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Thursday,
May 3@ 4-6PM
The Exchange
Over 40 individuals from diverse Bay Area youth media organizations, convened at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center for ALIVE@9th Street: The Exchange. The Exchange brought together youth media-makers and localmedia professionals Jonathan Knight (Electronic Arts); Erica Milsom (Pixar); Karena O'Riordan (Lucasfilm); Sapana Sakya (Center for Asian American Media) to discuss career paths and methods of how to break into the biz.
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Thursday, October 19 @ 11:30AM
Bay Area Film Festival Forum
The Ninth Street Independent Film Center hosted a Bay Area Film Festival Forum where an amazingly based group of local film festival organizations came together for a moderated discussion, identifying and exploring some of the current challenges facing these community arts events. The program brought together leaders from over two-dozen local film festival groups.
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Thursday,
June 29@ 7PM
Shooting
our American Health
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Filmmakers address many health issues like AIDS, cancer, obesity,and diabetes.
On June 29th, we assessed their impact. With the indie success of Morgan
Spurlock's film Super Size Me and Michael Moore's upcoming film about
HMOs, do independent filmmakers have a role to play? To explore this question,
ALIVE@9th Street brought together filmmakers from around the country that
included Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl), Michelle Lynne Coons (Let’s
Talk), Megan Siler (Toxic Bust), and Ray Telles (The Fight in the
Fields).
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Thursday,
April 27th @ 7PM
The
Digital Generation
Youth Voices in the 21st Century
An
explosion of raw and ambitious young media makers use video, web-streaming,
blogging, and graphics to communicate. How do media culture and education
influence the way youth tell stories? The evening included discussion
and clips from Sam Ball and Klaira Markenzon (New Jewish Filmmaking Project);
Erica Eng (Youth Sounds); Tina Bartolome (TILT); and New America Media’s
Kevin Weston moderated
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Wednesday,
December 7, 2005
Don't Ask Do Tell
At this forum, independent media makers, who are known for bringing
alternative voices and perspectives into mainstream consciousness,
acknowledged that unwritten cultural rules exist which even they
may be reluctant to break. The filmmakers and guests explored what
happens when media artists air their cultural dirty laundry? The
evening included film clips that break taboos and featured film
critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich (UC Santa Cruz); filmmaker
Micha Peled (Inside God's Bunker); independent filmmaker
Emiko Omori (Rabbit in the Moon); former Frameline Board
President Calvin Gipson (subject in the documentary Out in the
Open).
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| October
19 , 2005
Home Movie Heroics
Home movies—those wonderfully intimate, historically revealing
and frequently out-of-focus relics of do-it-yourself filmmaking—were
screened and discussed by Super-8 superstars and self-professed
video auteurs in a special evening of Home Movie Heroics.
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here for list of credits |
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| May
17, 2005
Open House
Local Arts organizations and neighbors came together for an evening
that included music, food and drink, and films that address the
theme of neighborhood.
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| March
1, 2005
Deep Focus
Where are you in the future of media? The Ninth Street Independent
Film Center invited special guests, media organizations, and the
public to a discussion and luncheon that presented the National
Alliance for Media Arts and Culture’s (NAMAC) Deep Focus:
A Report on the Future of Independent Media.
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October
6, 2004
Doc the Vote
As an election year, 2004 witnessed an explosion of independent
film and videos about hot topic issues appealing to all voters.
Can independent media affect politics? The forum included a conversation
with Joe Trippi (Howard Dean's Campaign Manager) and award-winning
filmmakers Rick Tejada-Flores, Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann.
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