Doing Your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices
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A Weekend Seminar in St. Paul to Make Your Documentary Happen!
When: July 18-20, 2010
Where: St. Paul, Minnesota
A Weekend Seminar in St. Paul to Make Your Documentary Happen! Don't miss this unique chance to work with story consultant Fernanda Rossi, the "Documentary Doctor," author of the book Trailer Mechanics, plus receive project mentoring on your proposal, trailer or documentary idea. This intensive three-day workshop is for everyone involved in documentary filmmaking regardless of where your project is in development. Doing Your Doc is a pre-conference offering immediately before the Native Nations Media Conference (NNMC) and will cover topics such as raising production funds and how to apply to national, professional programs all while developing your unique stories and views. During the conference, NAPT staff will be hosting workshops on Tuesday, July 20 to discuss such topics as Podcasting, Media Rights Clearances and How to Market on a Budget. To find out more and to register, please visit Doing Your Doc online. Don't miss this opportunity! Register today and reserve your seat! Registration Pricing: General Admission Registration Fee - $105.32 *Student registration is available only to currently enrolled students with a valid student ID/proof of enrollment. All registrations include admission, lunch, workshop materials, handouts and a private project mentoring session. Doing Your Doc is brought to you by: NALIP, CPB, the NEA, MPR and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in association with NAPT, NAJA, InMotion, St. Paul Neighborhood Network, IFP Minnesota, Intermedia Arts, UST, Latino Public Broadcasting, NBPC, ITVS, CAAM, PIC and Twin Cities Public Television. |
2010 Native Nations Media Conference
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NAPT's Public Television Program Fund Open Call Comes to a Close
|  Each year, NAPT awards up to $500,000 in production contracts to independent producers and public television stations to produce programming by and about Native Americans for use by PBS stations. Funding can be for film production, film completion, or research and development. NAPT is able to support these five to ten new projects through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting-funded Public Television Program Fund.
During the Open Call, proposals are requested for programs in many genres including documentary, performance, cultural/public affairs and animation. Projects submitted to this solicitation must be intended for national, public television broadcast.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, is the closing date for this year's Open Call. NAPT can't wait to see the great proposals that have been submitted this year! If you missed this year's Open Call, it's never too early to start thinking about next year's Open Call.
For more information: www.nativetelecom.org |
VisionMaker Video Coming Attractions: Choctaw Code Talkers
|  In 1918, not yet citizens of the U.S., Choctaw members of the American Expeditionary Forces were asked to use their Native language as a powerful tool against the German Forces in World War I, setting a precedent for code talking as an effective military weapon and establishing them as America's original Code Talkers.
Find out more: Choctaw Code Talkers press kit page |
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Producer Profile
Sterlin Harjo
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Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek) is the director of the award-winning film Barking Water. The film is about Frankie and Irene, an older couple with on-and-off relationship of 40 years. With Frankie in the hospital suffering from a terminal illness, Irene comes back to him one last time to take him home to see his family. In this month's Producer Profile, Harjo talks about the film and his film career. Read the entire Sterlin Harjo article. |
| Coming to Public Television Near You on the New Season of Independent Lens |
by Neil Diamond Reel Injun is an exciting, insightful and entertaining feature length documentary about the evolution of the image of North American Native people in famous Hollywood movies, from the silent era to today.
by Chris Billing Three decades ago, two Crow Indian brothers ran away from home and no one knew why. Their sudden and mysterious deaths sent shockwaves through a tiny upstate New York community. Lost Sparrow is their adoptive brother's journey to bring Bobby and Tyler home and confront a painful truth that shattered his family.
Catch Lost Sparrow when it broadcasts November 16. Two Spirits by Lydia Nibley Two Spirits explores the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder. Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16. But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition--the 'nadleeh', or 'two-spirit,' who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits. Through telling Fred's story, Nibley reminds us of the values that America's indigenous peoples have long embraced.
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