Press Releases
Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) Taps Desmond Holt as First Recipient of Carl Weichert Mograph Scholarship
Creative spirit of BAVC Media Instructor Carl Weichert lives on through emerging motion graphics artist. San Francisco, CA—One year ago this May, BAVC Media instructor Carl Weichert passed away at age 51, leaving hundreds of friends, students and collaborators with a profound sense of loss. Finding humor in almost every situation, Weichert was known as the ultimate sherpa, taking BAVC Media students to the top of the editing/motion graphics mountain for over a decade. “He was a wonderful man with a giant heart, full of love to give and to receive,” Svetlana Butnaru, one of Weichert’s past students, remarked last [...]
BAVC Media’S PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT AWARDED KNIGHT FOUNDATION PROTOTYPE FUND FOR INNOVATIVE OPEN SOURCE PROJECT
San Francisco, CA — Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is excited to announce that it is one of 16 recipients of the Knight Foundation’s summer 2014 Prototype Fund. The $35,000 award supports six months of development for key components of an open source project that makes video preservation easier for journalists and others. BAVC Media’s Prototype Fund award will support its video and audio Preservation Department in developing QC Capture, a video digitization app that allows media organizations, journalists and others to easily preserve aging video tape. The app will be the newest component in the QCTools suite and BAVC Media believes that the [...]
BAVC Media Announces NEA Grant to support National MediaMaker Fellowship and California Arts Council Grant to Support Independent Filmmaker Community Workshops
More Than $82 Million Awarded for Arts Projects Nationwide Includes $90,000 awarded to BAVC Media. San Francisco, CA—National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects and partnerships in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2016. Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $90,000 to Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) to support the National MediaMaker Fellowship Program. The Art Works category supports the creation of work and presentation of both new and existing work, lifelong learning in the arts, and public engagement with [...]
BAVC Media Announces 2016 National MediaMaker Fellows
San Francisco, CA: BAVC Media is thrilled to announce the multiplatform documentary makers and projects that will receive the 2016 National MediaMaker Fellows award. The Fellows will receive professional support for their social issue media projects and meet for three immersive workshops in the Bay Area, at the Full Frame film festival in Durham, North Carolina, and at International Documentary Association’s Getting Real summit. A full list of recipients is below. The 2016 MediaMaker Fellows are Bridgette Auger (Clark, CO), We Are Not Princesses; Erika Cohn (Salt Lake City, UT), Belly of the Beast; Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz (Allentown, PA), And [...]
BAVC Media announces Sofía Córdova as Spring 2016 Artist-in-Residence
San Francisco, CA — Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is pleased to announce that Sofía Córdova will be the Spring 2016 resident for BAVC Media’s Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program, made possible in part through the generosity of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The AiR program will give Córdova access to BAVC Media’s state-of-the-art technical facilities and in-house expertise, along with the opportunity to produce work in collaboration with BAVC Media programs. Córdova plans to develop the next chapters of her ongoing video performance, Echoes of A Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos) through coursework in [...]
BAVC Media’s Preservation Program Announces NEH Grant to support QC Tools
BAVC Media AWARDED $300,000 PRESERVATION GRANT FROM NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES San Francisco, CA: Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) was awarded a $300,000 Preservation and Access Research and Development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the continued development of QCTools. The NEH Division of Preservation and Access awards grants to projects which address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. In 2013, in response to the decreasing ability to replay and digitize traditional magnetic tape formats, BAVC Media developed QCTools, free and open source software that assists archivists, [...]
White House names BAVC Media key partner in announcement of national jobs initiative
San Francisco, CA – On Monday, March 9th, 2015, the White House announced a new jobs initiative, TechHire, and recognized TechSF as a national model in workforce development. TechSF is an initiative led by the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (SFOEWD) that is coordinated by BAVC Media—along with other San Francisco-based key partners such as Zendesk, Jawbone, Salesforce, AT&T, IBM, Autodesk, and City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, Academy X, Bayview Hunter’s Point Center for Arts and Technology, Year Up Bay Area, West Ed and Treehouse—to help job seekers, entrepreneurs and freelancers obtain employment in high [...]
BAVC Media announces release of QCTools: an open source software for video archivists
San Francisco, CA — Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is excited to announce a prototype for analog video digitization in QCTools, a free and open source software that allows archivists and media makers to analyze and better understand their digital video materials. Supported by the Knight Foundation’s summer 2014 Prototype Fund, with initial concept support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, QCTools can now be further explored as a video digitization tool, offering analysis features never before seen in proprietary capture software. “We’re very excited for this opportunity to make a vital contribution to the preservation field. Thanks to the [...]
BAVC Media’s preservation program announces new online preservation resource supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
San Francisco, CA – Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) announces the release of AV Compass, a free web-based resource created to empower individuals and organizations to take urgent first steps to preserve their audiovisual media collections. Developed with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, AV Compass features eleven short instructional videos, five PDF guides, and a preservation inventory tool.Many individuals and organizations hold significant audiovisual content that illuminates their own unique histories and those of their communities and times. As certain media formats become obsolete and as functioning playback equipment becomes more challenging to obtain and keep in [...]
BAVC Media and SF OEWD hold unprecedented symposium on the future of freelance labor
San Francisco, CA – Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media), Gig Union and, the San Francisco Office of Economic & Workforce Development (SFOEWD) are proud to present WorkShift 2020, a symposium on contract work and the future of labor on Wednesday, April 29 at 3pm at the Kanbar Forum at Exploratorium (Pier 15, The Embarcadero) in San Francisco, California. The event is free and open to the public. By the year 2020, 40% of the U.S. workforce will be freelancers and contractors; a trend that is fast-becoming the norm in San Francisco. WorkShift 2020 brings together national and local government and industry [...]
