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From Your Arts Engine Peers: A $10,000 CHALLENGE
Dear Friends of Arts Engine:
During a time of newly found optimism, we are asking you to join us in making an online donation to one of our favorite organizations, Arts Engine—the folks who bring us the Media That Matters Film Festival, MediaRights.org, Big Mouth Films and DocuClub. As your peers in the independent media world, we feel it is important to band together to keep the organizations we love in good working order.
Arts Engine received a $10,000 challenge grant from one of its strongest local supporters, Guy Lancaster and his family at the Still Point Fund. If all of us reading this letter now donate $35 or more, Arts Engine can reach the $10,000 level and meet Guy’s challenge in no time. All fifteen of us made a donation to kick things off. Won’t you join us?
Click here to support the Peer2Peer Campaign.
By making a donation to this Peer2Peer campaign as a community, we are making a statement to all stakeholders of social-issue media and documentary film that we value the work that Arts Engine does.
Join us and make a contribution now. The amount is not as important as 100% participation. Consider contributing $35, $100, $250, $500 or more.
Click here to support the Peer2Peer Campaign.
Click here to look at what Arts Engine is up to in 2009.
Your donation will help to ensure that:
- The ninth collection of Media That Matters streams and screens in more classrooms, community organizations and on more computers across the country and around the world than ever before
- MediaRights.org’s new exciting content, to be launched this summer, reaches a greater numbers with more in-depth coverage (Stay tuned!)
- Big Mouth Films finishes a rough cut of its current feature documentary, Rose & Nangabire
- DocuClub’s monthly screenings continue to positively impact our work and make a rich contribution to the field
Thank you for joining us in this Peer2Peer Campaign for Arts Engine. Your support is important for Arts Engine and for the field of independent social-issue media.
Your peers,
Barbara Abrash, Director of Public Programs, Center for Media, Culture and History & Center for Religion and Media, New York University
Phil Bertelsen, Director, Outside Looking In
Sharese Bullock, Producer, Off and Running; Media/Communications Strategist, The Young People’s Project
Wendy Cohen, Co-founder, Screening Liberally
Laurie Collyer, Director, Sherrybaby
Marshall Curry, Director, Street Fight
Ben Herson, Founder, Nomadic Wax
Susan Kaplan, Founder, DocuClub
Ross Kauffman, Director, Born Into Brothels
Sam Kauffmann, 2009 Guggenheim Fellow
Julia Pimsleur, Founder & President, Little Pim
Kimberly Reed, Director, Prodigal Sons
Lynn True and Nelson Walker, Co-Founders/Directors, The Kham Film Project
Andrew Walton, Director, Arctic Son
Media and Advocacy Special Presentation
Please join us for a special presentation from the filmmakers of the documentary film Rose & Nangabire on:
Rose Mapendo was separated from her daughter, Nangabire, when ethnic violence came to her village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in the United States. Through the eyes of this remarkable pair, Rose & Nangabire explores the effects of conflict on women, and the role of women in bringing peace and reconciliation to war-torn countries.
Screening video footage from Rose & Nangabire, the filmmakers and the film’s cultural consultant will discuss the use of media in activism and advocacy.
Who:
Beth Davenport & Elizabeth Mandel, filmmakers
Marie-Claudine Mukamabano (survivor of genocide in Rwanda), artist, activist and cultural consultant
When: Monday, June 15th, 12:30-1:30pm
Where: Classroom of Dr. Theresa Nona
Lehman College, Room 212, Carman Hall
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468
(by subway, take the 4 to Kingsbridge or the D to Bedford)
Free and open to the public
For more information, call 646-230-6228 x235 or visit www.artsengine.net/rose_and_nangabire
Special thanks to Dr. Theresa Nona and Lehman College.
Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel are 2008 Artists’ Fellowship recipients of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a public program of NYFA.
Arts Engine’s Ninth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival WORLD PREMIERE!
Arts Engine is pleased to announce the world premiere of the
ninth annual Media That Matters Film Festival in New York City!
