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BAVC is a community hub and resource for media makers in the Bay Area and across the country, serving over 7,500 freelancers, filmmakers, job-seekers, activists, and artists every year. BAVC provides access to media making technology, storytelling workshops, a diverse and engaged community of makers and producers, services and resources. BAVC advocates for those whose stories aren't being told, an
d provides the resources for anyone to create and share, and amplify their stories and those of their communities. BAVC's diverse, innovative programs lead the field in media training for youth and educators, technology and multimedia focused workforce development, visually-driven new media storytelling and audio-visual preservation. BAVC has been a trusted community educator, collaborator, incubator, community builder and resource for the media arts world since 1976. BAVC began when a group of media makers and activists met in January of 1976 to devise practical ways to encourage independent video-making in the Bay Area. With a small grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to conduct a needs assessment and feasibility study of the region’s media-making community, that small group spent the summer collecting information about what the region’s environment looked like for independent videomakers. Among that study’s conclusions was a recommendation for “a regional video resource center with multi-faceted programs that concentrate on improving all aspects of video production and exhibition…” That video resource center came into existence when BAVC was incorporated on December 10, 1976. As new technologies have been introduced over the past four decades, BAVC has responded with dynamic programs and new training strategies, while remaining committed to our mission of serving independent media makers.
🍂 Take a class with us this fall!
Gather the essential qualities in the mediamaking process including video production, audio, and color correction!
🔗 Link in bio for more details and explore the full lineup of classes.
Additionally…BAVC members get 20% off all our classes + other benefits starting at a spectacular $10 annually option.
⚠️ Try not to cause a slippage having too much BAVC Media drip!
Check out the hats, pins, and totes we have available on our shop website.
Every purchase helps support our independent mediamaking community.
🔗 Link in bio to see what we have
📽️ ’s annual CROSSROADS film festival is back for its 15th edition, where we’ll be community partners for this year’s short film program 2: we spoke of dust.
“Lyrical contemplations of land and landscape, human and non-human history and malleability of memory and the bidirectionality of history. Dulcet snapshots of the synanthropic Anthropocene bookended by pensive retrospections on colonial legacies (including the occupation of Alcatraz). Truths are discovered, songs are remembered and forgotten as the rocks crumble.”
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📅 Fri. Aug 30 | 9:30 pm
🎟️ Link in bio to get your tickets or visit the website
The shorts include:
• HEAT SPELLS directed by Sarah Ballard
• CROW CANYON directed by Michael Damm
• EMERGENCE directed by Margaret Rorison
• SPECIES OF ANALOGY directed by J.M. Martínez
• DYSTANS directed by Antoni Orlof
• SEASONAL CONCERNS directed by Maximilien Luc Proctor
• MARCH OF TIME directed by Pedro Maia
• SUNFLOWER SIEGE ENGINE directed by Sky Hopinka
💻 Our Editing Fellowship has returned for another round! Announcing the second cohort of Editing Fellows in partnership with PG&E: Mariam Coulibal, Anh Le and Rose Hoang. Award-winning professional editors and filmmakers, Jessica Jones and Kristina Motwani, are returning as mentors.
The Fellowship is designed to provide in-depth professional development to aspiring editors from underrepresented communities.
Read the full announcement on our blog
🖥️ This Saturday, August 24, join us for an in-person Aesthetics of Editing workshop from 10am - 6pm!
This course will focus on documentary, a deep and wide world that includes many sub-genres along with seeking to understand, uncover, ruminate about or otherwise consider, the truth through film. This class will attempt to distill—edit—a lifelong vocation and art form into 7 hours.
This course is taught by Ken Schneider, a Peabody- winning producer/director who has edited nearly 40 feature documentaries for PBS, HBO, Showtime, Al-Jazeera and others.
🚨 Hurry, this course has limited spots left! Link in bio to sign up.
🎥 Join us this weekend for two in-person classes; Cinematography: Lighting and Premiere Pro: Intro
💡 Cinematography: Lighting is a comprehensive one-day course using industry gear and equipment, how to assess and read light, how to create the correct mood for the scene, and how to interface with other roles on set.
This course will be taught by one of our newest instructors, Vatsala Goel (), a San Francisco based cinematographer and camera operator specializing in documentary, narrative, and brand films. Her work has premiered at major US festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca, receiving accolades including a Peabody Award nomination, an Oscar shortlist, and an NAACP Image Award.
