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MediaMaker Fellows at the 20th Camden International Film Festival
The 2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows traveled by plane and car from across the country to midcoast Maine for the 20th Camden International Film Festival. It was a thrill and a pleasure to attend along with festival staff from the last two decades, documentary filmmakers from across the globe, and industry professionals who know that CIFF is something special. We reunited with BAVC Media-supported filmmakers who were at CIFF to screen new films and pitch their latest projects. Throughout the long weekend we participated in all of our favorite annual traditions (the Points North Pitch, the Town Hall, 1-on-1 industry meetings, [...]
Announcing Playback Lab, Free Video Preservation for San Francisco Residents
BAVC Media and SF COMMONS have unveiled our new community preservation center, the Playback Lab! Inspired by the Memory Lab Network at public libraries nationwide, BAVC Media and SF COMMONS now offer free, do-it-yourself audiovisual preservation services for San Francisco residents. Boasting a variety of playback machines, the SF COMMONS Playback Lab empowers our community to control their own stories held on video formats most common to the average creator. “We’re really playing against the clock with analog media, and quickly running out of time to save crucial stories that give character to our local community. San Francisco has had [...]
Announcing Fall 2024 Editing Fellows in Partnership with PG&E
Announcing BAVC Media’s second cohort of Editing Fellows in partnership with PG&E: Mariam Coulibal, Anh Le and Rose Hoang.  Award-winning professional editors and filmmakers, Jessica Jones and Kristina Motwani, are returning as mentors for Fellows in this second cohort of the fellowship. A unique opportunity to build the postproduction workforce in San Francisco, the Fellowship aims to impart industry knowledge from seasoned professionals assist in Fellows’ development in becoming an assistant editor and facilitate the addition of professional work samples to each Fellow’s portfolio. Through this Fellowship, BAVC Media is providing aspiring editors from underrepresented communities the opportunity to receive [...]
2024 Preservation Access Program
Each year, our Preservation team, through the Preservation Access Program (PAP), accepts a select number of projects to digitize and preserve at a reduced rate. We're excited to announce this year's list of PAP participants: World Arts West Founded in 1978, World Arts West is the nationally recognized leader in advocating for cultural arts communities. Serving the largest culturally-specific artist dance and music network in the United States, we are a wraparound cultural artist service provider, a hub for comprehensive capacity-building artist services for the San Francisco Bay Area cultural artist community. Media: 30 Betacam recordings of SF Ethnic Dance [...]
BAVC Preservation Collaborates with ENTRE in the Rio Grande Valley
Last month, Tim Lake, Co-Director of BAVC Preservation, had the privilege of being invited by ENTRE to teach a two-day, in-person version of HOT-AV. Read Tim's first-hand account of his experience visiting the organization below: ENTRE, founded in 2021 by artists and filmmakers C. Diaz and Andres Sanchez, is a community film center and regional archive dedicated to providing access, knowledge, and skills in filmmaking and archival practices. Its mission aligns closely with that of BAVC Media: to inspire social change through diverse voices and talents. BAVC Preservation is nationally recognized for the highest quality of video preservation and access. [...]
BAVC Media Youth Honored by SFFILM at Essential SF 2024
BAVC Media’s Youth team was honored to receive recognition from SFFILM during their Essential SF award ceremony on April 16, 2024. Essential SF is an ongoing project that shines a light on the region’s legendary, idiosyncratic, and multifaceted contributions to film culture in the Bay Area and a compendium of people and organizations most vital to the Bay Area film community. “We are admirers of [BAVC Media’s] work of uplifting and equipping young Bay Area students and filmmakers with skills and resources to create media that promotes social change and celebrates their diverse stories through Reel Stories and BAVC Youth [...]
2024 MediaMaker Fellows Attend IDA Getting Real Conference
Last month, several BAVC Media staff members attended IDA's Getting Real, a biennial conference designed for and by documentary practitioners and focused on the business and art of nonfiction storytelling. At the conference, Brittney Réaume, BAVC Media’s Associate Director of Artist Development; Dawn D Valadez, Director of Youth & Artistic Development; and Jin Yoo-Kim, Co-Director of the MediaMaker Fellowship 2024 hosted this year's MediaMaker cohort for their first convening of the year! They gave us some of the highlights and takeaways from their trip. BAVC MediaMaker Fellows Attend IDA Getting Real Conference The 2024 cohort brought so much thoughtfulness into [...]
Meet the 2024 MediaMaker Fellows
BAVC Media is excited to announce the latest cohort to take part in its longstanding documentary film fellowship program. Participants in the 2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funding, mentorship, industry access, feedback sessions, and workshops during an immersive 9-month experience. This year’s fellows are: Jamal Ademola (Ellas Vinieron de Las Nubes / They Came From the Clouds), Chelsi Bullard (Unfiltered), Caron Creighton (Wood Street), Julia Hunter, Patrick G. Lee (Untitled KQT Project), Ivan MacDonald (When They Were Here), Khai Thu Nguyen (The Full Thao), Pallavi Somusetty (Coach Emily). Learn more about the fellows and each of [...]
Announcing the 2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows
BAVC Media is excited to announce the latest cohort to take part in its longstanding documentary film fellowship program. Participants in the 2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funding, mentorship, industry access, feedback sessions, and workshops during an immersive 9-month experience. This year’s fellows are: Jamal Ademola (Ellas Vinieron de Las Nubes / They Came From the Clouds), Chelsi Bullard (Unfiltered), Caron Creighton (Wood Street), Julia Hunter, Patrick G. Lee (Untitled KQT Project), Ivan MacDonald (When They Were Here), Khai Thu Nguyen (The Full Thao), Pallavi Somusetty (Coach Emily). The program will feature two intensive convenings in [...]
Celebrating the 2023 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows
Last month we sent our 2023 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows out with a bang, we can hardly believe it's over! On Wednesday, February 28, after 10 months together, 7 exceptional filmmakers previewed their works in progress to a live audience in San Francisco at the KQED Headquarters and virtual viewers across the country. The culminating event for the 2023 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows began with words from BAVC Media Executive Director Paula Smith Arrigoni, 2020 Fellow Colette Ghunim, and Fellowship Co-Director’s, Dawn Valadez and Jin Yoo-Kim. Each fellow then pitched their project and shared a new clip, demonstrating the progress they've made [...]