Media That Matters: MORE THAN A FESTIVAL
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
6:00 - impACT salon
7:00 - Screening
School of Visual Arts (SVA)
Visual Arts Theater
333 West 23rd Street
New York, NY
The theater is accessible by wheelchair.
Join us for the world premiere of the ninth annual Media That Matters Film Festival! Be among the first to see the 12 inspiring short films we selected this year. Arrive early to take part in the impACT salon for Take Action opportunities and a chance to meet the festival filmmakers!
Buy your tickets today before they sell out!
After the official launch on June 3,
we invite you to Screen. Act. Impact.
Media That Matters: MORE THAN A FESTIVAL.
SCREEN the collection of jury-selected films online, at home or in your community.
- Stream all our films and follow news updates on our website mediathatmattersfest.org
- Join one of the hundreds of film screenings worldwide
- Watch the films from our partner sites such as Netflix, Miro, iTunes.
- Purchase the annual festival DVD or create a customized collection based on theme, audience or genre
ACT now to make a change.
- Follow the Take Action Links connected with each film and learn about organizations working closely with each social issue
- Download our free Discussion Guide for tools and resources to use with audiences
- Organize a Do-It-Yourself screening to inspire change in your own community or school and check our website for more screening tools
- Create your own film – documentary, animation, fiction & even music videos and submit your piece to our next Media That Matters Collection
IMPACT your community by incorporating short films with on-the-ground activism.
- Share Media That Matters with your own film festival, conference, workshop or your local broadcast channel
- Become a member of MediaRights.org to read up on and dialogue with other online members committed to the field of social-issue media
- Send us feedback and stories about how Media That Matters was used in your community – this helps us speak greater about the work YOU are doing
- Support the festival either by becoming a partner or a future sponsor
May DocuClub Screening at 92YTribeca
DocuClub’s next rough cut screening is Parting The Waters, by Josh Waletzky and Jenny Levison. Parting the Waters follows African-American Olympic swimmers Maritza Correia and Cullen Jones, and three talented young black and Latino swimmers coming up behind them, in a fish-out-of water story that takes place in the water. The screening date is May 27, 2009. Visit DocuClub.org to find out how you can attend and become a member!
Kim Longinotto and Documentary Filmmaking
DocuClub is proud to co-present this session of the Women Make Movies Master Class filmmaking series featuring Kim Longinotto, purveyor of cinéma vérité and lauded by critics for her sensitive treatment of groundbreaking subject matter. At the event, Longinotto will share clips, documentary techniques, working experiences, as well as craft and process from her 30+ year career as a documentarian. Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director of Women Make Movies, will moderate the event.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
1-4 p.m.
Location: DCTV, 87 Lafayette Street, 3rd Fl Studio
RSVP here: https://www.123signup.com/event?id=zhnzn
$50 for DocuClub members and members of co-sponsoring organizations
$75 for everyone else
Become a DocuClub member at www.artsengine.net/store/#tools_consul!
RSVP soon as seating is very limited!
Gaming Prodigy Film to Screen at DocuClub
DocuClub’s next rough cut, Lil Poison by Beth Earl, tells the story of five-year-old Victor De Leon III, the youngest professional video game player in the world. Screening tomorrow night, April 29, 2009. Read more.
Arts Engine Survey: Last Chance to Win a Flip Camera
Please take our survey, like MediaRights member Stacey Brook did, and help Arts Engine better serve its membership. The 2008-2009 survey will close April 22 and we will announce the Flip camera winner in the next newsletter.
MediaRights.org member Stacey Brook said, “Filling out this survey was actually pretty enlightening. It’s interesting to see the issues that are on my fellow media makers’ minds, distilled and categorized. And thanks for keeping it short and sweet. Also, I will happily fill out any survey in the future in which you award a Flip camera to a random participant. Did I win??!!”
April 22: Media That Matters at Immigrant Heritage Week
Declared an official, annual celebration by Mayor Bloomberg, Immigrant Heritage Week is a unique celebration of the vibrant immigrant cultures, heritage, and communities found in every corner of the city. Media That Matters and Breakthrough have partnered to present this free workshop at the Paley Center, NY.
