February 23, 2012

NAPT Announces 2012 Open Call

for Media Makers

"First and foremost, NAPT is looking for compelling Native stories. Priority will be given to projects intended for the series NATIVE WORD: STORIES PAST & PRESENT," commented NAPT Assistant Director Georgiana Lee (Navajo).

The NAPT Public Media Content Fund will award support to video projects with significant Native involvement--particularly projects that profile Native American leaders for our series NATIVE WORD: STORIES PAST & PRESENT.

Find out more!

Read the full press release 

NAPT seeks stories that can be included in the seven-part series, Growing Native, which will focus on reclaiming traditional knowledge and food ways to address critical issues of health and wellness, the enviornment and human rights.

Segments intended for Growing Native will be five to fifteen-minutes in length, and will also be part of rich, web-based interactive media.  

Growing Native will focus on Tribes, stories and events from seven geographic regions, including the Northwest, Southwest, Southern Plains/Oklahoma, Northeast, Southeast, Northern Plains/Canada and Alaska. Across the country, Native people are regaining their health and strength through the recovery and revitalization of traditional knowledge systems of land, language, traditional arts and health.

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Tisch Full Time Faculty - New York, NY  

Manager, Online Facilitation & Community - Arlington, VA 

Director of News and Public Affairs - Oswego, NY  

Development Support Specialist - Harrisburg, PA

Co-Host, Marketplace Morning Report - Los Angeles, CA

News Director - Lawton, OK

Multimedia Producer, Radio Lab - New York, NY

PBS Senior Associate - Arlington, VA

Media Specialist - Pasadena, CA

Station Manager - Tampa, FL

General Manager - Kansas City, MO  

Associate Director/Director of Content - Madison, WI  

DEADLINE: February 29  

The Great Plains Art Museum announces a juried exhibition focusing on Native American culture in the Great Plains region. Founded in 1980, the Great Plains Art Museum is home to a large collection of historical and contemporary works by Native North American artists. The Museum regularly hosts exhibitions that focus on contemporary Native identity as well as historical Native issues.

For More Information: www.unl.edu 

DEADLINE: March 1 Postmarked  

Oregon Public Broadcasting's College Internship Program provides students with the opportunity to observe and participate in the daily activities of a broadcast center, as well as develop strong organizational and management skills. Click on the link below for more information about OPB's Jon R. Tuttle Journalism and Production Minority Internship--a summer internship in journalism and production with a stipend provided.  

For More Information:  www.opb.org 

WORLD TV will premiere a new long-form documentary program in the spring of 2012 that will feature documentaries you won't see any place else. Here's your chance to be a part of it.

If you're an accomplished filmmaker with a completed documentary and you think it has a compelling story--we want to hear about it!

Deadline: March 2

During this intensive 7-day residential program our participants, mentees and mentors alike, work together to prepare "Vision Plans," identifying their community's challenges and developing innovative solutions to address them. Our agenda is centered on interactive sessions led by social entrepreneurs. Past workshops include: "Driving Change through Social Entrepreneurship," "Building Your Personal Brand" and "Entrepreneurship and the Food Movement."

For More Information: www.miraclecorners.org    

National Geographic

All Roads Seed Grant

Deadline: April 6
 
Herman Miller invites students to answer the question "What makes your campus green?" in our third annual Student Video Contest. Please encourage students in your network to make a video, be creative and show us how their campus is looking out for the earth.

Fore More information: hermanmiller.com  

 PBS Online Film Festival to Feature

20 Short Films

The Film Festival Begins February 27!

PBS announced that it will launch its first Online Film Festival and showcase of 20 short films from independent filmmakers. The Festival, featuring award-winning films with a wide-array of styles, perspectives and subject matter, will run February 27 through March 30 and can be accessed via the PBS website and the PBS YouTube channel.

Read the full press release

NAPT Films Featured in the Festival:

I Survived (February 27)

The Migration (March 19)

Horse You See (March 26)

 Request for Native American Short Film for Use on PBS Pilot

The Futuro Media Group in conjunction with NAPT is requesting short (very short) independent film submissions to air as part of a PBS pilot called "America by the Numbers." The pilot episode is called "Do It Yourself (DIY) Democracy."

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 Investing in Creativity: The "Investing Less Time Reading" Version

An excerpt taken from CreateEquity.com

"Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structures for U.S. Artists (2003)," an Urban Institute publication sheds light on the economic and employment situation of individual artists in the U.S. following the cessation of NEA funding to individual artists in 1995. The report reflected several years of research. 

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National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) 

Membership Survey

NBPC is launching a membership program for indepenent media makers. To get started, NBPC has released this survey to better understand their potential members and insure that they are designing services best suited to your unique needs.

Take the survey

Congratulations

Congratulations to Director Bennie Klain (Navajo) and Producer Leighton C. Peterson of Weaving Worlds which was named an official selection for the Arizona International Film Festival's Centennial Screening.

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