PI09: The Elders
A 2009 BAVC Producers Institute Project
Project 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.
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A Salesforce Story
A short video about BAVC's experience with the Salesforce program. Created by Jazmin Jones, Digital Pathways graduate.
Dear SF - PS I Love You
Directed by Rosie Byers. Commissioned by The San Francisco Foundation and Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund through support from The Wallace Foundation
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 Machinima Episode #5: The Way We Get By and Gita Pullapilly
The movie "The Way We Get By" deals with a lot of large issues, aging in America, military service, but manages to succeed as an intimate portrait of a group of senior citizens in Bangor Maine, who dedicate their lives to greet homecoming troops. Second Life reporter Draxtor Despres welcomes producer Gita Pullapilly to the virtual BAVC studio.Every year, SF based Bay Area Video Coalition brings filmmakers together with technologists to develop new media strategies for their projects at the annual Producer's Institute. [more about BAVC PI 2009 at http://www.bavc.org/producersinstitute ]
PI09 Machinima Episode #2: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
Every year, SF based Bay Area Video Coalition brings filmmakers together with technologists to develop new media strategies for their projects at the annual Producer's Institute. Draxtor Despres had the chance to talk to Spanish-American documentarian Chelo Alvarez-Stehle about her project on sex-trafficking, called "Sands Of Silence", which will be accompanied by a flash-based game.
PI09 Machinima Episode #3: Lynette Wallworth
Austrialian artist Lynette Wallworth was a mentor at the Producer Institute this year at BAVC in San Francisco. Her installations utilize technology to amplify and celebrate the human spirit. During the course of these intense 10 days, she engaged with filmmakers and technologists in fruitful collaboration and also entered Second Life for the first time. Certainly Draxtor Despres had to sit down with Lynette's avatar alter-ego Rasaa Mistwalker and chat a little about physical versus simulated reality.
PI09 Machinima Episode #1: Producers Institute
Wendy Levy from SF based Bay Area Video Coalition is at the helm of the annual Producer's Institute, which brings filmmakers together with technologists to develop new media strategies for their projects. Centered around social and human rights issues, the film projects touch on subjects from healthcare crises to sex trafficking. Draxtor Despres worked around the clock on bringing SL as a possible place to engage to this diverse crowd. A series of interviews starts off with this chat with BAVC's own Wendy Levy.
PI09: The Way We Get By
A 2009 BAVC Producers Institute ProjectProject Director: Gita Pullapilly http://www.thewaywegetbymovie.com The Way We Get By is an intimate story of three senior citizens in America as they struggle with growing old and rediscovering their reasons for living. Dedicating their lives to greeting almost 800,000 troops at a tiny airport in Maine, Bill Knight, Joan Gaudet, and Jerry Mundy find the strength to overcome their personal battles and demonstrate the meaning of community during a time of need. At the Institute, Gita and her team developed a dynamic and engaging multi-generational website, e-commerce and social networking tool to enable troops and the military families, veterans, and a broad community of visitors to participate in giving back to soldiers on their return stateside. Returning Home incorporates three key features –a breathtaking community-created digital quilt of stories of American soldiers, a collective virtual memorial to the fallen, and an e-commerce Care Package for soldiers returning home. The film will receive a national broadcast on Veterans Day 2009, and it is our hope that the Returning Home site will be live in time for the broadcast. Producer Gita Pullapilly is an award-winning television journalist and Fulbright Scholar whose stories have aired on CBS, CNN, and ABC.
