By Wendy Levy
On Monday, January 30, award-winning poet Kaveh Akbar posted poems on his Twitter account by poets from nations banned by the immigration block. Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen—incredible words of vision, hope, truth.
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Corporation For Public Broadcasting: Reported Trump Privatization Plan Would Be “Devastating” To Public Media
By Matt Gertz
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is pushing back on reported efforts by the Trump administration to privatize it, saying the proposal would have a “devastating effect” and that “the entire public media service would be severely debilitated.”
IndieWire: Stories of Trump’s America: How Documentary Filmmakers Plan to Escape the Liberal Bubble
By Anthony Kaufman
On November 12 of this year, Impact Partners executive director and documentary producer Dan Cogan wrote a powerful call to action on Facebook. “The last 4 days have been a horror. The next 4 years will be worse,” he wrote. “And yet my pulse is quickening, because there is so much to be done, and we, the documentary film community, are in pole position to make a huge difference.”
NAMAC Becomes The ALLIANCE
Plus—Joining The ALLIANCE Is Now Sliding Scale DECEMBER 5, 2016 ABOUT OUR NAME CHANGE We are excited to announce that beginning on January 1, 2017...
🎙 Your media arts & culture news 📷 NAMAC eBulletin 📹 November 2016
scroll down to subscribe to the eBulletin From the Executive Director Art in A Time of Crisis “Film is a critical piece of our journey...
‘What are our desired futures?’
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.
Let Us Cover the World in Gold
By Myah Overstreet
When I first began working on this project, to curate an inspiring collection of media created by youth in 2016, I didn’t know where to start—I didn’t know who to contact, what artists to recruit, or what kind of media I was really going for. The only thought that truly gave me inspiration was the thought, the vision, of living in a world transformed by art that young minds created, and how much I yearned to create this world.
NAMAC Joins the Conversation at ArtChangeUS REMAP: Detroit
NAMAC Executive Director Wendy Levy participated in REMAP: Detroit and was inspired by the conviction of the communities in the rooms, the fearless examination of the challenges, and the celebration of the arts, in the broadest view, as an engine for transformation.
🎙 Your media arts & culture news 📷 NAMAC eBulletin 📹 October 2016
scroll down to subscribe to the eBulletin From the Executive Director Returning the Spirit and Building the Creative Workforce Development Movement At ReMAP Detroit last week,...
🎙 Your media arts & culture news 📷 NAMAC eBulletin 📹 September 2016
scroll down to subscribe to the eBulletin From the Executive Director Hey everyone, happy September. It’s been a memorable summer in so many ways—and even...
After 25 Years of Grant Making, I Worry We Have Lost Sight of Nonprofit Struggles
By Elspeth Revere
Too often in America discussions about philanthropy disproportionately focus on donors and foundations rather than on the organizations that receive the money.
#DocsSoWhite: A Personal Reflection
By Renee Tajima-Peña
I once considered documentary to be a fallback for filmmakers of color who were shut out of the fiction universe. I was wrong. As it turns out, we may be more under-represented in nonfiction filmmaking. Sundance estimates the proportion of documentary directors of color screening at the festival to be around 15 percent. The Directors Guild of America estimates 82 percent of its narrative members are white males; it doesn't even bother to calculate documentarians.