💻 Premiere Pro: Introduction is a two-day course going over the software’s seamless integration from hobbyists to feature film editors and everything in between.
This course will be taught by Jonathan Parra. He is a writer, producer, director, and editor who has worked within the genres of comedy, drama, action, and horror all in the pursuit to entertain and connect with the audience.
🔗 Link in bio to sign up for these courses
🎧 This Saturday, August 10, join us for an in-person Audio for Video Production: Introduction workshop from 10am - 6pm!
This workshop provides hands-on training in the basic techniques of recording sound for the camera. You will review basic sound theory, practical tips, squashing noise, and troubleshooting. Students will set up interviews and use the most commonly used professional sound equipment in different environments.
🔗 Link in Bio
📰 Our MediaMaker Fellowship program has been featured on ’s Documentary Magazine. See what BAVC Media’s Artist Development team Jin Yoo-Kim, Brittney Réaume, and Dawn Valadez have to say about what this program has to offer and the positive impact it has on the local and national filmmaking community.
Read the full interview online: link in bio
🎥 This weekend we are having an in-person Video Production: Introduction workshop, join us on August 3-4 from 10am - 6pm!
Whether you’re a curious cinephile, experienced producer or simply want to learn how to shoot video, our Video Production fundamentals class will teach you the foundations of producing your own video content.
🔗 Link in bio to sign up
🌐 This year's BlackStar Film Festival (August 1-4) will screen more than 90 genre-defying films by Black, Brown and Indigenous creators in Philadelphia and online worldwide!
🎟️ We're maybe most excited about the BAVC Media community members with films at the fest. Check them out and get tickets: blackstarfest.org/festival/schedule/
BLACK AG
Directed by 2023 BAVC MediaMaker Connect Mentorship Program Participant Andy Sarjahani
BRING THEM HOME
Co-directed by 2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow Ivan MacDonald, Ivy MacDonald and Daniel Glick
SEEKING MAVIS BEACON
Directed by former BAVC Youth student and staff member Jazmin Renée Jones, edited by 2022 BAVC Media Maker Fellow and former staff member, Yeelen Cohen
SONGS FROM THE HOLE
Directed by 2021 MediaMaker Fellow Contessa Gayles
STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Directed by BAVC Youth Instructor, Jalena Keane-Lee and edited by BAVC Youth Instructor Diana Diroy
We’re excited to co-present two programs at this year’s 44th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival () ↓
📽️ PERIPHERAL VISIONS: JEWS OF COLOR SHORTS PROGRAM
• Sat, 7/27 • 6pm • Urban Adamah (Berkeley)
PERIPHERAL VISIONS is a shorts program curated by and for Jews of Color, and open to all, that explores JOC experiences of race, migration, and belonging.
📽️ LYD
• Sun, 7/28 • 12:30pm • Vogue Theater (San Francisco)
• Tues, 7/30 • 3:45pm • Piedmont Theatre (Oakland)
LYD is a sci-fi documentary about the city that “connected Palestine to the world” – exploring its history of expulsion and imagining a shared alternative future.
🎟️ Link in bio to get tickets and catch even more films at SFJFF July 18-August 4, 2024
📹☀️ Take a class this summer! Join us in person to learn video production, the art of editing and capturing quality sound.
Check out the full lineup of classes: learn.bavc.org
📢 Remember! Our members get 20% off all our classes + other benefits. Membership options start at only $10: bit.ly/4bDpoUc
📊✨BAVC Media has published the Bay Area Film Production Memo, alongside a nationwide research study designed to learn more about strategies to boost film production in the Bay Area!
The project was developed in collaboration with WolfBrown, with support from Film SF (the San Francisco Film Commission) () and the Bay Area Media Maker Summit (BAMMS) (), East Bay Film Collective () and essential funding from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation ().
📰 Read the announcement from at link in bio
The research involved consultation from an advisory committee representing the Roxie Theater (), SFFILM (), Ryzo Studio & Mindful Media (), and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation
🎥 We’re excited to announce that HUMMINGBIRDS, co-directed by 2022 MediaMaker Fellow Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras will be premiering this Monday July 1 on as a part of
Winner of the Grand Prix for Best Feature Film in Generation14plus at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival, HUMMINGBIRDS is a tale in which Silvia and Beba tell their own coming-of-age story, transforming their hometown on the Texas-Mexico border into a wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinks. Filmed collaboratively over the final summer of their fleeting youth, their cinematic self-portrait celebrates the power of friendship and joy as tools of survival and resistance.
