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SFPortals – a multimedia photo project, February 2, 7-9pm, SF

MiaLobel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:47:20 +0000

A great event with two longtime Freelance Cafe members. If you're in the Bay Area, don't miss it!

-Mia

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Jan Sturmann and I will be presenting our new multimedia photo project at the Apple Store in SF on Thursday, February 2, 7-9pm. Please join us!

Best wishes,

Lonny

Open Show San Francisco presents:
SFportals – Collaborative Multimedia in Action

Feb.2nd (Thurs) 7-9pm
Apple SF Store | 1 Stockton St., San Francisco

Come experience five San Francisco multimedia stories from veteran reporters and photojournalists Lonny Shavelson and Jan Sturmann. How do you make a leg? Can you build a bike from bamboo? Who still sells Zoot Suits? Are there superheroes in the Bay Area?

1) Real Life Super Heroes
2) The Leg Maker
3) Zoot Suit
4) Bamboo on Wheels
5) Desire for Words

‘Future of Radio’ Panel Discussion in SF, Feb. 2 (W/Nikki Silva, Glynn Washington, and more!)

MiaLobel — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:27:32 +0000

Wish I could be at this FREE SoundCloud meetup. Feb 2, 510 Treat Avenue, SF. Details and link below.

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Hey everyone-

Wanted to let you all know about a fun panel discussion we're putting together for next week. Feel free to spread the news to your Bay Area friends! It's free, so come join us!

Details below, find more info here:
http://www.meetup.com/All-About-Sound/events/49064192/

February 2nd, 2012

Join us for an evening of lively discussion, as some of the Bay Area's most respected radio-veterans give us their perspective on where the industry is today, and where it's headed tomorrow.

Panel Moderator: Jim Colgan – former WNYC producer and Head of Media at Mobile Commons

Panelists:

Larry Magid – Tech-analyst CBS Radio, KCBS San Francisco, and tech-writer for The San Jose Mercury and CNET.com

Nikki Silva – of the Peabody award-winning duo The Kitchen Sisters

Glynn Washington – Creator and host of PRX and NPR's Snap Judgment

Ian Hill – KQED's Online Community Engagement specialist

Schedule:

6:45: Arrive for refreshments, networking

7:00: Panel discussion begins

8:15: Q+A, open discussion

9:00: End of program. Networking and ping-pong

Any questions? Feel free to contact me off-list at evan@soundcloud.com

See you there!

Rough Cuts documentary call for entries + film screening – entry deadline March 1, event March 20, SF

MiaLobel — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:05:02 +0000

Hey folks. Great opportunity for filmmakers to get feedback on their docs. More details HERE and below. Submission deadline March 1.

Best,

Mia

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Thursday, March 1st is the deadline to submit to

ROUGH CUTS – MARCH 2012 SERIES

Tuesday, March 20th at 7:30 p.m.

Ninth Street Independent Film Center

145 Ninth Street, between Mission and Howard, San Francisco

Complimentary drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided

$7 admission

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Rough Cuts is a series of work-in-progress documentary screenings that are
produced every other month at a variety of locations throughout San
Francisco. For each evening, we screen one rough cut of a feature-length
documentary and then moderate a conversation about the film. These
post-screening discussions are designed to give the filmmaker a better,
more objective sense of what is working and not working with his/her film,
with particular attention paid to improving the film’s structure and
narrative clarity. We hope that the series also provides a welcome space
for local filmmakers, film professionals, and fans of documentary film to
meet and talk.

We are seeking long-form works with a final running time of 40 minutes or
longer. Principal photography should have been completed, and we encourage
filmmakers to submit cuts that are in the later stages of post-production
(i.e. NOT first or second cuts).

