BAVC Media

BAVC Media BAVC has been an advocate for media makers for over 40 years, supplying the tools, resources, and su

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.

🔊 A considerable amount of resources in this month’s Resource Roundup! We have grants, labs, and a Bay Area focused fell...
02/13/2025

🔊 A considerable amount of resources in this month’s Resource Roundup! We have grants, labs, and a Bay Area focused fellowship. Please share to spread the word and support our independent mediamaking community ❤️

💻 Join us Wednesday, February 26 for the second workshop of our VERSED screenwriting series! For Session 2, we will be j...
02/12/2025

💻 Join us Wednesday, February 26 for the second workshop of our VERSED screenwriting series! For Session 2, we will be joined by writer/director Ryan Fleck (Freaky Tales, Half Nelson) who will be in conversation with moderator Niema Jordan. This virtual conversation will cover topics such as:

• Original ideas vs. those adapted from other material
• Approach to writing dialogue
• Engaging the reader
• Collaboration: what it means to write with a partner
• Feedback! The importance of having a trusted reader to give honest feedback.

🔗 Link to register submit your questions to Ryan Fleck: https://tinyurl.com/ym5j4c7w

💻 Support emerging filmmakers with your old computer!BAVC Media’s youth and adult training programs are always in need o...
01/30/2025

💻 Support emerging filmmakers with your old computer!

BAVC Media’s youth and adult training programs are always in need of additional equipment that we can use in our classes, and sometimes to donate directly to students in need!

If you or a company you work for would like to donate, we’re accepting computers less than 5 years old.

✉️ Contact BAVC Media’s Program Instructor for Youth and Emerging Media Makers, Teo Flynn Valadez at [email protected] to see if your computer might be a fit for us.

01/30/2025

📢 We’re hiring! BAVC Media is looking for a Membership and Programs Assistant.

This role is ideal for a detail-oriented and enthusiastic individual eager to support community engagement and program administration while maintaining strong member relationships.

This position is part-time, 20 hours per week (in-person).

This position is part of the San Francisco Human Services Agency's () JobsNOW! for Job Seekers program.

To qualify, you must:

• Live in San Francisco.
• Be authorized to work in the U.S.
• Be 18 years of age or older.
• Get public benefits through SFHSA such as CalWORKs, CalFresh, Medi-Cal, County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP), or be a former foster youth.

First round interviews will take place the weeks of February 10th & 17th

🔗 Link to apply: https://tinyurl.com/a7xpj5nc

❗️NEW DATE AND TIME IS HERE:💻 Join us online on February 5, 5-7pm PST for our first workshop of 2025, VERSED: The Black ...
01/29/2025

❗️NEW DATE AND TIME IS HERE:

💻 Join us online on February 5, 5-7pm PST for our first workshop of 2025, VERSED: The Black List 101.

→ Register now: https://lnkd.in/gpMyfGPc

This free virtual session will be a moderated chat with , founder and CEO of . We’ll get into the nitty gritty of The Black List website and how it all works, with The Bay List submission process being integral to how we talk about using the site.

The Black List is a platform dedicated to identifying and celebrating exceptional storytelling. The Bay List is a new collaboration between The Black List and designed to identify and highlight ten exceptional screenplays and pilots by writers from or with close ties to the Bay Area.

This is the first of three VERSED screenwriting workshops—future sessions will be in-person with exciting guests. Stay tuned!

❗️NEW DATE AND TIME IS HERE:💻 Join us online on February 5, 5-7pm PST for our first workshop of 2025, VERSED: The Black ...
01/29/2025

❗️NEW DATE AND TIME IS HERE:

💻 Join us online on February 5, 5-7pm PST for our first workshop of 2025, VERSED: The Black List 101.

→ Register now at our link in bio

This free virtual session will be a moderated chat with , founder and CEO of . We’ll get into the nitty gritty of The Black List website and how it all works, with The Bay List submission process being integral to how we talk about using the site.

The Black List is a platform dedicated to identifying and celebrating exceptional storytelling. The Bay List is a new collaboration between The Black List and designed to identify and highlight ten exceptional screenplays and pilots by writers from or with close ties to the Bay Area.

This is the first of three VERSED screenwriting workshops—future sessions will be in-person with exciting guests. Stay tuned!

01/28/2025

📼 We’re happy to announce that the SF COMMONS PLAYBACK LAB has expanded its days of operation!

DIY preservation services will now be available Wednesday-Saturday 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm.

If you’re a San Francisco resident looking to preserve your VHS, Video8/Hi8, and digital video (DV) media, sign up for the next orientation!

🔗 Link to sign up: https://lnkd.in/g2Te4UJQ

📣 Exciting news! BAVC Media has received a Grants for Arts Projects Award from the National Endowment for the Arts ()!Th...
01/24/2025

📣 Exciting news! BAVC Media has received a Grants for Arts Projects Award from the National Endowment for the Arts ()!

This grant will support our MediaMaker Fellowship and ’s Preservation Access Program. In total, the NEA will award 1,474 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling more than $36 million as part of its first round of fiscal year 2025 grants.

• 2024 Mediamaker Fellows at the BAVC MediaMaker Pitch + Party
• Our Preservation team at the 2024 AMIA Conference

🎥  has been empowering young women and gender expansive youth for over 11 years, teaching filmmaking, media literacy, an...
01/22/2025

🎥 has been empowering young women and gender expansive youth for over 11 years, teaching filmmaking, media literacy, and storytelling to close the gender gap in the film industry.

📅 Join us this summer in Downtown Oakland for three immersive camps!
• Reel Stories Boot Camp: June 9–13 | Ages 11–15
• Camp Reel Stories: June 16–27 | Ages 13–17
• July Camp Reel Stories: July 21–August 1 | Ages 13–17

🔗 Link in bio to learn more and register. Your audience is waiting!

