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  Funding: TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund

  Oct 10, 2011

  The TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund supports innovative film and video artists who are living or working in Mexico, Central and South America and working independently in their efforts to reach a larger audience. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must be animation, documentary and/or hybrid feature-length films with an intended length of at least 70 minutes. Submissions must be in production or post-production and must not have aired on any form of television, been screened publicly or have been distributed in theaters or via the internet. Projects may be in any language or dialect. Applicants must be over 18 years old. Student films and stand-alone short films are not eligible for submission. $25 entry fee. AWARDS: Last year, the Fund administered $10,000 grants to four selected films. In addition to funding, each grantee will receive a U.S. based advisor and guidance from the Tribeca Film Institute. DEADLINE: October 10, 2011. WEBSITE: tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/latin_fund/.
  

  
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  Ninth Street Announces Incubator Participants

  Jul 1, 2011

  Press release: The Ninth Street Independent Film Center announced today five new participants for the Center's Media Arts Incubator Program for 2011-2012. "This is a great group of participants," says Skye Christensen, Executive Director of the Ninth Street Independent Film Center. "Each brings a very dynamic project to the Program, and we're really looking forward to what they'll accomplish during their time here." Ninth Street’s Media Arts Incubator Program is designed to nurture socially relevant independent media projects at Ninth Street Independent Film Center. The Incubator Program supports independent filmmakers, start-up film festivals and small media nonprofits through access to workspace and shared resources, such as cross-promotional opportunities, co-productions, affordable meeting or exhibition space and community connections with established media arts partners (Center for Asian American Media, Frameline, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and others). Participants are: Rachel Caplan (CEO) and Daniela Rible (Deputy Director) of the annual SF Green Film Festival; Jennifer Tipton and Cary McQueen Morrow, the directors of Art with Impact, which is a platform for the creation of new media on critical social issues; David Evan Harris, Executive Director of the Global Lives Project, a media arts nonprofit that seeks to collaboratively build a video library of human life experience; Scarlett Shepard is Executive Director of the SF Women’s Film Festival; and J.R. Flemming, director and producer of Guarding Dogs, which is a documentary film with a crowd-sourcing model currently in production that makes the case for adopting a dog instead breeding/buying.

  
• April 19, 2011
  
  

  ATA Film & Video Festival

  Apr 20, 2011

  Roxie Theater hosts Playback: ATA Film & Video Festival 2006-2010, a one-day event that showcases a selection of short films from the experimental media arts gallery. More at roxie.com.

  
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  SFFS Presents Fever Dreams: Laurel Nakadate

  Jan 19, 2011

  Press release: The San Francisco Film Society will present Fever Dreams: Laurel Nakadate, a multiplatform presentation of the work of American multimedia artist Laurel Nakadate, February 23–March 2. Fever Dreams kicks off KinoTek 2011–12, an eclectic series of programs dedicated to cross-platform and emergent media, supported by a two-year, $80,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. More at sffs.org.

  
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  Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens

  Michael Fox
  Jan 3, 2011

  SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.

  
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  Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens

  Michael Fox
  Jan 3, 2011

  SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.

  
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  Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens

  Michael Fox
  Jan 3, 2011

  SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.

  
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  Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens

  Michael Fox
  Jan 3, 2011

  SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.

  
• January 6, 2010
  
  

  Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens

  Michael Fox
  Jan 3, 2011

  SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.

  
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  Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens

  Michael Fox
  Jan 3, 2011

  SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.

  
• September 7, 2010
  
  

  'Portrait of Jason' Redux

  Sep 8, 2010

  Local digital media artist Tim Roseborough presents a feature-length video in homage to Shirley Clarke's 1967 documentary, 'Portrait of Jason,' one last time at Scenius Gallery on 18th Street.

  
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  Pamela Harris, GFEM, and Filmmaker Funding

  Michael Fox
  Dec 22, 2008

  Oakland's Pamela Harris and Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media are connecting media makers with financial resources.

  
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  New at Frameline: K.C. Price

  Michael Fox
  Dec 8, 2008

  Frameline's new executive director discusses his non-profit background and graduate school pipe dream of being a novelist.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  The 32nd American Indian Film Festival

  Eve O'Neill
  Nov 1, 2007

  This festival is home to an array of talent that promotes Indians in roles other than that of Indians, in movies other than westerns.

  
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  Morpho Power at SIGGRAPH

  Sean Uyehara
  Aug 16, 2006

  The Association for Computing Machinery Ôs 2006 conference and exhibition offered animation, new media art exhibits and the latest techniques in interactivity.

  
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  Funding: Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program

  The Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program supports new filmmakers in producing their first serious film project. The grant awards the use of Grant Program Arriflex 16SR2 camera package to senior and graduate thesis students and to independent filmmakers for a scheduled period of time. ELIGIBILITY: Students, media arts center members and unaffiliated independents are encouraged to apply. Proposed projects may be of any noncommercial nature: dramatic, narrative, documentary, experimental, etc. (Commercial projects, music videos and PSAs will not be considered.) DEADLINE: Ongoing. WEBSITE: oppenheimercinerental.com/grant.html.