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Community Members-in-Action: November 2009

Community Members-in-Action highlights who’s doing what in our MediaRights.org community. Let your more than 21,000 fellow community members know what you are up to. Please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) your achievements for consideration in next month’s newsletter.

Rachel Gordon founder of Energized Films, a company designed to enable independent non-fiction films to reach larger audiences, has recently represented the work of 30 filmmakers, and 2 companies that market independent content, at the National Media Market (NMM) and shortly thereafter participated in a panel discussion that she helped to program on the various ways that video is being delivered to educational classrooms at the Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC).

Jim Granato‘s film D tour, which won this year’s Golden Gate Award for Bay Area Documentary Feature from the San Francisco International Film Festival, also picked up awards for Best Documentary from the San Joaquin Film Festival in May, Best Music Documentary from the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival in June and the Best Documentary Jury Prize from the Bend Film Festival in October. On November 10, D tour had made its national broadcast premiere on the PBS Emmy award-winning program, Independent Lens. D tour is still being scheduled on various PBS stations and is available for online and DVD purchase.

Jenn Shaw’s project, My Fellow Organizers was highlighted in the Winter 2009 issue of Filmmaker magazine. Her film documents the cadre of community organizers volunteering for Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign in Pennsylvania.

Lina Srivastava, following the publication of her article “Transmedia Activism” at MediaRights this past January, partnered with Professor Vicki Callahan to create the Transmedia Activism Design Group, a service for activists, artists and content producers to harness the potential of transmedia content creation, curation and distribution for social impact. She presented the framework this year at the Open Video Conference, DIY Days and NAMAC.