BAVC Blog Feed

Sound Check: "The Way We Get By" with Zack Martin

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Carol Varney, BAVC Director of Development In June of this year, BAVC welcomed Director Aron Gaudet, Producer Gita Pullapilly, and Multimedia Developer Joshua Turner to the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies (producersinstitute) to prototype an interactive social engagement...

RT@BAVC - Twitter Me This (#nonprofit)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Alicia Schmidt, Marketing Strategist I first heard about Twitter in 2007 at SXSW Interactive. It was all the rage that year, as rows of geeks(I mean this in a loving way) logged onto their laptops and twittered questions about panel conversations, the...

Metabloggin' Matt Baume

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:40:47 +0100

As part of an on-going series we like to call Metabloggin', BAVC Training Resources Manager Zoe Banks interviews multi-media journalist (and dare we say super activist) Matt Baume (http://www.mattbaume.com) for the BAVC Vlog. Check it out ....

The Making of a Not-for-Profit Facebook Page

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:19:33 +0100

by Alicia Schmidt, Marketing Strategist Ok, I'll admit it. For all of my social media prosthelytizing, there is part of me that just wants to shrug my shoulders and channel Jan Brady when it comes to Facebook, Facebook. Facebook. Facebook. Sure, I...

Event on Child Soldiers Features BAVC Members

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Wendy Levy, Director of Creative Programming On Wednesday, October 14 at 6:30 PM, two BAVC MediaMaker Award recipients will participate in a free public discussion on child soldiers. The event takes place at Theater of Yugen's NOH (http://www.theatreofyugen.org) space at...

BUMP Records Artists Help Promote HIV/AIDS Education

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Robert Collins, Manager of BUMP Records This past Summer, three BUMP Records (bumprecords) artists were asked to participate in a campaign promoting AIDS testing and awareness in the African American comminity. The Greater Than AIDS (http://www.greaterthan.org) campaign used our...

Metabloggin'

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Zoe Banks, Training Resources Manager At first the idea of blogging about blogging seemed to so clearly indicate that the universe is collapsing into itself, I failed to realize that this was my chance to hang out with...

BAVC Focus: Eve Batey

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:06:27 +0100

by Zoe Banks, BAVC Traning Resources Manager Eve Batey is the editor and publisher of the San Francisco Appeal (http://www.sfappeal.com). Prior to that, Eve was the San Francisco Chronicle's Deputy Managing Editor for Online, and she started at the Chronicle as...

Vlog-A Dirty Word?

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Mindy Aronoff, BAVC Director of Training Resources We hate it. Even Schlomo Rabinowitz (http://schlomo.tv/) hates it. (I mighta just made that up.) Famous vloggers have mispronounced it “vee-log” and it doesn’t exactly spring from one’s lips like my favorite phrase, Salvatore...

4DOCS is back!

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Wendy Levy, Director of Creative Programming Some cool news out of the UK for short documentary filmmakers: a smart resource-filled website just for you. The Britdoc Foundation has re-launched the BAFTA-winning Channel 4 short documentary website 4Docs (http://www.4docs.org.uk). The founders...

BAVC Newbie Chris Ferejohn

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:44:49 +0100

by Alicia Schmidt, BAVC Marketing Strategist As most of you know by now, BAVC was selected to assume operation of Public Access television here in San Francisco. As part of that transition, we have relied heavily on Chris Ferejohn, the former...

Sonal Shah visits BAVC

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Jennifer Gilomen, BAVC's Director of Public Media Initiatives On September 2, BAVC was honored to be visited by Sonal Shah, Director of the White House Office of Social Innovation (http://philanthropy.com/news/government/7874/appointment-of-white-house-office-of-social-innovation-head-confirmed), and President Obama's first appointee to the new office....

Factory 08/09 Wrapup

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Jason Jakaitis, BAVC Factory Manager Well, the Factory has concluded its sixth year of working with youth filmmakers in the East Bay. Things were hectic down to the end, but we accomplished everything we set out to do and...

3-2-1 Contact!

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Moriah Ulinskas, BAVC Director of Next Gen Programming Earlier this month I found myself having dinner with the producer of 3-2-1 Contact!. Remember 3-2-1 Contact!? One of those incredibly RAD educational kids programs that was on PBS in the 1980’s...

Vote for BAVC's SXSW Panel!

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Alicia Schmidt, Marketing Manager As you might know, SXSW gives the online community the power to browse through all programming proposals and vote on which ideas they feel are most appropriate for SXSWeek 2010 (March 12-20).BAVC has proposed a panel...

BUMP Records Producer Quinntessential Speaks on the Recent AMC 2009 in Detroit

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Quinntessential, BUMP Records Producer (all photos by BAVC Next Gen Instructor Ian Davis) Detroit, the place of dark ominous alleyways, abandoned buildings, and crazy late night hip hop ciphers. Or, at least that’s what they showed in the movie 8 Mile....

Puppies, Puppets, and Lou Pearlman

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Zoe Banks and Jennifer Olivia, BAVC Hardly able to contain their excitement about the upcoming Rohstoff VI photo contest, Jenn Olivia [Operations Manager] and Zoë Banks [Training Resources Manager] hopped on chat to share the big news...

The Video Youth

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Josh Kanies, BAVC Instructor Last week I wrapped up some of the most intense training...ever. No, not with Pixar or IMD. Nope, not LucasArts or ILM either. I just finished 3 weeks of working with the brilliant and...

SF Commons: Public Access Redux

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:54:46 +0100

by Ken Ikeda, BAVC Executive Director As I write this, BAVC is in active contract negotiations with the City of San Francisco to operate San Francisco's public access channels. I wish I could share more details about what BAVC hopes to...

Make Movies Till Somebody Notices

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100

by Mindy Aronoff, Director of Training Resources (all photos by Josh Kanies) Every other week our Senior Enrollment Advisor, Zoë Banks, gets a call from an inquiring parent wondering if we offer digital media classes for teens. “Ummm….like one of...