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BAVC Media Announces the 2024 Preservation Access Program
Through the Preservation Access Program (PAP), BAVC Media proudly provides museum-quality transfers and preservation services at a reduced rate. Interested in participating in this round of the Preservation Access Program? Fill out the application, the deadline for submitting is Thursday, March 7th, 2024. We'll be holding a virtual informational event on February 28th, 2024 at 10am PST on Zoom to discuss the program, application tips, and preservation techniques. Sign up here to attend. History of Media Preservation at BAVC Media Since 1994, BAVC Media has served as the nation’s hub for the preservation of culturally significant and community-based media, ensuring [...]
Join Us at the AME Institute Bay Area Pop-Up February 23
Calling all educators! The AME Institute is coming to San Francisco for a one-day-only pop-up on Friday, February 23 to help you get an inside look at the Bay Area's creative industries and learn how you can prepare your students for careers in the creative economy. Our afternoon workshops, in partnership with CAFILM Education, will teach you how to develop and implement a plan for connecting your students' work to local community access television and film festivals, learn best practices for archiving and preserving your student's work, and leverage BAVC Media and other community resources to support your student's success. [...]
Provisions: Impact Filmmaking with Maya Cueva and Leah Galant
PROVISIONS is a series from BAVC Media, featuring interviews, advice, and insights into the creative process from our mediamaking community. The documentary On The Divide tells the stories of three Latinx individuals living in McAllen, Texas. Despite their differing viewpoints, they share an unexpected connection—the last abortion clinic on the U.S./Mexico border. We spoke with directors Maya Cueva and Leah Galant about the process, challenges and rewards of creating a documentary with social impact. You can watch On The Divide here. This interview was conducted in August 2023 and has been edited for length and clarity Documentary has a long [...]
An Interview With BAVC Media’s Media Specialist: Clay Go
Tell us a little bit about yourself (career, hobbies, anything you’d like us to know). My name is Clay. I’m a San Francisco native and a California College of the Arts graduate. I’m passionate about filmmaking and storytelling so I hope to do more directing in the future. Narrative filmmaking is what I really want to do but documentaries are interesting to me as well. Outside of work, I love going to the gym, watching movies and obscure video essays as well as playing video games. When did you first cross paths with BAVC and what about the organization’s mission [...]
Transmission Studio: The Art of Journalism with Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí
Watch the third episode of Transmission Studio, a new series from SF Commons We spoke with Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí about community-informed approaches to journalism and the importance of outreach and organizing in audience development work. Carlos is a community reporter with KQED’s digital engagement team. He also reports and co-produces for KQED’s bilingual news hub KQED en Español. He grew up in San Francisco’s Mission District and has previously worked with Univision, 48 Hills, and REFORMA in Mexico City. Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated [...]
MediaMakers at the New Orleans Film Festival
Last month, several BAVC Media staff members as well as our cohort of MediaMakers traveled to New Orleans Film Festival! Brittney Réaume, BAVC Media's Associate Director of Artist Development, gives us a recap as well as some highlights of their trip. Want to travel, gain insights into the industry, and strengthen your film with a community of fellow filmmakers? Applications are now open for the 2024 MediaMaker fellowship! Apply today, the deadline is December 13 (11:59pm PT) → This is the second year that the BAVC MediaMaker Fellows have attended the New Orleans Film Festival and it did [...]
Transmission Studio: The Art of Journalism with Nastia Voynovskaya
Watch the second episode of Transmission Studio, a new series from SF Commons We spoke with Nastia Voynovskaya about the state of Bay Area journalism with a specific focus on arts and culture reporting. Nastia is a Russian-born, Oakland-based journalist. She’s the associate editor at KQED Arts & Culture and co-creator of KQED’s Bay Area hip-hop history project That’s My Word. She’s the recipient of the 2018 Society of Professional Journalists-Northern California award for arts & culture reporting. Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated [...]
Provisions: DIY Filmmaking with Daniel Freeman
PROVISIONS is a series from BAVC Media, featuring interviews, advice, and insights into the creative process from our mediamaking community. DIY, short for "Do it Yourself," means a few things to Daniel Freeman, an independent filmmaker and experimental music composer. For him, DIY filmmaking is about taking the initiative to create without waiting for external approval, while still embracing a supportive community. We caught up with him about his filmmaking journey and his progression beyond the DIY approach. Daniel was a SFFILM FilmHouse resident in 2019 and 2020. His film Teddy Out of Tune screened at the Mill Valley, Bushwick, [...]
Celebrating 10 Years of Reel Stories
On September 28, we celebrated a significant milestone and gathered at KQED for the second annual Reel Stories Celebration & Awards. It was a night to remember, as we commemorated a decade(!) of Reel Stories programming that has been instrumental in uplifting women, girls, and gender-expansive filmmakers in the Bay Area. A Decade of Empowering Voices The evening was not only an awards ceremony but also a celebration of the voices and creativity of women and gender-expansive filmmakers of all ages. In the words of Paula Smith Arrigoni, BAVC Media’s Executive Director, "We celebrated the rebellious act of training young [...]
MediaMakers at the Mill Valley Film Festival
We’re excited to see several films directed by previous BAVC MediaMakers for the 46th Mill Valley Film Festival (October 5 - 15, 2023): DEMON MINERAL (Hadley Austin), SKIN OF GLASS (Denise Zmekhol), and FOUNDER GIRLS (Contessa Gayles). We reached out to each of the filmmakers to find out how their experiences as MediaMakers impacted their filmmaking journey in addition to what to expect and where to watch their films. _______________________________________________ FOUNDER GIRLS dir. by Contessa Gayles Sat, Oct 7 ● 1PM ● Cinemark CinéArts Sequoia → Get tickets In this kaleidoscopic ode to girlhood, young campers find freedom, sisterhood, and themselves [...]