*Thursday, March 1st*

Submissions must arrive at the address above by 5:00 p.m. [*This is not a postmark deadline.*]

*Tuesday, March 6th*

Selections will be announced and filmmakers will be notified**

*Tuesday, March 20th*

Screening, followed by discussion led by a guest moderator

To submit, and for more details about Rough Cuts, visit:

http://sfroughcuts.com/

Call for Entries – BAVC 2012 MediaMaker Fellows Program, late application deadline Feb 1

MiaLobel — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:27:39 +0000

For you Bay Area filmmakers – you have to be a BAVC member to apply to this, but it's a great organization and looks like a great fellowship. Details HERE and below. Late application deadline Feb 1.

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MEDIAMAKER FELLOWS PROGRAM

BAVC MediaMaker Fellows 2012 Application Timeline

Application available: Thursday, December 1, 2011
Information session: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 6:00 – 8:00pm at BAVC (RSVP here)
Application deadline: Tuesday, January, 17th, 2012 5:00pm
Late application deadline: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 5:00pm ($40 entry fee)
2012 Fellows announced: Monday, February 13, 2012

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) >

Click here to complete the 2012 MediaMaker Fellows application >

“I was thrilled to be a 2011 MediaMaker Fellow.
it has meant exposure to cutting edge technologies,
collaboration with this amazing group of filmmakers,
and it forced me to make space in my life

to think about innovation and how I could make this work.”
- Samantha Grant, “A Fragile Trust”
2011 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow

About the Program

Since 1991, BAVC's MediaMaker Awards have provided in-kind training and post-production grants for independent artists with a particular focus on supporting emerging artists and underserved communities. The Awards were designed to give independent artists direct access to the latest digital media technologies and prepare them for broadcast on public television with focused digital and multiplatform strategies for community engagement. BAVC offers six in-kind awards annually to be used for a combination of post-production services, facilities access, and training. We are extremely proud of our past MediaMaker award winners and are honored to have played a role in their development, completion, broadcast, and distribution.

The 2012 BAVC MediaMaker Fellows program is designed to engage local artists in a year-long series of opportunities that will support project development through professional mentorship in multiplatform and transmedia storytelling through emerging technologies, strategic social media, marketing, and fundraising. The BAVC MediaMaker Fellows program will build an engaged local community of creative media artists from diverse fields, increase their capacity for diverse and lasting impact, and inspire new partnerships to support future work.

BAVC MediaMaker Fellows:

Participate in New Media Workshops throughout the year, designed to provide special access to experts in emerging technologies and multiplatform documentary storytelling.
Participate in MediaMaker Fellows Labs to screen works-in-progress and receive feedback from fellow MediaMakers and invited industry experts on films and digital projects.
Receive a package of free BAVC equipment and facilities access for project development, focus groups, mentor meetings, professional production, postproduction, technical development, and beta-testing.
Receive numerous exposure opportunities including serving as a guest blogger for the BAVC web site and newsletter, highlighting your project, your creative process, screenings, events, and community engagement plans.
Are eligible for assistance from BAVC-trained media interns who will assist MediaMaker fellows in creating a short video documentary about the MediaMaker’s project to be used in presentations, funding proposals, and project promotion. (For samples of these see http://bavc.org/stream.)
Be included in the MediaMaker Showcase – a public event for the BAVC MediaMaker Fellows to pitch their projects to local funders, broadcasters, and community organizations.
Access to and involvement with BAVC’s creative program alumni network.
A small cash stipend to support the development of your promotional behind-the-scenes video documentary with assistance from a BAVC-trained intern.

Program Elibility & Criteria

Any Bay Area BAVC member at the Producers Bundle level and above working on a noncommercial project is eligible for the MediaMaker Fellows program. BAVC takes special interest in artists who are working on projects about community and social justice issues, but we encourage projects of any genre or subject matter to apply. The MediaMaker Fellows program is particularly interested in supporting a diverse cross-section of artists with multi-disciplinary backgrounds. The proposed project must have some existing produced content, and must have a funding commitment from at least one additional source (besides BAVC). The project must also have a strong digital media component, but it need not be a traditional documentary or narrative film. Projects can be web-based, linear, interactive, performance, installation or a hybrid of these.

