Cohort film) directed by Luke Harris (2023 New Orleans Film Festival: Audience Award Winner Louisiana Documentary Short) - "Homecoming" (2023 Cohort film) directed by Fred Olaleye (Featuring NOVAC archival footage) Video edited by Zoë Rae Leach.

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Check out some highlights from our Art Department Pathways Intensive! This three-week training was lead by the skilled I.A.T.S.E Local 478 Art Dept professionals along with guest speakers. From November 27, 2023-December 13, 2023, participants of this training learned the “who, what, when, where and why of the Art Department, along with practical and technical skills needed for working as an Art Department practitioner at a high-level. This training is sponsored in part by the Delta Regional Authority and Louisiana Economic Development and facilitated in partnership with I.A.T.S.E Local 478. Song Title: Dominoes by Jungle

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Featured Video: trailer for ETTO directed by Zaire Love Join us at NOVAC on Wednesday, January 17th from 6-9 PM for our "Production Ideation and Personal Brand in the South" workshop with Zaire Love! $25 NOVAC MEMBERS $30 GENERAL ADMISSION REGISTER HERE: https://buff.ly/3vFMxpr If you’re an artist who creates about the South, you only do it justice if it’s your kind of fly. In this workshop, you’ll learn to take your production from ideation to execution to promotion. Roll out! And while we gotcha you here, we’ll teach you how to add some secret sauce to your personal brand. INSTRUCTOR BIO: Zaire Love is an award-winning filmmaker, music maker, writer, and educator whose mission is to honor, amplify, and immortalize the stories and voices of the Black South focusing most of her work in Memphis and Mississippi. Bringing honor to the Black South, its people, its traditions, and its cultures in the past, present, and future is her life’s work. Zaire Love is a graduate of Spelman College [BA], Houston Baptist University [M. Ed], and the University of Mississippi [MFA]. She directs the Southern Foodways Alliance film program and is the Creative Director at Scalawag Magazine. She is writing new narrative scripts and exploring new documentary ideas with her studio, Creative Cornbread.

Know a high school student interested in visual design and graphic arts? Is this you?! APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 25 Registration link in our linktree! Family orientation: August 31, 2023 from 5:00pm-6:30pm This rigorous high school credit course is meant to introduce students to the world of visual design and prepares them for the Adobe Photoshop Professional Certification exam. Students will gain hands-on experience with Photoshop and learn foundational skills and concepts needed to effectively communicate using digital media tools. When: Starts Tuesday, September 5,2023 and ends Thursday, December 14, 2023. Where: In-person at NOVAC: New Orleans on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30pm-7:00pm. Cost: FREE for youth in grades 9th-12th. Transportation assistance available. #empoweredstorytellers #borndigital #novacistheplug #afterschoolprograms

Know a high school student interested in visual design and graphic arts? Is this you?! APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 25 Register here: https://buff.ly/44PaLKw Family orientation: August 31, 2023 from 5:00pm-6:30pm This rigorous high school credit course is meant to introduce students to the world of visual design and prepares them for the Adobe Photoshop Professional Certification exam. Students will gain hands-on experience with Photoshop and learn foundational skills and concepts needed to effectively communicate using digital media tools. When: Starts Tuesday, September 5,2023 and ends Thursday, December 14, 2023. Where: In-person at NOVAC: New Orleans on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30pm-7:00pm. Cost: FREE for youth in grades 9th-12th. Transportation assistance available. #empoweredstorytellers #borndigital #novacistheplug #afterschoolprograms