Early training in Baltimore put this video editor on the path to working with Keke Palmer and BET Since the age of 10, Ben Loviglio-Wolf...
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🎙️Your media arts & culture news 📷 ALLIANCE eBulletin April 2024
Last month, in this column, I wrote about service, and today, I’m thinking about connections. I feel connected to the student protests across this country,...
An Interview with Paco De Onís Executive Director and Executive Producer at SKYLIGHT
This interview explores personal experiences, intentions, and thought processes behind film production at Skylight and the impact of these films on audiences.
Training A New Generation of Storytellers: Wide Angle Youth Media’s Video Production Process
It’s an October day in Baltimore. We’re in the studio of tattoo artist Gina Takaoka, who perches on a stool in her dimly lit front parlor. Three cameras on tripods ring her, surrounded by the film crew, made up of film production apprentices in their twenties and the group of professionals who mentor them.
Your media arts & culture news ALLIANCE eBulletin March 2024
From the Executive Director “It is not enough to teach our young people to be successful…so they can realize their ambitions, so they can earn...
🎙️Your media arts & culture news 📷 ALLIANCE eBulletin February 2024
From the Executive Director Black History Month + The Impulse of Creativity Every now and then I am lucky enough to meet an artist whose...
The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture announces 2024 Power of Storytelling Grantees
The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture announces ten grants to emerging filmmakers from across the US through the Power of Storytelling grant program.
🎙️Your media arts & culture news 📷 ALLIANCE eBulletin Winter 2023
It’s been an intense start to 2024, on so many levels. Out of the gate, there is an urgency to our creative media and culture...
Will this Year’s Sundance Save Documentary Distribution?
by Anthony Kaufman | republished from Anthony Kaufman’s Substack Another Sundance; another moment of hope. As many of us head to the snowy, sub-freezing temperatures...
Major Studios’ Pledges to Hire More Female Filmmakers and People of Color Were ‘Performative,’ Study Finds
by Brent Lang | reposted from Variety Despite the box office success of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Elizabeth Banks’ “Cocaine Bear,” female directors are not...
🎙️Your media arts & culture news 📷 ALLIANCE eBulletin Winter 2023
In these cold winter months when I’m at my desk wrapping my brain around what we do and why we do it, I know I’m...
UNLOCKING CREATIVITY MEDIA, JUSTICE AND THE FUTURE OF APPRENTICESHIP
Unlocking Creativity is an Alliance Community of Practice supporting collaborations between arts and culture organizations and media artists from across the country working with currently and formerly incarcerated individuals and justice-impacted youth. Come hear from some of the founding members of this community, see and hear the extraordinary work being done, and participate in a conversation about the challenges we face, the gaps that need closing, and what the future holds if Apprenticeship is to truly serve returning citizens.