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The 4th annual Media That Matters Film Festival,
organized by MediaRights.org selected 16 high-impact film and
video shorts, digital stories and new media for streaming online
with links to "Take Action" links. Works are also touring
the country through community screenings, and a DVD of the Festival
will be available for educators and activists in August. Although
no Native productions were included this year, producers of short
films should consider applying at the next call for entries in
November. This festival's commitment to diversity, youth involvement,
and community is excellent, and MediaRights.org's use of the Internet
to bring independent media about issues to more people is inspiring.
For more information go to www.mediarights.org.
6/21/04
P.O.V. has launched Borders, an on-going Web-only showcase
for interactive storytelling. With themes, the series "asks
about the borders in our lives, both literal and metaphysical,"
and a new installment is launched annually. The first premiered
October 2002 and dealt with the theme of "Migration."
The second, focusing on "Environment," premiered February
2004. "Everyday we make choices about what we eat, drink
and breathe. What do you choose?"
To access the series go to www.pbs.org/pov/borders.
2/20/04
The 2003 NFCB Silver Reel winner for Special Entertainment Program
A Celebration of Southwest Storytellers, produced
by Cedar Creek Studios with KUNM-FM, features writers from three
distinct cultural backgrounds--N. Scott Momaday, Tony Hillerman,
and Rudolfo Anayo. The program was broadcast on many public radio
stations in Fall 2002, and is still available for free public
radio broadcast. The program can be purchased from KUNM by ordering
at operations@kunm.org
. This program and a second installment, featuring poet Simon
Ortiz and novelists Denise Chavez and Michael McGarrity, can be
heard on-line at the producers' website at www.paulingles.com/storyteller.htm.
1/31/04
KUNM-FM and Joe Gardner Wesseley's NFCB Silver Reel winning program,
TheTalking Couch Mocks Hollywood Stereotypes can
be heard on the Free Speech Radio News website at http://archive.webactive.com/freespeech/fsrn20020419.html.
Film director Chris Eyre and comedian Drew LaCapa recently joined
forces to lampoon one hundred years of Hollywood Indians in a
new live performance, The Talking Couch. Taped at the 2002
Taos Talking Picture Film Festival. This performance was also
presented in August 2002 at Santa Fe's Native
Cinema Showcase.
1/30/04
Fall Application deadlines: July 15, 2004
Fall Program dates: Between September 20 - December 17, 2004
Audio Engineering Work Study Program
Banff Centre for the Arts
Banff, Alberta, Canada
The Banff Centre Audio Program offers the unique opportunity to
audio engineers to expand their knowledge in an international
and multidisciplinary environment. They can be involved in various
activities, including the production of compact disc recordings,
concert and studio recordings, individual research and experimentation,
post-production for film, video and television, and co-productions
with other Banff Centre departments including Aboriginal Arts,
Media & Visual Arts, Banff New Media Institute, Theatre Arts,
Writing and Publishing, and Mountain Culture.
Opportunities are available for audio engineers, both established
(associateships) and emerging (assistantships), who wish to further
their practical experience. The Audio program has attracted high-profile
faculty and artists for many years and the audio facilities are
state-of-the-art. All concert recordings, audio post-production,
digital editing, and mastering are completed on-site to professional
standards.
For information and applications call 1-800-565-9989 or email
to arts_info@banffcentre.ca
or view www.banffcentre.ca/programs
for application.
1/31/04
For information about international radio producer
opportunities contact AMARC's coordinator of Aboriginal
Peoples Radio, Jim Remedio, at mundayawn@bigpond.com.
For productions on women's issues see www.amarc.org/enredadas
(Spanish)
10/11/02
The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) announced
its 2003 radio and Internet award winners at their 19th annual
convention in Green Bay, WI, June 18 - 21. For General Excellence
in Radio News, Native America Calling took 1st Place and
National Native News took 2nd Place; both are produced
by Koahnic Broadcast Corporation. Individual Native radio producer
Elaine Bomberry of Aboriginal Music Experience took 1st
Place for Documentary. Carol Morin of CBC took 1st Place
for Best Feature Story. Brian Bull of South Dakota Public
Radio was recognized for General Excellence in Radio News (Honorable
Mention). He also took 1st and 2nd Place for Best News Story,
2nd Place for Best Documentary, 2nd Place and Honorable Mention
for Best Feature Story. First Place for General Excellence in
Internet News Sites was awarded to Reznet and 2nd place
to The Seminole Tribune.
For more NAJA information go to www.naja.org.
5/21/04
The National Federation of Community Broadcasters announced
its 2003 winners on March 21 at their conference in San Francisco.
The Silver Reel for Local News and Commentaries was awarded to
Joe Gardner Wessely, KUNM, for "The Talking Couch Mocks Hollywood
Stereotypes of Native Americans". The Silver Reel for National
Music Programming went to Gregg McVicar, Koahnic Broadcasting
Corporation, for "Earthsongs: I Ku Maumau." The next
Community Radio conference will be in April 2004 in Albuquerque.