🔗 Link in bio to read more about HUMMINGBIRDS
📼 Each year, our Preservation team, through the Preservation Access Program (PAP), accepts a select number of projects to digitize and preserve at a reduced rate.
We’re excited to announce this year’s list of PAP participants:
World Arts West
Media: 30 Betacam recordings of SF Ethnic Dance Festivals 1998-2001 from the Michael Rohde collection
Manuel Gonzalez
Media: 30 1/2″ open reel and Umatic video moments captured in the 70’s by Bay Area based BIPOC cultural workers
Biophilia Films
Media: 10-15 1/2″ open reels shot by Dr. Oliver Sacks in the 1970s
Laurie Coyle
Media: 30 DV tapes of oral histories and verite.
Letty Moran
Media: 25 Umatic tapes of performances and interviews.
Central Maine Power Music Company
🖥️ Attention all Bay Area video editors! We are happy to announce that applications for our second Editing Fellowship & Lab Program cohort are open!
3-4 fellows will hone their craft and build experience through the editing of professional video pieces, with a focus on stories that highlight supported communities!
Deadline to apply is July 8.
🔗 Link in bio to apply
Next week, BAVC Media and SF COMMONS will be partaking in this year’s national conference in San Jose.
🌁 We will be hosting a tour of our San Francisco facilities for other community media stations on Monday, June 24 to show what we do and how we contribute to the community media landscape.
🎤 In addition to opening our space to conference attendees, a handful of our staff will be speaking on a number of panels:
🗓 Tuesday, June 25
• 11am: Diversifying Your Audience with Director of Community Engagement, Isa Nakazawa, Community Media & Marketing Coordinator, Javan Jiles and Director of Marketing, Daniel Díaz
• 2pm: Collaboration & Community Media with Executive Director, Paula Smith Arrigoni
• 3:35pm: Diverse Leadership in Community Media with Executive Director, Paula Smith Arrigoni
🗓 Thursday, June 27
• 9am: Media Preservation, with Co-Director of Preservation, Tim Lake and Preservation Technician & Audio Specialist, Victoria Fajardo
Stay tuned for a recap post coming soon!
Next week, BAVC Media and SF COMMONS will be partaking in this year’s national conference in San Jose.
🌁 We will be hosting a tour of our San Francisco facilities for other community media stations on Monday, June 24 to show what we do and how we contribute to the community media landscape.
🎤 In addition to opening our space to conference attendees, a handful of our staff will be speaking on a number of panels:
🗓 Tuesday, June 24
• 11am: Diversifying Your Audience with Director of Community Engagement, Isa Nakazawa, Community Media & Marketing Coordinator, Javan Jiles and Director of Marketing, Daniel Díaz
• 2pm: Collaboration & Community Media with Executive Director, Paula Smith Arrigoni
• 3:35pm: Diverse Leadership in Community Media with Executive Director, Paula Smith Arrigoni
🗓 Thursday, June 26
• 9am: Media Preservation, with Co-Director of Preservation, Tim Lake and Preservation Technician & Audio Specialist, Victoria Fajardo
Stay tuned for a recap post coming soon!
📼 Last month, Tim Lake, Co-Director of , had the privilege of being invited by .tx to teach a two-day, in-person version of HOT-AV. Located in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
ENTRE is an artist-run community film center and regional archive that focuses on the creation, exhibition, and preservation of community-made cinema, documentary, video art, and other forms of alternative cinematic expression.
🔗 Link in bio to read Tim’s first-hand account of his experience visiting the organization
📢 A bountiful amount of resources in this month’s Resource Roundup! We have pitches, grants and now introducing case studies, featuring ’s Nonfiction Access Initiative. Please share to spread the word and support our independent mediamaking community ❤️
Journey across the intersections of LGBTQ+ identities and to theaters around the Bay Area with 11 days of world-renowned q***r films, performances, and parties as a part of ’s Frameline48.
We’re thrilled to be co-presenting HELEN AND THE BEAR directed by BAVC MediaMaker Connect filmmaker and produced by BAVC Media’s Senior Development Consultant
While this screening is currently sold out, there are so many amazing films playing at this year’s festival.
🔗 Link in bio to learn more about ’s Frameline48
🎥 Attention up-and-coming film and media professionals! This Friday join us at for How To: Get a PA Gig in the San Francisco Bay Area co-presented with , and .
