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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 [...]
BAVC Media Community Celebrates Our 45th Anniversary!
BAVC Supported Media Makers Reflect Our Past, Present and Future! After another acutely challenging year, we feel renewed gratitude for our community members, old and new, who inspire, teach, and collaborate with us. You may recognize some of them... They're BIPOC and underrepresented creatives that train at BAVC and get hired and promoted in the notoriously white and male tech industry, they're documentary filmmakers using hybrid storytelling and new media to expand the documentary form, they're established filmmakers that got their professional starts at BAVC 10, 15, 20 years ago that come back as mentors, guest speakers and executive [...]
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.
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 [...]
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. [...]
Now Available On YouTube: From Video Activism to Early Immersive Media
Stills from: Crip Camp (left)                 Mind of Universe (right) On June 3rd, 2020, BAVC Media streamed a video event highlighting the history of early video collectives The People’s Video Theatre (PVT) and Survival Arts Media (SAM) through their archive of preserved analog video. From their roots as video activists to their mind-expanding experiments with video art and early immersive media performances, the story of PVT and SAM is the story of early video’s growth into its own distinct form of expression and storytelling. A video recording of the streaming event is now available for viewing here! In these [...]
