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Building TRUST

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Monday, May 14, 2012

by Nancy Kelly, Director/Producer TRUST: Second Acts in Young Lives and 2012 MediaMaker Fellow

TRUST begins when Marlin, an 18-year-old Hondureña, shares a hidden history about her childhood with a neighborhood youth theater company. Marlin’s story is about resilience and empowerment: she endured rape as young girl, survived a harsh and difficult journey from Honduras to the U.S.,

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Stories Have Impact, But How Do We Know?

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Tuesday, May 01, 2012

By Jen Gilomen, Director of Independent Media

Note: This post was originally published on Americans for the Arts' ARTSblog as part of a series from arts leaders called "Animating Democracy."

We’ve all had the experience of sitting in a dark theater and being moved by a compelling documentary story.

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Catching up with newly-minted Guggenheim fellow John Jota Leanos

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Monday, April 16, 2012

By Jen Gilomen, Director of Independent Media

Last week, the Guggenheim Foundation named local media artist John Jota Leaños as one of its 2012 Fellows. John is also an Assistant Professor of Social Documentation at U.C. Santa Cruz, a social art practitioner whose work fuses new technologies with traditional mediums and aesthetics, and one of BAVC's

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BAVC @ Sundance: PI Alums, Stories of Change & Invisible War

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012

by Kim Bender, Director of Development

For anyone at Sundance, I’m at the Filmmaker Lodge Outreach Table this morning from 10:00 to 12:45 to talk about BAVC’s Independent Media programs, MediaMaker Fellows (deadline 2/1/12) and Producers Institute. Please come by to say hi!

Wednesday night I saw Valley of Saints

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BAVC @ Sundance: Ai Weiwei, We're Not Broke & BAVC MediaMaker

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Thursday, January 26, 2012

by Kim Bender, BAVC Director of Development

This year representing BAVC at Sundance I'm seeing mostly docs and talking to people about our MediaMaker and Producers Institute programs.

My favorite doc so far is by first time director Alison Klayman, Ai Weiwei: Never

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BAVC welcomes Working Films 'Reel Change'

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Tuesday, September 13, 2011

September 21-23, BAVC welcomes Working Films to San Francisco for Reel Change: Managing Social Issue Film Campaigns, an interactive three-day workshop designed to develop the skills required to be an audience engagement coordinator for social issue documentaries and cross-platform media projects. These positions support the development and day-to-day management of

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Exit Interview: Wendy Levy

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Thursday, August 18, 2011

Friday, August 19th marks Creative Director Wendy Levy's last day at BAVC. In her action-packed final days of phone calls, emails and boxes, we managed to grab her for a few questions about her work at BAVC and what the future holds.

What do you do at BAVC?  

That's a very broad question...the elevator response is that I create and deliver programs that support independent filmmaking and connect artists and activists here and

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Bay Area Premiere of Crime After Crime at San Francisco International Film Festival

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Crime After Crime is the exclusive documentary film on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her and forced her into prostitution. She finds her only hope for freedom when two Bay Area attorneys with no background in criminal law step forward to take her case.

The Los Angeles Times calls Crime After Crime "a must-see film," while The

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Anselm Hook Interview, Part 2: High-Fiving Your Invisible Avatar

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Monday, April 04, 2011

 by Zoë Banks, BAVC Web & Social Media Strategist

I met augmented reality mastermind Anselm Hook in January at BAVC's Producers Institute for New Media Technologies in New York and after some straightforward arm-twisting, Anselm agreed to being interviewed for the BAVC Blog. What followed was

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Anselm Hook Interview, Part 1: Seeing Through Walls

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Thursday, March 17, 2011

by Zoë Banks, BAVC Web & Social Media Strategist

I first met Anselm Hook in January at BAVC's Producers Institute for New Media Technologies in New York where he was mentoring filmmakers prototyping interactive, multi-platform technologies based on their documentary films. Although we had both spent the past week at Hunter College, we didn't have a real conversation

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