Join us for a special Immigrant Heritage Week selection of films and discussion on
Wednesday April 22, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Paley Media Center, 25 West 52nd Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
Admission: Free and open to the public
Arts Engine Staffer Angela Tucker NAMAC’s Featured Leader
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) recently highlighted Arts Engine’s own Angela Tucker as a Featured Leader in the media arts field. Check out her interview with NAMAC.
Hear more from Angela by checking out her blog posts on our Arts Engine blog, Engine Feed.
February 25: DocuClub at The Tank
An intimate crowd gathered during February’s DocuClub to watch Our House by filmmakers David Teague and Greg King at The Tank. Moderator Brian Geldin expertly guided the discussion. The documentary depicts the various members living in an alternative housing community in the midst of gentrified Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The filmmakers were keen to hear how the structure of the piece was working, and specifically, how the end of the film played out since an unpredictable event throws the residents into momentary chaos. To learn more about DocuClub, please go to our website.
Arts Engine Survey
MediaRights.org member Stacey Brook says, “Filling out this survey was actually pretty enlightening. It’s interesting to see the issues that are on my fellow media makers’ minds, distilled and categorized. And thanks for keeping it short and sweet. Also, I will happily fill out any survey in the future in which you award a Flip camera to a random participant. Did I win??!!”
December 17: Rose Mapendo Discusses Congo with Actor Ben Affleck at the United Nations
A distinguished panel gathered by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) announced a new campaign to raise awareness and financial support for North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Violence has again erupted in this already troubled region. The panel included Rose Mapendo, the subject of our upcoming film, Rose & Nangabire. To find our more about the film, or to make a donation, please click here.
December 4: Arts Engine Presents an Asexuality: The Making of a Movement Fundraiser in New York, NY
You are invited!
Please join us for a fundraiser for Arts Engine’s next Big Mouth Film, Asexuality: The Making of a Movement. The film will profile four people who are trying to live their lives as asexuals. What’s an asexual, you might ask? An asexual is someone who does not experience sexual attraction. Unlike celibacy, which is a personal choice, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who asexuals are. It is their identity.
Curious? Come learn about the film.
We are currently in production and need funding for some additional shoots in Vancouver and San Francisco. Please support this documentary film. It all comes back to you!
WHEN:
Thursday, December 4
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Flatbush Farm
76 St. Marks Avenue
Corner of Sixth Avenue and Flatbush
Park Slope, Brooklyn
PROGRAM:
Featuring emcee Giulia Rozzi (CNN, Stripped Stories)
Plus, a super-duper raffle and even a bake sale!
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Cocktail Hour and a Half
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Comedy, Raffle and New Scenes Trailer
COST: Tickets are $25
Please RSVP to Jolene Pinder 646-230-6228, x222, jolene@artsengine.net.
For more information on the film, please visit Big Mouth Films. And to find out more about everything we do, check out Arts Engine.
NOW AVAILABLE! Arts Engine’s Ten Year Anniversary Box Set
Arts Engine’s Ten Year Anniversary Collection celebrates the power of film to create positive change. The new DVD box set showcases the highly acclaimed, yet previously hard-to-find, feature-length documentaries and short films of the past decade.
Highlights of the box set include: Deadline, an Emmy-nominated look at capital punishment in the United States; Outside Looking In, which explores the complexities of trans-racial adoption; Election Day, a timely and powerful look at the state of democracy in the U.S. today; and Laurie Collyer’s directorial debut Nuyorican Dream, which chronicles a Puerto Rican family struggling to overcome poverty in Brooklyn. Collyer recently wrote and directed Sherrybaby starring Maggie Gyllenhaal.
While the films have been hits at festivals around the world–from Sundance to Berlin to South by Southwest–and broadcast by outlets such as NBC, HBO, and P.O.V., several of the films in this box set were not available on DVD until now.
The two Media that Matters DVDs included in the box set are: Media That Matters: Good Food, a collection of festival shorts focused on food and sustainability, and the eighth annual Media That Matters Film Festival, featuring 12 shorts from the 2008 festival.