Learn about local opportunities as well as strategies from those who have successfully navigated the competitive field. Plus, you’ll get to network with industry professionals. Don’t miss this chance to kickstart your career in the entertainment industry!
Have your digital resume ready to upload to WorkforcelinkSF as well as a chance to win an exciting giveaway!
🔗 Link in bio to reserve a spot
🎞️ We’re ecstatic to be community partners with for the screening of FILM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE FILM! as a part of SF DocFest this Friday at .
“Exploring the vanishing world of private film collecting, an obsessive, secretive and often illicit world of basement vaults. Passionate cinephiles are devoted to the rescue and preservation of forgotten reels.
Condemned as pirates and hounded by the FBI, film collectors have long lurked in the shadows. Yet their efforts have resulted in the survival of countless films that would otherwise have been lost to history. Archives and studios now look to private hands for long-lost titles and many collectors have begun restoring and releasing films themselves. As analog film fades from memory, the basement-dwellers and bootleggers of old are finally being given their due.
FILM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE FILM! is a lively tribute to the private film collector, a celebration of the fetishistic subculture of pre-video movie-love, and a timely reminder of the glories of analog film.”
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📅 Fri, May 31 | 6:00 pm
🎟️ Link in bio to get your tickets or visit the website
💻 If you are seeking professional development and are an early-career editor from an underrepresented community, complete our interest form for our Editing Fellowship in partnership with PG&E.
📅 Applications open June 11 for the fellowship taking place this Fall
🔗 Link in bio for more info
📼 We have hats, pins and totes of the analog variety now shipping nationwide!
🛍️ Link in bio to check out our online shop
📼 We have hats, pins and totes of the analog variety in our online shop!
🛍️ shop.bavc.org/
🎉 Congratulations to MediaMaker Connect filmmaker Mabel Valdiviezo for her film PRODIGAL DAUGHTER (.daughter.movie) making its world premiere Thursday, May 30 at 7:00 pm at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Through Mabel’s personal story, we witness the struggles of immigrant women and their challenges in staying connected with their families left behind.
BAVC Media launched MediaMaker Connect in 2020, building on the organization’s cornerstone artist development program, the MediaMaker Fellowship to provide individualized mentorship to emerging filmmakers at the moments in their process when support and guidance are most meaningful.
🔗 Link in bio for tickets
🌈 Looking to learn the fundamentals of color correction and color grading? Join our virtual course, DaVinci Resolve: Color Correction Basics!
Topics we’ll cover:
•Industry tools and best practices
•Balancing, grading and delivering beautiful looks
•Workflows for finishing films
📅 Friday, May 24 • 2pm-4pm & Thursday, May 30 • 10am-4pm
🔗 Link in bio to sign up
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Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema is celebrating two decades of showcasing independent films with its annual festival: the Film Crawl on Cortland Avenue this Friday! Come and be a part of this exciting event featuring two screenings of diverse short films created by emerging young filmmakers who have taken part in BAVC Media programs including Bridges, Climate Warriors, Next Gen, and Reel Stories! 📍 Bernal Branch Library, Community room, 500 Cortland Screenings at 7pm & 8pm This event is free and open to all ages https://bit.ly/3LehkPa Co-presenters: the San Francisco Black Film Festival, Cine+Mas SF Latino Film Festival, San Francisco Queer Film Festival, Citizen Film, and the students of BAVC Media.
