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BAVC Media: Who We Are Today
Dear Friends, Many of us have been rethinking everything - from the meaning of life, to our jobs, where we live, our connection to family and friends, to our eating habits. It's an intense moment of change and reinvention. At BAVC Media, we've been doing the same, and have some exciting news to share with you. BAVC Media, Bay Area Video Coalition, is now BAVC Media. This name holds onto the shorthand way that BAVC Media has been known for years, it honors our past, and it highlights the fact we see media as ever-changing. BAVC Media is still all [...]
Shining Light on Families Experiencing Homelessness
In one of the most challenging years in recent history, BAVC Media has had the privilege of collaborating with an award-winning team of media makers and Hamilton Families, a nonprofit organization with a mission to end family homlessness in the Bay Area. BAVC Media commissioned six award-winning alum from the MediaMaker Fellowship to create a series of video and audio documentaries about Bay Area families.
Event Recording – After The Credits Roll: Media Activism & Creating Impact
 Watch After The Credits Roll: Media Activism & Creating Impact On May 13th, 2021, BAVC Media invited our community to join us in conversation with the team behind Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, who not only crafted a vibrant and nuanced film, but have been effectively using the movie as a tool for catalyzing conversation around disability rights and creating meaningful social impact. Joining us in conversation and co-presenting this free virtual event was People’s Video Theater who were on the ground at Camp Jened in 1971 working with the campers to record their experiences on video and screen them for each other. These tapes would [...]
Intro To Soldering and Troubleshooting for AV Archivists
Replacing electronic components can be a tricky task, but if you have the tools, training, and some practice it can be done by almost anyone! As usual, the best way to get good at something is to do it with some guidance. BAVC Media has created this video workshop to walk through the process of soldering a simple PCB kit. The kit we used is a "xr2206 function generator" that can be purchased for under $15 from various online vendors. During this workshop, you'll learn how to solder and remove electrical components, how to test electrical components, and the basics [...]
From The BAVC Media Archives: Remembering Loni Ding
This piece was originally written by Moriah Ulinskas (former Preservation Program Director, and former Director of Next Gen Programs at BAVC Media) in February 2010. This morning I received news that Loni Ding passed away on February 20 after a long year following a stroke last Spring. I hadn’t seen or spoken to Loni since before the stroke, and hearing that she had passed triggered a string of memories that left me crying at my desk for the first hour of the day. I’ve spent the morning emailing back and forth with my friend Alison Wong, who, along with myself, was [...]
BAVC Media Announces 2021 MediaMaker Fellows
One of the Longest Standing, Top-tier Programs in the Country for Investing in Diverse Emerging Documentary Filmmakers, Celebrates its New 2021 Fellows
Announcing 2021’s Preservation Access Program Awardees!
BAVC Media is proud to announce the recipients of the 14th round of our Preservation Access Program, made possible by generous grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and California Humanities through which BAVC Media is able to subsidize the cost of preserving analog audio and video, allowing us to offer our expertise and services to individuals and artists that would otherwise not be able to afford them. In order to consider the applications that BAVC Media receives, a panel of local archivists, artists, media producers, and community members is assembled to select participants [...]
BAVC Media merges with Reel Stories!
We have big news! Expanding our BAVC Media family & doubling our impact...
An Interview with Niema Jordan
We are thrilled to announce Niema Jordan as Co-Director of our MediaMaker Fellowship! Niema is a storyteller from Oakland, California. She is an alum of Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her film, Oasis, tells the story of a struggling medical clinic that treats underserved populations battling Hepatitis C. Her production credits include The Chosen Life, Fatherless, Bobby Kennedy for President, and Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain. She is currently a story producer and the host of the podcast, Fertility, Mothering, and Other Things. Jordan serves on the board of Oakland Kids First. [...]
DPS-575 Workshop: Understanding the device, how to use it, and creating audio terminal blocks
Are you interested in building a transfer station that can perform preservation-level digital transfers? If so, you may know that properly digitizing analog video tape requires a lot of specializes equipment. The Minimum Viable Transfer Station document maintained by Ashley Blewer (@ablwr) does a fantastic job of describing the types of equipment that you’ll need to do preservation-grade transfers. One of the more popular pieces of technology used in preservation transfers is the Leitch DPS-575. This piece of gear has tons of features that make it super super useful for preservation, and can often be found on eBay for under [...]
