This is a big week for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in Congress!
News & Updates
June 2016 eBulletin—your latest media arts + culture news
Facilitating collaboration, strategic growth, innovation, and cultural impact for the media arts field
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 Open Letter to New Zealand Immigration Minister Hon Michael Woodhouse
By Simon Kilmurry
On behalf of the International Documentary Association, I am writing to express our deep alarm and concern at the recent rejection of a visa application for documentary filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami by Immigration New Zealand.
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?
April 2016 eBulletin—your latest media arts + culture news
Facilitating collaboration, strategic growth, innovation, and cultural impact for the media arts field
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.