Are you an aspiring BIPOC filmmaker with a commitment to social change?
TWN is looking for you!
TWN has trained thousands of film and video artists since the 1970s through its annual Production Workshop; the TWN Evening Seminars; and its Senior, Youth, and Community Media workshops. Third World Newsreel works with New York City-based media centers, universities, and community groups to host production workshops, seminars, and events, and gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Peace Development Fund and individual donors.
The Third World Newsreel Production Workshop is a unique “hands-on” media production training program providing practical skills and resources for emerging filmmakers. This intensive six-month program, now in its 44th year, is aimed primarily at members of historically marginalized communities, with limited economic resources and access to mainstream educational institutions or traditional training programs. Offering tools to create fiction or documentary projects, the Media Production Workshop carries on TWN's mission of promoting independent cinema by and about communities of color and other underserved groups and their progressive allies.
The Production Workshop curriculum integrates elements of new digital technologies and transmedia in its training, but its focus is the development of the pre-production, production, and post-production skills necessary to take a short 5-minute video project from conception to completion. Working in small groups, workshop members conceive and produce their films with the help of instructors and guest lecturers, professionals working in the field of film/video and transmedia. Students are expected to complete one individual short video project during the program.
The Production Workshop meets one evening a week at 6:30 PM in the offices of TWN, and an additional 6-8 Saturdays for labs. The time commitment needed to participate in the program is high and selected fellows must be able to attend regular class meetings as well as meet the out-of-class demands of preproduction, production, and post-production. Prior film, video, or related experience is helpful but not required; self-initiative, openness to feedback, a progressive and collaborative spirit are, along with a commitment to meeting class production deadlines and completing one’s film project. The Production Workshop is limited to 9 participants. A written application is required and selected applicants are chosen for interviews. The cost of the workshop is $750. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a changeover to virtual training, but the 2020 cohort of students were still able to produce their films.
The TWN Production Workshop is led by Chrystian Rodriguez and Daniel Kim and is dedicated to the memory of Herman Lew, longtime Workshop Director, filmmaker, and cinematographer. Past Workshop grads include award-winning filmmakers Daresha Kyi, Yance Ford, Byron Hurt, Renee Tajima-Peña, Jamal Joseph, Randy Redroad, and many more.
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From fundraising to editing, cameras, and lighting, to talks about the making of films, we have videos to keep you learning your craft and hearing about filmmakers' experiences—free virtual training.
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Senior Films Series
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Short films include A Pandemic Drawing Project, Stay Home DIY, Our Piano Teacher During the Pandemic, My Lovely Furkids, Gone with COVID-19, Isabella Self-Quarantine Life and How We Stay Strong
From April to June 2020, a dozen senior filmmakers learned about film theory, film scripting, and were taught to film and edit on their phones. Originally planned as an in-person workshop held at the Flushing Selfhelp Latimer Gardens Senior Center, this workshop transformed to a virtual course taught on Zoom as the COVID-19 pandemic spread. The seniors made the pandemic the theme of their videos, testaments to their filmmaking abilities and to their strength and willingness to share their fears and sorrows.
This Su-Casa program, presented by Third World Newsreel in collaboration with the Selfhelp Latimer Gardens Senior Center, was taught in Mandarin by filmmaker and teaching artist Yung-Jen Yang, and was made possible in part by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs with public funds from the NY City Council, with special thanks to Council member Peter Koo.
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Third World Newsreel (TWN) is a media arts non-profit organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues. Watch our new short and hear from JT Takagi, Executive Director, Bev Grant, Newsreel filmmaker, Desi del Valle, former staff and TWN Workshop Fellow, and Kazembe Balagun, TWN Workshop Fellow, about Third World Newsreel's history, current work, and vision for the future. Thanks to Pablo Arribas of LaVitrola.cl for the interview and trailer and the TWN family for their support!
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Read Third World Newsreel's updated monograph with articles about our history and films. |
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TWN is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, the National Film Preservation Foundation, and the Peace Development Fund, as well as individual donors.
TWN also gratefully acknowledges support from an NEA CARES grant, the NY Community Trust, and a Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in our programs do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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