Visit our store or find out more about our Ten Year Anniversary.
Call for entries - Ninth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival
Media That Matters: More than a festival.
Arts Engine’s Media That Matters is the premier showcase for short films with big messages.
Submit your film now for the chance to be one of the final twelve jury-selected films and become part of our outreach and distribution efforts to create social change through film.
Following a New York City Premiere, Awards Ceremony and industry networking events in June 2009, your film will take part in the Media That Matters international, multi-platform campaign with DVD distribution, broadcasts, streaming and hundreds of screenings across the globe!
All finalists will be awarded $1000 to assist in future filmmaking efforts.
Visit the Media That Matters Film Festival submit page for more information.
ELECTION DAY Broadcast Premiere July 1st on P.O.V.!
Arts Engine’s Election Day will have its national broadcast premiere this summer as part of the award-winning PBS series P.O.V. The film will air on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 10 p.m. (check your local listings). To receive an email reminder the week of Election Day‘s broadcast, click here.
Celebrating its 21st season on PBS in 2008, the award-winning P.O.V. series is the longest-running showcase on television to feature the work of America’s best contemporary-issue independent filmmakers. Airing Tuesdays at 10 p.m., June through September, with primetime specials during the year, P.O.V. has brought more than 250 award-winning documentaries to millions nationwide, and now has a Webby Award-winning online series, P.O.V.‘s Borders. Since 1988, P.O.V. has pioneered the art of presentation and outreach using independent nonfiction media to build new communities in conversation about today’s most pressing social issues. The Arts Engine team is proud that Election Day will make its broadcast debut on such a compelling series. More information about P.O.V is available online at www.pbs.org/pov.
Arts Engine’s Eighth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival WORLD PREMIERE!
Arts Engine is pleased to announce the world premiere of the eighth annual Media That Matters Film Festival in New York City!
WORLD PREMIERE - IFC Center
Join us for the world premiere of the eighth annual Media That Matters Film Festival! Be among the first to see the 12 inspiring short films we selected this year. There will be Take Action tables AND a chance to meet the festival filmmakers!
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Location:
IFC Center
323 Sixth Avenue (at West 3rd Street)
New York, NY
Get Directions | Buy Tickets!
Buy your tickets today at movietickets.com!
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SECOND SCREENING - Tribeca Cinemas
We are pleased to announce that due to popular demand, this year we have added a second screening to our growing festival event line-up! Don’t be left without a ticket for the Wednesday, May 28 Premiere at the IFC! Book your tickets for the Friday evening screening at Tribeca Cinemas. There will be Take Action tables AND a chance to meet the festival filmmakers!
Date: Friday, May 30, 2008
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Location:
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street
New York, NY
Get Directions | Buy Tickets!
Buy your tickets today at brownpapertickets.com!
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OFFICIAL FESTIVAL PARTY - Rose Live Music
Join us for the official Media That Matters after-party as festival winner African Underground: Hip Hop In Senegal’s filmmaker and featured artists spin tracks and lay down beats at the Rose Live Music center in historic Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Rose Live Music & Nomadic Wax Productions presents:
The Waaw Band - Live Senegalese Afro Beat
& DJ Ben Herson spinning Global Hip Hop, Afrobeat, Reggae & more
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008
Time: 10 p.m. - 4 a.m.
Location:
Rose Live Music
345 Grand Street (between Havemeyer & Marcy)
Brooklyn, NY
Get Directions
There is no cover charge but you must be 21+ to attend!
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YOUTH PREMIERE - Paley Center for Media, NYC
On June 6 there will be an additional free screening for youth as part of the annual Media: Overseas Conference, an international celebration of youth and film.
This three-day conference will include screenings and panels from a host of international participants, brought together to discuss today’s current media landscape. Panelists from Afghanistan, Australia, China, Egypt, Korea, Kuwait, Spain, Sweden, UK, and the USA will lead the conversations. Attendees will include media industry professionals, educators, students, and the general public.
