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I got my start at BAVC: Rachel Holbrook
Stories from our community For 45 years we have been opening doors for emerging media makers and professionals in the Bay Area, through training, artist development, apprenticeships, funding and more. As we look forward to 2023 and celebrate the work we've done, we asked members of our community to share how BAVC Media has impacted their careers. Check out our newest board member, Rachel Holbrook's BAVC story below! Your contributions help us deliver programs, pay instructors, and offer subsidized classes to support our local media-making community. While we continue to rebuild revenue loss from the [...]
A letter from our Executive Director
A LETTER FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 2022 MediaMaker Fellows + BAVC team at Camden International Film Festival Dear Friends of BAVC Media, I’m writing to ask for your support. If you’re looking for ways to contribute to independent media making tomorrow on Giving Tuesday, or another time soon, I humbly ask that you consider making a donation to BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition). Since our founding in 1976, BAVC Media has been about opening doors for media makers of all ages and backgrounds. From young people making their first personal narrative films, to... Adults building their [...]
Preserved Media: Artists and Craftsmen Anthology
Artists and Craftsmen Anthology BAVC Media has worked with Survival Arts Media and the Peoples Video Theater through several grant-funded preservation projects. Howard Gutstadt and Ben Levine provided the Camp Jened videos for the Oscar-nominated film Crip Camp as part of the People's Video Theater / Survival Arts Media Archive, and was preserved by BAVC Media! And there’s more where that came from. Between 1976 and 1978, Survival Arts Media produced the Artists and Craftsmen Anthology in cooperation with the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library system. These mini-documentaries were produced using early black and white ½" video portapaks, and U-matic color camera recorders. The New York State Council on the Arts provided funding for the [...]
