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Congratulations to Jessie Deeter, Ellen Lake, Dolissa Medina and
Beth Pielert—the 2005 BAVC Mediamaker Award Winners!
The highly-competitive awards are
funded, in part, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Wallace Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Besides receiving
in-kind grants of $8,000 in state-of-the-art post-production services and certified
training classes, each Awardee receives a special BAVC-sponsored public exhibition of
her work, and is eligible for participation in the annual BAVC Producers Institute.
Jessie Deeter: Keeping the Peace
Award-winning filmmaker Jessie Deeter is a Pew International
Journalism Fellow, a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, and has worked
as a producer, videographer and reporter on international projects that have aired on
FRONTLINE/World and PBS’ Wide Angle. Her powerful documentary, Keeping the Peace, is
the story of the end of Liberia’s civil war.
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Jessie Deeter
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Ellen Lake: Bound
Bound is an experimental documentary exploring ideas about homelessness, vulnerability,
and visibility/invisibility and represents the collaboration between visual artist
Graciela Carrillo, a founding member of Las Mujeres Muralistas, and Ellen Lake, an
emerging film and video artist whose work has been screened at the Pacific Film Archive,
New Langton Arts, and at festivals internationally.
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| Dolissa Medina: Cartography of Ashes
Cartography of Ashes is a poetic 16mm film about the fire
that swept through San Francisco in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and the
firefighters and citizens who fought to save the city. Cartography of Ashes will
premiere during the Centennial Commemoration in April 2006 at Fire Station #7 in
the Mission District.
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| Beth Pielert: Out of the Poison Tree
Out of the Poison Tree is a journey through contemporary Cambodia
through the eyes of genocide survivors. Director Beth Pielert was First Assistant
Director on the Sundance award-winning documentary The Corporation, Cinematographer
for Alan Berliner’s Experiments In Light And Sound, and is currently working on the
Lucas Film History Project.
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