ALTERNATIVE FILM & VIDEO LINKS


Asian Cinevision
"ASIAN CINEVISION (ACV), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, is a national media arts center dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Asian/Asian American film and video makers, media artists and their wide diversity of works-- outreaching to Asian American specific communities and beyond. Organizational components include an annual Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) with a subsequent national tour of selected works; special screenings for members and general audiences; CineVue quarterly media arts journal; exclusive U.S. distribution of "Out of the Shadows: Asian in American Cinema," edited by Roger Garcia (Edizioni Olivares and the 54th Locarno Film Festival) and the Asian American Media Reference Guide; the most extensive Asian/Asian American media archives; and an evolving web site that's currently being updated to include video streaming capabilities and searchable database for film/video makers."

Blackfilmmakers.net
Home of Jezebel Filmworks, "an African American woman owned business founded in 1993 by Ada M. Babino,...its primary focus is to target programs that are uniquely from an African American perspective; works that counter stereotypes, make creative advancements, and are reflective of the vast experiences in the African Diaspora community."

Colours TV
dvRepublic programming can be viewed on the Colours TV channel on Echostar, launching on December 15, 2001. Colours TV is "programming designed with a multicultural and multi-ethnic perspective on entertainment, information, news, lifestyles, community issues, and public affairs. Colours will create and acquire television productions, movies, and documentaries that have a distinct ethnic appeal."

DCTV (Downtown Community Television Center)
"Founded in 1972, Downtown Community Television Center believes that expanding public access to the electronic media arts invigorates our democracy. For the past twenty-five years we have pursued our grass-roots mission to teach people, particularly members of low-income and minority communities, to produce insightful and artistic television."

DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists)
"DIVA TV was founded in 1989 as a video-documenting affinity group with ACT UP (AIDS_Coalition_To_Unleash_Power) an activist group famous for its direct action against bureaucratic inaction and drug company profiteering in the AIDS crisis and widely acknowledged as re-energizing civil disobedience tactics in the United States. DIVA TV documents public testimony, the media, and community activism in the FIGHT AGAINST AIDS."

Film/Video Arts
"Founded in 1968, Film/Video Arts is the largest nonprofit media arts center in the New York region. Film/Video Arts provides a fertile environment where emerging and established film, video and digital media producers of diverse backgrounds can take courses, rent production equipment and edit their projects– all under one roof. Film/Video Arts’ programs encourage interaction between these producers -- whether working on narrative features, documentaries, nontraditional work, shorts, industrials, cable programs, music videos or student projects – by offering them affordable services essential to the creation of their work and the development of their careers. Over 2,500 individuals and organizations participate in Film/Video Arts programs every year. Film/Video Arts’ mission is to make the tools and skills of the media arts available to those who might otherwise not have access to them."

Film Aid International
"FilmAid International uses the power of film to promote health, strengthen communities and enrich the lives of the world's vulnerable and uprooted. FilmAid International addresses the problems of refugee despair and psychological trauma. FAI taps the power of film to break monotony and isolation, and to convey essential information. Watching movies inspires and helps to restore dignity, quality of life and hope for refugees who often remain in camps for years. "

Free Speech TV
"Free Speech TV provides a nationwide platform for voices traditionally absent from mainstream media. Working with activists and artists, FSTV uses television to expose social and environmental injustices - to help build community, to teach tolerance, to encourage personal creativity and stand for non-violent social action. FSTV currently reaches over nine million US homes. It airs full-time via direct broadcast satellite on EchoStar's DISH Network. It also airs part-time on a network of 35 community access cable stations."

Global Vision
"Founded in 1987 by network veterans Rory O'Connor and Danny Schechter, Globalvision is an independent media production company specializing in information, entertainment and educational programming for local and international markets... For more than a decade, Globalvision has produced award-winning news magazine shows, nationally televised specials, feature documentaries distributed internationally, public service campaigns, video news releases, special interest videos, event videos and corporate communications."

