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Archive for category: storytelling
Ain’t No Grave: What VICE Doesn’t Want You To Know About Appalachia
By Kate Fowler
I've been reticent to post about this collection of essays on Central Appalachia recently published on VICE. It includes some important, hard-hitting and necessary stories on stereotyping, healthcare needs for residents of the region, the decline of a mono economy and the rising prescription pill and suboxone epidemic.
The Future of Storytelling: NAMAC Video Roundtables
A Video Roundtable is a group conversation (like a Google Hangout with better production values!) hosted by NAMAC on the zoom.us platform. They can be curated and produced on any relevant topic, any issue, any film, and hosted by any NAMAC member. Send us an email at creative@namac.org and let us know what's next!
May 2016 eBulletin—your latest media arts + culture news
Facilitating collaboration, strategic growth, innovation, and cultural impact for the media arts field
An Incredible Documentary TV Series You May Never Have Watched… If You Live in the DC Area
By Erica Ginsberg
What if I told you there was a documentary strand which has shown nearly 100 amazing social issue documentaries about the forgotten stories of contemporary American society followed by provocative conversations on the issues spotlighted?
Cooking Up Climate Action: A Secret Recipe
By Mary T. An
What happens when you put a climate scientist, a filmmaker, and an environmental activist together in a room for a day and ask them to create something?
March 2016 eBulletin—your latest media arts + culture news
Facilitating collaboration, strategic growth, innovation, and cultural impact for the media arts field
What Authentic Storytelling Means for Us
By Brandon and Lance Kramer
Since we started Meridian Hill Pictures in 2010, we have been privileged to participate as relative newcomers in the long tradition of documentary storytellers who have used the medium of film to share underrepresented perspectives, build empathy for people different from ourselves, and facilitate constructive dialogue about the complexities of the human experience.
Youth Media, Collective Action, Dinner, and The Future
A 'blogversation' by Jason Wyman, Myah Overstreet, and Wendy Levy
Introducing the 50-State Dinner Party Project!
Wendy: When I first started at NAMAC a little over a year ago, I had a long conversation with Board Member Kasandra VerBrugghen, the Executive Director of SpyHop in Utah. I was bowled over by the creative energy, solidarity and conviction around NAMAC’s National Youth Media Network programming and the collective desire for growth and change—especially around the inclusion of youth voices at every phase of the process.
The Power of Cultivating a Hospitable Media Landscape
By Abigail Disney
We Americans live in a culture that is stuffed past capacity with media. Barely a second goes by that some ad, some tweet, some gif, or some viral video is not trying to elbow everything else out for our notice.