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

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

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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/

new online mag – Open City – Mapping Urban Asian America @aaww, Call for Creative Nonfiction Fellows

For you NYC writers. Interesting opportunity.
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Open City: Mapping Urban Asian America, a new online magazine on Asian American news and culture in New York, is hiring creative nonfiction fellows to produce content on the vibrant immigrant communities of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. The new magazine will offer smart takes on Asian American (particularly immigrant) culture as it's lived in New York right now. Imagine stories on: the proliferation of x-rated video stories in Sunset Park, migratory patterns of Little Pakistani residents, karaoke bar culture, gentrification in Chinatown, or how Korean taco trucks define ethnic borders and space. Applications are due on February 17, 2012. How to apply: aaww.org/opencityapply. For more info., contact Kai Ma, editor, at kma@aaww.org.


Kai Ma | Managing Editor
The Asian American Writers' Workshop
110-112 W. 27th Street, Sixth Floor, NY, NY 10001
www.aaww.org | @aaww

Editor
Open City: Mapping Urban Asian America
Support Asian American literature: www.aaww.org/donate

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

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.

 

2012 Edward R. Murrow Awards, deadline Feb 9

It's time for the Edward R. Murrow Awards. More information HERE and below. Good luck!

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Awards

2012 Edward R. Murrow Awards Contest – Enter Now!



RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the
Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow’s pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the spirit of the awards that carry his name. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the electronic news profession. In 2011, 600 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards were handed out and of those 600, 95 went on to win National Edward R. Murrow Awards. 


Entries may be submitted by stations, networks, syndication services, program services websites and online news organizations. Entrants will be identified as Radio Network/Syndication Service/Program Service, Large Market Radio Station, Small Market Radio Station, Television Network/Syndication Service/Program Service, Large Market Television Station, Small Market Television Station and Online News Organization. Entries must be submitted in the category in which the story first aired and must be as it was heard on air or online.


Our entry process has changed in 2012 – please read the 2012 entry document in full by clicking here BEFORE submitting your entry or contacting RTDNA with questions.


(NOTE: RTDNA will no longer provide a media upload platform. Individuals must
submit a URL to their piece in the space provided on the application. Entrants are encouraged to upload media to YouTube, Vimeo, or personal sites. YouTube instructions can be found on page 6 of the entry document.)

The deadline for entries is Thursday, February 9, 2012.

a bunch of opportunities from New America Media

Hey folks. A bunch of opportunities listed in the latest newsletter from New America Media. Info and links below.
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Events & Opportunities:  

Deadline: February 8th

New England Center for Investigative Reporting Offers Free Training on Covering Veterans' Issues

The New England Center for Investigative Reporting in Boston is offering a three-day McCormick Specialized Reporting Institute (SRI) training on veterans' issues March 5th-7th.
With tens of thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, one of the major reporting tasks of 2012 will be tracking what happens to these veterans as they face the challenge of settling back in to life at home. Reporters and editors will learn how to navigate the VA bureaucracy, hear from experts-including veterans– who will provide an in-depth understanding of the major issues impacting returning soldiers, and learn from the head of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) how to transform complex data into compelling stories. 

Application deadline is February 20th
http://necir-bu.org/mccormick-specialized-reporting-institute/

Entry Deadline for New America Award: 
February 9th

This award, presented by the Society of Professional Journalists, honors reporting on ethnic and immigrant communities living in the U.S. The contest upholds an important value of SPJ: to promote diversity in journalism – in the newsroom and in the stories journalists report.

To make it as accessible as possible, the New America Award contest is free to enter. Nominations are welcome from media outlets, journalists, community and issue advocacy groups, individuals, and others concerned with ethnic issues. The winner will be recognized in late September at the 2012 Excellence in Journalism conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Awards entries must be mailed to SPJ headquarters and postmarked by Feb. 9. For more information about the award, including entry requirements, click here. Please contact Lauren Rochester with questions at lrochester@spj.org.

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

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/


International Documentary Challenge Registration Open, deadline Feb 29

Interesting competition for doc filmmakers. Details HERE and below. Final deadline Feb 29.
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The International Documentary Challenge is coming up quick! Now in its 7th
year, the Doc Challenge takes place March 1-5, 2012 with registration now
open to filmmakers worldwide.

The premise is simple; filmmakers will push their skills to the limit by
making a short (4-7 minute) documentary in just five days. Top films will
make their world premiere at North America's largest documentary festival,
the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Filmmakers are
assigned a theme (e.g. Dreams/Nightmares) and must choose between two
assigned documentary genres (Character Study, Music, 1st Person, etc.)
These two requirements provide a challenge to filmmakers, as it will shape
the content and direction their film takes.

In addition to making their world premiere at Hot Docs, three major awards
will also be announced at the festival. Awards include The American
Documentary/P.O.V. Award, The Documentary Educational Resources (DER) Award
and the Best Film Award (presented by the Documentary Channel.) There are
also cash prizes for award winners. Additionally, online viewing and voting
will determine an Audience Award winner. After the premiere, there are
additional theatrical screenings in major cities, national television
exposure (10 films from 2011 were selected for national broadcast on the
Documentary Channel) and a DVD release of the best films.