Date: Friday, June 6, 2008
Time: 6 - 8 p.m.
Location:
The Paley Center for Media
25 West 52nd Street
New York, NY
Get Directions
While this event is free for youth, participants will not be admitted without sending an RSVP to: rsvp@mocnyb.org.
This event will also be a part of Internet Week NY!
For more details visit internetweekny.com!
For all these events, make sure to buy your tickets now, as they sell out fast.
We’ll see you there!
Arts Engine Honored by Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival
Arts Engine is to be honored by the Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival at The Paley Center for Media for our passionate leadership in elevating issues that impact young people. The Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival is New York City’s longest running film festival produced, promoted and presented by youth. A collaboration between youth and educators from New York City youth media organizations, Urban Visionaries is made possible by The Paley Center for Media and Listen Up!.
Arts Engine Celebrates Ten Years of Media for Change with the Paley Center in New York!
The Paley Center is proud to present eight award-winning documentaries from Arts Engine’s Big Mouth Films and highlights from our renowned Media That Matters Film Festival, the premier showcase for short films on the most important topics of the day. This series is in celebration of our ten years of dedication to social issue media. Arts Engine emphasizes empathy and inquiry in filmmaking, bringing audiences to films that tell it like it is, in ways that haven’t been seen before. Find out more about our history at www.artsengine.net/tenyear.
Media That Matters Staff Development Workshop for Educators
Thursday, May 1st, 2008; 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., reception immediately follows
Local and global, online and in communities around the world, Media That Matters engages diverse audiences and inspires them to take action. Media That Matters staff and Paley Center educators will co-present this workshop for teachers using films that focus on human rights issues. The workshop will include screenings, discussion, and classroom extensions. Participating teachers will receive an Educator Pass to the Paley Center and curriculum materials.
To make a reservation email eduny@paleycenter.org or call 212.621.6663.
Arts Engine Film Screenings
All screenings take place at the Paley Center for Media located at 25 West 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019.
Regular admission: $10
Special: third day is free for 3-day attendees
Students: $8
Children (under 14): $5
Friday, May 2nd, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today
(2001, 58 min., dir. Katy Chevigny)
Shot in the People’s Republic of China and the U.S., Journey to the West depicts the wide range of traditional Chinese medical practices in China and shows their influence in the U.S. today. Premiered at: Asia Society and Museum, New York.
Featured Media That Matters films: Spring in Awe, The Luckiest Nut in the World and Recycle
Friday, May 2nd, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Brother Born Again
(2000, 76 min., dir. Julia Pimsleur)
Brother Born Again portrays a Jewish woman’s search for her brother who converted to Christianity and joined a separatist Christian community on a remote island in Alaska. Premiered at: South by Southwest Film Festival.
Featured Media That Matters films: Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary) and POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008, 12:00 p.m.
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
(1999, 67 min., dir. Kirsten Johnson)
Innocent Until Proven Guilty takes a critical look at the U.S. criminal justice system through the eyes of a young black public defender in Washington DC at a time when an astonishing number of African American men are under criminal justice supervision.
Premiered at: Berlin International Film Festival.
Featured Media That Matters films: Vision Test and A Girl Like Me
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
Nuyorican Dream
(2000, 82 min., dir. Laurie Collyer)
Nuyorican Dream chronicles five years of the struggles and aspirations of a New York Puerto Rican family as they contend with the devastating effects of urban poverty.
Premiered at: Sundance Film FestivalFeatured Media That Matters films: I Promise Africa and Slip of the Tongue
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Election Day
(2007, 84 min., dir. Katy Chevigny)
In a triumph of documentary storytelling, Election Day combines eleven stories into one cross-country portrait of American democracy in action. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists and diligent poll watchers, from South Dakota to Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands. The result is an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling story of citizens determined to vote on one fateful day. Premiered at: South by Southwest Film Festival.
Featured Media That Matters film: Battleground Minnesota
Sunday, May 4th, 2008, 12:00 p.m.
Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America
(2001, 56 min., dir. Phil Bertelsen)
Introducing three families with transracially adopted children of three different generations, Outside Looking In explores the effects of white parents adopting African American children, as seen through the eyes of director and transracial adoptee Phil Bertelsen. Premiered at: Hollywood Black Film Festival.
Featured Media That Matters films: A Girl Named Kai and Something Other Than Other
Sunday, May 4th, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
Arctic Son
(2006, 75 min., dir. Andrew Walton)
In the tiny village of Old Crow, 80 miles north of the Arctic Circle, a father and his son are reunited after almost 25 years apart. They share a name and a bloodline, but the worlds they know and the lifestyles they lead are as different as their respective hometown climates. Premiered at: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
Featured Media That Matters films: Garbage Dreams
Sunday, May 4th, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Deadline
(2004, 90 min., directors Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson)
What would you do if you discovered that thirteen people slated for execution had been found innocent? That was exactly the question that Governor George Ryan faced in his final days in office as Illinois’ top politician. Deadline is a compelling look inside America’s prisons, highlighting one man’s unlikely, courageous and historic actions. Premiered at: Sundance Film Festival.
Featured Media That Matters film: Pizza Surveillance Feature
About The Paley Center for Media
The Paley Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. The Paley Center in New York is located at 25 West 52nd Street; New York, NY 10019. For more information visit www.paleycenter.org.
Arts Engine Re-Launches DocuClub!
Join Arts Engine’s re-launching of DocuClub, the works-in-progress documentary screening series!
Our first screening for 2008 is scheduled for Thursday April 3rd, at 7:30 pm, in the screening room of our partner Goldcrest Post (799 Washington Street, between Horatio and Gansevoort).
We will watch Kimberly Reed’s Prodigal Sons, the story of “a brotherly rivalry between a man and a woman…and Orson Welles.” Reed was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film for 2007.
Our moderator will be DocuClub founder Susan Kaplan.
If you’d like to attend, please RSVP to: docuclub@artsengine.net.
The Chicago Tribune spotlights Election Day
Check out the 3 Star review of Election Day in the Chicago Tribune, in which art critic Sid Smith praises Election Day for offering a “glimpse into everyday life during one of our quadrennial watersheds.” Election Day, the latest release from Arts Engine’s Big Mouth Films, premieres in Chicago on Friday, January 25th at 8pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center (buy tickets here). The film will also screen at the Siskel Center on Monday, January 28th at 6pm (buy tickets here). Tune in to Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight for an interview with Director Katy Chevigny on Monday, January 28th at 9am CST (stream here).
Arts Engine Celebrates Ten Years of Media for Change
This year Arts Engine celebrates ten years of producing, promoting and exhibiting media for social change. Visit our Ten Year website to watch a new video that recounts our storied past through eight Big Mouth documentaries, seven Media That Matters Film Festivals and our powerful online machine at MediaRights.org. Also, stay tuned to the Ten Year website for more information on the festivities!
A lot has happened in ten years and a lot more will happen in the next ten. Your support has been and will continue to be a very important part of Arts Engine’s sustainability. Please consider making a contribution to Arts Engine online before the end of the year. If you’ve already made a contribution, thank you for your support.
Arctic Son makes headlines in The New York Times
TV writer Daniel Gold touts Arctic Son as “a chance to see something of the country and the lives that remain at the mercy of others.” Arctic Son, a Big Mouth film, will have its U.S. broadcast premiere on Public Television as part of P.O.V.‘s 20th anniversary season this month. Tune in on August 21st (check local listings) and watch this intimate story of a father and son reunited in a remote Arctic village after a lifetime apart. Arctic Son is proud to reach a national audience on P.O.V., television’s longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films.
MediaRights.org launches Upstream: New Column on Public Media and Social Action
Upstream is a new online column launched by MediaRights.org. This monthly column focuses on the impact of online public media on social issues. Read the first article by Katy Chevigny here.
Media That Matters 7 Film Festival Goes Online!
This year’s seventh annual Media That Matters Film Festival showcased 16 brand new short documentaries covering a wide range of social issues. Watched the newest collection of social issue documentaries here.
