PI09: The Waiting Room
A 2009 BAVC Producers Institute Project
Project Director: Peter Nicks
http://www.documentfilms.net/Hope_and_High_Water.html
More than one third of all Americans have no health insurance. And as more Americans lose their jobs, public hospitals are experiencing an increase in people seeking care. The Waiting Room is a documentary about a young band of public health executives at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, persevering despite daunting systemic and financial obstacles. At the Institute, Emmy Award winner Peter Nicks and his team developed a hybrid, multiplatform public media experience that will bring the film directly into the conversations at center of the public health crisis. At the center of the experience are interactive micro-storytelling kiosks in hospital waiting rooms that will include the live-blogged reports from people living without health insurance, and a unique online portal that will distribute these stories and become an archive for the testimonials that will highlight the urgency of the national dialogue around health care.
Watch us on Comcast channels 29 & 76, Astound channels 29 & 30, and AT&T channel 99.
A Salesforce Story
A short video about BAVC's experience with the Salesforce program. Created by Jazmin Jones, Digital Pathways graduate.
Four Reasons
Directed by Jazmin Jones. Commissioned by The San Francisco Foundation and Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund through support from The Wallace Foundation.
I Heart San Francisco
Directed by Angelisa Candler. Commissioned by The San Francisco Foundation and Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund through support from The Wallace Foundation.
PI09: The Elders
A 2009 BAVC Producers Institute ProjectProject Director: Marc Boothe The Elders Project is a major cross-media project from B3Media in the UK that will engage inter-generational participants using a combination of photography, oral history, video, spoken word, text and interactive digital platforms to document and preserve the untold stories of the first generation of African-Caribbean settlers who came to Britain in the early 50's. The Elders Project will provide a voice to under-represented young people and elders both in the UK and the US, engaging new, transitional audiences with innovative ways to tell their stories. At the Institute, the B3 team designed a three-tiered model of both live physical and virtual spaces where participants experience and create content through a remix interface in the tradition of ‘call and response.' In this unique cultural mashup, the project manages to incorporate a major photographic museum exhibition, an online/virtual gallery, and an inter-generational social networking/storytelling platform with robust content management tools. Marc Boothe is the Executive Director of B3 Media, one of the UK's leading creative hubs for emerging black and minority ethnic artists and producers.
PI09: American Meat
A 2009 BAVC Producers Institute ProjectProject Director: Alejandro de Onis In the documentary American Meat, producer (Alejandro de Onis) and director (Graham Meriwether) explore the impact of the recent economic downturn on industrial agriculture, and how one farmer in Virginia, Joel Salatin, is leading a small but growing group of farmers who are looking to expand the influence of local small-scale farms. The film explores how the agricultural industry has brutalized the food production process, and become America’s #1 polluter. At the Producers Institute, De Onis and his team architected a plan to bring farmers and communities to a “digital dinner table” by integrating the film within an e-commerce and social networking context. Through an innovative, web-based regional food network and market place (an EBAYfor the local food movement) called Harvest Cloud, consumers will be able to easily source and purchase local organic food, connect with food producers, and help local food movements proliferate and thrive. Connected to Harvest Cloud is Leave It Better, a youtube-style portal for the green movement where participants are encouraged to post and share videos documenting what they have done to leave their communities better. This site is “seeded” by a collection of flip cameras that will be given to participants around the country, and then “flipped” to others to document their own inspirational green activities.
A Day at the Park
A soaring flyball takes a teenaged outfielder on a tour of Oakland, California. Directed by Myquan Brooks. Produced in BAVC's Factory program. 3 minutes 22 seconds.
My Story | Mi Historia - Siclalix (Abriendo las Cajas)
Tali unveils her painful experiences at home, afraid of her abusive father and worried for her mother. After Tali’s mother finds courage to stand up for herself, the family becomes stronger and learns to live life without Tali's father.Tali revela sus dolorosas experiencias vividas en casa, con miedo a su padre y preocupación por su madre. Cuando la madre de Tali encuentra la fuerza para salir adelante sola con sus hijos, la familia de Tali se fortalece y aprende a vivir sin el padre. Abriendo Las Cajas (Opening Boxes) is a partnership project between ZeroDivide, La Clinica de la Raza, and the Bay Area Video Coalition as part of New Routes to Community Health. New Routes to Community Health is a program of the Benton Foundation, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which is dedicated to improving health and health care for all Americans. http://newroutes.org/projects/abriendo
Youth Voices 08
Teenagers from Oakland and the East Bay are invited to voice their opinions on Election Day, November 4, 2008, in a video confessional booth outside Oakland's City Hall building. Directed by Sydney Matterson. 7 minutes 16 seconds.
PI09: Deep Down
A 2009 BAVC Producers Institute ProjectProject Director: Jennifer Gilomen & Sally Rubin http://deepdownfilm.org To keep up with our increasing demand for energy, humankind is mining the earth for natural resources and putting communities worldwide at risk. Through an intimate, human story, the documentary Deep Down tells the story of a town deep in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, where coal is king. Through an integrated media campaign that includes a podcast series disseminated through Appalachian Voices' "Most Endangered Mountains" Google Earth collection, educational curriculum and community action kits, Deep Down will have a deep impact with a diverse audience. At the Producers Institute, co-directors Jennifer Gilomen and Sally Rubin designed and built a3D Virtual Mine game in Second Life in order to bring the experience of mountaintop removal mining to a new level. Playing this game in the metaverse is intended to empower disenfranchised communities that now live in the shadows of extractive industries.