📣 New look, same mission! BAVC Media’s visual identity was given a refresh to reflect who we are now as an organization. ✨ The goal? Creating a design that blends BAVC Media, Reel Stories, and SF Commons while allowing the distinctiveness of each program to shine through. We’ve been lucky to work with graphic designers, Ollie Eco and Martín Gaona, on tackling this brand refresh. 🌐📹 While our look may have changed, we're still all about empowering our community of filmmakers, media makers, and artists. 📻 Stay tuned as we unveil our revamped look across our platforms. A big shoutout to you for being part of this journey with us. Here's to BAVC Media's future! Learn more → https://bit.ly/47zmFdw
💙 When you support BAVC Media you support our vision for a Bay Area media hub where makers can gather to produce new work, form connections, preserve community memories, and build their skills through hands-on practice. Want to know how you can contribute to our community? 💻 Enroll in a class: Explore our upcoming video and audio production classes, available in-person and virtually. 🌐 Become a member: Get access to member benefits, including 20% off any of our classes! Memberships start at only $10. 💰 Make a donation: Make a tax-deductible donation to contribute to our community space and programs. Read a letter from our Executive Director, Paula Smith Arrigoni to learn more about the many ways you can support BAVC Media: https://bit.ly/3MASZTB
Join us for a salon-style ~virtual~ workshop on pre-production best practices, the way the film process is organized, how power roles play out, what works, and what must change while generating alternative practices! We will discuss the current conditions faced on set by workers and dream up alternatives folks would like to see across the industry on set. “Fix It In Pre” Saturday, May 20th 11am - 1pm PST $20 with RSVP https://lnkd.in/dza6br2N Facilitators: Annalise Velazquez , filmmaker, media theorist and activist Jules Retzlaff, otherwise known as Cereal For The Kids, is a born and raised, queer San Franciscan experimental multimedia-maker and activist. They're both members of Surge Media Collective, an up and coming Bay Area based media, art, and education focused collective. #film #filmmaking #workshops2023
📣 We’re thrilled to welcome this year’s BAVC MediaMaker Fellows and their projects! 🟠 Paige Bethmann –Remaining Native 🟠 Aurora Brachman – Dear You 🟠 ilana coleman – The Inventory 🟠 Tommy Franklin – You Don’t Know My Name 🟠 Cyrus Moussavi – Somebody’s Gone 🟠 Hannah Myers – Daddy 🟠 tashi tamate weiss – Kizuna These outstanding filmmakers are not only imaginative nonfiction storytellers but incredibly thoughtful of every aspect of the process. We intentionally structure the fellowship to provide opportunities for filmmakers to experiment, take risks, and grapple with complex problems with each other's support. Each fellow will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funding, mentorship, industry access, feedback sessions, and workshops during an immersive 9-month experience. To learn more and get to know the 2023 fellows and their works in progress visit: http://bit.ly/3UjdUxT
🗒 PROVISIONS is a new series from BAVC Media, featuring interviews, advice, and insights into the creative process from our mediamaking community. Our first interview is with Director Rodrigo Reyes who discusses his new documentary Sansón and Me, becoming friends with the subject of the film, and subjectivity in filmmaking. 🔗 Read the full interview on the blog: http://bit.ly/3LtWOv1 🎟 Sansón and Me opens tonight (Friday, March 17), at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Get tickets: http://bit.ly/3lkHUwv
🚨Announcing the 2023 Preservation Access Program! Through this annual initiative, BAVC Media proudly provides archival quality transfers and preservation services at a reduced rate. This program is particularly geared towards collections containing art, activism, or content featuring BIPOC communities and LGBTQ+ communities! Applications for the 2023 round are now open, and the deadline to apply is Monday, February 6th. Additionally, there will be a virtual informational event on Friday, January 27 at 10am PST on Zoom to discuss the program, application tips, and preservation techniques. Check out https://bavc.org/programs/preservation/preservation-access-program/ for more info. We look forward to preserving your tapes!
While our MediaMaker Fellows are about to head off to @camdeniff, here’s an interview with 2021 #BAVCMediaMaker Alum Tony Nguyen providing words of encouragement for all the younger creatives out there!
BAVC Media is thrilled to be a 2022 @NBCUFoundation #ProjectInnovation grant awardee for our Reel Stories program! We are one of 10 Bay Area nonprofits, and a total of 90 organizations nationwide to receive this grant - our fellow awardees including our friends at @devmissionorg and @missionbit are all addressing local community issues through innovative solutions in the areas of community engagement, culture of inclusion, next generation storytelling and youth education and empowerment. We are in great company, and are so grateful to @NBCUniversal for this support.
🚨Hiring Alert🚨 BAVC is seeking a Youth & Emerging Media Maker Manager. We are looking for experienced and passionate professionals who understand San Francisco programming, local community based organizations and prior work experience within SFUSD. Visit https://bavc.org/blog/job/youth-and-emerging-media-maker-yemm-program-manager/ to learn more and apply.
With your help, we raised more than $41,000 to provide opportunities to women, girls, and gender-expansive youth so that they can become media makers, join a collaborative creative community, and turn the tide for gender equity in media! 🎉🎉🎉 We ended our campaign with a moving celebration of Reel Stories participants and staff, and honored a trailblazing group of women and gender-expansive media professionals who are influencing how we make media in the Bay Area and beyond. Check out our event photo album (🔗 in bio) • All photography by @reflectlight_photo 📸 Thank you again and congratulations to our inspiring Awardees 🤗 We are committed to gender justice in all of its forms at BAVC Media and @campreelstories 🌟 ONWARD!
