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Job Bank
Program Director, Allied Media Conference, Allied Media Projects (Detroit, MI)—due Sunday, November 27th
Development Associate, Youth Radio (Oakland, CA)—due Monday, November 28th
Assistant or Associate Professor of Film, SUNY Purchase College (Purchase, NY)—due Thursday, December 1st
Visiting Arts Fellows and Visiting Scholar, Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA)—due Thursday, December 1st
Assistant Professor of Art, Moving Image/New Media, Department of Art, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)—due Thursday, January 19th, 2017
Open until filled
Director of Audience Development and Communications, American Documentary, Inc. | POV (Brooklyn, NY)
Associate Director, Institutional Giving, StoryCorps (Brooklyn, NY)
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Grants and Calls
NAMAC’s Consulting Producers are collaborating with the Youth Media Reporter to produce "Our Desired Futures," a special issue focused on creative youth development, inspired by NAMAC’s 50 State Dinner Party Project. We seek articles, poems, and lesson plans by mediamakers, writers, poets, practitioners, and educators from near and far to help us explore and teach one another about the chapters of history that make us who we are today.
Deadline: Friday, December 2nd
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Mentor Fellowship Program
NACF's new Mentor Fellowship will award $30,000 for established American Indian and Alaska Native artists to mentor emerging artist apprentices in the Traditional Arts or Contemporary Visual Arts. Applicants must be five-year residents and enrolled Native citizens of tribes located in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, or South Dakota. Deadline: Tuesday, November 22nd
CrossCurrents Documentary Fund: Interactive/Short Stream
This international production fund fosters storytelling from within historically underrepresented or marginalized communities. Dedicated to short, interactive, or experimental works, the Interactive/Short Stream awards a $10,000 CAD grant and a Hot Docs fellowship to one applicant each year. Deadline: Wednesday, November 30th
Rauschenberg Foundation: 2017 Artist as Activist 2-Year Fellowship
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation invites creative professionals who use their practice to address the intersecting issues of racial justice and mass incarceration to seek up to $100,000 in support over two years. Deadline: Wednesday, December 7th
Call for Artists: Hinge Arts at the Kirkbride: 2017 Artist Residences
Springboard for the Arts' Hinge Arts Residency Program seeks writers, filmmakers, musicians, and visual/performance artists for career development or creative placemaking residences. Residents receive free housing as well as studio space with partner organizations throughout the community. Deadline: Friday, December 16th
12th Annual Mobile Film Festival
The Mobile Film Festival seeks submissions of one-minute short films, shot on mobile phones (sound can be recorded separately). Awards of up to $16,000 are available for winning films. Deadline: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017
Call for Submissions: 2017 National Film Festival for Talented Youth
NFFTY seeks features, shorts, documentaries, music videos, animated films, and experimental films by directors 25 and under (at the time of filming) for its 2017 festival. Regular deadline: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017
Accepting Applications: Digital Arts and New Media MFA at UC Santa Cruz
The two-year DANM program emphasizes artistic and scholarly research that is interdisciplinary and collaborative. Core and elective courses in the theory and practice of digital media arts support the development of individual thesis projects, premiered in an annual MFA exhibition.
Deadline: Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
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From the NAMAC Blog
By Jason Wyman
“What are our desired futures?” Now, more than ever, this question seems critical to our country and our democracy. This election has brought to the light the significant divides in this country across age, geography, economic class, race, gender, and political ideology. This divide is not new. It has always been a part of the this nation. It is just now blatantly in our faces and in our feeds, and we now have a decision about how we want to address this divide.
When I see a gulf this big, my gut reaction is to problem solve—to jump right into the middle of it, roll up my sleeves, and get to work. It’s not a bad instinct per se, but it isn’t always a helpful one.
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Storytelling Matters features original and curated writing and photography about global story culture and innovation in order to facilitate conversation about the ethical and responsible use of creative technologies in community. If you have a story to share, let us know! creative@namac.org
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Media Policy Watch
By Rose Kaplan
The U.S. presidential election has dominated the news cycle the for the past few weeks, and for good reason. As we wrote last month, new President-Elect Donald Trump had few public campaign positions on media policy, net neutrality, or technology. He came out against the proposed AT&T/Time Warner merger; he called for Apple to manufacture its products domestically (which has already had an effect on the company's future plans); he spoke disparagingly of net neutrality, although not in specific terms, erroneously comparing it to the FCC's 20th-century Fairness Doctrine. But what might a Trump presidency really bring to the realms of media policy, technology, and the internet?
As Vice Motherboard's Sam Gustin writes, Trump's victory has already effectively ended the work of the Obama FCC, taking cable "set-top box" reform, potential price caps for communications networks serving hospitals, libraries, and schools, and expanded availability of "video-described" programming for blind and visually impaired people off the table. Gustin also outlines how Trump could destroy net neutrality, naming Republican FCC commissioner and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai as one of Trump's possible picks to succeed Wheeler as chairman.
Rightly or not, many Americans seem to be expecting greater surveillance under the Trump administration: the encrypted chat app Signal has seen a huge and unprecedented spike in downloads since the election, reports the Los Angeles Times' Paresh Dave. Along similar lines, The Intercept's Micah Lee outlines a few surveillance self-defense tips against the future Trump administration.
However, many other stories were buried in the wake of the election coverage, including the convergence of filmmaking, technology, and indigenous land defense at the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. One worrying story, published mid-October, details the heavy charges against documentary filmmaker Deia Schlosberg, who was arrested while covering the protests and now faces three felony charges carrying carrying a maximum sentence 45 years in prison—a longer sentence, for reference, than that of Chelsea Manning, who leaked sensitive military documents to WikiLeaks in 2010.
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Workshops, Festivals, Convenings
Porto/Post/Doc
Saturday, November 26th through Sunday, December 4th
Porto, Portugal
Festival Dei Popoli
Friday, November 25th through Friday, December 2nd
Florence, Italy
Sundance Film Festival
Thursday, January 19th through Sunday, January 29th
Park City, Uah
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THE JOYS OF NAMAC MEMBERSHIP • Networked Web Portal—A robust website that visually showcases the impact stories of member organizations and individual artists serving marginalized and under-resourced communities across the country and around the world • Leadership Roundtables—Quarterly Creative Leadership Roundtables will be developed as a year-round participatory framework for peer-to-peer mentorship relevant to a range of arts and culture staff, from founders to mid-career leaders and next-gen emerging voices • Innovation Studio—A virtual and actual lab space to receive mentorship and support in the development of unique open source media/arts/tech initiatives, with an opportunity to present your ideas to funders and investors • Media Policy Action Hub—This very public action hub will aggregate breaking news, legislation and current campaigns in a live interactive map interface, focusing on issues like net neutrality, surveillance and human rights, censorship and free press • Global Artist Residency Program and Fund—To facilitate the most dynamic collaborations between artists, organizations and communities, NAMAC will partner with trusted cultural exchange programs to design NAMAC co-branded media arts residencies, with a companion fund to support collaborative projects between artists and NGOs • National Conference—Biennial gathering of the media arts and culture community
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