For further NFCB information and to submit programs for awards
consideration go to www.nfcb.org
1/31/04
Native American Art on Radio
On Studio 360 radio host Kurt Andersen talks in-studio
with writer Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene) about
being a Native artist. Various produced pieces concerned with
Native arts include a piece on the opening of the National Museum
of the American Indian, and a focus on Native photographers.
Studio 360, a national radio show about arts and culture,
hosted by novelist and journalist Kurt Anderson and produced by
Public Radio International and WNYC. Segment producers included
Peggy Berryhill. Stations that broadcast Studio 360 are
listed at www.wnyc.org/studio360/listings.html.
This current show as well as all past shows may be heard at www.studio360.org.
8/12/04
Aboriginal Voices Radio
A lively new presence at Native film festivals, Canada's Aboriginal
Voices Radio, headquartered in Toronto, reports over the Internet,
streaming images and interviews. Program manager Patrice Mousseau
and Technical director Chris Spence have provided recent coverage
of the 2003 ImagineNative Film and Video Festival in Toronto in
November, 2003 Native American Film and Video Festival in New
York in December and 2004 Native Forum of Sundance Film Festival
in Utah in January.
Go to www.aboriginalradio.com
for latest events.
1/31/04
American Indian High School Students
Program dates: March 25 - 29, 2004
URGENT - APPLY NOW
On March 25-29, 2004 American Indian Students get a chance to
work in a one-on-one mentorship with a National Public Radio professional
producer. In a five-day intensive training boot camp being helld
in Culver City, CA at the new NPR West Coast facilities, six students
will learn how to produce their own story for radio. The project
is looking for serious high school students with computer experience.
Application information can be obtained from Roscoe at (213) 387-5772
and winners will be notifed by March 1.
This pilot high school training program is the result of a partnership
between InterTribal Entertainment (a job-training program of Southern
California Indian Center, Inc.) and Next Generation Radio (NPR)
from Washington D.C. www.npr.org/about/nextgen/index.html.
1/31/04
For Voices from Indian Country six producers
received digital media funding awards from NAPT/Native American
Public Telecommunications in early 2002 for the production of
a series of two-minute Native stories. These were broadcast on
local public television stations starting in November.
To view the films on the Internet go to www.nativetelecom.org/news
5/25/03
Independent Television Service (ITVS) has launched Circle
of Stories, a new original Website at PBS.org produced by
Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson (directors of Homeland
**). The new site explores the art, culture and legacy of the
Native American oral tradition.
Native storytellers Rosella Archdale (Dakota/Hunkpapa Lakota),
Hoskie Benally (Dine), Corbin Harney (Western Shoshone), and Tchin
(Narragansett) are the guides. Visitors to the site listen to
their stories and learn about their tribal histories and geographic
areas in the Many Voices-Storytelling Gallery, We Are Here-Culture
Gallery, and Share Your Story.
To view the site go to www.pbs.org/circleofstories
10/25/02
Aboriginal Voices Radio (AVR) continues its active and
successful campaign to establish urban radio stations and a Native
radio network in Canada. In Spring 2002 a community meeting was
held at the Vancouver Friendship Center to garner more support
for the opening of the station licensed for that city. AVR has
a license approved but not the frequency they had requested. Two
of Canada's biggest radio organizations are posing serious opposition
and if they win, the listening area for the station will be much
smaller. A meeting for community leaders to organize response
was held in August at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Center.
Word from CRTC on the frequency assigned is expected in November.
10/11/02
Producer Peggy Berryhill (Muscogee Creek), director of
the Native Media Resource Center, is serving as the coordinator
of new initiatives in the field of Native radio, stemming from
a meeting of Native producers at the 2001 Intertribal Native Radio
Summit, organized by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters,
NMRC and KWSO-FM (Mary Sando Emhoolah, station manager). A follow-up
to the Summit was held at the 2002 NFCB conference in Virginia.
For more information go to the on-line newsletter The
Vision Maker, Spring-Summer 2001, Berryhill's article
"Living on Indian Time" at www.1stPerson.org
and www.nativetelecom.org/news/nlv6i1/summit.html
Related content on this site: Peggy
Berryhill
10/11/02
Live coverage of the 2002 Alaska Federation of Natives
convention, October 24 - October 26, 2002 is being produced by
KNBA 90.3 FM. The gavel-to-gavel coverage will be broadcast in
Anchorage and by rural Alaska radio stations, and can be heard
at www.KNBA.org.
The event is cohosted by KNBA News Director Dixie Hutchinson (Tlingit/Aleut/Lakota)
and veteran journalist Joaqlin Estus (Tlingit) with commentary
and background information designed to help the listeners follow
all the events. News, stories and updates in English and Inupiaq
will be included in the gavel-to-gavel coverage. KNBA-FM, a division
of Koahnic Broadcasting Corporation, is the country's only urban,
Native-controlled radio station.
Related content on this site: Koahnic
Broadcasting Corporation
10/11/02
TribeTech Tribal Technology Training Program.
The Cerrito College Foundation in August received $50,000 from
the Verizon Foundation in support of an on-line training inititative
for tribal communities. TribeTech will offer practical training
courses to help California tribal leaders make decisions about
utilizing technology in their communities. Civic Resource Group
is assisting the college as the initiative's primary technological
partner.
