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Mwende Says: Get Paid, Not Played

Get A Job | Posted on: Thursday, May 10, 2012

By Mwende Hahesy, BAVC Enrollment Advisor

The beauty of freelancing -- being your own boss, setting your own hours, taking all the credit -- can wither away come invoice time and tax season.

Raise your hand if:
 
• You barely navigate the nightmare of invoicing?
• You

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Hot Docs, Hot Hacks, and a Hot Announcement: Producers Institute 2012 Call for Entries

Producers Institute for New Media Technologies | Posted on: Tuesday, May 01, 2012

by Jen Gilomen, Director of Independent Media

This week at Hot Docs, we'll be discussing "Measuring And Leveraging The Digital Space" with documentary filmmakers and colleagues from industry. There's been a lot of talk about the topic of "impact" recently. As usual, storytellers are out in front of the curve, experimenting with each new tool that comes out -- Sparkwise, Popcorn, Zeega, Fusion

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Stories Have Impact, But How Do We Know?

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Tuesday, May 01, 2012

By Jen Gilomen, Director of Independent Media

Note: This post was originally published on Americans for the Arts' ARTSblog as part of a series from arts leaders called "Animating Democracy."

We’ve all had the experience of sitting in a dark theater and being moved by a compelling documentary story.

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Someone Else's Glasses: Sam Green talks Buckminster Fuller

Media Preservation | Posted on: Wednesday, April 25, 2012

By Moriah Ulinskas, Preservation Program Director

Artist/ filmmaker Sam Green, beloved member of the BAVC community, is well known for his Academy Award nominated documentary THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND and, most recently his live documentary (a genre we’re pretty sure he invented) UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS which premiered last year at Sundance. Recently BAVC’s Preservation Program preserved a video for Sam’s newest

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Kirby Dick Comes to BAVC

General BAVC | Posted on: Tuesday, April 24, 2012

By Kim Bender, BAVC Director of Development

Sunday night BAVC hosted Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick for a reception and interview with Jen Gilomen, BAVC's Director of Independent Media, about his career and new film, The Invisible War. A powerful expose on sexual assault within the US military, the film won the audience award for best

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Catching up with newly-minted Guggenheim fellow John Jota Leanos

Creative Programs and Emerging Tech | Posted on: Monday, April 16, 2012

By Jen Gilomen, Director of Independent Media

Last week, the Guggenheim Foundation named local media artist John Jota Leaños as one of its 2012 Fellows. John is also an Assistant Professor of Social Documentation at U.C. Santa Cruz, a social art practitioner whose work fuses new technologies with traditional mediums and aesthetics, and one of BAVC's

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Spring updates from The Factory

The Factory | Posted on: Monday, April 16, 2012

By Jason Jakaitis, The Factory Manager

Spring is here and there is plenty to celebrate at The Factory aside from the change in weather.

We have six graduating seniors at The Factory. Three youth will be attending NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, one will attend a small acting school in LA, and another is choosing between Bard, Boston U, and a group of UCs. And then there's Ray Archila, who has commuted from San Mateo for two years and

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Mwende Says: Get Certified

Get A Job | Posted on: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

By Mwende Hahesy, BAVC Enrollment Advisor

If you remember the last installment of “Mwende Says,” I introduced you to our new Get a Job webpage.
Of all the options on that list, earning a BAVC Certificate can provide the most forward momentum towards a new career.  Becoming certified at BAVC

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Meet our new member consultants

Membership | Posted on: Wednesday, April 04, 2012

By Matt Sussman, BAVC Marketing & Development Associate

As you may or may not know, one of the perks of the Producers Bundle membership level is the annual half hour consultations members receive where they can get advice for industry professionals on a variety of topics: career advancement, creative direction, and legal and music rights issues.

We recently brought on board George M. Rush and

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Creative Code in BAVC's Next Gen Open Source track

Digital Pathways | Posted on: Tuesday, April 03, 2012

By Gabriel Dunne, Next Gen Open Source Instructor

As part of a broader partnership between BAVC and Mozilla to encourage next-generation integrated learning and career skills, this spring Digital Pathways is teaching an Open Source track to youth ages 14-24.

Tucked away in BAVC's Blue Lab, a group of students are creating projects with Processing, a

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