Propose a compelling, high-quality, noncommercial project to develop over the course of the year. Project must be digital media or centrally contain digital media components.
Have demonstrated an expertise in one or more creative disciplines.
Have demonstrated an ability to conceive, develop, and implement a high-quality creative project – at least one public performance, exhibition, or screening of an original work.
Be able to write effectively about their creative process and vision for their project.
Be willing to be an active participant in monthly labs and quarterly workshops, an annual exhibition, pitch/showcase, and ongoing online forum.

Tax Tips for the Self-Employed workshops in SF and Berkeley, Jan 24 + 31

MiaLobel — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:27:16 +0000

Hello all. For those of you who've been with Freelance Cafe for a long time, you'll remember our tax season workshops with SF indie CPA Jason Stallcup. Jason is an amazing wealth of knowledge about tax stuff for freelancers, and he presents the information in a way that actually makes sense. He and his associate are presenting their workshop again this year, once at Sandbox Suites SF and once in Berkeley. Details below. Spread the word!

Best,

Mia

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Tax Tips for the Self-Employed in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 24 http://taxsandbox.eventbrite.com/

Tax Tips for the Self-Employed in Berkeley on Tuesday, Jan. 31 http://taxtipsberkeley.eventbrite.com/

Upcoming events at the UC Berkeley J-School

MiaLobel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:59:38 +0000

Here are the latest public events from UC Berkeley's J-School. Good stuff!

-mia

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The Renaissance of Local News

When: Friday, January 27, 5:00 PM

Where: North Gate Hall

The inaugural event in honor of the Robert A. Peck Chair in Journalism at Berkeley.

Jim Brady – Journal Register Company’s Editor-in-Chief and Editor-in-Chief of Digital First Media

Lydia Chavez – Professor and Robert A. Peck Chair at the Graduate School of Journalism and Editor-in-Chief of Mission Loc@l

Ken Doctor – Media industry analyst, author of Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get

Lisette Mejia – Master’s Candidate 2012, Graduate School of Journalism and reporter for Mission Loc@l

Chris Peck – Editor, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis

Seating is limited – RSVP required: juliehirano@berkeley.edu | 510.642.3394

Thomas Peele | Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist

When: Monday, February 13, 6:00 PM

Where: North Gate Hall Library

On the morning of August 2, 2007, journalist Chauncey Bailey, editor of the weekly Oakland Post, was gunned down in broad daylight and died.

Investigating police would soon uncover the motive behind Bailey's shocking murder: to stop a story. Bailey was working on an article about Your Black Muslim Bakery, an Oakland institution posing as a charitable organization but uncovered as a criminal and violent one. The Bakery was founded by a man named Joseph Stephens who later took the name Yusuf Ali Bey. Bey preached of Black Power and fundamental Black Muslim beliefs, while behind the scenes he led a violent cult. When he died in 2003, a bloody internal struggle ensued with Bey’s son, Yusuf Bey IV, eventually seizing control. Under Bey IV, the Bakery began to crumble and fell into bankruptcy. As Chauncey Bailey was investigating the Bakery and the Beys, Bey IV ordered his assassination.

Outraged by Bailey’s murder, a group of California journalists, known as The Chauncey Bailey Project, banded together to finish Bailey's work, help bring his assassins to justice, and prove that “you can't kill a story by killing the messenger.” Now, in KILLING THE MESSENGER: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist, Thomas Peele, an award-winning investigative reporter and member of The Chauncey Bailey Project, provides the first comprehensive narrative examination of Bailey's murder by bringing to light the astonishing series of events that led to his death.

KILLING THE MESSENGER explores the origins and history of the Black Muslim movement, the rise of Elijah Muhammad as a Muslim leader in Oakland and the separatist cult known as the Beys. Drawing from his research and the investigative reporting of The Chauncey Bailey Project, Peele weaves present-day events together with history to show how years of corruption, abuse, and propaganda resulted in one of the most shocking and gruesome attacks on a working journalist and the First Amendment in recent American history.

Books will be available for purchase.