Check out the Doc Challenge website where you can learn more about the
event, view films and hear directly from past participants about their
exhilarating experiences:

http://www.docchallenge.org/

IMPORTANT DATES:
Registration: NOW OPEN Sign up
now<https://www.docchallenge.org/sign-up.html?utm_source=Doclists&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IDC2012>

Early Registration Deadline: February 14, 2012
Final Registration Deadline: February 29, 2012
Doc Challenge: March 1-5, 2012

Hot Docs Dates: April 26 – May 06, 2012

Complete details and entry forms can be found at www.docchallenge.org

Doc Challenge is produced by Kat Touschner of KDHX Media. 2012 Presenting
Partners include Hot Docs, The Documentary Channel, American
Documentary/P.O.V. and Documentary Educational Resources. Supporting
partners include the International Documentary Association, the Documentary
Organization of Canada, DocuMentors, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival,
Dokufest, Docs In Progress and the 48 Hour Film Project.

The International Documentary Challenge.
Real Life. Filmed Real Fast.

Google-sponsored Data Journalism Awards, deadline April 10

First ever awards for data-driven investigative reporting, visualization/storytelling, and mobile apps. Cool. Details HERE and pasted below.

Best,Mia

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Data Journalism Awards now accepting submissions

1/19/2012 06:55:00 AM

Last November, we announced our support for a new Data Journalism competition, organized by the Global Editors Network. The competition is now open to submissions and today we hosted an event at our offices in London to share details on how to compete and win a total of six prizes worth EUR 45,000. The European Journalism Centre is running the contest and Google is sponsoring.

Journalism is going through an exciting—if sometimes wrenching—transition from off to online. Google is keen to help. We see exciting possibilities of leveraging data to produce award-winning journalism. “Data journalism is a new, exciting part of the media industry, with at present only a small number of practitioners,” said Peter Barron, Google’s Director of External Relations. “We hope to see the number grow.”

In data journalism, reporters leverage numerical data and databases to gather, organize and produce news. Bertrand Pecquerie, the Global Editor Network’s CEO, believes the use of data will, in particular, revolutionize investigative reporting. “We are convinced that there is a bright future for journalism,” he said at the London event. “This is not just about developing new hardware like tablets. It is above all about producing exciting new content.”

The European Journalism Centre, a non-profit based in Maastricht, has been running data training workshops for several years. It is producing the Data Journalism Awards website and administering the prize. “This new initiative should help convince editors around the world that data journalism is not a crazy idea, but a viable part of the industry,” says Wilfried Ruetten, Director of the center.

Projects should be submitted to http://www.datajournalismawards.org. The deadline is April 10, 2012. Entries should have been published or aired between April 11, 2011 and April 10, 2012. Media companies, non-profit organisations, freelancers and individuals are eligible. 

Submissions are welcomed in three categories: data-driven investigative journalism, data-driven applications and data visualisation and storytelling. National and international projects will be judged separately from local and regional ones. “We wanted to encourage not only the New York Times’s of the world to participate, but media outlets of all sizes,” says Pecquerie. “Journalism students are also invited to enter, provided their work has been published.”

An all-star jury has been assembled of journalists from prestigious international media companies including the New York Times, the Guardian and Les Echos. Paul Steiger, the former editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal and founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winningProPublica, will serve as president.

Winners will be announced at the Global News Network’s World Summit in Paris on May 31, 2012. 

Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, Deadline January 19

$5K award for coverage of violence, crime, disaster, and trauma. Deadline is January 19.
Best,
Mia

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Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma:
Deadline January 19

 

Dear friends and colleagues,

 

There is now less than a week to submit work for the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. Please spread the word.

 

Open to North American journalism in all media, the Dart Awards honor innovative, ethical and effective reporting on the impact of violence, crime, disaster and other traumatic events. Dart Award winners, who receive a $5,000 prize, rise above the ordinary in focusing on the experience of victims and survivors, and contributing to public understanding on trauma-related issues.

 

The deadline for entries is January 19, 2012, for work published or broadcast in 2011.

 

Details and entry materials are online.

 

Questions and inquiries should be sent to Kate Black, associate director of programs.

 

Best,

 

Bruce

 

Bruce Shapiro
Executive Director
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

NY Press Club Awards for Journalism, deadline April 9

Information HERE and below about the New York Press Club annual awards. Deadline April 9.
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Entries open for the 2012 New York Press Club Awards for Journalism on Monday, January 30th, 2012 and close on Monday, April 9th. Winners will be announced in early May. Presentations will be made in early June at our annual Journalism Awards Dinner.

SOME AWARD CATEGORIES HAVE CHANGED FROM PREVIOUS YEARS. Click the Downloads tab above to view and/or download details and entry materials for the 2012 competition.

When entries open, submissions must be made in digital form as described in "Tech Specs." Entries must be submitted from this Web page.


An enduring tradition in New York media, the annual New York Press Club Awards For Journalism honor excellence in the craft by writers, reporters, editors, producers, shooters and multimediographers.


Entries are considered in more than 20 categories of reporting from material submitted by New York metropolitan area news organizations and individual journalists. 


Judging is by prominent working journalists, former journalists and academics who are selected for their expertise in each category.


Awards unique to the New York Press Club competition are the Gold Keyboard Award, honoring excellence in investigative journalism; Nellie Bly Cub Reporter, honoring the best journalistic effort by an individual new to the profession and The Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York Award for reporting that is most complimentary of New York City.