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Online learning doesn’t have to be lonely and boring
Are you an in-person learner? Me too. I like to focus on the instructor, get all my questions answered and see what everyone else is making. Plus? Spy on the competition, er, meet new people. Sometimes it’s hard to give up a whole weekend, though, and that’s why I’m excited about BAVC Media’s new flipped training. Here’s how it works. Our instructors are taking their core information and condensing it into short, to-the-point nuggets of golden wisdom in the form of video episodes, which will be available to you. Grasp the info on your own time, at your own speed. [...]
BAVC Media Announces 2020 MediaMaker Fellows
BAVC Media is thrilled to announce 2020 MediaMaker Fellows and Alumni Grants. A full list of recipients is below. The MediaMaker Fellowship is an artist development program that provides nonfiction filmmakers with critical mentorship, access to industry contacts, structure for workshopping projects in an inclusive and collaborative environment, and career-long relationships with peers. For the 2020 Fellowship, BAVC Media is awarding $8,000 unrestricted funding to 10 diverse filmmakers in addition to an immersive 8-month experience that includes intimate feedback sessions, all-access travel to True/False Film Festival and the International Documentary Association's Getting Real Conference, learning opportunities with seasoned experts in the [...]
BAVC Media to Receive Grants from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for Community-Based Preservation Education and Training
[San Francisco, CA] - BAVC Media has been approved for a $291,661 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to support Community-Based Preservation Education and Training. This NEH grant will fund a suite of educational tools, workshops, and curricula informed by the investigation of educational skill gaps in the preservation and archival communities. The project will culminate in a fellowship which will provide high-level training, hands-on experience and career mentorship to a candidate entering the cultural heritage sector. The goal is to launch a new preservationist into the field, with a strong orientation towards community-based, accessible, preservation services. This [...]
BAVC Media to Receive Grants from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for Community-Based Preservation Education and Training
[San Francisco, CA] - BAVC Media has been approved for a $291,661 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to support Community-Based Preservation Education and Training. This NEH grant will fund a suite of educational tools, workshops, and curricula informed by the investigation of educational skill gaps in the preservation and archival communities. The project will culminate in a fellowship which will provide high-level training, hands-on experience and career mentorship to a candidate entering the cultural heritage sector. The goal is to launch a new preservationist into the field, with a strong orientation towards community-based, accessible, preservation services. This [...]
“Crip Camp” to Premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Throughout New York State in the 1970s The People's Video Theater was producing documentary programs using Sony PortaPak cameras. At the time, this technology was cutting-edge, and these programs chronicled the counterculture and liberation movements that transformed the politics of America. The collective’s mission was to explore the capabilities of the video medium for creative self-expression and community empowerment. The real-time recording and playback capabilities of this new video medium allowed The People's Video Theater to capture material and play it back for their subjects immediately. This “feedback” capability enabled participants to shape their own stories on-screen, and to initiate [...]
Sailing Skills Not Required! We Launched New Partnerships and MediaMaker Commissions at BAVC Media in 2019!
BAVC Media may have started the year in a sea of uncertainty but I’m very happy to tell you that we had a 2019 to be proud of!
Converting FFV1/MKV to v210/MOV
Digital Deliverables at BAVC Media At BAVC Media Preservation one of our main objectives is to digitize tape-based media formats to preservation-ready digital files. We often try to walk the thin line between helping collection holders make decisions about their master formats and being as flexible as possible to provide them with their desired formats. Literature about the benefits, adoption, and capture of MKV have already been written, so we’ll skip that for now. Instead, this blog post will describe our process of converting FFV1/MKV files to v210/MOV files while ensuring that no data is lost or mangled in the [...]
10 Thank Yous + 2 Asks
10 Thank Yous 10. Thank you BAVC Media students - teens making projects, adults building their career skills and portfolios, and seniors learning new things. 9. Thank you 20-year employees Mindy and Innesa, and retired Board members Neil (23 years) and Jason (18 years). Thank you new staff and Board for choosing BAVC Media! 8. Thank you SF Commons producers for pushing boundaries and engaging us in conversations in San Francisco and beyond. 7. Thank you nonprofit film and media partners for dreaming up new projects together, having candid conversations about improving our field, and occasionally "crying in our gin" (or coffee). 6.Thank [...]
Back To Our Roots: A Letter From Paula
Dear Friends of BAVC Media, This week I’m celebrating my 40something birthday (see photo with birthday boots), and it’s a perfect time to recognize that BAVC Media has also been around since the ‘70s and Jimmy Carter’s presidency – committed to connecting communities with tools, resources, and a tricked out facility to tell their stories through media and film. In recent conversations, we heard the painful feedback that more people and nonprofit organizations would like to participate in BAVC Media programs, but didn’t know how to access them, or couldn’t afford them. For the last few months, our team [...]