Seating is limited – RSVP required: juliehirano@berkeley.edu | 510.642.3394

VALLEY OF SHADOWS & DREAMS: Reception and Book Signing
and Current Exhibition at the North Gate Hall Gallery (January 17-May 15, 2012)

When: Friday, March 16, 6:00 PM

Where: North Gate Hall Room 105

Photography by Ken Light | Text by Melanie Light | Forward by Thomas Steinbeck

“Valley of Shadows and Dreams explores a different California from the one that most people know—a California far from Hollywood and Malibu and San Francisco, a California that in some elemental respects has not changed much since the days of the Spanish conquistadors. The same sort of manual labor prevails in the fields, the same exploitation of the weakest and poorest still blights the land. In this book you will find a powerful indictment not only of what has happened lately in America's largest state, but also of what is happening across this country right now. The abuse of illegal immigrants, environmental degradation, the madness of a real estate bubble, and all the other problems of the Central Valley are unfortunately relevant nationwide. Ken and Melanie Light bring great compassion and an eye for beauty to this subject, facing hard truths but refusing to despair. As John Steinbeck argued more than seventy years ago, the demand for justice and the need for true democracy are timeless, essential things.”

—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation

PT producer at Making Contact, Oakland, CA

MiaLobel — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:28:58 +0000

The great people at Making Contact are looking for a half-time radio producer. The gig is in Oakland, CA. Details below.

Best, Mia

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Making Contact Producer (part-time) Work Location: Oakland, CA

more info at www.radioproject.org

Making Contact /National Radio Project seeks a part-time (20 hours/week) radio producer with a passion for public-interest community media, to create a world where peace and social justice are paramount.

National Radio Project is a nonprofit media organization that produces the weekly, nationally syndicated, progressive radio series Making Contact. Our high quality public-affairs and documentary radio programs are broadcast on 139 radio stations in the U.S., Canada, and South Africa; thousands more listen via our website and podcasts. Our award winning work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter, among others.

We seek an energetic, passionate, organized team-player with solid experience. The candidate should understand the craft of long-format feature production as well as the art of a good in-depth interview. The candidate will also be able to work efficiently on quick turn-around program segments. Our program is a blend of evocative stories with analysis, and explores the relationship between individuals, groups and systems. We vary our program format from week to week from sound rich docs to straight-ahead compelling speeches. We’re looking for someone committed to our greater mission and who is willing to do whatever it takes to produce our weekly show and to strengthen Making Contact as a whole.

National Radio Project /Making Contact is more than a radio program. We thrive on the participation of volunteers and interns. We train community members in radio production as possible while meeting deadlines. We seek someone who can mentor others and is excited about growing and learning in their own work. We’re looking for a journalist who respects the knowledge of community members, social movement activists and academics in helping to conceptualize and create pieces that inform, inspire, and move people to take action.

Required Skills/Experience

Demonstrated writing and script editing skills

Demonstrated audio editing skills

Strong voice-craft skills and experience

Track record of journalistic work –dedicated to fairness, accuracy and fact-checking

Ability to read and synthesize research

Familiarity with issues of our times and timeless issues

Track record of delivering pieces on deadline (even if it means it's not "everything you want it to be"

Commitment to building Making Contact as a whole, and to participating in a team process

Willingness to participate in fundraising

Preferred Skills

Experience coaching and editing freelance reporters and producers

Multimedia experience: video, sound-slides, YouTube etc

Familiar with social marketing and online media distribution

Experience and enthusiasm for online distribution methods and audience building

Sense of humor

National Radio Project / Making Contact is an affirmative action employer. We actively recruit applications from women, people of color, LGBTQ folks, and people with disabilities.

Submit app ASAP. Position Open Until Filled. Please email resume, cover letter, writing sample (radio script preferred) and links to work samples to lrudman@radioproject.org

27th Annual James Madison Freedom of Information Awards, Deadline Jan 6

MiaLobel — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:36:16 +0000

For Northern CA journos and community groups – award for advancement in freedom of info. Good luck!
-mia

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The James Madison Freedom of Information Awards recognize Northern
California organizations and individuals who have made significant
contributions to advance freedom of information and/or expression in the
spirit of James Madison, the creative force behind the First Amendment.

