BAVC In the News

• 2011 MediaMaker Fellow Chihiro Wimbush's film Redemption receives $44K grant from Cal Humanities' California Documentary Project program from calhum.org (May 14, 2012)
"Cal Humanities announced the awardees of its current round of funding for its California Documentary Project program, which encourages film and radio documentarians to explore issues and stories of critical importance to California […] Redemption is an 80-minute film that explores the complex dynamics of race, class, and systemic poverty as it tells the story of four recyclers who struggle to survive in a neighborhood already decimated by unemployment, addiction, and violence."

• Digital Pathways named 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards Finalist from nahyp.org (May 7, 2012)
"The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and its cultural partners- the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services are proud to recognize 50 exceptional programs across the country for their work in presenting rich arts and humanities learning opportunities to young people."

• Diverse array of NEA grants includes Mozilla, BAVC, multiplatform 'Complete Ulysses' from Current.org (April 30, 2012)
"[This month's NEA Grantees include] several high-profile first-time recipients with strong digital components. [...] The Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco also received $100,000, to support the Factory Hybrid Filmmaking Project, a pilot for young filmmakers producing digital and web-native short films."

• Factory filmmaker featured in Youth Film Festival from SFGate.com (April 26, 2012)
"At the other end of the age range, filmmaker Raymundo Archila of San Mateo is a high school senior who attends a film program called the Factory twice a week in Oakland and will attend film school at the University of Southern California in the fall. His film, 'The Portrait,' is about a teenager who deals with abuse from his alcoholic father."

• MediaMaker John Jota Leaños is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Film and Video from www.gf.org (April 12, 2012)
"John Jota Leaños is a media artist and social-art practitioner focusing on critical convergences of history, memory, social space, and decolonization. Leaños’ animation, installation, public art, and performance fuse traditional art practices and aesthetics with new technologies and contemporary interpretations."

• Mozilla Announces Living Docs Project to Encourage Collaborative, Interactive Web Films from WebProNews.com (Mar. 13, 2012)
"The city has been given $5 million by the U.S. Department of Labor for a workforce-training program aimed specifically at the IT sector. [...] Responding to concerns among employers about the increasing demand for high-tech workers, the city recently started working with private companies and nonprofit organizations on designing job-training programs, including those aimed at minority and underserved communities."

• BAVC included in a $5 million Dept. of Labor grant to City of San Francisco to fund tech training from SFGate.com (Mar. 8, 2012)
"The city has been given $5 million by the U.S. Department of Labor for a workforce-training program aimed specifically at the IT sector. [...] Responding to concerns among employers about the increasing demand for high-tech workers, the city recently started working with private companies and nonprofit organizations on designing job-training programs, including those aimed at minority and underserved communities."

• BAVC at Digital Media Learning Conference from Community Media in Transition (Mar. 3, 2012)
"I am particularly interested in BAVC’s role in this partnership, as someone who has worked in community media. Public libraries and other community-based organizations thinking about implementing digital media and learning can learn a great deal from the traditional and emerging media practices that have evolved within public, educational, and governmental access TV centers over the past thirty years."

• BUMP Records on Mark Bradford from San Francisco Bay Guardian (Feb. 15, 2012)
"Jam the playlist on the website for the Bay Area Video Coalition's BUMP Records youth-run label and you'll get a sampling of catchy R&B and hip-hop songs, polished sound from young people who produce and perform their own work, learning about the importance of having a voice in society along the way. But they're not just radio-ready, these kids. At this SF MOMA event of creative souls established and on-the-rise, BUMP artists will reinterpret hair stylist cum artist Mark Bradford's character exploration of a Teddy Pendergrass-Pinnochio character, Pinnochio is on Fire."

• Interview with Marc Vogl, BAVC Executive Director from TAYSF- Transitional Age Youth (Feb. 13, 2012)
"BAVC believes that the more equipped youth are to use new media, the more they are equipped for the 21^st century. We are trying to get students not just to understand new media skills, but also to apply their media knowledge to solve problems, tell their stories and the stories of their communities."

• Profile of Factory student Lauren Lindberg from Diablo Magazine (Feb. 10, 2012)
"Her passion for filmmaking began while she was a student at Monte Vista High School. She joined the Bay Area Youth Coalition and became involved in a program called The Factory, which trains filmmakers to create professional quality short films, music videos, and public service announcements. The Factory sparked Lindberg’s interest in documentary filmmaking and she soon co-directed, filmed, and edited an award-winning documentary called Independence in Sight."

• BAVC Producers Institute Project SOS Slaves Working to Change Human Trafficking  from the Malibu Times (Jan. 4, 2012)
"Given the sensitive subject of the game, Alvarez-Stehle relied on grants to develop this computer game. Game developers Codewalla committed to produce a prototype on a pro bono basis. Alvarez-Stehle hopes to raise enough money to bring the prototype to life in time to showcase it at the upcoming festivals in New York and Delhi, India.“The beauty of a trans-media [documentary and game] project is that we can get this critical message to the youth,” Alvarez-Stehle said."

• Exciting Partnership with the Bay Area Video Coalition  from NTEN (Dec. 20, 2011)
"BAVC provides training and access to emerging media technology for public media producers, independent artists, at-risk youth, and other nonprofit organizations. For more than 35 years, BAVC has supported the artists and activists who tell stories that change the world."

• Public Excess on S.F. Public Access Channel 29 from the SF Weekly (Dec. 14, 2011)
"The Bay Area Video Coalition does public access now, and you can even watch it online."

• Merce Cunningham at BAVC from the New York Times (Dec. 5, 2011)
"I went to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to see if it would support the project, and to the Bay Area Video Coalition to discuss how to get cameras into the studio space without invading the company’s privacy."

• Two Producers Institute Projects (Love Free or Die and Valley of Saints) Accepted Into Sundance
from the New York Times (Nov. 30, 2011)

• Arts Incubators (BAVC's Producers Institute Program) Create Roadmap for Resistance from Americans for the Arts (Nov. 30, 2011)
"In 2007, Bay Area Video Coalition’s (BAVC) Producers Institute for New Media, began in San Francisco. The institute was developed because BAVC recognized that traditional cinema didn’t inspire people to take action."

• BAVC Creates Digital Learning Center for Teens at SFPL from the San Francisco Chronicle (Nov. 24, 2011)
"The library will design the center in partnership with the Bay Area Video Coalition, the California Academy of Sciences and KQED. The goal is to teach youth to understand and use technology and media production tools, and to produce creative projects."

• Digital Pathways Offers Opportunities from TAYSF- Transitional Age Youth  (Nov. 14, 2011)
"The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)‘s Digital Pathways program offers training and pre-professional opportunities for young people (ages 14-24) who want to learn skills to advance their potential for careers in technology and the media arts."

• Molding the Modern City from Dwell Magazine (Aug. 24, 2011)
"When it comes time to break free from basic HTML coding skills and transition towards the hip, multimedia style of HTML5, pleasant surprises are not usually found hidden within in the code. But courses at BAVC, San Francisco’s Bay Area Video Coalition, can lead to some thrilling discoveries—especially if the course is taught by SF-based photographer and installation artist, Liz Hickok."

• Factory Youth Finalist in Seventeen Magazine's "Pretty Amazing" Contest from MTV News (Aug. 12, 2011)

• BAVC Partners with Mozilla to Create Web-Native Documentaries from ZeroDivide (Mar. 17, 2011)

• BAVC Wins $1M MacArthur Award Grant from the San Francisco Chronicle (Jan. 24, 2011)