📼 BAVC Media’s Research and Development Manager, Kailen Sallander and Director of Special Programs Kelli Hix went to arc...
01/21/2025

📼 BAVC Media’s Research and Development Manager, Kailen Sallander and Director of Special Programs Kelli Hix went to archives across the country including .tx, , and .

Their goal? To build a data-driven understanding of the state of analog media digitization and conservation. By exploring these archives, they’re uncovering the biggest challenges in the evolving field of audiovisual preservation and paving the way for impactful solutions. This was the final stage in the data collection process for our forthcoming study, Mapping the Magnetic Media Landscape.

🔗 Link in bio to learn more about their journey and findings

🎥 2025 Sundance Film Festival is coming up soon and several BAVC Media community members will have screenings throughout...
01/18/2025

🎥 2025 Sundance Film Festival is coming up soon and several BAVC Media community members will have screenings throughout the 11-day festival, along with a panel!

• SEEDS a BAVC Media supported film directed by 2019 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow Brittany Shyne
• MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE co-edited by 2017 MediaMaker Fellow, Mentor, and frequent collaborator Kristina Motwani
• HOLD ME CLOSE a new documentary short film co-directed by 2023 MediaMaker Fellow Aurora Brachman
• LIFE AFTER a new documentary feature film directed by 2021 MediaMaker Fellow Reid Davenport along with speaking at a panel, Lifting Up Disability Storytelling

🔗 Link in Bio to learn more about BAVC at Sundance

Resource Roundup for LA Fires aid and donationsNormally our monthly Resource Roundup is dedicated to providing grants, f...
01/17/2025

Resource Roundup for LA Fires aid and donations

Normally our monthly Resource Roundup is dedicated to providing grants, fellowships and residency resources for independent mediamakers, but with the staggering impact the fires in Los Angeles has caused to all artists and community members, it’s a necessary step for us to provide resources outside of what we commonly distribute.

🔗 Links will be provided in our story highlights

Please use these resources for yourself and to share with those who need them the most. ❤️

01/13/2025

❗️NEW DATE AND TIME IS HERE:

💻 Join us online next Wednesday, February 5, 5-7pm PST, for VERSED Screenwriting Session 1: The Black List 101.

This free workshop will be moderated by Franklin Leonard. Franklin is a film and television producer, entrepreneur and founder and CEO of the The Black List, the company that celebrates and supports great screenwriting and the writers who do it via film production, its annual survey of best-unproduced screenplays, online marketplace, and screenwriter labs.

🔗 Link to register: https://tinyurl.com/bddb6swm

🔊 A significant amount of resources in this month’s Resource Roundup! We have grants, fellowships, labs, and a Bay Area ...
01/10/2025

🔊 A significant amount of resources in this month’s Resource Roundup! We have grants, fellowships, labs, and a Bay Area film festival. Please share to spread the word and support our independent mediamaking community ❤️

✨ What a night! On December 4, friends, collaborators, and supporters gathered at the David Brower Center in Berkeley (a...
12/20/2024

✨ What a night! On December 4, friends, collaborators, and supporters gathered at the David Brower Center in Berkeley (and virtually!) to celebrate the 2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows.

💛 Everyone who attended was blown away—not just by the incredible films but by the genuine care and respect the filmmakers had for each other.

Congratulations to the 2024 Fellows:
• Jamal Ademola – ELLAS VINIERON DE LAS NUBES / THEY CAME FROM THE CLOUDS
• Chelsi Bullard – UNFILTERED
• Caron Creighton – WOOD STREET
• Julia Hunter – THIS IS ME LOVING YOU
• Patrick G. Lee – UNTITLED KQT PROJECT
• Ivan MacDonald – WHEN THEY WERE HERE
• Khai Thu Nguyen – THE FULL THAO
• Pallavi Somusetty – COACH EMILY

��And big thanks to our sponsors:
• Actual Films / AfterImage Public Media
• Berkeley Film Foundation

🗒️ Read all about the event on our blog written by our �Associate Director of Artist Development, Brittney Réaume

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✂️🎞️ Last week we celebrated the end of our second Editing Fellowship in partnership with PG&E and the hard work of our ...
12/20/2024

✂️🎞️ Last week we celebrated the end of our second Editing Fellowship in partnership with PG&E and the hard work of our Fall 2024 Fellows, Mariam Coulibaly, Anh Le and Rose Hoang, at their final showcase—a testament to their dedication and creativity.

💙A special thank you to our fantastic mentors: award-winning professional editors and filmmakers, Jessica Jones and .

ℹ️ Through this Fellowship, BAVC Media provides aspiring editors from underrepresented communities the opportunity to receive 4 months of mentorship from two professional editors. Participants in the Fellowship also receive $5,000, formal classroom training, professional development site visits and networking opportunities, all while supporting PG&E’s social impact storytelling and content creation. Look out for announcements in 2025 about future Editing Fellowship opportunities!

📼 Our Preservation team had an amazing time at this year’s AMIA conference in Milwaukee, participating in five different...
12/19/2024

📼 Our Preservation team had an amazing time at this year’s AMIA conference in Milwaukee, participating in five different panels and workshops.

From sharing our work and preserving hip-hop history with TRUE Skool to connecting at panels, we even found time to sample some local favorites 🧀🥨

🗒️ Catch all the highlights in our latest blog post
📹 Camcorder footage captured by Chris Castro

🔊 An extensive amount of resources in this month’s Resource Roundup! We have grants, fellowships, a medical fund, and a ...
12/13/2024

🔊 An extensive amount of resources in this month’s Resource Roundup! We have grants, fellowships, a medical fund, and a case study. Please share to spread the word and support our independent mediamaking community ❤️

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