The awards are presented annually by the Freedom of Information
Committee of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of
Professional Journalists. There is no fee for submitting an entry. An
awards ceremony and dinner is planned in mid-March, during National
Freedom of Information Week, near Madison's birthday.

Eligible for nomination are Northern California journalists, citizens,
media organizations, or community groups who, during 2011, have defended
public access to meetings, public records, or court proceedings or
otherwise promoted the public's right to know, publish and speak freely
about issues of public concern.

Award Categories (awards may not be given in every category):
Professional Journalist, Nonprofit Organization, Source/Whistle Blower,
Career Achievement, Citizen, Public Official, Educator, Cartoonist,
Legal Counsel, Student Journalist, Electronic Access, News Media.

* The Professional Journalist and Student Journalist awards recognize
journalists who have been involved in fights for access to records,
meetings or court proceedings, who have made exceptional use of public
records in their reporting or who have promoted education on FOI issues
through stories, editorials or other advocacy.

* The Public Official award is given to a governmental official who has
demonstrated extraordinary commitment to keeping public records or
meetings public, or otherwise has taken exemplary leadership on FOI or
First Amendment issues.

* The Beverly Kees Educator Award recognizes extraordinary efforts by
educators to cultivate a devotion to the values of freedom of information.

The Norwin S. Yoffie Career Achievement Award is named in honor of a
stalwart supporter of the chapter's Freedom of Information Committee,
who died in November 2000 after many years of distinguished service to
SPJ and the cause of freedom of information.

Click here to submit a nomination online.
<https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGZva3dwUUVQNTVZVHdlN3hySlc2WGc6MA>

Questions: Please contact Geoff King or Rebecca Bowe at
spjnorcalfoi@gmail.com spjnorcalfoi@gmail.com>.
Please include "James Madison Awards Question" in the subject line.

LA based freelancer needed for a half day this weekend

MiaLobel — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:33:27 +0000

Short gig for LA-based audio producer, this weekend. Details and contact info below.
-mia

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We're looking for someone to attend a conference for 2-4 hours in Los Angeles this Friday or Saturday. The pay is $250.00 and you'll get into the conference for free. It's health conference organized by Vision y Compromiso, an organization that trains Promotoras throughout California — really interesting work. Here's the website — http://www.visionycompromiso.org/. You may need google to translate the site.

It's being held at the LA Marriott Hotel & Convention Center at 5855 West Century Boulevard.

It'd be terrific if you speak Spanish too, but it's not necessary.

If you're interested, please contact me and I'll give more details.

Cheers!
Tena
NPR's Latino USA
Managing Editor/Senior Producer
trubio@futuromediagroup.org

KQED Panel Discussion for Filmmakers & Independent Producers

MiaLobel — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:19:12 +0000

Hey folks. KQED in San Francisco is hosting event for indie filmmakers Nov 29, 6-8pm. These panelists are the folks who give money to make indie films – don't miss it!
-mia

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KQED – Panel Discussion for
Independent Filmmakers

Where:

KQED
2601 Mariposa Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Driving Directions

When:
Tuesday November 29, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM PST
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Learn more about the resources available to independent filmmakers with a panel discussion at KQED. Representatives from several organizations around the Bay Area will give an overview of their services and answer your questions. We will also be discussing the specifics of the call for entries for the eighth season of Truly CA.

Join us at KQED on Tuesday November 29th at 6PM

2601 Mariposa Street

San Francisco, CA 94930

Panelists:

Lisa Landi, KQED;

John Lightfoot, California Council for the Humanities;

Michele Turnure-Salleo, San Francisco Film Society;

Tere Romo, San Francisco Foundation;

Erica Deiparine-Sugars, ITVS

with Sue Ellen McCann, KQED

Seats are limited

By-the-way…the deadline to submit your feature-length documentary to Truly CA