For more information contact TribeTech founder and coordinator
Bryan Reece at 909-815-9447 or bryanr@civicresource.com
or visit www.cerritos.edu/pr.
10/11/02
Audio Engineering Work Study Program.
Banff Centre for the Arts is accepting applications for its Audio
Associates and Audio Assistants programs to train with noted audio
engineering professionals and to work on both audio recordings
and tech nical experimentation with various departments including
Aboriginal Arts, Media and Visual Arts and Theatre Arts.
Winter Program Dates: January 6 - March 21, 2003.
Application deadline: November 1, 2002.
For information and applications call 1-800-565-9989 or email
to arts_info@banffcentre.ca
or view
www.banffcentre.ca/programs for application.
9/16/02
Wisdom of the Elders-Call for Producers.
Producer William Ward of Oregon Public Broadcasting is seeking
Native American producers who have or would make recordings with
elders and keepers of oral tradition to become part of a one-hour
radio series to be aired nationally in 2003. Average segments
will be approximately 8 min., but they are also looking for short
pieces a minute or less. Collaborating in the project are MediaRites
Productions, Native American Public Telecommunications, Native
Media Resource Center, and American Indian Radio on Satellite,
with funding in part from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
For more information about the project email Bill_Ward@opb.org.
9/16/02
Among the winners of the 2002 National Federation of Community
Broadcasters awards for non-profit radio was producer Gregg McVicar
for "Earthsongs - Hendrix Experience," broadcast by Koahnic Broadcasting
Corporation.
8/31/02
The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) announced
its 2002 radio award winners at their 18th annual convention in
San Diego, June 19-22. Individual Native producers Brian Bull
of South Dakota Public Radio won Best News Story, Best Sports
Story and Best Documentary, and Keevin Lewis of NMAI won Best
Feature. Native America Calling took First Place for General Excellence
in Radio News. Individual non-Native producers Sharon Dempsey
of National Native News won Best News Story and David Sommerstein,
North Country Public Radio, won Best Feature. Other awards went
to Bernadette Chato, Sage Yardley and Neva Reece of National Native
News, D'Anne Hamilton of Native Voice Communications and Daniel
Kraker of KNAV Arizona Public Radio. Winner of the 2002 Wassaja
Award that salutes courage shown by journalists covering Indian
Country is Paul DeMain, Editor of News from Indian Country, for
reporting on imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier and the murder
of Annie Mae Aquash.
8/31/02
NMAI's Living Voices/Voces Vivas radio series have
won the Best Radio award at November's ImageNATIVE Media Festival
in Toronto. The series, which consist of short personal profiles
of 40 Native people from Canada, Mexico, Peru, and the U.S. including
Native Hawai'i, began to air on U.S. public and tribal radio stations
in November 2001.
12/10/01
Radio producer Anelio Merry Lopez (Kuna) has received
a 2001 NMAI professional fellowship to conduct research in the
Kuna collections. Anelio participated in NMAI's Technology meetings
on Native Internet held in June 2001 at Minneapolis' MIGIZI media
center and hosted at the Prairie Island Indian Community (Mdewakanton
Sioux).
12/10/01
The Aboriginal Arts Program of Banff Centre for the Arts
has organized new initiatives to help develop Native internet
radio. In April it hosted a comprehensive workshop, "Aboriginal
Streams: Aboriginal Radio on the Internet." The Program has developed
Sleeping Buffalo Internet Radio as a working model using
audio streaming technologies via the Internet and incorporating
an automatic net scheduler allowing for controlled programming
using existing Native American programs. The hope is to use internet
radio to connect First Nations communities and promote cultural
strengths-the organizers saw the Association of Indigenous Radio
organized to connect twelve Aboriginal stations in Ontario as
its inspiration.
10/24/01
The 2001 Native American Journalists Association (NAJA)
gave the Wassaja Award to Nellie Moore and D'Anne Hamilton.
Awards for radio production were given to Brian Bull, Bernadette
Chato, Paul DeMain, Nellie Moore, Eulynda Toledo-Benalli, and
Lori Townsend. Non-Native award-winners are Tricia King, Rhonda
McBride and Jay Rosenstein. Wishelle Banks, the newly-appointed
writer/producer for Native America Calling, was awarded
NAJA's 2001 first place for feature writing for her series in
ICE/Indian Cinema Entertainment.
For more information go to www.naja.com
and www.naja.com/achieveAwards.html
10/25/01
The 2000 awards of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters
for non-profit radio included six programs on Native Americans
subjects. Awards were given to producers Jim DeNomie, David Dye,
Barbara Jersey, Gregg McVicar, Susan Newstead, Bruce Warren, Eric
Whitney, and Chris Williams.
For more information go to www.nfcb.org
10/25/01
** indicates that a short description of the
film can be found in the PDFs of titles screened at the 1995,
1997 and 2000 Native American Film and Video Festivals. To open
the PDF sorted by title, enter
here.
Image credit:
Carlos Efraín Pérez being interviewed by Marcelino
Pinto, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - Photograph
by Amalia Cordova, NMAI
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