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by Brad Lichtenstein, 2008 Producers Institute participant and Producer of "What We Got: DJ Spooky’s Quest for the Commons"


In June of 2008 I met Tim Kring, the writer and creator of the NBC hit series Heroes, while participating in a Bay Area Video
Coalition-sponsored new media workshop. He told me that we are inventing a new form with "What We Got: DJ Spooky’s Quest for the Commons." We describe it as a film that sends DJ Spooky on a documentary/fiction journey to discover the commons. He can be Zelig-like at historic moments, animated, in acted scenes and in documentary scenes. He’ll use his ability to remix as a kind of superhero power.

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"The Apollos" featured in the SF Chronicle

SF Chronicle reporter Justin Berton recently wrote an article about "The Apollos," a film by Nick Parker and Jazmin Jones. The film, which was produced in BAVC's YouthLink program, was awarded a Human and Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association in Washington, D.C., on July 1.

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