We are honored to receive an Impact Grant from California Arts Council to continue telling and amplifying the untold stories of our “houseless” friends and neighbors. We hope to change the stigma surrounding what homelessness looks like, who experiences it and why. We are excited to have BAVC Media’s own Elizabeth Herrera leading this work 🌟 If you haven’t already, check out the NY Times Op-Doc “What You’ll Remember” intimately filmed by Elizabeth expressing her deep belief that family can create home when there is no house. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/opinion/what-youll-remember-california-homeless.html Stay tuned for more updates 🤗✨
🚨 Job Alert 🚨 BAVC Media is hiring a full time Marketing Director! We are looking for experienced candidates who are passionate about independent / community media with a strong background in Marketing and Communications. Please share this opportunity widely with your network and click below to apply and learn more! https://bavc.org/blog/job/director-of-marketing-communications/
Time to level up with online classes in digital marketing, video production, and editing. Plus, we help you find a job in the field. For free (if you're eligible). Application is easy. Go to https://bavc.org/programs/training/techsf/ to learn more or apply now: https://bavc.tfaforms.net/321323 Only 13 slots left!
Applications are now open for the 2022 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship! 🎉 The BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for early-career documentary directors to grow in a nurturing community as they set forth to shape their films and their careers. BAVC Media is looking for nonfiction filmmakers with bold vision and a deep, authentic relationship to the stories they are telling, especially those traditionally underrepresented in the industry, to join in this immersive and participatory fellowship experience. Over the course of a year, eight first-and-second-time feature documentary directors from across the U.S will work through the stumbling blocks of their projects with support from mentors and experts from across the industry. Developing skills, building relationships, and gaining insights that will continue to nourish their career and their craft long into the future—all while building strong bonds with fellow filmmakers. Along with tailored workshops, intimate conversations with established filmmakers, and in-depth feedback sessions throughout the year, fellows receive $10,000, paid festival attendance, and future opportunities from BAVC Media as a program alum. Applications are open through February 14, but we encourage everyone to APPLY EARLY https://bavcmedia.smapply.io/prog/mediamaker_fellowship/
“An epic, enchanting road movie that travels seamlessly through time.” — Filmmaker Magazine “As riveting as it is stunning… an ambitious and unflinching portrait of contemporary Mexico.” The Film Stage “los cineastas hicieron un increíble trabajo al tejer una historia de ficción con lo que está sucediendo hoy en día.” - Milenio “Rodrigo Reyes has crafted a poetic and beautiful film, that carries a consistent vision throughout. 499 successfully implements hybrid form and delivers a parable that parallels situations in today’s world.” - Hot Docs Jury statement TOMORROW, Tuesday, October 13th "499" Director Rodrigo Reyes will be talking with Miguel Novelo exploring participatory storytelling, interactivity, hybrid filmmaking forms, and questions of memory and belonging. BAVC and Cineola are excited to be bringing together two Bay-Area-based Mexican filmmakers who are both experimenting with media forms to discuss their work, their processes, and their ideas with YOU. Don't forget to RSVP! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/town-talks-expanded-cinema-tickets-123492666891?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing
Wednesday, Jun 10, 2020 at 12:00pm - 12:30pm PST A live Q&A with the filmmakers from CINEOLA's Resistir block of shorts, moderated by Carlos Aguilar. Originally from Mexico City, Carlos Aguilar’s work has appeared in prestigious publications such as Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, Indiewire, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, Remezcla, and Variety Latino, among others. Besides his work in journalism, Aguilar regularly works as a screener for the Sundance Film Festival and has also been on the jury at festivals such as the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Outfest Los Angeles, and Aspen Shortsfest. Cineola is powered by Seed&Spark's online festivals platform.
Take a trip back in time to the jazz heyday of the Fillmore District in San Francisco in the 1940s and 50s. This TV documentary produced by Bay Area Video Coalition for SF Commons uses archival photos and interviews with local characters who share their memories about the jazz days and the destruction brought by redevelopment. We also talk to city officials and contemporary artists and musicians to explore what the city is doing to keep artists thriving today. "They Can't Take That Away: The Legacy of the Fillmore" airs on SF Commons on TV and streaming at BAVC's website at the following times: https://bavc.org/make-media/sf-commons Channel 29: Monday and Thurs 4pm / Saturday 9:30pm Channel 76: Sunday 7pm / Monday 6 & 6:30pm / Friday 8pm You can also view it in full on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/l8xm97rgpPs
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