Imagenation
"Imagenation, a year-round short film & music festival was founded in 1997 by Moikgantsi Kgama. This multi-media experience was created to fill a voice in independent film exhibition, addressing the needs of underserved artists and consumers in search of diverse representations of people of color. Although focusing primarily on filmmakers, imagenation also serves as a common ground where artists from various genres can network and showcase their talents."

Independent Media Center
"The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity. The Independent Media Center was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle last November. The center acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website."

Independent Television Service (ITVS)
"ITVS brings independently produced programs to television - programs that engage creative risks, advance issues, and represent points of view not usually seen on commercial or public television. ITVS is committed to programming which addresses the needs of under-served audiences, particularly minorities and children. ITVS seeks to create and promote independent media that will expand civic participation by bringing new voices and expressiveness into the public discourse."

Joe Public Films
"Joe Public Films is an independent video & filmmaking resource that is committed to exposing under-reported human rights-related news stories from around the world, at any and every available level of media, from grassroots screenings to broadcast television. "

MediaRights.org
"MediaRights.org, a community Web site, helps media makers, educators, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues."

Paper Tiger Television
"Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) is an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective. Through the production and distribution of our public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and grassroots advocacy PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media. PTTV believes that increasing public awareness of the negative influence of mass media and involving people in the process of making media is mandatory for our long term goal of information equity."

Pop and Politics
Named one of Alternet's "New Media Heroes", Pop and Politics is aimed at engaging a young, urban audience. Founded by journalist, writer, and new media pioneer Farai Chideya.

RE:GENERATION:TV
"Regeneration TV is a worker owned media collective dedicated to providing informative, challenging, and entertaining programming for a diverse audience. We seek to provide real alternatives to the stale, superficial fare offered by most media outlets. We combine groundbreaking musical trends and performers, relevant and insightful news, and an open forum for guest speakers and documentary film makers to deliver a one-of-a-kind viewing experience."

Termite TV
"Artists make TV. Founded in 1992, Termite TV is a Philadelphia-based video collective which produces the television series This is only a Test. The mission of Termite TV is to create multi-faceted and multi-voiced shows which address issues of cultural, political, and aesthetic concern. Our subjects range from the seemingly benign, such as nature and travel, to the more obviously controversial, such as welfare rights and immigration. Termite TV shows have been screened at festivals and museums worldwide. To date we have produced 33 shows which are broadcast nationally through the programming service Free Speech TV."

The International Black Panther Film Festival
The International Black Panther Film Festival is a non-competitive cultural program that expresses the spirit of liberation exemplified by the Black Panther Party. Exuberant images of fighting black youth have inspired artists around the world to make films about the struggle waged by the Black Panther Party. More than 20 such films have been produced, most of which are rarely seen. The genesis of this festival is to show a new generation of black and Latino youth this powerful story of resistance.

Undercurrents
"Undercurrents hosts a unique video archive of dissent. Collecting video tapes from video activists, video journalists and our network we have over 2000 hours of camcorder footage of radical protest. Our archive is used regulary by over 100 Tv networks in 15 countries including the BBC, ITN, and CNN."

Urban-American Filmmakers Workshop
The Urban-American Filmmakers Workshop (UAFW) is a two-day intensive workshop designed for the independent filmmaker and actor of color. The workshop tours ten major metropolitan cities and is expected to reach approximately 5,000 young, urban filmmakers from all over the country.

Urban Stage & Screen
"A performing arts resource for people of color."

Video Activist Network
"The VAN is an informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns."

Whispered Media
"Whispered Media was founded as a collective that promotes the use of video, and other media tools, in progressive grassroots movements. Whispered Media offers video witnessing, support and training, collects archival political footage, and produces video works about specific grassroots campaigns and organizations."

Witness
"WITNESS is a human rights program that attracts the eyes of the world and inspires those who see - to act. WITNESS strengthens local activists by giving them video cameras and field training. Today, WITNESS unleashes an arsenal of computers, imaging and editing software, satellite phones and email in the struggle for justice... Today, WITNESS has worked with over 150 WITNESS partner groups from 50 countries to use video to overcome political, economic, and physical barriers, and to expose human rights abuses to the world via television, grassroots advocacy, and internet broadcasting."