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An Interview with Jacqueline Olive: Director, Producer, & Writer of “Always in Season,” Winner of a Sundance 2019 Special Jury Prize
In the small town of Bladenboro, NC, seventeen-year-old Lennon Lacy, was found hanging from a swing set on August 29, 2014. Despite inconsistencies in the evidence, local officials quickly ruled Lennon’s death a suicide, but his mother, Claudia, believes Lennon was lynched. ALWAYS IN SEASON explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of racial terrorism with racial violence today. At the height of their popularity, lynchings attracted thousands of white men, women, and children spectators. They were public events, complete with souvenirs and photographs. Train seats were even specially reserved [...]
If you hate networking, these five tips are for you
If you’re reading this, you’ve definitely heard this frustrating job search advice: “it’s all about who you know.” You also know that going out and meeting people at mixers, coffees, and informational interviews can give you a huge leg up in applying to jobs. That’s all good and well, but there’s one crucial snag: you’re an introvert. Listen, I get it. You’re the kind of person who isn’t afraid to spend time alone - in fact, a lot of the time, you’d even prefer it. You love when your partner goes out of town, and do a jig anytime someone [...]
Meet Emmanuel Te: Preservation Intern
At BAVC Media Preservation, I gained experience in video conversion of older video formats. I learned the basics in how to maintain playback equipment and handle client's tapes, document conversion progress on SalesForce, work with time based correctors to set audiovisual levels to maintain original video quality, and spot errors during quality control. While at BAVC Media, I always felt like I was working and walking among “living history,” at times flavored with some San Franciscan culture. Though the physical tapes and the equipment used to transfer them are still playable now, they are slowly moving towards their eventual obsolescence. [...]
Catching Up With the Next Generation of Media Makers
The BAVC Media Next Gen students wrapped up the fall semester with a celebration at the San Francisco Public Library in December where they shared their work from the term and came together in community. Friends, family, and allies attended the showcase to help celebrate the students and their work. In case you missed it, all the work is available online to view and share. The beginning video students, Reel Life, and the two advanced tracks, Animation and The Factory, all screened their videos together during this showcase, available on this Youtube playlist. The audio production students were busy all [...]
Meet BAVC Media Student Danielle Bezalel!
Meet BAVC Media Student Danielle Bezalel!
Danielle Bezalel graduated from UC Berkeley (go bears!) in 2014 with a degree in Film and Media and a minor in Education. She's passionate about making media that matters, singing on stage with her band Happnstance, eating lots of chocolate, traveling the world, getting fit, and cracking jokes with her 18 year old brother. Email her at daniellebezalel@gmail.com to hear more about her story and to get involved with Sex Ed with DB!
Preservation Access Program 2017 – 2018
We are excited to announce the participants in the upcoming round of BAVC Media’s Preservation Access Program! From video artists to unique regional collections, the group is representative of the wide variety of artists and institutions this unique program serves. The following is a brief overview of the clients we will be collaborating with to preserve their precious magnetic media over the coming months: Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects [...]
Preservation Access Program Client: CET Films
Written by: Hannah Franklin, Preservation Department Intern, Summer 2017 My summer internship with BAVC Media’s Preservation Access Program has been a challenging yet incredibly rewarding experience. My tasks have centered around the digitization of works from the Center for Educational Telecommunications (CET), a small cultural heritage institution based in Berkeley, California. Now known as CET Films, the Center is a non-profit organization responsible for producing and distributing educational films, focusing on Asian American history. PAP is made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This year, CET Films has submitted [...]
You want a job? Start acting like a baby.
People think about job search success in terms of the outcome—landing a job. At BAVC Media, we love when our clients get jobs, but we think their success is defined not by what happens at the end of the search but how clients get there. Anyone who has been through a job search knows the process rarely goes smoothly. In retrospect, the process can look haphazard and chaotic—a series of ups and downs that really only make sense when clients reflect back on the experience. But it can feel confounding and unnerving when they’re in it. The ups might look [...]
Report from the 2017 QCTools Tester Workshop
On April 21st, 2017, audiovisual preservationists from all over the United States - and Ireland - convened in sunny San Francisco to test the new features of QCTools and the upcoming SignalServer application. We asked participant Bleakley McDowell, Media Conservation & Digitization Specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture to write about his experiences (and show off our rooftop photoshoot). The workshop’s agenda and notes can be found here. Selection from "Guess the QCTools Filters" icebreaker game (answer: Bit Plane) Facing a large number of tape-to-file video transfers that need to be analyzed for errors before [...]