Arts Engine Launches Staff Blog on MediaRights.org
Arts Engine is excited to announce the launch of Engine Feed, our staff blog. Read about our favorite films, our insights on the global politics and more.
Arts Engine’s Election Day premiere at South by Southwest Film Festival
SXSW announced its lineup of feature films for the 2007 festival!
Arts Engine is proud to be at SXSW for the second time, with its newest film, Election Day as a Spotlight Premiere.
After the success of Brother Born Again, which screened at SXSW, Director Katy Chevigny and the Big Mouth Films crew are excited to return to the festival
SXSW will launch the Election Day tour of the festival circuit, and serve as a kickoff for the national outreach and education campaign. The film will be broadcast on PBS in 2007/2008.
Get Screening Times and find out more about SXSW.
Arctic Son is proud to be featured on Public Television as part of P.O.V.‘s 20th anniversary season
Arctic Son is proud to be featured on Public Television as part of P.O.V.‘s 20th anniversary season. P.O.V. is television’s longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. P.O.V. premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, P.O.V. has presented over 225 films to public television audiences across the country. P.O.V. films are known for their intimacy, their unforgettable storytelling and their timeliness, putting a human face on contemporary social issues.
Arts Engine and Adobe Partner on Adobe Youth Voices
Arts Engine is proud to announce Adobe Youth Voices, a new global initiative empowering youth to create with purpose. Read more…
Arctic Son awarded at Neuse Riverkeeper Film Festival
Arctic Son was recently awarded Best Feature Length Film at North Carolina’s Third Annual Neuse Riverkeeper Film Festival. The festival was established to celebrate 25 years of the Neuse River Foundation’s environmental victories.
Happy New Year and Happy Holidays from Arts Engine!
Can you tell how great a year it’s been? From the premiere of Arctic Son to the launch of Media That Matters: Good Food, to exciting kick-off events for Adobe Youth Voices, we’ve been making waves from Baltimore to Bangalore and we’re just getting started. We’re filled with holiday cheer and we hope that you are too - Happy New Year and Happy Holidays from Arts Engine! Read more ...
Canada’s Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN)
Arctic Son has been picked up for broadcast by Canada’s Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN), the first and only national Aboriginal broadcaster in the world, with programming by, for and about Aboriginal Peoples.
Arctic Son to screen at the American Indian Graduate Center’s “Walking in Two Worlds” Conference
Every year the American Indian Graduate Center brings together hundreds of students, professors and community leaders to discuss projects and achievements in Native American higher education. This year the conference focuses on the challenges facing Native Americans as they balance their lives between the reservation and popular Western culture. Subjects run the gamut from “How to Succeed in Graduate School?”, to “Perception of American Indians in Film”, to “What Does it Mean to Be Indian in Today’s Society?”. Former United States Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell is among many noted speakers at the event.
Arctic Son has the honor of being part of an evening celebration on Friday, September 22nd, where participants will have the opportunity to watch the film and discuss the issues that it presents with the filmmakers.
“Walking in Two Worlds”
American Indian Graduate Center
Albuquerque, NM
7pm, Friday, September 22, 2006
For more information and registration: http://www.aigc.com
Now Playing: The Sixth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival
MTM6 launched on June 1 in New York City and around the country. Check out photos from the Awards Ceremony at the HBO Screening Room. Watch the films online, take action, go to a screening or sign up to organize your own event all year long at www.mediathatmattersfest.org.
May 31 - June 1, 2006: Join Us for the Launch of Sixth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival in NY
Arts Engine presents a brand new collection of inspiring shorts by independent filmmakers. Join us in NYC for the World Premiere at IFC Center on May 31st—get tickets now—and watch the films online starting June 1st at www.mediathatmattersfest.org.
Arctic Son’s West Coast and European Premiere
Arts Engine is proud to announce that Arctic Son, directed by Andrew Walton, will have its West Coast premiere at the prestigious Seattle Film Festival on June 7th. The film’s European premiere will be at Filmfest Munich, held July 15-22.